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We seek their advice when we’re not well. They comfort us with their expertise, and we trust them to perform life-saving procedures in high-risk scenarios. Yet, from the outside, we often don’t appreciate the stressors that come with being a highly skilled medical doctor and the mental health toll this uniquely high-pressure occupation can take.

An estimated 15.5 million adults under 65 and 2.3 million seniors were unable to pay for at least one doctor-prescribed medication in their household, according to a new study from West Health and Gallup analyzing the impact of high drug prices on consumers. While affordability of prescription drugs is an issue for all age groups,

Miami-Dade County Public Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho oversees the fourth-largest school district in the U.S., and last week, in response to DeSantis' threats regarding paychecks, he told CBS Miami, "At no point shall I allow my decision to be influenced by a threat to my paycheck, a small price to pay considering the gravity of this

Revelations that some members of Congress, including members of key health care committees, hold substantial personal investments in the health care industry have raised concerns about lawmakers’ financial conflicts of interest and their potential impact on health care legislation and oversight. Now, a new study shows that over a third of all members of Congress

Researchers have found that people who live beyond 105 years tend to have a unique genetic background that makes their bodies more efficient at repairing DNA, according to a study published today in eLife. This is the first time that people with ‘extreme longevity’ have had their genomes decoded in such detail, providing clues as

The European Union said Monday it has launched legal action against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over coronavirus vaccine delivery shortfalls that hampered efforts to kickstart inoculations across the bloc. “The Commission has started last Friday a legal action against the company AstraZeneca on the basis of breaches of the advanced purchase agreement,” EU spokesman Stefan De

Italy will reserve AstraZeneca’s vaccine for the over 60s following concerns of a link to blood clots in younger people, the government’s top adviser on the coronavirus crisis announced Wednesday. The decision has been taken to “recommend the preferential use on individuals aged above 60”, Franco Locatelli told reporters. His announcement came hours after the

Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly herculean genius of multilinguals, researchers say these results provide some of the first neuroscientific evidence that language skills are additive, a theory known as the cumulative‐enhancement

The French Riviera will go into lockdown for the next two weekends to contain COVID-19 which has been spreading faster in the tourist hotspot than elsewhere in France, the region’s top official said on Monday. Controls at airports and at the land border the southern Alpes-Maritimes region shares with Italy would be tightened over the

Five months after her pregnancy loss, Chrissy Teigen misses her late son, Jack, “so much.” Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s Family Album The Cravings author, 35, shared throwback photos on Thursday, February 4, from her husband John Legend’s “Wild” music video shoot where she revealed her pregnancy news. https://www.instagram.com/p/CK5cHOFB3bb/ A post shared by chrissy teigen

In a recent conversation with powerlifter and fitness entrepreneur Mark Bell, Hadi Doumit shared the story of how his weight loss and fitness journey began, and the role his diet played in dropping a total of 235 pounds. Doumit explains that he had grown up big, and had been overweight his entire adult life, weighing

To say that Dr. Anthony Fauci has been busy would be the understatement of the century. While most of us have been navigating Zoom meetings and taking up new quarantine hobbies like baking bread, Fauci has taken the lead in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. He is focused on the task at hand, but

THURSDAY, Nov. 12, 2020 (HealthDay) — Vitamin D, fish oil supplements and weight training have long been touted for their health benefits, but for healthy seniors, none of them — either in combination or alone — boosts physical or mental performance or prevents broken bones, Swiss researchers report. For three years, they tracked more than

Fox News Flash top headlines for October 20 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Missouri reported a record number of coronavirus cases over the weekend.  The Show-Me State on Saturday reported a record of some 2,357 new cases of COVID-19, the Associated Press reported. An estimated 1,768 new

Iran announced on Tuesday more than 4,000 new cases of COVID-19 infection, the most in a single day for the Middle East country hardest hit by the pandemic. “The number of infected persons… is 4,151” in the past 24 hours, during which “we unfortunately lost 227 of our dear compatriots”, said health ministry spokeswoman Sima

When Narayan Mitra died on July 16, a day after being admitted to the hospital for fever and breathing difficulties, his name never appeared on any of the official lists put out daily of those killed by the coronavirus. Test results later revealed that Mitra had indeed been infected with COVID-19, as had his son,

The NHS would spend billions of pounds more on drugs if it had to pay US prices following a US/UK trade deal. According to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Oxford, published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, NHS

We won’t lie — when it comes to our summer sippers, we like wines that are served ice cold, slightly sweet, and won’t break the bank. You don’t want to put a fancy, expensive bottle in a glass with a few ice cubes, but honestly, sometimes nothing hits the spot like a slightly-sweet and super

Remember when Starbucks’ Pink Drink flooded our Instagram feeds a few years ago? Then there were purple drinks and orange drinks and blue drinks and our feeds have been bombarded with a rainbow of Starbucks beverages ever since. Well, if you thought you could escape colorful drinks in 2020, prepare yourself to stand corrected because

Mark Wahlberg wants you to know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and he wants TV host Dr. Oz to know it too. After Oz spoke publicly in favor of intermittent fasting (a calorie reduction technique in which you only eat during a short window each day), the famously ripped actor