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New moms eventually come up for air, in between bottle-feeding and changing diapers and wiping away their baby’s tears—or their own. And usually, the first adult they’ve spoken to in days will say something like: “Enjoy every moment! It goes by so fast!”

Run-of-the-mill pleasantry? Or a glaring example of toxic positivity? Try the latter. “It creates impossible pressure during an already overwhelming time,” says Brianna Paruolo, a therapist in New York City who hears about this scenario over and over again from new parents. These words, however well-intentioned—and they usually are—“can amplify feelings of inadequacy when a new mom isn’t enjoying sleep deprivation or postpartum recovery.”

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Parents who are simply trying to survive don’t have the time or energy to focus on savoring every moment, Paruolo points out, and that’s normal. Piling on the expectation of enjoyment is not helpful, she stresses.

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Not long before the 2024 election, Dr. Casey Means wrote a letter to her Good Energy newsletter subscribers with a health-related wishlist for the next Administration.

In it were priorities that echo those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services: investigating toxins in the food supply, incentivizing healthy food purchases with food stamps, replacing factory farming with regenerative farming.

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“More than anything, I would like to see our future White House rally Americans to be healthy and fit,” wrote Means, a physician who President Trump nominated on May 7 for U.S. Surgeon General. Trump discarded his first pick, Dr. Janette Neshiewat, a day before she was scheduled to appear before a Senate committee.

Means, who co-wrote the 2024 book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health with her brother Calley Means, holds many beliefs on health that mirror Kennedy’s. She writes frequently abou..

So far, 2025 has been a terrible year for global health. The Trump Administration is slashing funding to a number of international programs; closing down USAID, the government’s major aid development arm; and withdrawing U.S. membership from the World Health Organization.

But a glimmer of hope arrived on May 8, when Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, announced that he will be infusing the struggling field with most of his fortune—$200 billion, which he built after creating Microsoft—to be spent by 2045. He also plans to close down the foundation at that time.

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Since Gates and his former wife, Melinda French Gates, created the foundation 25 years ago, the organization has contributed more than $100 billion to global causes, primarily in health. The Gates Foundation helped to create two important international health organizations: GAVI, which provides the world’s children with lifesaving vaccines, and the Global Fund, which focuses on distribut..

Meet my patient Mrs. L. R. She’s 98 years young and has never suffered a day of serious illness in her long life. She was referred to me by her primary care physician to assess her heart condition because she had developed swelling in her legs, known as edema. When we first met in the clinic, I noted there was no accompanying family member, so I asked how she got to the medical center. She’d driven herself. I soon learned much more about this exceptionally vibrant, healthy lady who lives alone, has an extensive social network, and enjoys her solitude.

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Her remarkable health span isn’t shared by her family members. Her mother died at 59; her father at 64. Her two brothers died at 43 and 75. Three years prior to our meeting, her husband had died at 97. He had also been quite healthy, with a similar health span profile in contrast to his parents and siblings, who all had chronic diseases and died decades younger. Following her husband’s death, Mrs. L. R. ..

A surprising sentence post-2020: This year is unlike any other in the history of global health. With the confirmation of anti-establishment leaders Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Marty Makary, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to the U.S.’s top health positions, President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the defunding of USAID, health professionals are scrambling to understand whether their work can continue, and, if not, what will happen to patients. In a year of such upheaval, the TIME100 Health—100 people who are most influential in the world of health right now—looks a bit different.

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A lot is happening.

To select these 100 individuals, our team of health correspondents and editors, led by Emma Barker Bonomo and Mandy Oaklander and with guidance of Dr. David Agus and Arianna Huffington, spent months consulting sources and experts around the world. The result is a community of leaders—scientists, doctors, advocates, educa..

One of the “greatest heartbreaks” Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider hears from her patients is that many wish they’d asked their parents more questions.

“By the time that we get to this realization that we wanted to know something, it’s sometimes too late to ask,” says Ungerleider, an internal medicine physician and founder of End Well, a nonprofit that aims to change the way people talk about and plan for the end of life. “It’s not just about collecting stories, although there’s beauty and power in that. It’s about connection—and honoring someone while they’re still able to feel it and experience it.”

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Where do you even start, especially if your conversations tend to center on the mundane aspects of life? We asked experts to share the most meaningful questions to ask your parents while you still can.

“What’s something you’re into right now that I might not know about?”

If you’re not used to having serious conversations with your folks, ease in with some low..

As Congress eyes sweeping cuts to Medicaid, the health care program for low-income adults that serves about 20% of people living in the U.S., a new study has a sharp conclusion: cuts to Medicaid will cost lives.

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The study, published in the National Bureau of Economic Research on May 5, tracked nearly 40 million people who gained Medicaid through state-based expansions under the Affordable Care Act between 2010 and 2022. It found that during that time, Medicaid expansions increased enrollment and reduced members’ risk of death by 2.5%.

People who enrolled in Medicaid because they gained eligibility saw a 20% reduction in their risk of death when compared to people in states who could not access Medicaid, the study found. In short, Medicaid expansions saved about 27,400 lives between 2010 and 2022, according to the study, by Dartmouth economics professor Angela Wyse and University of Chicago economics professor Bruce D. Meyer.

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From vehicle exhaust to manufacturing plumes, nearly every person in the world breathes in unhealthy air on a daily basis. The impact is deadly: air pollution is responsible for 7 million premature deaths around the world per year according to the World Health Organization (WHO), making it the second leading risk factor for death behind high blood pressure.

But that number could be significantly cut, researchers say, if we reduce greenhouse gases and air pollutants.

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A new study published in the journal Earth’s Future on May 6 found that up to 250,000 deaths from poor air quality in central and western Europe alone could be prevented by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced.

The researchers, from the University of Leeds in England, looked at the health impacts in Europe in 2014 and 2050 from exposure to two types of pollution. The first is fine particulate matter, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and pose the greatest healt..

In March 2025, it was announced that the U.S. would no longer support international public health programs that vaccinated millions of children worldwide. This is a hit to children worldwide on top of the Trump administration cuts to U.S. AID programs that provided basic nutrition for hundreds of thousands of children worldwide. One may interpret these directives as a reflection that the current U.S. political leadership no longer believes that the U.S. has an obligation to non-American children. But one only needs to look at what is happening in the U.S. now to see that the lack of care for children at home, as the administration signals to cut the Vaccines for Children program, which supports disease-preventative efforts in the U.S.

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Examining what has evolved from the culture wars of the past several years, one sees a slew of policies detrimental to children in many ways. Rather than reflecting mainstream pediatric and educational philosophy, these ..

The millions of people who suffer from seasonal allergies each year are toofamiliar with symptoms like sneezing, wheezing, and sniffling. But many don’t realize there are lots of other, more unusual ways allergies can show up. “People have a preconceived notion of what allergies are, but there’s so much outside just itchy eyes or sneezing,” says Dr. Purvi Parikh, an allergist and immunologist at NYU Langone Health. “It can mimic a lot of infections—people think they’re getting sick with something, but it’s actually allergies.”

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We asked allergists to share some of the lesser-known symptoms they see in their offices, from black eyes to nasal creases.

A sore throat

Perhaps you suspect you’re coming down with strep throat. It could actually be seasonal allergies. Blame it on post-nasal drip, that lovely sensation of mucus sliding down the back of your throat. “When your nose is all blocked up or inflamed, inflammation has nowhere to go, so it starts dra..