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For many of us, summer means attending backyard barbecues, laughing with neighbors and friends, watching kids chase fireflies, and enjoying fireworks lighting up the night. But in a split second, that can all change. Your daughter trips, gashing her knee on a rock. Your dad, laughing one moment, clutches his chest the next. Suddenly, you’re racing to the emergency room—confident it’s open, staffed, and ready.

That’s the unspoken promise of our health care system: when the worst happens, an ER will be there, no questions asked.

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But that promise is about to become harder to keep. A quiet policy change tucked into the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” cuts the provider tax nationwide from 6% to 3.5% over the coming years. That might sound like easy-to-ignore bureaucratic jargon, but for families across America—who trust the ER will be there when a fever spikes or a bone breaks—this change will likely mean dramatically longer waits, overwhelmed doctors, and ..

They’re the stars of summer cookouts, but when it comes to your health, which is the bigger nutritional offender: the hamburger or the hot dog?

They share many similarities; both are processed, protein-packed, and often loaded with toppings. But there are clear differences, too. Here’s what registered dietitians say about the burger vs. dog debate—and which one might be the lesser evil on your plate.

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Hot dog vs. hamburger

Experts agree that the answer depends on several variables like portion size, preparation method, toppings, and quality of ingredients. However, there are some general nutrition differences that make hot dogs the less favorable option overall.

“In general, hot dogs tend to be more processed than hamburgers,” says Tamar Samuels, a registered dietitian and co-founder of Culina Health, a virtual nutrition platform. “They’re often made from a mix of lower-quality meat cuts and additives, including sodium nitrate and other preservati..

Sweeping cuts in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” targeting abortion providers threaten to drastically reduce access to a wide variety of sexual and reproductive health care services in Maine—even though the state has protected reproductive rights.

Two organizations—Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning—that serve roughly half of the patients in Maine’s entire sexual and reproductive health care network are at risk of being excluded from receiving Medicaid payments thanks to a provision in the tax and spending package, which narrowly passed the Senate on Tuesday and now faces a vote in the House. The provision would prohibit Medicaid funding for any health care services provided by Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning for one year.

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Medicaid is a state-federal program that provides health insurance coverage for more than 70 million people from low-income households across the country, including hundreds of thousands of..

What you once knew as an after-dinner stroll has been rebranded a “fart walk” on social media—and the trend is having a moment. Fans of the so-called fart walk—a short stroll taken up to about an hour after eating a meal—claim it aids digestion and relieves GI symptoms like gas and bloating. But what do doctors think?

New name, old concept
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“Feeling bloated after a meal is common,” says Dr. David D. Clarke, a clinical assistant professor of gastroenterology emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University and president of the Association of the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms. That’s because people eat too much, or they eat too quickly and swallow excess air, or they drink beverages with dissolved gas in them like soda or beer.

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To counter symptoms like these and help relieve gas naturally, walking after dinner can help, doctors agree. Walking can enhance the muscle contractions of the gastrointestinal tract—..

There’s a newly appointed panel of experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), freshly chosen by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, it sets the immunization schedule for Americans. And some of the new members have histories of vaccine-skepticism.

On June 26, this panel voted to remove thimerosal from flu vaccines. The ingredient has long been the target of anti-vaccine activists, despite numerous studies showing it’s safe in small amounts.

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The committee’s recommendation now goes to the CDC’s acting director to become a formal recommendation. (Susan Monarez, President Trump’s selection to head the agency, is currently undergoing confirmation hearings).

Here’s how thimerosal got into vaccines, why it’s being taken out, and what the latest recommendation could mean for next season’s flu shots.

What is thimerosal?

Thimerosal, which contains a form of mercury c..

For centuries, folklore and popular wisdom have linked poor eating habits and indigestion to nightmares and restless sleep. In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge at first dismisses the ghosts that torment him as mere dietary disturbances: “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato,” he says to one spectral visitor. “There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” Earlier, Benjamin Franklin lamented that “[I]ndolence, with full feeding, occasions nightmares and horrors inexpressible; we fall from precipices, are assaulted by wild beasts, murderers, and demons, and experience every variety of distress.” In the early 20th century, cartoonist Winsor McCay made his name with his “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend” series, in which his protagonists suffer bizarre dreams and nightmares which they attributed to eating Welsh rarebit—a delicacy of spiced cheese on toast.

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Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans that provides coverage for more than 70 million people,faces its biggest overhaul in decadesunder President Donald Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” a massive tax and spending package now being considered by the Senate that would slash its funding.

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Both the House and Senate versions of the bill, which is still undergoing changes as the upper chamber votes on amendments, would reduce funding for the program by hundreds of billions of dollars, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Nearly 12 million adults could lose health insurance because of the proposed cuts in the Senate’s revised bill over the next decade, the CBO estimated in a Saturday report. Much of the cuts are expected to come through imposing new administrative requirements on enrollees, or risk losing their coverage.

The White House has rejected the CBO’s findings, insisting that the cuts to the pr..

Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans that provides coverage for more than 70 million people,faces its biggest overhaul in decadesunder President Donald Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” a massive tax and spending package now being considered by the Senate that would slash its funding.

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Both the House and Senate versions of the bill, which is still undergoing changes as the upper chamber votes on amendments, would reduce funding for the program by hundreds of billions of dollars, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Nearly 12 million adults could lose health insurance because of the proposed cuts in the Senate’s revised bill over the next decade, the CBO estimated in a Saturday report. Much of the cuts are expected to come through imposing new administrative requirements on enrollees, or risk losing their coverage.

The White House has rejected the CBO’s findings, insisting that the cuts to the pr..

TIME reporter Andrew Chow discussed the findings of a new study about how ChatGPT affects critical thinking with Nataliya Kosymyna. Kosymyna was part of a team of researchers at MIT’s Media Lab who set out to determine whether ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) are eroding critical thinking, and the study returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects into three groups, and asked them to write several essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity. What they found was that of the three groups, the ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic and behavioral levels. Over the course of several months, the ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy and paste.

On this season of And Just Like That…, Harry Goldenblatt couldn’t help but wonder if his health had taken a turn. On the June 26 episode of the show, Charlotte’s affable husband goes from wetting his pants in a nightclub to joining a club he’d rather not be part of—even though, as he points out, it also includes Robert De Niro, Warren Buffett, and Nelson Mandela.

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During an evening walk past the Guggenheim Museum, Harry tells Charlotte there’s a reason he asked her to go for a stroll. “To get away from the kids? Me too,” she quips. Not exactly: Because of a couple strange symptoms he’d been experiencing, Harry decided to go to the doctor for a check-up. “What do you know? I got prostate cancer,” he tells his wife, who immediately dissolves into panicky fear. “Everything is going to be fine,” he reassures her. “We caught it early.”

Charlotte might not be happy about Harry’s news, but some experts are pleased with the development. “I’m ecstatic about th..