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If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks—which seem to be everywhere this year—you might need to enlist a heavy-hitter. Insect experts reach for one thing: permethrin.

Here’s what to know about the synthetic insecticide, plus how and when to use it.

How permethrin works

Permethrin, which is derived from the chrysanthemum flower, has been used in some form since around 400 B.C. During the wars of the early 1800s, Napoleon dusted his soldiers with a permethrin-like powder to control fleas and body lice, which protected them from anemia and gave them a physical edge over their enemies.

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Permethrin is a neurotoxin that targets an insect’s nervous system, triggering muscle spasms, paralysis, and eventually death. It functions as a contact insecticide, which means it kills via direct contact when a bug lands on a treated surface. That distinguishes it from DEET-based repellents, which work in a different way. DEET “blocks the sensors for ..

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In the months after Texas banned abortion in nearly all situations, Dr. Lou Rubino stayed and continued treating patients in Austin.

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“I just had in mind I could still do something—I would be able to do some good, help some people,” says Rubino, who had lived and worked in the state for years.

But one day, Rubino was treating a patient. She was 16. Pregnant. And she was telling Rubino that she needed an abortion.

“I knew that she really needed that abortion, just like all my patients need their abortions,” Rubino says. “I knew inside of my soul, in some very deep place, this is wrong. For me to not do her abortion, for me to refer her out of state, for me to tell a pregnant person to get in their car and drive hours—putting them at risk for blood clot—to go ..

If you want your good boy to have a good summer, make sure he catches balls instead of rays. Dogs can get just as sunburned as people, veterinarians warn, and sometimes, it becomes an emergency.

“Especially during the really hot summer months, we see an uptick of pets coming in with sunburns,” says Veronica Villanueva, medical director at VEG Anaheim Hills, which provides emergency veterinary care. “We think of humans with skin getting sunburn, and then with our pets, we think, ‘Oh, they have fur, they like to be outside.’” Most pet owners “aren’t aware of the potential risks of sunburns and the severity with which they can experience them.”

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We asked vets exactly how to tell if your dog is sunburned, what to do about it, and how to prevent future sun damage.

Signs of sunburn in dogs

A dog’s fur provides some built-in protection against UV rays. But all breeds are susceptible to sunburn—and the lighter or thinner the fur, the greater the risk. Short..

More people identify as bisexual than as lesbian or gay. Yet bisexuality tends to be largely misunderstood, and people who are bi are exposed to “so many negative messages, both from heterosexual people and from lesbian and gay people,” says Tania Israel, a professor emerit of counseling psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who gave a TEDx Talk on bisexuality. “A lot of bisexual people don’t actually openly identify as bisexual, to a large extent because of the concern about exclusion and the negativity that they get.”

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The worst—and most common—reaction Israel hears is that bisexuality doesn’t exist. When someone says they’re bi, other people often scoff, challenging what the other person told them or retorting that they must simply be confused. “Some people will say, ‘Well, I think it’s just a phase—you’re on your way to coming out as lesbian or gay,’” Israel says. “Interestingly, people often think that bisexual women are reall..

Social Security and Medicare are expected to need to cut monthly benefits in less than a decade as the trust funds for both programs are on track to run dry earlier than previously predicted.

A report released on Wednesday from the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees pushed up the programs’ go-broke dates, meaning the point at which they would not have enough money to fully cover benefits.

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The worsening projections are in part because of a new law impacting Social Security and increasing health care costs, according to the report.

Here’s what to know about the approaching funding cliffs.

How long will Social Security stay solvent?

The go-broke date for Social Security’s trust funds was pushed up to 2034, from last year’s estimate of 2035.

The funds cover old age and disability recipients. The program covers more than 60 million people in the U.S.

What about Medicare?

Last year’s report set the go-broke date for Medicare’s hospital i..

Psilocybin—a notorious hallucinogen found in “magic mushrooms”—is a federally controlled substance that the U.S. deems to have “no currently accepted medical use” and “a high potential for abuse.”

But not everyone agrees with that assessment: New Zealand on Wednesday became the latest country to approve the use of the substance for therapeutic purposes.

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David Seymour, New Zealand’s Associate Minister for Health, told reporters that the new policy, which allows a single approved psychiatrist to prescribe psilocybin to patients with treatment-resistant depression, represents a “real breakthrough.”

Seymour said that the psychiatrist, identified as Cameron Lacey, a professor at the University of Otago, “has previously prescribed psilocybin in clinical trials and will operate under strict reporting and record-keeping requirements.” Seymour added that he is hoping more psychiatrists will apply for clearance to prescribe the drug to patients, though he cla..

Many years ago, I became a Phaal Curry Monster, meaning I was brave (and dumb) enough to accept a restaurant’s challenge to eat a plate of chicken drenched in curry made of the spiciest peppers on Earth. Each swallow felt like shards of glass scraping my throat. After finishing, I celebrated my achievement by throwing up in a bush across the street. The health benefits of spicy food could not have been further from my mind.

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But emerging research links chili peppers—if consumed more reasonably than I did at that restaurant—to better health. Data “suggest spicy food can help metabolism, enhancing feelings of fullness and weight control,” says Dr. Long Nguyen, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Here’s why chili peppers may be good for you and how to heat up your diet for both taste and health.

The benefits of spicy food

Several studies find that people who regularly eat spicy food have better overall health and fewer disease..

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Erin Moriarty—an actress known for her role as Annie January on the Amazon Prime Video show The Boys—recently announced on Instagram that she has Graves’ disease. While Moriarty, 30, didn’t share exactly what led to her diagnosis, she noted that she initially brushed off her symptoms: “If I hadn’t chalked it all up to stress and fatigue, I would’ve caught this sooner,” she wrote, urging her followers to pay close attention to their own health. “Don’t ‘suck it up’ and transcend suffering; you deserve to be comfy.”

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What exactly is Graves’ disease? We asked experts how the condition shows up and what managing it looks like.

What is Graves’ disease?

Graves’ disease—which affects about 1% of people in the U.S.—is an autoimmune ..

People across the world have been having fewer and fewer children, and it’s not always because they don’t want them.

The global fertility rate has, on average, dropped to less than half what it was in the 1960s, the United Nations has found, falling below the “replacement level” required to maintain the current population in the majority of countries.

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Amid that historic decline, nearly 20% of adults of reproductive age from 14 countries around the globe believe they won’t be able to have the number of children they want to, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN’s sexual and reproductive health and rights agency, said in a report released this week. For most of them, the report found it isn’t infertility keeping them from doing so. They pointed to factors including financial limitations, barriers to fertility or pregnancy-related medical care, and fears of the state of the world that they say are hindering them from making their own ferti..

Some foods simply radiate star power. Apples and bananas? They’ve got their own song. Peanuts, potatoes, and pepperjack cheese? They’re in your pantry—and the cooking hall of fame.

But the obvious choices aren’t the only ones—and they’re not even necessarily the best. “People tend to fall into certain patterns—we’re creatures of habit,” says registered dietitian nutritionist Mindy Haar, assistant dean at New York Institute of Technology’s School of Health Professions. “But from a nutritional point of view, by varying your diet, you’re going to get ahead.” In addition to exposing yourself to nutrients you might not be getting from the same old foods, switching up your standard fare can also be a delightful surprise for your taste buds.

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We asked dietitians to reveal their favorite underrated healthy foods, plus ideas on how to incorporate them into your diet.

Celery

The simple celery stalk—often thought of only as a hummus-dipping vehicle—deserves to..