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It’s the morning of your big exam, and you’re panicking because you haven’t been to a single class all semester.

Thankfully, it’s just a dream. But why are you still having school-related dreams years after graduating?

Dr. Alex Dimitriu, a psychiatrist and sleep medicine doctor in Menlo Park, Calif., says that dreams of feeling unprepared can stem from stress in your day-to-day life. But dreaming specifically about feeling unprepared at school, he says, could be because those are such formative years in people’s lives.

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“For a lot of us, school is really the first time that we got that feeling of stressful non-preparation,” he says. “In a situation where your stress as an adult is triggered by work or some other scenario, those are very powerful memories of effectively the first experiences of being unprepared or late or missing something.”

Dylan Selterman, an associate teaching professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University who researches drea..

Wildfires are reversing decades of clean air standards in Canada and the U.S., according to new data published Thursday.

Researchers at the University of Chicago released their annual Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), which tracks air pollution and how it impacts life expectancies. This year’s report analyzed data collected in 2023.

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That year, as Canada faced its worst wildfire season in history, burning over 40 million acres of land, the flames caused air pollution concentrations to rise to levels not seen since 2011 in the United States and since 1998 in Canada, the years AQLI began recording air quality data. Both Canada and the U.S. had made great strides in lowering air pollution in the past—but the wildfires reversed that progress. The two countries saw the highest increases in air pollution worldwide in 2023—despite both having strict air quality rules at the time. The fires elevated pollution levels in pockets of the U.S., and also changed the..

As COVID-19 continues to circulate, questions remain about how to protect yourself in 2025. Should you get theCOVID-19 vaccine? Will the shotsbe available at your local pharmacy? Will insurance cover it? The answers are complicated.

The confusion stems from shifting federal vaccine recommendations, clashing guidance from medical groups, and the uncertainty of how doctors, pharmacies, insurance companies, and everyday people will navigate it all.

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On Aug. 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized updated COVID-19 shots—but said the vaccines were only approved for people ages 65 and older, as well as adults and children over 6 months who have risk factors for developing severe COVID-19. The FDA announcement follows a decision in May by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending the COVID-19 shot for pregnant people and healthy children.

It’s a big change. The CDC had previously recommended the shot..

President Trump backs Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the head of the health agency in charge of preventing disease outbreaks in the U.S., White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

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The show of support came a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was plunged into chaos, as director Susan Monarez, a Trump appointee and longstanding government scientist, was fired along with other officials. Monorez, who the Senate confirmed as the CDC’s new leader in July, claims through her attorneys she was fired after a disagreement about the scientific rigor of orders Kennedy was handing down. Her departure was announced abruptly on the Health and Human Services’ X account Wednesday night.

Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell, lawyers for Monarez, said in a statement she was targeted after she refused to “rubberstamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.” The lawyer..

Susan Monarez, the longtime federal government scientist who was confirmed as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in late July, has been let go from her position just weeks into her tenure, multiple outlets reported.

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The CDC and Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment. The Washington Post first broke the news.

The reason for Monarez’s ousting is not yet clear. President Donald Trump nominated Monarez following the withdrawal of his first pick, former Republican congressman David Weldon. Her departure comes shortly after a shooting on the CDC Atlanta campus on August 8th, which killed DeKalb County police officer David Rose.

Monarez, who secured Senate approval in a party-line vote, was the first director of the CDC to be confirmed by the upper chamber and the only non-physician to lead the agency. When she was sworn into her role on July 31st, HHS Secretary Robert..

Susan Monarez, the longtime federal government scientist who was confirmed as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in late July, is leaving her position just weeks into her tenure.

The Department for Health and Human Services confirmed Monarez’s departure in an X post Wednesday evening.

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“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the agency wrote, noting that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy “has full confidence in his team” at the CDC.

HHS did not give a reason for Monarez’s exit. The agency did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

The Washington Post first broke the news. The Post reported, citing people familiar with the conversations, that Kennedy pushed for Monarez to resign after she said she wouldn’t commit to supporting the Administration’s efforts to change coronavirus vaccine policies wi..

Susan Monarez is refusing to step down from her position as director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the White House seeks to fire her.

The Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist who assumed her role just weeks earlier, was “no longer director” of the CDC in an X post Wednesday evening. Attorneys representing Monarez pushed back, saying that Monarez had not “received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign.”

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“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directive and fire dedicated health experts she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda,” attorneys Mark S. Zaid and Abbe David Lowell wrote in a Wednesday statement on X.

A spokesperson for President Donald Trump later told multiple news outlets that Monarez..

Everyone has felt the exhaustion and dehydration that comes with spending too much time in the heat. But research shows that the impact of being exposed to extreme heat goes beyond heat waves: consistent exposure to high temperatures might also be making you age more quickly.

A new study, published Aug. 26 in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that repeated exposure to heat waves was linked to accelerated aging and increases vulnerability to health issues. The more extreme heat events an individual was exposed to, the more their bodies aged.

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Researchers analyzed medical data from nearly 25,000 people in Taiwan over the course of 15 years: between 2008 and 2022, when the region experienced 30 heat waves (defined by the researchers as a “period of elevated temperature over several days”). They were able to calculate a person’s biological age by using results from several medical tests including assessments of liver, lung, and kidney function; bl..

People who buy health care on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace are about to be in for some sticker shock. Monthly out-of-pocketcosts are set to jump as much as 75% for 2026 because of the disappearance of federal subsidies and higher rates from insurers.

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“Most enrollees are going to be facing a double whammy of both higher insurance bills and losing the subsidies that lower much of the cost,” says Matt McGough, a policy analyst at KFF for the Program on the ACA and the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.

KFF recently calculated that the median rate increase proposed by insurers is 18%, more than double last year’s 7% median proposed increase. But the actual blow to patients is going to be much higher. That’s because premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025 that greatly subsidized prices for people of many different income levels.

Around 93% of marketplace enrollees—19.3 million people—received the premium tax credits, acco..

The U.S. has confirmed a rarehuman case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite that typically infects livestock but can be deadly to people too.

A Maryland resident suffered an infestation of the screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told TIME in an email. Reuters first reported the news. Central America is currently grappling with outbreaks of the destructive pest, which have been threatening livestock and infecting people. The U.S. embassy in Nicaragua said in July that more than 120 human cases of screwworm infestation had been reported in the last year.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the Maryland case on Aug. 4 after reviewing images of the insect causing the infestation, HHS said.

“This is the first human case of travel-associated New World screwworm [infestation] from an outbreak-affected country identified in the United States,” the age..