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Aisha Adkins’ mother Rosetta was adamant that she wanted to age at home. So when Rosetta’s dementia started worsening at age 59, Aisha started looking around for options.

She quickly found that round-the-clock at-home care was extremely costly, and that her mother didn’t qualify for government assistance. Stuck in the middle, Aisha, who was 29 at the time, ended up quitting her job to take of her mother care of her herself.

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At first, Rosetta just needed help preparing meals and reminders to take her medication. But as her care needs deepened, Aisha had to learn how to bathe and dress and feed her mother. She and her father hired a home health aide for a few hours a week when they could, but most of the care fell to the two of them until her mother finally qualified for Medicaid through a complicated process called spousal impoverishment protection, which allowed her father to keep some assets.

“We faced so many challenges; it was really a struggle..

Federal health officials are scrutinizing a mineral—added to some makeup, medications, and foods—that many people have never thought twice about: talc.

In a recent viewpoint article called “Priorities for a New FDA,” published in the medical journal JAMA, Dr. Martin Makary, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, wrote that the FDA conducted an expert panel on talc in May. They also noted that some companies have removed talc from baby powder because it’s a carcinogen. Johnson & Johnson, for example, stopped using talc in 2023 following more than 60,000 legal claims from ovarian cancer patients.

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The JAMA article added that talc remains common, since people still “ingest it regularly” as an ingredient in various medications and foods.

Despite the lawsuits, though, research hasn’t confirmed whether talc causes cancer, especially when consumed through food. Mean..

There has been a lot of talk about the potential for AI in health, but most of the studies so far have been stand-ins for the actual practice of medicine: simulated scenarios that predict what the impact of AI could be in medical settings.

But in one of the first real-world tests of an AI tool, working side-by-side with cliniciansin Kenya, researchers showed that AI can reduce medical errors by as much as 16%.

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In a study available on OpenAI.com that is being submitted to a scientific journal, researchers at OpenAI and Penda Health, a network of primary care clinics operating in Nairobi, found that an AI tool can provide a powerful assist to busy clinicians who can’t be expected to know everything about every medical condition. Penda Health employs clinicians who are trained for four years in basic health care: the equivalent of physician assistants in the U.S. The health group, which operates 16 primary care clinics in Nairobi Kenya, has its own guid..

Coca-Cola has announced that it will be introducing a cane sugar version of its leading soda product to the U.S. market this fall, confirming President Donald Trump’s pre-emptive announcement made days earlier.

The new offering of Coca-Cola will be available in the U.S. alongside the iconic version, which uses high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener and will remain unchanged. (Diet and Coke Zero products use aspartame and other artificial sweeteners.)

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The soda company said that the upcoming availability of the cane sugar product is part of its “ongoing innovation agenda.”

“This addition is designed to complement the company’s strong core portfolio and offer more choices across occasions and preferences,” Coca-Cola said on Tuesday in its second quarterly update of the year.

The company’s chairman and CEO James Quincey elaborated further on a conference call with investors, during which he referenced Trump’s recent comments and praised his interest i..

Your body will almost certainly rebel if you drink too much alcohol in a night. But what if it reacts after just a sip or two? If you notice odd symptoms like facial flushing, a runny nose, or even a racing heartbeat after drinking, you might not just be sensitive to alcohol—you could be allergic.

While true alcohol allergies are uncommon, they do exist, and alcohol intolerance and reactions to ingredients in your favorite drinks are pervasive. Here’s how to spot the clues that you might not get along well with alcohol.

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Is it an intolerance or an allergy?

Both involve different biological reactions, and an alcohol allergy can be dangerous.

A true alcohol allergy is an immune-system response to a component of the beverage. It may mean your immune system reacts to alcohol—or ingredients in alcoholic beverages like grains, yeast, or preservatives—as if it’s a harmful invader. Symptoms can include a rash; itching; swelling of the lips, tongue, or mou..

On July 14, 48 students walked through the doors of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Ark. to become its inaugural class. Some came from neighboring cities, others from urban centers in Michigan and New York. Almost all had a choice in where they could become doctors but took a chance on the new school because of its unique approach to rethinking medical education.

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Named after its founder—the world’s richest woman and an heir to the Walmart fortune—the school will train students over the next four years in a radically different way from the method most traditional medical schools use. And that’s the point. Instead of drilling young physicians to chase symptom after symptom and perform test after test, Alice Walton wants her school’s graduates to keep patients healthy by practicing something that most doctors today don’t prioritize: preventive medicine and whole-health principles, which involve caring for (and not just treating) t..

Talking about death doesn’t have to be morbid. If you approach the conversation the right way, “it makes us more awake to our lives,” says Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, founder of End Well, a nonprofit that aims to change the way people talk about and plan for the end of life. “When we avoid this discussion, we rob ourselves of one of life’s most clarifying forces—and that’s the awareness that our time is finite.”

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There are other benefits to planning ahead. Research suggests that the majority of people don’t get the end-of-life care they want: While 80% would like to die at home, for example, only 30% do. Ungerleider has found that those who experience the most peaceful deaths tend to be the ones who have had ongoing conversations with themselves and their families about their wishes, including their values, fears, and hopes for how they want to be remembered. These discussions “should be as common as financial literacy,” Ungerleider says (another topic p..

On July 17, the White House announced that President Donald Trump was diagnosed with a condition called chronic venous insufficiency after he noticed swelling in his legs.

According to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump, who is 79, was diagnosed following an ultrasound of his legs; he does not have complications of the condition, such as deep vein thrombosis, and an echocardiogram indicated that he has normal cardiac structure and function.

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We asked experts what to know about the condition, including what it feels like and how it’s treated.

What is chronic venous insufficiency?

Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) affects more than 25 million adults in the U.S. It’s one of the most common diagnoses that Dr. Ali Azizzadeh, professor and director of vascular surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute, sees in his patients every day.

CVI occurs when the valves in the legs don’t work correctly, which..

White House doctors have diagnosed President Donald Trump with chronic venous insufficiency after he noticed swelling in his legs, the White House announced Thursday.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump, 79, recently underwent testing to examine the swelling, which included diagnostic vascular studies and an ultrasound of his legs, revealing the vein condition.

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According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, chronic venous insufficiency occurs when veins in the legs struggle to allow blood to flow back up to the heart, often as a result of damaged valves in the veins. The condition affects about 1 in 20 adults.

Leavitt provided the health update amid online speculation about visible swelling around Trump’s ankles and bruises on his hands, the latter of which she said was attributable to his “frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin.”

While chronic venous insufficiency is not life-threatening, according to the Cleveland Clinic, it ca..

You’re likely aware that sweating is how your body cools off, and that when you sweat, your body loses water, salt, and other minerals. What you might not know, though, is just how much you need to drink to replenish these fluid losses.

People often don’t “drink as much fluid as they’re really supposed to,” says Dr. Cara Taubman, clinical director of emergency management at NYC Health + Hospitals in Harlem. “You really need to drink more fluids than you realize.”

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That’s true whether you’re sitting inside in the air conditioning, exercising, going to the pool, or working outside in the summer heat, Taubman says.

Thirst is your body’s “strong inherent mechanism” to signal when you need to hydrate, explains Dr. Rakhi Khanna, a nephrologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. But you shouldn’t always wait until you’re thirsty—you also need to consume fluids throughout the day, including with meals.

Here’s the best thing to drink to stay h..