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What we’ve come to recognize as the modern OB-GYN specialty first emerged in the early 20th century when obstetrics and gynecology—separate and distinct fields until that time—were combined to offer comprehensive care throughout women’s reproductive years. Today, many women indeed rely on their OB-GYNs not just for reproductive health, but as primary care providers for everything from family planning to cancer screening and menopause management.

While the merger of obstetrics and gynecology seems logical, the union has led to “bikini medicine,” a remarkably short-sighted approach that reduces women’s health to their reproductive organs while short-changing other vital systems like the heart, brain, and gut.

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This narrow focus has had far-reaching consequences for women’s overall health and the medical profession’s approach to treating women. In fact, it has become increasingly clear that a more holistic, specialized approach is needed to address the c..

Psychedelics have shown great promise in treating a range of mental-health conditions, from PTSD to depression—but they’re not without significant downsides. People who take psychedelics can experience bad trips and unpleasant or dangerous side effects, and the drugs can be time-intensive and arduous to administer.

These drugs are “very effective, but they’re scary and they’re chaotic and they’re unpredictable,” says Dillan DiNardo, CEO of psychedelic drug development company Mindstate Design Labs.

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Mindstate, and plenty of companies like it, think they’ve found a workaround: what if psychedelics could be tamed and toned down, tweaked to keep their psychological benefits while reducing many of their risks? This approach could, in theory, improve patients’ experiences, boost the drugs’ efficacy, and make psychedelics more palatable to regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—who earlier this year dealt a blow to the legal psychedelics..

In 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician who has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay area for more than two decades, had just learned about a new blood test only available at select labs for predicting premature birth when the perfect case walked into her office.

At 40, she was pregnant with her third child. Her first was born full term, but during her second pregnancy, she went into labor at 32 weeks.

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Because she had a history of premature labor, she was at higher risk of delivering her third baby early as well. But as the primary earner for her family, she could not afford to take time off on bed rest like she had for her second. Phelps-Sandall decided to give her the blood test to help inform any decision they made about her options.

The test, called PreTRM, tracks levels of two proteins in the blood that tend to rise during the second trimester in women who are at risk of delivering early. This patient’s test was negative. That ..

As diplomats and officials from around the world gathered in New York last week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, one question dominated the attention of global leaders: who will lead the U.S. in 2025? The stakes of this election go far beyond America’s borders. The next president will play a critical role in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges: climate change, global health, and international cooperation. And the choice between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump could not be clearer.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump offer two starkly different visions of how the U.S. should engage on global challenges ranging from economic inequality to global health. Their opposing views on climate action, pandemic preparedness, and infectious disease prevention, among other challenges, will significantly influence not just the daily lives of Americans but the trajectory of millions of lives around the world.

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Maybe you’ve been putting off a mammogram because you’re anxious about what it might find. But experts encourage women to reframe having a mammogram as empowering. “You can’t prevent breast cancer, but mammograms help you take some control,” says Dr. Nina S. Vincoff, chief of breast imaging at Northwell Health in New York. “Mammograms find cancers when they are smallest and easiest to treat. Women who have mammograms are less likely to die from breast cancer and less likely to need aggressive treatments like mastectomy and chemotherapy.”

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Dr. Laurie Margolies, professor and vice-chair for breast imaging at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, puts it even more succinctly: “Just come! Don’t be afraid!”

But many women don’t. That’s true even if there are symptoms, Margolies says. Some “pretend nothing is happening and allow a breast mass to grow and grow until it erodes through the skin, and they find themselves bleeding and come to the emergenc..

When you reach for a COVID-19 test, it’s probably because you’ve got a scratchy throat, runny nose, or cough. But those are far from the only symptoms that make Dr. Rohit Jain, an internal medicine doctor at PennState Health, suspect the virus.

These days, when someone complains of nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting, “I always get a COVID test on that patient,” Jain says.

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Why? Despite its reputation as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 can also have a profound impact on the gut. Although most people don’t realize it, “COVID-19 really is a GI-tract disease” as well as a respiratory illness, says Dr. Mark Rupp, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Here’s what to know about the gastrointestinal symptoms of COVID-19.

What are the GI symptoms of COVID-19?

While some people experience no gastrointestinal symptoms or mild ones, a subset of COVID-19 patients have experienced significant digestive symptoms since the early day..

The alarm clock blares, and you reach for your running shoes without thinking about it. Next thing you know, you’re jogging through your neighborhood on the same route as every other morning.

You are a creature of exercise habit. And there’s nothing wrong with that—in fact, you’re much healthier because of it. “The best exercise is the one you will do,” says Stella Volpe, a professor of exercise and nutrition at Virginia Tech.

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At some point, though, there’s a decent chance you’ll stop doing it. What was once a fun challenge may lose its luster. Repeated hundreds of times, your rock-steady workout may start feeling like a Sisyphean rock, an obligation lingering in your life like a former crush who can’t take the hint that it’s over.

Science points to the best reasons to break up with a dissatisfying routine and how to switch to a new one.

Break the plateau

It could be time to change if you perform the same workout daily and you’re no longer increas..

Ask a doctor when the best time is to get your annual flu shot, and they’re likely to tell you that it doesn’t matter when it you get it—just that you get vaccinated.

But there is a sweet spot to optimize your immunity.

When is the optimal time to get the flu shot?
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Flu season lasts from October to May, and cases in the U.S. peak from December to February. That’s why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people get their flu vaccine by the end of October, since it takes the immune system about two weeks to rev up its maximum response to the vaccine. This means generating sufficient immune cells—including antibodies—against the virus. “The perfect time to get vaccinated against flu is right before cases start to take off,” says Dr. Kawsar Talaat, associate professor in international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Political pundits would have a much easier job if they started predicting Americans’ stress levels instead of the outcome of the presidential election. No margin of error needed—it’s easy to see we’re all anxious. (Talk about unfavorable polling.)

According to a recent American Psychiatric Association poll, 73% of adults in the U.S. are stressed about the race. A 2024 Pew Research Center survey concluded that 65% of Americans always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics, while 55% report feeling angry. Politics triggers sleep loss, shortened tempers, and obsessive thoughts.

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As researchers found last year, even election-related anticipatory stress—like ruminating over the social gathering you’re going to with people who support a different candidate—can adversely affect health. “It has immediate consequences,” says study author Shevaun Neupert, a professor in the department of psychology at NC State University. “It’s getting under our ..

Anti-transgender policies have caused a rise in suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary youth, according to a new Trevor Project study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

The peer-reviewed study found that when states pass anti-transgender laws—with policies like bathroom bans, which bar trans students from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity, or challenges to gender marker updates, which make it more difficult for trans people to have their accurate gender on state IDs—suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth ages 13 to 17 increased from 7% to 72%.

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“There’s nothing inherent in transgender, nonbinary young people that makes them at greater risk for suicide,” says Ronita Nath, vice president of research at the Trevor Project. “They’re placed at greater suicide risk because of the stigma and mistreatment experienced in society, including these discriminatory laws and policies.”

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