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For the millions of Americans struggling to pay off the costs of expensive medical procedures, the looming debt is accompanied by another threat: that the unpaid medical bills could drag down their credit scores, making it harder to get a credit card or buy a home or car. And now a rule that would have addressed that issue will no longer be going into effect.

In the final days of President Joe Biden’s term, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. The goal was to “reduce the burden of medical debt and ensure that patients are not denied access to credit for home mortgages, car loans, or small business loans due to unpaid medical bills,” according to the White House press release at the time. But under the Trump Administration, the CFPB flipped its stance on the rule, which had not yet gone into effect. And on Friday, a federal judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, vacated the rule, stating tha..

If dragging yourself to the gym feels like a chore, the issue might not be motivation, but misalignment. Matching your workout to your personality type could be the missing link to making exercise feel less like a task and more like a reward.

In one 2025 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers looked at several different personality traits like being extroverted, conscientious, or neurotic. They found that certain types of exercise seemed best suited to these dominant personality traits—and people who chose physical activities that matched their personality enjoyed their workout more, stuck to it more consistently, and even improved more than people who picked a workout that didn’t sync up as well to their personality.

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Of course, the best workout for you is whichever one gets you moving. But if you’re curious how to sync your workout to your personality, read on.

How your personality can shape your best workout

Every kind of exerci..

If you’re jogging in shorts out in the sweaty summer heat, you might notice the skin on your inner thighs feeling a little raw. It may burn, sting, and itch, and a rash may crop up. These are signs of chafing, but doctors say there are ways to prevent it.

Chafing happens when your skin repeatedly rubs against neighboring skin, clothing, or something else, says Dr. Channing Hood, a dermatologist at U.S. Dermatology Partners Golden in Colorado. “This repetitive motion can damage the outer layer of the skin, which leads to inflammation and a red rash.”

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While chafing is common on the inner thighs, it can occur anywhere on the body, especially in spots that are typically “warm and moist” or where friction is likely, such as under your arms or breasts, around your nipples, or on your backside or groin, explains Dr. Michele Green, a dermatologist in New York City.

You may chafe more in the summer because you sweat more, and this moisture increases frict..

Food prices have been quickly climbing for years now, and now there’s another staple that could see prices soon shoot up: tomatoes.

Mexican tomatoes are immediately being slapped with a 17% tariff, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce said on July 14, announcing it was withdrawing from a 2019 agreement that suspended tariffs on tomatoes imported from Mexico.

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That could affect a lot of grocery store tomatoes. Although the fruit—or vegetable, depending on who you ask—is also grown in Florida, about 70% of fresh tomatoes consumed in the U.S. are imported, and the majority come from Mexico, says David Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State University.

Although the price of a bunch of tomatoes may only increase by a few dozen cents, the increase comes at a time when consumers are already sick of inflation, and when tariffs threatened by the Trump Administration could further drive up prices, he says.

“This is one of the most widely consumed fruits or vegeta..

MOBILE, ALA.—Not long ago, Dr. Richard Menger, a neurosurgeon, was ready to operate on a 16-year-old with complex scoliosis. A team of doctors had spent months preparing for the surgery, consulting orthopedists and cardiologists, even printing a 3D model of the teen’s spine.

The surgery was scheduled for a Friday when Menger got the news: the teen’s insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, had denied coverage of the surgery.

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It wasn’t particularly surprising to Menger, who has been practicing in Alabama since 2019. Alabama essentially has one private insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, which has a whopping 94% of the market of large-group insurance plans, according to the health policy nonprofit KFF. That dominance allows the insurer to consistently deny claims, many doctors say, charge people more for coverage, and pay lower rates to doctors and hospitals than they would in other states.

“It makes the natural problems for insurance that..

No more shrieking after receiving a text, no more bombshells, no more dramatic firepit gatherings: Love Island USA’s scandal-laden seventh season has concluded after crowning fan-favorite “Amaya Papaya” and her beau Bryan as this year’s winners.

For six weeks, the show gave millions of people something to talk about—including how the islanders talked to each other. Forget mindless summer entertainment: It was a lesson in how (not) to communicate.

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We pulled a few experts for a chat and asked which communication habits they would vote off the island—and why.

Reflexive defensiveness

Saba Harouni Lurie, a marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles, felt “very angsty” throughout much of Season 7. In part, that was because of all the drama triggered by the way the islanders communicated. “You see so much good in all of them, and so much potential, and you want them to find what they’re looking for,” she says. “It’s so painful when they aren’t able to h..

A person in Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, local health officials said on Friday.

Pneumonic plague, which occurs when the bacterium Yersinia pestis gets into a person’s lungs, is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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All three major types of the plague are rare in the modern day. One type, bubonic plague, was the main cause of the fourteenth century’s Black Death pandemic, which left a trail of death and devastation across Europe. Now, roughly 1,000 to 2,000 people across the globe are diagnosed with plague annually, per the Cleveland Clinic. Only around seven cases are reported in the U.S. each year.

It is unclear when the person in Arizona died, but the Coconino County health department said in a press release that it received test results Friday that confirmed the patient had pneumonic plague.

Here’s what to know about pneumonic plague.

Where do most cases of plague happen, and wh..

Throughout history, people have timed their bathing for a number of important purposes. Some cultures have showered in the morning to purify the spirit before prayer, while others preferred the evening bath as an opportunity to socialize and clean their grimy bodies before bed.

Shahab Haghayegh just wanted to get a better night’s sleep. “I tried various methods including melatonin pills to move my bedtime back,” he says. “Nothing worked.”

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What finally did the trick? Switching his shower from morning to evening. “When we take a nighttime shower at the right time and temperature, it helps us fall asleep,” says Haghayegh, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. His experience inspired him to study how warm nighttime showers support slumber.

So which is best? That depends on your goals. Here’s how to time your shower for the biggest mental and physical benefits.

Nighttime sleepiness

Haghayegh points to research, in..

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The number of measles cases in the U.S. has reached a 33-year record high, years after it was officially eliminated in the country, prompting public health experts to sound the alarm that other diseases could experience a similar resurgence.

There have been 1,288 confirmed measles cases in the U.S. this year as of Tuesday, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s the largest number of cases reported in the country since 1992—eight years before the disease was declared eliminated from the U.S. Measles is a highly contagious disease that can lead to serious health complications, including death, but is vaccine preventable through the measles, mumps, and rubella (MM..

It’s an automatic behavior when you meet someone new: subconsciously, you take stock of physical cues to gauge how old they are. Facial wrinkles, gray hairs, an unsteady walk: these all signal older age.

Often, these guesses are pretty accurate, and researchers are attempting to replicate that internal age calculator to figure out how old people are—not chronologically, but biologically.

In a new paper published in Nature Medicine, Tony Wyss-Coray, professor of neurology at Stanford University and director of the Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, and his colleagues report on a blood test they developed that can determine a person’s “biological age:” a number based on your internal health that may be able to more accurately capture how well you’re aging than your birthday age.

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The test looks for sets of proteins unique to 11 organ systems, and each of these groups of proteins provides a window into how healthy the corresponding..