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When a 10-month-old boy in Gaza was confirmed to have the poliovirus in late August, the discovery spurred an urgent and desperate public health campaign in the region. Amid the bombs and airstrikes that have rocked Gaza for almost a year since the Hamas attacks of last fall sparked Israel’s onslaught, health care workers there continue to push forward with a vaccination initiative that started on Sept. 1. A significant victory in the campaign comes as hundreds of thousands of children have been treated with the first dose: about 560,000, the WHO announced Friday. But, due to both the war and the logistics of this particular vaccine, it will be weeks before the ultimate success of the effort is known.

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The vaccination campaign had initially aimed to reach at least 640,000 children in Gaza, with vaccines administered at hundreds of sites across the territory. (The discrepancy between that number and the 560,000 was attributed by the WHO to an overestim..

There’s a hidden gender gap when it comes to digestive problems, with women taking the lead in this unpleasant contest. While men are hardly immune to gastrointestinal woes, certain digestive problems are considerably more common in women. “Women aren’t broken—they’re just different,” says Dr. Jeanetta Frye, a gastroenterologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. For one thing, she says, “women have more visceral hypersensitivity so they may feel gastrointestinal symptoms more intensely.”

Symptom sensitivity aside, there’s clear evidence that certain digestive disorders are more likely to affect women than men. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)—a disorder that involves repeated bouts of abdominal pain and changes in bowel movements (diarrhea, constipation, or alternating bouts of the two)—is two to six times more common among women than men. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, affects twice as many women as men, according to ..

This week, Apple announced that its devices will have two new health-related capabilities: your Apple Watch will soon be able to tell if you have sleep apnea, and your AirPods Pro 2 can now double as hearing aids for those who need them.

Jeff Williams, chief operating officer at Apple, told TIME in his first interview about the new health features that while Apple began providing health-related capabilities initially focused on fitness, the company will “continue to pull on the threads” in the health space. Already, Apple devices can detect or track heart and respiratory rates, menstrual cycles, body temperature, perform electrocardiograms to record heart rhythms, monitor sleep cycles and detect falls, not to mention serve as a fitness apps for workouts and activity. And those features will likely only continue to grow. “So many people have our devices with them that we view this as an opportunity, and maybe even a moral responsibility, to do more in this space,” he says. “We don’t k..

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable.

In his ruling, state District Judge Bruce Romanick also said that the law violates the state constitution because it is too vague.

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Under the judge’s order, abortion would be legal in North Dakota, but the state currently has no clinics performing them, and the Republican-dominated state government would be expected to appeal the ruling.

The state’s only abortion provider had been the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, but it moved a few miles to Moorehead, Minnesota, in 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to ban abortion. Director Tammi Kromenaker said there are no plans to reopen a clinic in North Dakota but Thursday’s decision “gives us hope.”

“We feel like the court heard our concerns and the physicians in North..

Figuring out what to say about someone’s weight gain or loss is really easy if you follow one of the golden rules of modern communication: Never comment on another person’s body.

Not everyone, however, gets the memo.

Cherie Miller, an eating disorder and body image therapist in Southlake, Texas, hears often from clients on the receiving end of body talk. “It reinforces the idea that the way we look matters immensely, that we’re on display, and that, to some degree, our purpose is to be pleasing to others, which is really quite gross and harmful,” she says. “In our culture, we assume that weight gain is bad, and weight loss is good, and that’s just not always the case.”

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The person you’re talking to, she adds, might have lost weight because they’re sick. Or they might be depressed or recovering from an eating disorder. Maybe they packed on a few pounds because of the medication they’re taking for the condition they don’t want to disclose. The point, ..

You could argue that the complications of a disease, rather than the disease itself, create most of the problems associated with that condition. Take hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a primarily genetic condition that results in a thickening of the walls of the heart—specifically its left ventricle, which is the chamber that pumps blood out of the heart and into the aorta. According to the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association, HCM is the most common genetic heart condition, affecting at least 1 in every 500 adults—possibly more, given that as many as half of all people with the disorder have no symptoms or ones that are so mild, they go unnoticed.

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The American Heart Association (AHA) reports that about two-thirds of those who have been diagnosed with HCM have so much thickening in their heart muscle that it obstructs blood flow out of the left ventricle and into the aorta. This is called, aptly, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This kin..

Every four years, I become a gymnastics fan. It’s the only summer Olympic sport I reliably seek out, gawking from my couch as the athletes perform tricks that seem to defy the laws of physics and human capability. Since my own gymnastics career ended around the time I entered elementary school—in other words, around the time classes began to involve more than diving into a pit filled with foam blocks—I assumed this occasional experience was as close as I’d ever get to the sport in my adult life.

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Until a recent Monday evening, when I joined about 20 other people for an all-levels adult gymnastics class at the Chelsea Piers Field House in Brooklyn, New York. Even though the summer Olympics had already ended, enthusiasm for gymnastics hadn’t died down. I was lucky to get into the class, as I overheard multiple people saying the waitlist had been filling up fast lately. And apparently, a similar trend is playing out across the country.

“So many classes ..

Other than water, tea is the most consumed beverage worldwide. And for good reason: tea is great for you, particularly the green variety.

Several benefits of green tea are supported by solid research. Others, much less so. For example, influencers sometimes gush about green tea being “nature’s Ozempic,” suggesting it’s as effective as obesity medication. If this claim sounds exaggerated, that’s because it is, researchers say.

Below, they explain what the science shows about green tea’s role in countering obesity and diabetes, boosting heart and brain health, and fighting cancer.

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Green tea, a nutrition unicorn

Tea leaves are unique because they have more catechins than any other drink or food. These compounds protect cells from damage as we get older.

Green tea may be especially healthy compared to other teas, partly because it undergoes little processing on the way to our cups. Black and oolong teas are fermented, a process that reduces their cat..

Other than water, tea is the most consumed beverage worldwide. And for good reason: tea is great for you, particularly the green variety.

Several benefits of green tea are supported by solid research. Others, much less so. For example, influencers sometimes gush about green tea being “nature’s Ozempic,” suggesting it’s as effective as obesity medication. If this claim sounds exaggerated, that’s because it is, researchers say.

Below, they explain what the science shows about green tea’s role in countering obesity and diabetes, boosting heart and brain health, and fighting cancer.

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Green tea, a nutrition unicorn

Tea leaves are unique because they have more catechins than any other drink or food. These compounds protect cells from damage as we get older.

Green tea may be especially healthy compared to other teas, partly because it undergoes little processing on the way to our cups. Black and oolong teas are fermented, a process that reduces their cat..

Years ago, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman hit a rocky patch in their friendship. For reasons they couldn’t fully articulate, they weren’t communicating or clicking like they once did. Things just felt off.

Sow and Friedman are serious about friendship—they co-wrote the book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close—so they tried something a bit unconventional: friendship therapy. Just like in traditional couples counseling, a therapist helped them understand their relationship dynamics, where they’d gone wrong, and how they could move forward together.

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“The structure was everything, because in a less-structured way, all you’re doing is talking about surface-level stuff. You’re not seeing the patterns,” Sow says. “It was really nice to have someone who doesn’t know us ask us these questions.”

When Sow and Friedman sought friendship therapy in 2016, the concept was somewhat fringe. They struggled to find a therapist who worked with friends, rather ..