What to Say When Someone’s Being Rude on an Airplane

Tempers often soar sky-high on airplanes—and that’s not just because of the cramped quarters, lack of an escape route, and frequent delays. In the same way that travelers are geographically and culturally diverse, they come from a hodgepodge of etiquette backgrounds, too. “The rules in Manhattan, Kansas, are different than in Manhattan, New York,” says Nick Leighton, who co-hosts the etiquette podcast Were You Raised By Wolves?“We’re all operating from slightly different etiquette playbooks, and we all have slightly different ideas about personal space, volume, and what’s acceptable and not acceptable. Combine that with people being sleep-deprived, hungry, cranky, and stressed out, and it’s a recipe for disaster.”

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How should you handle an inconsiderate or even unruly fellow passenger? We asked experts to share the best words to use.

“Excuse me, I’m sorry to bother you….”

No matter what your fellow traveler is doing to annoy you—maybe reclining thei..

RFK Jr to encourage Americans to use ‘wearable’ tech to track their health

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that it is his vision «that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.»
He made the comments regarding devices like smartwatches, smart rings and fitness trackers to members of Congress, adding that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is «about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables.»
Kennedy said during a hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health that wearables are a way «people can take control of their own health.»
«They can see, as you know, what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates, and a number of other metrics as they eat it,» he told members of Congress. «And they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives.»
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New stem cell therapy shows ‘promising’ results for treating hair loss in preclinical trials

Researchers at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid may have targeted a potential solution for hair loss.
A recent study analyzed the effect of injecting mice's skin with stem cells from human fat — «adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs)» — as a means of treating androgenetic alopecia (AGA), more commonly known as male- or female-pattern hair loss.
The team found that male mice achieved the best hair regrowth after three weeks when they received low-dose ASCs, combined with an energy-boosting molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Low-dose and high-dose ASC treatments along with ATP led to no hair regrowth improvement in females, but medium-dose ASC plus ATP led to greater regrowth.
The researchers concluded that hair regrowth was improved in «all experimental groups» where male mice received stem cell solutions supplemented with ATP.
The findings were published in the journal Stem Cell Re..

Health Insurers Vow—Again—to Fix Prior Authorization Process. Here’s What to Know

A coalition of health insurance companies is vowing to make changes to the prior authorization process, after years of patients and providers’ complaints over a system they say delays care and endangers people’s health.

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On Monday, federal health officials met with representatives from some of the country’s major insurance companies, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente, and UnitedHealthcare. The coalition of insurers voluntarily pledged to streamline the widely criticized process.

The insurance companies, as well as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, touted the commitment as a step toward improving the country’s health care system.

But this isn’t the first time insurers have pledged to reform the process in recent years, as it has drawn fierce criticism.

Here’s what to know about prior authorization, and what in..

What Experts Use to Repel Ticks and Mosquitoes

If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks—which seem to be everywhere this year—you might need to enlist a heavy-hitter. Insect experts reach for one thing: permethrin.

Here’s what to know about the synthetic insecticide, plus how and when to use it.

How permethrin works

Permethrin, which is derived from the chrysanthemum flower, has been used in some form since around 400 B.C. During the wars of the early 1800s, Napoleon dusted his soldiers with a permethrin-like powder to control fleas and body lice, which protected them from anemia and gave them a physical edge over their enemies.

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Permethrin is a neurotoxin that targets an insect’s nervous system, triggering muscle spasms, paralysis, and eventually death. It functions as a contact insecticide, which means it kills via direct contact when a bug lands on a treated surface. That distinguishes it from DEET-based repellents, which work in a different way. DEET “blocks the sensors for ..

Hepatitis A outbreak infects thousands of travelers at popular destinations

A spike in viral infections has sickened thousands of travelers and caused several deaths at some popular European destinations.
Four countries — Austria, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia — have reported a spike in hepatitis A cases between January and May 2025, according to a rapid risk assessment issued by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
In total, 2,097 cases have been reported across the four countries.
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Slovakia, which has been dealing with an active outbreak since 2022, represents 880 of those cases. Czechia is the next most affected country, reporting 600 cases and six deaths, the ECDC stated. Hungary has reported 530 cases in 2025, and Austria has reported 87.
Hepatitis A is an «acute viral liver disease» caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV), according to the agency.
The disease is mainly spread through contaminated food or water, or through close contact with infected people.
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, sai..

‘An Exodus of OB-GYNs’: How the Dobbs Decision Has Shaken the Reproductive Health Landscape

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In the months after Texas banned abortion in nearly all situations, Dr. Lou Rubino stayed and continued treating patients in Austin.

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“I just had in mind I could still do something—I would be able to do some good, help some people,” says Rubino, who had lived and worked in the state for years.

But one day, Rubino was treating a patient. She was 16. Pregnant. And she was telling Rubino that she needed an abortion.

“I knew that she really needed that abortion, just like all my patients need their abortions,” Rubino says. “I knew inside of my soul, in some very deep place, this is wrong. For me to not do her abortion, for me to refer her out of state, for me to tell a pregnant person to get in their car and drive hours—putting them at risk for blood clot—to go ..

Single dose of ‘magic mushrooms’ provides 5 years of depression relief, researchers find

Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, could alleviate depression for at least five years after just one dose, according to a new study.
The research, presented June 18 at the Psychedelic Science 2025 conference in Denver, followed up with patients who had been diagnosed with clinical depression — also known as major depressive disorder (MDD) — and had participated in a previous psilocybin treatment study in 2020.
«Most people who participated in our trial reported improvements in depression symptom intensity or in the ways in which they experienced depression in their life, lasting up to five years after the trial,» study co-author Alan Davis, director of the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education at The Ohio State University, told Fox News Digital.
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Yes, Your Dog Can Get Sunburned. Here’s What to Know

If you want your good boy to have a good summer, make sure he catches balls instead of rays. Dogs can get just as sunburned as people, veterinarians warn, and sometimes, it becomes an emergency.

“Especially during the really hot summer months, we see an uptick of pets coming in with sunburns,” says Veronica Villanueva, medical director at VEG Anaheim Hills, which provides emergency veterinary care. “We think of humans with skin getting sunburn, and then with our pets, we think, ‘Oh, they have fur, they like to be outside.’” Most pet owners “aren’t aware of the potential risks of sunburns and the severity with which they can experience them.”

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We asked vets exactly how to tell if your dog is sunburned, what to do about it, and how to prevent future sun damage.

Signs of sunburn in dogs

A dog’s fur provides some built-in protection against UV rays. But all breeds are susceptible to sunburn—and the lighter or thinner the fur, the greater the risk. Short..

Experimental drug helps patients lose nearly a quarter of body weight in early trials

An experimental weight-loss medication was shown to help people lose nearly 25% of their body weight in early-stage 1a/2b trials.
The drug, amycretin — developed by Novo Nordisk — works by replicating two hunger hormones — amylin, which regulates appetite and creates a feeling of fullness, and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), the same hormone that is used in Ozempic and Wegovy to suppress appetite and boost insulin secretion.
«Amycretin is the first treatment to harness the two distinct biological pathways stimulated by amylin and GLP-1 in a single molecule,» Martin Holst Lange, executive vice president and head of development at Novo Nordisk, previously said in a statement sent to Fox News Digital.
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In the study, which included 125 overweight or obese adults, participants who received weekly injections of amycretin lost more weight than those who took a placebo, according to a press re..