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Health experts warn of seasonal illness increase as fall begins
Local health experts are warning residents to prepare for an increase in seasonal illnesses as the first day of fall brings a drastic shift from humid heat to cool, wet conditions.
Health experts warn of seasonal illness increase as fall begins
Local health experts are warning residents to prepare for an increase in seasonal illnesses as the first day of fall brings a drastic shift from humid heat to cool, wet conditions.
Health experts warn of seasonal illness increase as fall begins
Local health experts are warning residents to prepare for an increase in seasonal illnesses as the first day of fall brings a drastic shift from humid heat to cool, wet conditions.
Health experts warn of seasonal illness increase as fall begins
Local health experts are warning residents to prepare for an increase in seasonal illnesses as the first day of fall brings a drastic shift from humid heat to cool, wet conditions.
Health experts warn of seasonal illness increase as fall begins
Local health experts are warning residents to prepare for an increase in seasonal illnesses as the first day of fall brings a drastic shift from humid heat to cool, wet conditions.
Health experts warn of seasonal illness increase as fall begins
Local health experts are warning residents to prepare for an increase in seasonal illnesses as the first day of fall brings a drastic shift from humid heat to cool, wet conditions.
Is 50 the new 60?
Subscribe TL;DR: Younger generations are showing signs of worse health compared to earlier-born cohorts at the same age This backward “drift” is showing up both in mortality risk and chronic disease Worsening trends in obesity and diabetes are the most consistent signals Taking the long view, we’ve made astonishing gains in health and life expectancy in the last century. Global average life expectancy has more than doubled from 32 years in 1900 to 73 years in 2024. (But don’t forget, there were still old people when life expectancy was 32). As people lived longer, they also generally lived healthier along the way. It turns out that avoiding things that can kill you early, like malnutrition and lots of childhood infections, also keeps you healthier later in life. In a classic 2004 paper, Finch and Crimmins proposed that cohorts of children who benefited from fewer early life infections had less lifetime exposure to inflammation and cardiovascular disease later in life, accelerating mortality improvements at older ages. Poor nutrition in the womb has also been linked to a higher risk of later chronic disease. The upshot is that improvements in childhood health can pay dividends many decades later. The combination of better living conditions (nutrition, sanitation) and medical advances (antibiotics, vaccines, blood pressure meds, etc) meant that people’s healthy lifespan generally expanded, even as they lived longer. Aging researchers call this best-case scenario “compression of morbidity”—meaning we delay the onset of disease and disability even faster than the years of life we are adding. During my 20+ year research career, we could generally bank on the idea that younger generations would not only live longer but also keep getting healthier along the way. “60 is the new 50” as they say… Enter “Generational Health Drift” Sadly, this expectation of steady progress may be changing. You’ve probably heard that US life expectancy gains have slowed to a crawl in the past couple of decades. Mortality improvements are also slowing (though less dramatically) in many other high-income countries (you can read more about that in a review paper I wrote here). Mortality is a very blunt health measure, but it is often a good barometer for the broader population health trends happening underneath. And we are now seeing that younger generations may be in worse health at similar ages compared to earlier born cohorts. My collaborator Prof. George Ploubidis at University College London coined this worsening health in more recently born cohorts “generational health drift.” “Generational health drift” is bad news on multiple fronts. Most obviously, we don’t want our health progress to go backward. But the timing is also bad, since our populations are aging. In demographic terms, “population aging” means that the proportion of the population at older ages (i.e >65 years) is increasing. Fun demography fact: Current population aging is not due to the recent declines in the birth rates making the news, but declines in fertility decades ago, after the “baby boom.” As baby boomers reach older ages, the smaller cohorts behind them mean the percentage of older adults will increase. For example, the share of the population age 65 and older in the US increased from 12.4% in 2004 to 18.0% in 2024. This story of population aging was written long ago. Many worry that population aging will put pressure on health care and pension systems. But if people reach older ages in better health than in years past, those fiscal pressures would be less dire than projected. Healthy older people can also continue to contribute to society in many valuable ways, including paid work, caregiving, community service….even high political office 🤷. On the flip side, if younger generations reach retirement age in worse health and with more disabling conditions, this could magnify the societal challenge of population aging. Evidence for worsening generational health A recent paper that I LOVED in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Dr. Leah Abrams and colleagues examined which birth cohorts (aka generations) were behind worsening US mortality. Behold the Lexis diagram (cue swooning demographers). Calendar time is on the x-axis, age on the y-axis. Birth cohorts can be followed over time as they age on the diagonal lines moving up and to the right. This figure plots the year-on-year % change in all-cause mortality at a given age. Green shading indicates mortality improvements over time, white is stagnation, and gray shading indicates worsening mortality. Following the diagonal line for those born in 1950, you can see a noticeable shift from green to gray that follows this cohort for most of their lives. This gray shading shows generally worsening mortality for the 1950 to 1959 birth cohorts compared to their predecessors across all ages. Concerningly for my GenX and elder millennial peeps, there was also a deterioration in mortality for birth cohorts born in the 1970s and 1980s, visible as dark gray areas at ages 30 to 45 during the 2010s. While some of these mortality changes reflect specific shocks such as the opioid epidemic, most deaths still occur from major causes of death such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. For cancer, the gray in the top left corner of the figure below reflects the legacies of smoking for older cohorts, followed by a period of green with improvements in cancer mortality as smoking rates declined. But the white/gray shading in the bottom right corner highlights a stagnation and reversal of the cancer trends, with cohorts born around 1970 to 1985 experiencing worsening cancer mortality. This deterioration was most noticeable for colon cancer mortality, possibly linked to obesity or dietary factors. Not just dying more, but less healthy along the way. A recent paper by Dr. Laura Gimeno of University College London (of which I am a co-author), found evidence that more recently born cohorts in Great Britain have stagnating or worsening health. A stylized picture of what“generational health drift” might look like: The review paper found: Rates of childhood overweight and obesity were highest among Gen Z. Rates of diabetes in the 40s almost doubled from 3.1% among the Baby Boomers to 5.9% in Generation X. Gen Z reported higher rates of poor mental health in adolescence compared to earlier-born groups. These UK results are consistent with studies showing worsening health across generations in the US as well. A 2021 US study found that more recently born cohorts had worse biological markers (like blood pressure and blood sugar) than earlier generations at the same age. A separate 2022 study of Americans aged 50 and over found that more recently born generations had a higher number of chronic diseases, with younger age of disease onset. A 2024 Lancet paper found that in the US, women born in 1945 had 33% obesity prevalence at age 50, rising to 48.2% for women born in 1970 turning 50. So what’s going on, and can we turn it around? We don’t have a definitive answer for what’s causing the deteriorating health of younger cohorts, but circumstantial evidence points to worsening trends in obesity and diabetes in both the US and UK. Remember that cohort trends reflect lagged effects of early environments, and younger generations have faced both earlier onset and more severe obesity across their lifetimes. Despite these very concerning trends, the future is not set in stone. We’ve reversed poor generational health trends before: drops in smoking are a major reason cancer and heart disease deaths fell so dramatically in recent decades. GLP-1 drugs may finally turn the tide against rising rates of obesity and diabetes, though it is still early days. But things could also get worse…for example from a return to higher levels of childhood infectious diseases that can have a lasting impact on health. See for example: [ ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) [ Don’t You Forget About Me(asles): The Virus That Erases Immune Memory ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) Jenn Dowd, PhD · March 24, 2025 [ Read full story ](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/dont-you-forget-about-measles-the) Even as an optimist, emerging data on the “generational health drift” has my full attention. For most of my research career, we took it for granted that each generation would be healthier than the last. But if present trends continue, **50 could be the new 60….**and Gen Z celebrities will soon look older than Paul Rudd :). Stay well, Jenn Share the Health! If you found this post useful, please share it with a friend. Share
PureTech Health H1 Earnings Call Highlights
PureTech Health (NASDAQ:PRTC) outlined progress across its portfolio in its 2026 half-year results call, highlighting external financings for Celea Therapeutics and Seaport Therapeutics, regulatory progress at Gallop Oncology, and a strategy centered on earlier external funding for its founded entit
Telehealth companies keep exposing their customers’ medical data. What should they do?
Increasingly, government regulators are accusing companies of deceptive, unethical business practices, including disclosing customers’ health data, signing them up for hard-to-cancel subscriptions and bypassing real-time consultations with doctors.
Midterms' new populism: Taking on health industries
Anxiety over health care costs is driving a new brand of populism and talk about taking on health industries.
Rabies is on the rise: Experts offer advice
With rabies on the rise, infectious disease experts from Michigan Medicine share advice.
Op-ed: Why community voices shape the future of health care
Those voices help paint a clearer picture of what influences health across Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe and White counties — in our hospitals, neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.
How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’
Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? Visit our Advertise with Exeunt page, where you can get more information, download an advertising pack, and find our contact details.
Award-winning Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton area health care provider retires
Physician Assistant, Harold “Buck” Harvey, PA-C, retires after 48 'wonderful years'
Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
Insurance Coverage Lags as Cancer Science, Treatment Move Forward
“Brain cancer” or “H4 G34-mutant”? As knowledge about genetics advances, some doctors say cancers should be defined by their mutations, not the tissues where they manifest.
Police, fire, EMT and mental health: How one city is leading the charge to reshape 911
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
Insurance Coverage Lags as Cancer Science, Treatment Move Forward
“Brain cancer” or “H4 G34-mutant”? As knowledge about genetics advances, some doctors say cancers should be defined by their mutations, not the tissues where they manifest.
Sunda Energy, Meridian Mining, Quantum Helium, Light Science Technologies, Foresight Solar, hVIVO
Sunda Energy PLC (AIM:SNDA, FRA:GHA0) has raised £5.25 million to fund completion of its New Zealand acquisition. It's also launching a retail offer for a further £525,000. Meridian Mining Plc (LSE:MNO, TSX:MNO, OTCQX:MRRDF) has delivered a net present value of $2.09 billion for its Cabaçal project in Brazil. The CEO says the economics could make it the next major near-term gold-copper mine. Quantum Helium Ltd (AIM:QHE) is targeting Q4 2026 for a larger fracture stimulation programme at Sagebrush-1 in Colorado. It's also taking a 9% stake in Herencia Resources. Light Science Technologies Holdings PLC (AIM:LST, FRA:9FD) has secured a repeat order from a healthcare devices customer, pushing that contract past £500,000. It's building out higher-margin work in defence and medical sectors. Foresight Solar Fund Ltd (LSE:FSFL, FRA:1F5) says it's considering all strategic options to lift a share price stuck below the value of its assets. The board says it needs to "act decisively" to close that gap. hVIVO PLC (AIM:HVO) has appointed Caroline Shaw as an independent non-executive director. She brings more than 30 years of senior healthcare leadership to the board. Follow us and subscribe on YouTube, our social channels, and on proactiveinvestors.co.uk.
Ohio governor’s race is a battle over Covid, health costs, and trust in science
The race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy could be the election’s most direct test of where the heartland stands on health care and the pandemic.
Why an influential GOP health policy expert still backs the Medicaid cuts — and which policy target is next
Why an influential GOP health policy expert still backs $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts — and which policy target is next.
Personnel note: The Southern Group adds another dose of health care expertise with AHCA alum Erica Floyd Thomas
'Erica has spent her career at the center of some of the most consequential health care policy and programmatic decisions in Florida.'
Ohio governor’s race is a battle over Covid, health costs, and trust in science
The race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy could be the election’s most direct test of where the heartland stands on health care and the pandemic.
Lauren Book promises to 'fight like a mother' in new SD 30 ad
The former Senate Democratic Leader touts her record on gun safety, healthcare and family issues
Wildfire Smoke Linked to Greater Health Risks Than Other Pollution
Wildfire smoke may pose greater heart, lung, and cancer harms than other air pollution. Read more about the findings.
Why Spending Time Outdoors Is Good For Your Physical And Mental Health
British fitness expert Joe Wicks recently teamed up with neuroscientists to scientifically test the widely-held belief that spending time outdoors is good for us.
Redesigning healthcare for healthier women and families
Progress on many critical value-based care outcomes has stalled, with women's health most notable as an example of the gap between spending and outcomes.
Mobile boat clinics bring healthcare to India's remote islands
An infant lets out a feeble cry as a doctor administers a routine but vital injection aboard a mobile boat clinic, part of a network serving remote riverine communities in northeastern India.But the n...
‘Healthy and Delicious Can Coexist’: Experts Discuss Making Food More Joyful and Sustainable
At a TIME100 Talks event in New York City on Sept. 21, chefs and food industry experts discussed the challenges our communities face in making food healthier, more accessible, and more joyful for ever...
‘Healthy and Delicious Can Coexist’: Experts Discuss Making Food More Joyful and Sustainable
At a TIME100 Talks event in New York City on Sept. 21, chefs and food industry experts discussed the challenges our communities face in making food healthier, more accessible, and more joyful for ever...
‘Healthy and Delicious Can Coexist’: Experts Discuss Making Food More Joyful and Sustainable
Cécile Beliot-Zind, Ertharin Cousin, Vikas Khanna, and Marcus Samuelsson spoke on a panel at TIME100 Talks: Architecting Healthier Food Systems for All.
Brain Health WA resource aims to reduce dementia risk
With Western Australia projected to record the nation's fastest growth in dementia cases, a new Curtin University-led resource aims to help people protect their brain health and reduce their risk.
The lifelong habit that could slow ageing
Study probes usefulness of health parameter called ‘vitality capacity’ to understand ageing
Drought and state neglect deepen health crisis for Peru’s recently contacted Matsés
A worsening convergence of drought driven by climate change, epidemic disease, and state neglect is creating a severe health emergency for the Indigenous Matsés people in the Peruvian Amazon. Mongabay staff writer Aimee Gabay traveled to Matsés territory to investigate the environmental threats to the region. Instead, she found Matsés communities suffering from severe outbreaks […]
Counselor running over 3,000 for youth mental health
A mental health therapist is running from Boston to Newport, Oregon, to raise funds to provide mental health therapy to teens.
Medicine goes global: How international students break into pre-health fields
With changing immigration policies and growing uncertainty over work authorization for foreign nationals, one student organization on campus hopes to help pre-health international students gain a competitive edge.
PeaceHealth to lay off 150 Washington workers in technology overhaul
PeaceHealth lays off 150 workers statewide as the nonprofit health system moves IT services in November under new CEO Sarah Ness.
Cleveland to demolish J Glen Smith health center, relocate services
CMSD plans to build a new Glenville High School there. Cleveland and MetroHealth plan to move their services elsewhere in the area.
Bipartisan bill aims to expand health protections for wildland firefighters
A bipartisan bill backed by Utah Sen. John Curtis promises to expand health and safety protections for wildland firefighters.
New Hampshire to receive $2M for mental health services
More than $2 million is coming to the Granite State for mental health services.
Polystyrene nanoplastics may threaten reproductive health and offspring development
Plastic pollution is increasingly being recognized as more than an environmental problem. Tiny plastic particles can enter living organisms, circulate through biological systems, and potentially reach reproductive tissues.
New roadmap integrates arts into global health and wellbeing
Researchers have developed a roadmap for integrating the arts across health and wellbeing systems globally, from population health and prevention to community pathways and clinical care.
Families, Coffey demand accountability from jail health provider TK Health in Oklahoma
San Antonio VA plans fixes after OIG review of inpatient mental health unit issues
VA watchdog flags South Texas VA mental health unit issues: delayed bed reporting, gaps in involuntary commitment processes, and VA police video monitoring without policy or signage. Report makes 13 recommendations.
Detroit Evening Report: Companies give seniors produce boxes to promote brain health on Alzheimer's Day
Also U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers shares his plan for healthcare, a nonprofit seeks English instructor volunteers and more.
Los Angeles County reports 100 West Nile virus cases, most in nearly a decade
Los Angeles County health officials reported that 100 cases of West Nile virus have been recorded so far this year, the most in nearly a decade.
Mental health expert: Fall’s arrival brings comfort, challenges
As many look forward to the first day of fall, a licensed professional counselor says this time of year brings a sense of excitement and anticipation.
North Memorial, Sanford Health merger: $600M investment coming to Minnesota hospitals
A major healthcare merger is now official — and it could change how Minnesotans get care close to home.
County commissioners clear the way for Atrium Health-WakeMed merger
On a 5-2 vote, the board approved changes to WakeMed's articles of incorporation and a transfer agreement. The Federal Trade Commission will have to approve the deal before it becomes final.
'It meets a gap in care': Spurwink opens 24/7 Lewiston Crisis Center for behavioral health
As TK Health co-founder seeks attorney general job, Hanchett family presses for criminal investigation
If elected, Jon Echols would oversee the state multi-county grand jury. The state attorney general has the power to seek criminal indictments in connection with jail deaths.
Mayor, Denver Health clash over treatment program’s funding
Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne says the city is walking away from decades of support for Denver CARES as the health system seeks nearly $23 million in additional funding from Denver.
Air district report links Richmond Chevron refinery emissions to elevated health risks
Residents in Richmond hope to learn more about the state of their air quality during a public meeting focused on the Chevron Richmond Refinery.
Air district to detail Chevron Richmond Refinery health risk assessment
Residents in Richmond hope to learn more about the state of their air quality during a public meeting focused on the Chevron Richmond Refinery.
Boston announces UMass urban public health internship partnership
Boston city officials announced a new partnership with UMass Boston to provide Public Health Commission internships for college students, who will then teach high school students through the program.
Beshear announces nearly $17M in federal grants for mental health, addiction services
Gov. Andy Beshear's administration has secured nearly $17 million in federal funding to support 988 crisis services, youth mental health and addiction recovery, his office announced Monday.
Former First-Round Pick Named Breakout Candidate for Houston Rockets
The Houston Rockets didn’t make any big-time additions over the offseason. So, in addition to health, the Rockets will need some of their younger players to step up if the team is going to take a step forward in the coming campaign.One particular young Rockets player has been named a potential breakout candidate heading into the […] The post Former First-Round Pick Named Breakout Candidate for Houston Rockets appeared first on HEAVY.
After new federal requirements, changes coming to the Oregon Health Plan
About 600,000 Oregon Health Plan members will soon receive a notice that Medicaid is about to change. In Oregon, that means some people will need to renew their coverage every six months instead of every two years. Many between the ages of 19 and 64 will also need to prove they work or volunteer.
'I want to serve my country but I was rejected on health grounds'
Some 114,000 Army application were rejected on medical grounds in the past five years, Freedom of Information figures show.
Possible measles exposures at Busch Stadium, other St. Louis-area businesses
The state's Department of Health and Senior Services said a person infected with measles visited several St. Louis-area locations between Sept. 12 and Sept. 14.
Possible measles exposure at Busch Stadium and multiple St. Louis-area bars, health officials warn
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday that people may have been exposed to measles at several locations between Sept. 12 and Sept. 14.
PUBLIC COMMENT — Medicaid Program; Amending the Indirect Hold Harmless Threshold of Health Care-Related Taxes
This proposed rule represents one of the most economically significant and socially beneficial deregulatory actions in HHS’s history.
Avera Health, USD, SDSU earn joint healthcare grant worth over $11m
It comes with a clear goal – break apart the walls separating research institutions to improve health outcomes for the people of the state.
Global framework brings arts and cultural engagement into mainstream global health
Researchers have developed a roadmap for integrating the arts across health and well-being systems globally, from population health and prevention to community pathways and clinical care. Based on a wealth ...
LifeBridge Health doctor explains what makes injury recovery difficult
Bats test positive for rabies in North Platte, health officials urge caution
A bat collected in North Platte has tested positive for rabies, local public health officials announced.
UW Health celebrates 60 years of organ transplants
UW Health celebrates 60 years of organ transplants
New West Sub owners, Insight Health Systems, struggle with reopening hospitals in Ohio
Insight Health Systems recently became the new owners of West Suburban Medical Center, but its hospitals in Ohio struggle to reopen.
The front door is still a phone line: What voice AI returned at Virtua Health, Keck Medicine + more
Every health system, from a 15-location clinic group to a national system with tens of billions in revenue, shares the same overlooked front door: the
Covenant Health doctor providing tips to stay healthy ahead of flu season
Flu season usually starts in October, and with cases already starting to pop up across the United States, healthcare professionals are making sure everyone prepares ahead of time.
One Lifelong Exercise Habit Is Linked to Healthier Signs of Aging After 55
Decades of exercise, greater reserve.
Kosair for Kids Awards $2.5M grant to Med Center Health’s newborn safety program
What This Story Is About: Kosair for Kids awarded a $2.5 million grant to Med Center Health to fund its new "Womb to World" infant and child safety program.
Mo. Health Department warns of possible measles exposure at Busch Stadium, local St. Louis businesses
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced on Monday of a possible measles exposure in the St. Louis area.
Mental health at center of Mount Dora double murder trial as defense and prosecution rest
Vicki Williams declined to testify in her own defense Monday as attorneys rested their case in the double murder trial involving the deaths of Darryl and Sharon Getman.
Health officials warn of measles exposure in St. Louis, Pacific, Chesterfield
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced a possible measles exposure at several locations around St. Louis, including a Cardinals game.DH
The real cost of payroll: A small business guide for 2026
Setting up a payroll system can feel like a steep climb if accounting isn’t your strong suit, but it’s the backbone of your business's health. In fact,
Sean Payton ‘energized’ on sideline despite health challenges
Payton is not confused about where to put his hands without a play sheet. He's adjusting to health challenges.
Could healthcare price transparency lower costs? Mike Rogers thinks so
As healthcare costs grow ever higher, Michigan GOP US Senate candidate Mike Rogers argues that better consumer awareness of how much the services they need cost will help bring prices down.
Free health services and screenings offered at Arlington health expo
100 Black Men of Greater Dallas/Fort Worth partners with Texas Health Resources for Health and Wellness Expo.
AltaPointe Health celebrates $15 million BayPointe Hospital expansion
The additional beds are also intended to give children ages 5-19 faster access to care for psychosis, behavioral and mood disorders.
Teen Mental Health Is Improving, CDC Finds. Then Why Are Experts Still Concerned?
Student mental health remains a big challenge for schools to address.
Everyday choices may shape brain health across a lifetime
Researchers and clinicians are bringing expertise from different fields to better understand what protects brain health.
DOH urges health precautions after Hurricane Lala
In the wake of Hurricane Lala, the Hawaiʻi Department of Health urges the public to be vigilant about health risks associated with heavy rains, high winds and power outages. Major storms create environmental conditions that can be detrimental to public health.
Augusta University announces new Bachelor of Science in Public Health
Starting in Fall of 2027 Augusta University is set to offer a Bachelor of Science in Public Health, an addition meant to open pathways for students to help solve health
Preeclampsia Foundation backs Pine Bluff Promise Walk to boost maternal health awareness
Saturday, October 3, in Pine Bluff, an event geared towards raising awareness about preeclampsia is set to take place at the John W. Fallis Waterfront Facility
UNGA81: Robust laboratory systems key to preventing, detecting and responding to health threats
At a side event co-organized by the Mérieux Foundation USA, Weill Cornell Medicine, GHESKIO Centers and PAHO, PAHO Director highlights lessons from the Americas and the importance of sustained investment in laboratory capacity between crises
Carrot Top Overdosed at His Las Vegas Home During Health Crisis
Carrot Top is suspected to have suffered a drug overdose on Friday, Sept 18, at his Las Vegas home after he attempted suicide. TMZ reported that the comedian overdosed on prescription medication befor...
Jackson County Health Department prepares for flu season with Saturday vaccine clinic
Jackson County health officials are reminding residents to prepare for flu season, with vaccines available during a community disposal event Saturday.
Jessie Diggins, Olympic gold medalist and mental health advocate, to speak Oct. 29 at Montana State University
The event is free and open to the public; tickets can be reserved in advance.
How a New Pistachio CEO Leverages CPG Experience to Drive Health Demand
Mike Forbes draws on leadership at Alter Eco, Procter & Gamble and California Olive Ranch to harness TikTok influencers, clean eating and global culinary partnerships.
Craven County Community Health Center cuts ribbon on Havelock expansion, adds VA clinic and pharmacy
Craven County officials celebrated the opening of an expanded community health clinic Monday, bringing essential medical, pharmacy, and behavioral health care closer to home for eastern county residents.
6 Insights We're Learning from Sleep Research That Could Change How You Age
Sleep isn’t just a time for rest. Growing evidence suggests it may be one of the most powerful factors influencing how well we age, affecting everything from brain health and memory to hospital recovery and long-term independence. For more than two decades, Dr. Katie Stone, a sleep researcher Sutter Health Research Institute, has helped advance […]
Women of Sutter Health: Shaping the Future of Medicine
The face of medicine is changing. Women now make up nearly 40% of practicing physicians in the United States, up from 26% in 2004 and comprise a majority of U.S. medical school students. At Sutter Health, women are helping shape the future of healthcare through research, specialized care and medical education — making a lasting […]
Essentia Health hosting free Back-to-Basics Health Night in Moose Lake
Essentia Health invites the community to a free, family-friendly evening of health and wellness activities at its Moose Lake clinic and hospital.
Health advocates warn of MassHealth changes for immigrants coming Oct. 1
About 7,300 immigrants will be impacted, according to Health Law Advocates