Social Security and Medicare are expected to need to cut monthly benefits in less than a decade as the trust funds for both programs are on track to run dry…
Day: June 18, 2025
FDA Approves a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent HIV
On June 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first medicine to prevent HIV that only has to be taken twice a year. People who are at…
American Medicine’s Meagerness Paradox
By MARC-DAVID MUNK In our palliative medicine clinic in the working suburbs of Boston, my colleagues and I tend to some of the sickest patients in the city. Through the…
7 Surprising Symptoms of Lyme Disease
Nearly 500,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year in the U.S. For about 75% of them, the first sign will be a skin lesion that appears one to…
What to Say When a Loved One Comes Out
When someone trusts you enough to come out to you, it’s essential to choose the words you respond with carefully and thoughtfully. “Empathy is, in that moment, the most important…
New Zealand Becomes Latest Government to Approve ‘Shrooms’ for Medicinal Use
Psilocybin—a notorious hallucinogen found in “magic mushrooms”—is a federally controlled substance that the U.S. deems to have “no currently accepted medical use” and “a high potential for abuse.” But not…
The billion-dollar US green hydrogen boom ended before it ever began
This week, Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues in proposing to curtail a slew of clean energy incentives . Losing those could upend many a clean energy business, but the…