
A third of Americans say they’ve asked AI to decode their medical results
As more people turn to chatbots for medical guidance, the technology is revealing both its promise and its risks

A third of Americans say they’ve asked AI to decode their medical results
As more people turn to chatbots for medical guidance, the technology is revealing both its promise and its risks

Here’s what MAHA voters really want from health care policy
A new KFF poll found that voters aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement consider the cost of health care as their top policy priority


Supreme Court extends temporary order allowing abortion drug mifepristone by mail
On May 11 the Supreme Court extended a pause on a ruling by a federal appeals court that prevented health care providers from prescribing mifepristone by telemedicine, setting the stage for further action from the nation’s highest court

Trump ends MAHA activist and wellness influencer Casey Means’s bid for surgeon general
On Thursday the president announced he is nominating Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and Fox News contributor, as the nation’s top doctor

Could blood filtering help treat one of pregnancy’s most deadly conditions?
Preeclampsia can be deadly in pregnancy, and aside from delivering the baby, the condition has no targeted treatment. A new study suggests blood filtering with antibodies could help

How geneticists uncovered a common root of two neurological diseases
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can have the same genetic cause, a discovery that won two neurogeneticists a portion of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

A smoking ban for people born after 2008 may be on the cusp of becoming law in the U.K. Here’s what to know
This ban applies to various tobacco products and also seeks to beef up existing laws that restrict the sale and marketing of vapes to children

The hidden cause of heart disease is inflammation
Immune system overreactions may be the true culprit of cardiac illness—and lifesaving drugs can calm them down

How your kidneys actually work — and what happens when they fail
Your kidneys silently filter 150 quarts of blood every single day — but what happens when they stop working?

Pioneering gene therapy may treat a deadly seizure disorder
New gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet syndrome, a rare and often fatal seizure condition

Women’s heart health worsens, NASA announces Artemis update, researchers solve reindeer antler mystery
What a worrying forecast says about women’s heart health, what’s happening with NASA’s Artemis II moon mission and why female reindeer have antlers
Cats’ cancer genes show striking similarity to humans’
Researchers sequenced the genomes of tumors from almost 500 domestic cats and found remarkable parallels with human and dog cancers