Category: Washington Post

The good and bad about home medical tests

Some might not be reliable. Here are the ones to use and the ones to avoid.

The good and bad about home medical tests

Some might not be reliable. Here are the ones to use and the ones to avoid.

Uterine cancer may be added to the list of 9/11-related health issues 

Officials have proposed adding uterine cancer to the list of cancers covered by the World Trade Center Health Program, a government program that monitors and treats WTC-related health conditions.

Will exercise, meditation or reiki help if you can’t find a therapist?

The shortage of specialists is driving many to try alternatives. What the science says about their effectiveness.

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now.

Pandemic-weary Americans enter summer with little effort to contain a still-raging pandemic.

This device may nudge your brain into deep sleep

It uses electric current pulsed through the scalp and skull to help the brain flush away harmful waste during deep sleep.

As an ex-heroin addict, I know getting off opioids is near impossible

Withdrawal is the most important aspect, and it’s barely given lip service in the response to the opioid epidemic.

As an ex-heroin addict, I know getting off opioids is near impossible

Withdrawal is the most important aspect, and it’s barely given lip service in the response to the opioid epidemic.

Julie Beckett, champion of children with disabilities, dies at 72

A waiver that she obtained for her daughter helped allow more than half a million American children to grow up at home rather than in hospitals and institutions.

CDC identifies nine monkeypox cases in U.S. amid signs of local spread

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced nine cases of monkeypox have been detected in seven states as of Wednesday, as global health authorities confront an unprecedented spread of the virus.