Health

Schools are using AI counselors to track students’ mental health. Is it safe?

As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human

Your doctor is overstretched. Drug ads help you show up prepared

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In Defense of Effeminate Boys

If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded.

States face pushback on their rural health transformation plans

March 3, 2026 / 5:00 AM EST / KFF Health News

Houseplant hacks: can neem oil really beat mealybugs?

This natural pesticide may work on a small infestation – it just requires elbow grease and repeat treatments

My sexual freedom odyssey: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today

By speaking to women across the continent, I discovered how reclaiming pre-colonial rites and rituals can help us find joy in our bodies

Gender Medicine’s Incoherent Standards of Care

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Commit fully to the role you’re in now, and your career may thank you later: Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan

Guided by immigrant roots, public-health purpose and a belief in “staying in the ring,” Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan reflects on the unlikely decisions that took him from the “steel town” of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the helm of a global drugmaker.

DHS Sec. Drops Jarring Intel on Intra-Agency Spies, US Scientists Colluding With Wuhan Pre-COVID

Bioterror Propaganda Roundup: The latest updates on the “new normal” — chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.

I tried everything to get better sleep. These five items actually helped

I tested popular apps, earplugs and a speaker for under a pillow to uncover the secret to getting the elusive rest I need

Steak Every Day: RFK Jr. Is Right about Cheaper Cuts of Meat—Especially Liver

Liver may well be the most nutritionally dense food there is. It deserves the moniker of “superfood” far more than kale or chia seeds or whatever plant-based product so-called “nutritional experts” are trying to push this week

Trump neck rash from ‘preventative’ skin treatment, White House says

President using ‘very common cream’, personal doctor Sean Barbarella says without giving details