Health

The next ayahuasca? Gabon fights to protect sacred plant from US drug companies

Iboga root, central to several Gabonese ritual traditions, is believed to have huge potential for use in treating addiction and some mental illnesses

EPA Quietly Backtracks on Claims US Has Phased Out Toxic Pfas Compounds

Agency Changes Wording on Website as Texas-Based Chemical Firm Continues Manufacture of Plastic Containers

US workers facing deadly heat borrow from tomato pickers to win key protections

As efforts to protect people from extreme heat stall, organizers are embracing an approach that targets major brands’ reputations

Some conservative states aren’t using Medicaid hardship exemption

States like Missouri and Iowa are choosing to not take up exemption designed to help low-income people keep coverage during hardship

Pope Leo to gradually resume papal activities since removal of cancerous tumour

Pontiff thanks people for their prayers as he recovers from operation on his lung

'Medieval romance overflowed with sexually active fairies': the surprisingly long roots of romantasy

Critics mock it as raunchy trash – but this enchanting genre is much older, and wilder, than you might imagine

This is how we do it: ‘After marriage counselling, she no longer wants the lights off and the covers on’

Financial, work and child-rearing pressures had killed off their sex life, but therapy gave Henry and Kelly an insight into each other’s perspective

My longtime boyfriend died last year. Is it too soon to date someone new?

Only you can know when you are ready, but a year is not long to process grief, and you seem to have doubts about this man

‘Never put away a damp one!’: 15 expert tips for perfect pans

Should you buy cast iron, copper or stainless steel? How do you store them? And what about seasoning? Here is everything you need to know

Boy Among 2 Killed After Truck Drives Onto Wichita Soccer Field, 11 Others Injured, Police Say

Updated on: October 17, 2026 / 10:37 PM EDT / CBS News

Pope's surgeon details operating on the "ideal patient" after lung cancer discovery "entirely by chance"

Updated on: October 17, 2026 / 10:47 PM EDT / CBS News

Six homes burned and two firefighters injured in fast-moving California wildfire

About 6,000 homes under evacuation, affecting 16,000 residents in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano