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Cold and flu season is coming, and now is the perfect time to get your family ready. Check your medicine cabinet, replace anything that has expired, and make sure you have the essentials for treating common symptoms at home. Think of the last time someone in your family got sick. Did you have a working … Read more
A Long Island hospital says 62% of patients in its ketamine-based depression treatment program have reported improvements, offering new encouragement for people who have spent years taking antidepressants without getting enough relief. At Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson, New York, nearly 40 patients have participated in a program using Spravato, an FDA-approved nasal spray containing … Read more
Social Security recipients will get their largest adjustment in four years when benefits rise by 3.6% in January 2027. The increase will add $75 to the average monthly retirement check, bringing it to $2,170. The Social Security Administration announced the increase on Wednesday, October 14, confirming a larger adjustment than the 2.8% retirees received in … Read more
A common stomach bacterium and a virus that many people encounter during their lives were responsible for an estimated 1.5 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024, according to new research from the World Health Organization. The study found that infections caused about 2.3 million of the 20 million new cancer cases diagnosed worldwide that … Read more
Reta is the nickname for retatrutide, an experimental weight loss drug developed by Eli Lilly. In the Phase 3 TRIUMPH-1 trial, participants receiving the highest tested dose lost an average of 28.3% of their starting body weight over 80 weeks in the efficacy analysis, equivalent to 70.3 pounds. The peer-reviewed treatment-regimen analysis reported 25.0% at … Read more
Florida has a strange talent for making certain facts from the state sound like somebody made them up. Around 1.3 million alligators live here. Rivers disappear underground. People compete for cash by pulling giant pythons out of the Everglades. And we only scratched the surface with these. Some of the numbers are even stranger than … Read more
Medicare Advantage premiums are heading lower in 2027, according to new figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS said on September 28 that the weighted average monthly premium across Medicare Advantage plans is projected to fall from $14.37 in 2026 to $12 in 2027. That works out to a 16.5% drop. The … Read more
The US labor market is expected to add about 5.9 million jobs between 2025 and 2035. More than 1.1 million of them could come from healthcare support occupations alone. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics projections put healthcare support employment at 8.42 million in 2025 and 9.54 million in 2035. That is an increase of … Read more
The Iranian Rial is the weakest currency in the world in 2026 when currencies are ranked by the number of local units needed to buy one US dollar. On October 7, one dollar cost about 2.69 million rials on Iran’s open market. Lebanon is a distant second at 89,500 pounds per dollar. Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, … Read more
US employers added only 29,000 jobs in September 2026, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report released on October 2. Hiring was much weaker than the revised 133,000 gain in August and below the average monthly increase of 45,000 over the previous 12 months. The unemployment rate was 4.2%. It had been 4.1% … Read more