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Premiums are stable, but Medicare Advantage plans are making big changes that could make care more expensive for patients.
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A new machine-learning "speech clock" estimates a person's chronological age from their speech, drawing links between older-sounding speech and cognitive decline.
Jeff Chiu/AP By Annalisa MerelliOct. 1, 2026 Contributing Writer Annalisa Merelli[email protected]Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is focused on boys’ and men’s health: She looks into reproductive health, tre...
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This article was the topic of a recent live event, hosted by the author. Watch and listen, here. A few years ago for Christmas, my dad gave me a beautiful antique atlas. It’s oversized and hardbound. ...
Marie Antoinette was done dirty. No, that’s not a reference to her beheading at the zealous whims of French revolutionaries. Decapitation by guillotine is over in an instant. Slander, on the other han...
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: A California insurer on how it may replicate Medicare's tech-enabled chronic-care experiment.
A final Medicare rule aimed at lowering prices for doctor-administered drugs applies to only four companies and saves 96% less than the initial proposal
Malcolm Gladwell argues that almost everything most people believe about the Second Amendment is wrong. Guns weren’t widely owned in 18th-century America. The militias didn’t win the Revolutionary War...
Buried beneath every American city is a mysterious jumble of cables, pipes, and gas lines, entangled like a pair of wired headphones the moment you pull them out of your pocket. Every time a contracto...
With the 2026 midterm elections fast approaching, polling increasingly suggests that the GOP is in for a bad time. As the Iran war drives up inflation and fuel prices, Republicans are on the back foot...
A disturbance characterized by above-normal sea levels is spreading up the Pacific coast of Central and North America, and it could make the damage from predicted storms this winter much worse.