How to Keep Your Child Calm When You’re Stressed Out

How to Keep Your Child Calm When You’re Stressed Out

While parenting has always been challenging, raising kids in today’s world is uniquely stressful. In addition to balancing work and family life, parents are anxious about the state of the world, their finances, and their children’s safety and mental health.  With so much to worry about, parental stress has reached a fever pitch. A 2023…

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The Nightmare of Finding After-School Care in America

The Nightmare of Finding After-School Care in America

The after-school program disappeared from the Utah school where Jessica Langford sends her two older children, ages 7 and 9, in October 2024. At first, the charter school for neuroatypical kids replaced the program that had been charging Langford’s family $200 a month with one that charged around $1,500 a month, Langford says. Then, when…

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What You Need to Know About Changes to Childhood Vaccines

What You Need to Know About Changes to Childhood Vaccines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee voted to stop recommending the combination vaccine protecting against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox for children under the age of 4, indefinitely postponed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine schedule, and moved away from a broad recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine during a chaotic two-day meeting. On…

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How TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025

How TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025

This year, TIME has published its first ranking of the World’s Top HealthTech Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The ranking aims to highlight health tech companies that drive innovation, enhance accessibility, and contribute to a more effective and sustainable health care system. Here’s how…

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World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025

How TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025

Developing accurate and inexpensive ways to diagnose disease also remains a challenge, although a few standout companies such as Fedo, which uses a selfie to assess certain vital signs, and Canary Speech, which uses a person’s voice to detect various cognitive and behavioral disorders, (both marked Outstanding performance in Diagnostics) are making strides using new…

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RFK Jr. Pressured CDC Vaccine Policy, Says Susan Monarez

RFK Jr. Pressured CDC Vaccine Policy, Says Susan Monarez

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured Susan Monarez, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to dismiss vaccine officials without cause and to pre-approve immunization policies regardless of scientific evidence, Monarez testified on Wednesday. Monarez, who led the CDC for about a month before being fired in late August, told a Senate…

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How to Break Up With Someone in 5 Easy Steps

How to Break Up With Someone in 5 Easy Steps

If you can’t find the words to tell your significant other it’s over, it’s not you—it’s the fact that not much is harder to initiate than a breakup conversation. That’s what Morgan Cope learned in her early 20s: “I would get so anxious to the point where I couldn’t physically say anything,” she recalls. Now,…

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11 Symptoms Foot Doctors Say You Should Never Ignore

11 Symptoms Foot Doctors Say You Should Never Ignore

If you want to take a step toward better health, see a foot doctor. You might learn something about a totally different (and seemingly unrelated) part of your body. Sometimes, “your feet are the first place where you can see warning signs of things like diabetes or vascular disease or even skin cancer,” says Hira…

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What States Are Doing to Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access

What States Are Doing to Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access

States across the U.S. have taken steps to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are widely accessible after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved updated shots with new restrictions. The agency last month authorized the new COVID-19 shots only for those over the age of 65 and people with underlying health conditions, a move that marked…

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Why Weight-Loss Drugs Alone Won’t Make Us Healthy

Why Weight-Loss Drugs Alone Won’t Make Us Healthy

We are entering a new era of obesity. The science of weight loss has changed forever: Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are helping millions shed weight they once thought impossible to lose. At the same time, research is revealing the role of ultra-processed foods in driving obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, even beyond calories…

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