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Seniors Taking Antidepressants May Benefit from Adding a Daily Probiotic, New Clinical Trial Finds
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (416+ words) How to Live Better, Longer A small but carefully designed clinical trial has added meaningful weight to the idea that gut health and mood are biologically connected " with practical implications for millions of older Americans living with depression. The result:…...
Free Cancer Tests at Health Fairs Could Be Part of a Medicare Fraud Scheme, Officials Warn
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (551+ words) How to Live Better, Longer If a stranger at a health fair, pharmacy, parking lot, or community event recently offered you a free genetic cancer test " and asked for your Medicare card number " you may have been targeted by one…...
Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Could Permanently Change What Americans Pay for Prescriptions
14+ hour, 1+ min ago (701+ words) How to Live Better, Longer Medicare beneficiaries have already seen the first results of federal drug price negotiation: lower prices on 10 high-cost medications took effect January 1, 2026. Now, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to make the program…...
Drug Overdose Deaths Dropped 13 Percent in the Past Year, but Experts Warn the Progress Could Reverse
14+ hour, 44+ min ago (702+ words) How to Live Better, Longer Three years ago, the United States was recording more than 110, 000 drug overdose deaths per year " a number that seemed impossible to reverse. It is being reversed. Preliminary CDC data released June 17, 2026 show approximately 69, 147 drug overdose…...
Veterinary Drug Mixed with Fentanyl Is Making Overdoses Harder to Reverse with Naloxone
15+ hour, 16+ min ago (813+ words) How to Live Better, Longer A veterinary sedative is showing up in the illicit fentanyl supply across the United States, and the CDC has issued an urgent warning: naloxone, the medication that reverses opioid overdoses, does not work against it....
Tick Bites Are Sending More Americans to Emergency Rooms Than Ever Before This Summer
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (866+ words) How to Live Better, Longer More Americans are going to emergency rooms for tick bites than at any previously recorded level " and it is only the beginning of summer. Emergency department visits for tick bites increased more than 25 percent in…...
Public Health Officials Say Measles Poses a Bigger World Cup Threat Than Ebola
15+ hour, 46+ min ago (857+ words) How to Live Better, Longer When millions of soccer fans from 48 countries began filling stadiums, Fan Fests, and airports across 16 cities this month, public health departments across the United States were already on high alert. But not for the disease…...
Whooping Cough Is Circulating, and Adults May Be Spreading It to Newborns Without Knowing It
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (603+ words) How to Live Better, Longer Infants under two months of age cannot receive the DTa P vaccine that protects older babies. They are entirely dependent on the immunity of the people around them " parents, grandparents, siblings, and visitors " to avoid…...
Raw Milk Sickened More Than 80 People in Six Months: Here's What Pasteurization Actually Prevents
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (857+ words) How to Live Better, Longer More than 80 Americans fell ill from raw dairy products in the first half of 2026 alone, including outbreaks in Idaho, Louisiana, and California. The illnesses have renewed scrutiny of raw milk's safety " and the scientific consensus…...
New FDA-Approved Blood Tests Can Detect Alzheimer's Before Symptoms Worsen, but Access Remains Limited
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (708+ words) How to Live Better, Longer For decades, diagnosing Alzheimer's disease with certainty required either a spinal tap or a PET scan " procedures that are invasive, expensive, and often unavailable outside of major medical centers. That has changed. The FDA approved…...