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Laura Ungar

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‘It was like a godsend’ —GLP-1 drugs show promise against hormonal disorder that causes constant weight gain and forces women to shave facial hair

“I didn’t understand why all this weight was coming back or why my friends didn’t have to shave their faces and I had to.”

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Laura Ungar

A Biden-era study told Americans to drink less alcohol. The Trump admin ‘sidelined’ the research facing pressure from the alcohol lobby

House Republicans on the oversight committee criticized the study, calling it “fraught with bias”, and accused the study authors of having...

09.06.2026 6

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Laura Ungar

Meet the hospital dogs ‘making a real difference’ by getting sick kids to smile

A mounting body of research shows that even short interactions with facility dogs can improve children’s overall well-being.

23.05.2026 10

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American schools have been quietly killing recess to focus on test scores—and pediatricians are warning it’s a mistake

Some schools have cut recess to as little as 10 minutes a day, compared with the international standard of 45 minutes.

11.05.2026 8

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It’s not just vaccines. Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns—even protection from severe bleeding and blindness

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that refusals of vitamin K shots nearly doubled between 2017 and 2024, from...

21.03.2026 10

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Laura Ungar

‘Kids are the canaries in the coal mine’: Huge study finds worse childhood obesity, depression, all-around ill health

"There’s 170 indicators, eight data sources, all showing the same thing: a generalized decline,” says one of the study's authors.

08.07.2025 20

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RFK Jr. tosses all 17 members of CDC’s vaccine advisory committee

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, called Kennedy's mass ouster "a coup.”

10.06.2025 20

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State and local health departments that do invisible but critical work are being hollowed out by cuts

The moves reflect a shift that Americans may not fully realize, away from the very idea of public health: doing the work that no individual can do...

01.06.2025 20

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Laura Ungar