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Psilocybin Could Become the First FDA-Approved Psychedelic Therapy Within Months " Here Is What Patients Need to Know
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (443+ words) How to Live Better, Longer For the first time in U. S. history, a psychedelic drug may be on the verge of FDA approval as a prescription treatment for a psychiatric condition. And the regulatory timeline has compressed significantly in the past…...
Telehealth for Mental Health Is Now Mainstream, but AI Note-Taking Tools Show Major Quality Gaps
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (758+ words) How to Live Better, Longer More Americans are receiving mental health care through their phones or computers than ever before. Video therapy, telepsychiatry, and medication management through audio-only calls have moved from pandemic-era emergency measures to the primary care modality…...
A Telehealth Mental Health Company Billed Medicaid for Visits That Never Happened " And It Is Not Alone
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (364+ words) How to Live Better, Longer A telehealth company that provided mental health services through video appointments admitted it billed Medicare and Medicaid for patient appointments that never took place " and agreed to pay $300, 000 to resolve the allegations. Aptihealth also admitted…...
Extreme Heat Is Rising Faster for Black Americans, and Researchers Say the Gap Is Growing
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (865+ words) How to Live Better, Longer As summer heat intensifies across American cities, the health burden is not falling equally. Black Americans " disproportionately concentrated in the hottest urban neighborhoods, less likely to have home air conditioning, and more likely to live…...
Free Cancer Tests at Health Fairs Could Be Part of a Medicare Fraud Scheme, Officials Warn
1+ day, 17+ hour 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
2+ day, 2+ hour 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…...
Veterinary Drug Mixed with Fentanyl Is Making Overdoses Harder to Reverse with Naloxone
2+ day, 4+ hour 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
2+ day, 5+ hour 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
2+ day, 4+ hour 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
2+ day, 16+ 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…...