State Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage programs have long struggled to connect with lower-income Americans to help them access health care.

Some programs are trying an alternative approach: meeting people at the laundromat.

Outreach workers visit laundromats to help people get and use health coverage, including by helping schedule checkups or maternity care.

Fabric Health helped keep people enrolled during the Medicaid unwinding’ when everyone on the program had to get renewed.

Outreach workers focused on laundromats in towns that had high rates of people being disenrolled for paperwork reasons.

“Good help is hard to find,” Paola Flores , 38 , of Clinton , Maryland , told a Fabric Health worker she needed help switching Medicaid plans.

Flu, COVID-19 , RSV and norovirus are "main players in our winter virus pantheon," says Dr. Thomas Russo .

The term "quademic" does not imply a public health doomsday," an Indiana health official says.

RSV , flu, COV-19 and Norovirus all circulate at other times of year but tend to peak in winter .

Russo suggests cleaning surfaces with diluted bleach and washing clothes in hot water.

"Dehydration can be a serious problem, and there can be 24-48 hours of fever, vomiting, diarrhea and generally short term, total misery," he says.

Cruise ships and other places where people are in close quarters can lead to an outbreak.

With just two degrees Celsius warming, an area about the land mass of of the US would become uninhabitable from a heat stress point of view.

The Saharas and parts of Western Europe , which are more prone to, to extreme levels of dry heating, the cells and the tissues in your body can't survive being at a core temperature of around 41 1/2C.

Wales education minister Lynne Neagle says teachers should ask police to search pupils' bags.

She said there were lessons to be learned following a 'terrible incident' at a school in Carmarthenshire .

A teenager was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder at the school.

Neagle said she would be holding a "behaviour summit" to tackle issues facing schools.

Conservative government put out guidance on how to ban mobile phones in schools almost a year ago .

University of Birmingham study found students' levels of sleep, exercise, academic record, and exercise did not differ between schools with and without phone bans.

Study also found restrictive phone policies did not lower the overall time young people spend on their phones each day .

Karim Al-Hussaini , the 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims , died on Tuesday in Portugal .

He dedicated vast resources, amassed from millions of dollars in tithes, toward the construction of homes, hospitals and schools in developing nations.

He succeeded his grandfather, the Aga Khan III , who selected him over his own son.

Between 2020 and 2023 , the number of prescriptions for GLP-1 medications written each month for women ages 18 to 25 spiked by more than 650% .

Young women like Haley Sipes have been fueling the popularity of treatments such as Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound .

Experts say obesity rates simply don’t explain the gap between women and men taking the drugs.

By September of 2024 , one in 10 prescriptions written for adults was for a GLP-1 .

PCOS affects 7-10% of women between 18 and 44 in the U.S. Excess body weight can be both a risk factor and a result of the condition.

The medications also seem to turn down the volume of “food noise” about eating.

I’m walking around thinking, Is this how other people feel normally?’” says Sipes. “It’s very liberating. It’s freedom.”.

Long COVID is a condition that occurs when patients still have symptoms at least three months after clearing infection.

Researchers looked at results from the 2023 National Health Interview Survey .

Children between ages 12 and 17 were most likely to have ever experienced long COVID or to still have the condition.

Higher levels of COVID were found in lower-income households.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation does not plan to step in to prop up a global health sector reeling from a freeze on U.S.-funded foreign aid.

The foundation is linked to the Danish drugmaker and is one of the world's largest charitable organizations.

It will prioritize funding work tackling conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, and risk factors like obesity.

Coercive control is a psychological type of domestic abuse where the perpetrator uses threats, humiliation and intimidation to harm and frighten the victim.

It has been a criminal offence in the UK since 2015 and is now treated like other domestic abuse offences.

From Monday , offenders convicted of the crime will automatically be managed under multi-agency public protection arrangements ( Mappa ).