Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Health

• How To! Kate is juggling a lot: work, kids, caregiving for an elder, a dance troupe, the PTA
• Planned Parenthood sues Trump administration
• This week on Death, Sex & Money, we talk with Ray Christian about his time in the U.S. Army
• Care and Feeding: What to do with your 7-year-old son's tap dancing lessons?
• I Want to Help My Family Through a Medical Emergency. But Not Like This.
• FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say
• Becoming a Parent Is a Process
• I spoke for my brother when he was too afraid to answer — now, he speaks in melodies, and I have learned to listen
• How to do it: I’m too small to satisfy my husband and he’s got the biggest dildo I’ve ever seen
• After suffering a breakdown at work, a nurse has had to confront her lifetime of damaging self-sacrifice | Ahona Guha
• Care and Feeding: What to do when in-laws try to convince you to have a son?
• This week's Reveal: A decade of Reveal
• I think it’s highly inappropriate for Clarissa to be using her 12-year-old as a sounding board/therapist. What can I do to convey this to my sister without risking a blowup with her?
• Why does losing an adult friendship result in such profound sadness and feel like such a personal failure?
• Despite anti-smoking efforts, Gen Z has embraced cigarettes as a symbol of rebellion
• How to do it: Is it possible that my ex’s dick is smaller than it was when we were dating?
• Dear Care and Feeding: Our 3-year-old son wakes up 2-3 times a night. His sister says he’s neurodivergent. How do I get her to put this topic on ice?
• Care and Feeding: How to talk to kids about family members who live in large bodies?
• Is exercise really better than drugs for cancer remission? It's an appealing idea – but it's misleading | Devi Sridhar
• Happy Birthday USA: A Simple Fix for Healthcare Fraud, and Healthcare Too!
• Care and Feeding: What to do to get your mother-in-law to stop lying about you
• Care and Feeding: I bought my husband a Fleshlight for our anniversary. How should I deal with it?
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is cracking down on sexually perverse material produced for teens under its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
• Leaked document suggests Big Pharma is plotting to oust Robert Kennedy Jr. from Trump’s Make America Great Again movement
• I work as a speech therapist and noticed my cousin’s 4-year-old could only say a few words
• "Striking" new data: Miscarriage is increasingly dangerous under Texas abortion law
• In 1948 a Labour government founded the NHS. My job now is to make it fit for the future | Wes Streeting
• Justice Department charges 324 defendants with $14.6 billion in medical fraud
• Trump’s Sneak Attack on Medicare
• A federal inmate had a limb partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days
• How to Do It: A 45-year-old pansexual woman’s sense of smell is off the charts
• How to do it: Is it selfish for my wife to masturbate when I’m not available?
• We Live on a Treacherous Stretch of Road. My Neighbor Is Being Dangerously Irresponsible.
• My Sister Asked Me For a Massive Favor. My response might ruin our relationship forever.
• Meet the Oropouche virus. It may be visiting your city soon.
• When my father died, I felt I should have been full of profound words
• Dear Good Job: I have a co-worker who loves to talk about her 17-year-old son. Is this a grin-and-bear-it situation?
• Senate votes to cut $930 billion from Medicaid
• I’m a late bloomer, and I’m baffled about what’s going on with the missionary position. I’ve had sex with folks with smaller penises and ones on the larger side of averages with the same results. —Jessica
• When the time comes to die, what end-of-life care would doctors choose for themselves? | Ranjana Srivastava
• The real opioid crisis isn’t prescriptions—it’s prohibition
• Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
• The FTC Has the Chance to Rein in Big Pharma
• I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar
• Massive U.S. Healthcare Fraud Takedown Reaches Western Washington
• Can RFK Jr. Break the Prior Authorization Bottleneck?
• Carers like me connect patients and doctors – so why are we so often made to feel invisible? | Emily Kenway
• These days we’re encouraged to concoct an image of ourselves and how we want to ‘present’ to the public. It’s no longer a matter of who we are but of who we are
• I masturbate, and I start to think about the quality of the orgasm. Why does this happen? —Dear How to Do It?
• Care and Feeding: How do I stop taking care of a friend who resents my childfree life?
• As I sit here today, I’m the oldest I’ve ever been in my entire life. And here’s the worst part: I’m the oldest I’ve ever been in my entire life
• We Don’t Always Get to Confront Our Abusers. I Found a Way to Get Back at Mine.
• Addressing the dementia diagnosis waiting game
• Dear Care and Feeding: My wife is hyper-focused on her daughter's behavior. What should we do?
• The Daily Caller sat down with two organizations that provide vital support for pregnant mothers and their children
• Medicare Needs Major Reform—Sooner Rather Than Later
• Joe Rogan vs. Liver King beef shows MAGA male fragility
• Andrew Klavan: The New York Times tried to find out why men have retreated from intimacy
• Stung By High Prices, Americans Make Their Own Weight-Loss Drugs
• Care and Feeding: What if your brother is cheating on your sister-in-law?
• Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Here’s what you need to know
• How to make a dildo that’s long, long gone from the market? Here’s how to do it
• Supreme Court once again preserves the Affordable Care Act
• Why do we have so much fraud in our health care system? I stumbled upon a possible Covid testing scam
• “Striking how little they seem to know”: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine panel alarms experts
• RFK Jr.'s handpicked vaccine panel unsurprisingly delivers antivaccine conclusions
• How do I handle my girlfriend’s weight loss?
• Rubio announces new visa restriction policy targeting relatives and associates of individuals sanctioned under Executive Order 14059
• Care and Feeding: How to convince your daughter and son-in-law to reconsider their baby name
• Care and Feeding: How to explain to Catie’s mom that Belinda’s birthday party is too small
• Ben Affleck has dated more Jennifers than there are famous Rebeccas. It’s time for us to rise up | Rebecca Shaw
• Kennedy announces review of childhood immunization schedule to determine its 'cumulative effects'
• Ask Prudence: I was emotionally abused by my mom growing up. How do I reconcile with her?
• Why Change VA Hospital Medical Staff Bylaws?
• A Santa Clara University counseling master’s program student says her professor asked her what she disliked about her genitals
• As an NHS GP, I can now prescribe weight-loss jabs – but a quick fix for obesity is not what we need | Helen Salisbury
• DOGE Is Missing $2 Trillion in Healthcare Waste - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Hallow Prayer App Reaches 1 Billion Prayers — 7 Years to the Day After Incorporating - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Care and Feeding: What to do when a friend’s mother is late for play dates?
• Care and Feeding: What can I do to make sure my 7-year-old son keeps his word?
• U.S. won't donate to Gavi until it 're-earns public's trust,' says Kennedy
• How to do it: Is there any way to help my wife get over her fear of thunderstorms?
• Despite what Robert F. Kennedy wants you to think, cell phones do not cause brain cancer
• In Canada, I am rediscovering what being a GP can mean
• This is not simply a question of educational best practices; it’s a battle over worldview
• The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy – pretending that’s the case is bad for science | Jane Qiu
• All parents need someone in their corner like we had. But for First Nations parents, having an Aboriginal midwife is essential | Narelda Jacobs and Karina Natt
• Tallulah Willis defends her decision to post photos of her father Bruce Willis as he battles frontotemporal dementia
• Don't blame 23andMe for the federal government's lack of clear data privacy rules
• Can adult tummy time undo the dreaded ‘tech neck’ from hunching over a screen? | Antiviral
• The new abortion law is nothing to fear
• Britain has a messy relationship with money - no wonder we’re so divided over doctors’ pay | Polly Toynbee
• Abortion rates keep rising after ‘Dobbs’
• The costs of restricting abortion? More than $130 billion per year.
• Care and Feeding: Is it OK to keep a 16-year-old's tattoo secret until she's 18?
• Care and Feeding: How can I treat my kids equally and still give myself a break?
• Abortion Diaries: The international provider
• Abortion Diaries: The good listener
• The impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends beyond medical catastrophes. Here are some of the stories of people who have stepped up to do what they can
• Bosses Are Abusing Their Employees in an Archaic, Completely Unforgivable Way