Sara Lindqvist

Non-renewal notices, due by Oct. 2, are reaching about 390,000 UnitedHealthcare and 600,000 Humana members. The deadline most of them haven't heard about is March 4, 2027, the last day to apply for Medigap without health questions.

Headlines split on England's ADHD and autism review because the report says two things at once. Here is which sentences are findings, which are recommendations and which the government has promised.

WHO's first child and adolescent obesity guidelines pair firm advice with thin proof. Here are the grades behind each rule, the conditions on teen drug treatment, and questions to bring to a pediatrician.

The sneezing that waits until you're in bed has a real mechanism behind it — three of them, actually, and they compound.

The drowsiness that arrives every October has more to do with light than temperature, and the warm room may be doing more harm than the cold outside.

The exhaustion of fall allergy season has at least three sources, and the pill is only one of them. Here is how to tell which one is wearing you down.

Four years after the first Adderall shortage notice, the DEA has raised its national stimulant production quotas twice. The mechanism behind the gap that remains is bureaucratic, not dramatic.

Four fully vaccinated Pennsylvanians caught measles as the state's outbreak topped 676 cases — a reminder that a 97% effective vaccine was never advertised as 100%.

Patients told plainly that their pills contain no medicine still report real relief. The effect is genuine, but it has limits worth understanding.

Saliva tests screen for the parent drug compound itself rather than the metabolite urine tests catch, which is why they see only a day or two back instead of weeks.

Trademark law bars generics from looking like the brand name, and pharmacy supply chains swap manufacturers often -- so your pill keeps changing, safely.

Walking pneumonia isn't a seasonal illness like the flu. CDC data show it moves in multi-year waves driven by fading population immunity — and the latest one hasn't fully cleared.

For the first time in years, regulators rebuilt the flu vaccine from scratch, swapping the H1N1, H3N2, and B strains after a fast-mutating H3N2 variant cut protection in some patients to as little as 14%.

Four baby goats at a North Carolina petting zoo tested positive for rabies without ever looking sick. Here's why infected animals can seem completely healthy until it's too late.

Measles cases in the U.S. have already topped last year's total, and Pennsylvania just recorded the country's first deaths from the disease in 35 years. The reason it keeps returning comes down to one number: 95%.

Doctors in Berlin turned a cancer treatment on rheumatoid arthritis that had defeated every other drug. In a trial of six patients, half stopped needing medication.

DR Congo's Ebola case counts keep breaking records for a specific reason: the strain spreading has no approved vaccine, and its death rate is climbing, not falling.

The idea that allergy pills 'stop working' after months of daily use isn't well supported by the evidence — but the FDA has flagged a real, different reaction to watch for when you quit.

It's not congestion and it's not your imagination: nearly everyone breathes mostly through one nostril at a time. Here's the automatic cycle behind it, and how to tell it apart from a real blockage.

Compounding pharmacies aren't FDA-approved, because that approval doesn't exist for them. Here's the regulatory split behind the copycat-Ozempic crackdown, and why claiming otherwise just got 25 telehealth firms in trouble.