Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. Once a rock climber, she became a couch potato. Although Dressen’s symptoms were …
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California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the implementation date to January 2026, leaving patients, insurers, and employers in limbo. The law, SB 729, requires state-regulated health plans offered …
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Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system. Dozens of insurance companies, including Cigna, Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealthcare, agreed to several measures, which …
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(Moment/Getty Images) Millions of Americans lack health insurance, and health policy researchers expect many more will lose coverage due to policies pushed by the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress. KFF Health News is documenting this moment, the first explicit rollback of health coverage since the advent of the modern U.S. health system in the early …
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AS ETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY (ENM) continues gains traction in today’s culture, so does swinging. Sure, you’ve probably joked about upside-down pineapples and the Secret Live of Mormon Wives, but there’s way more to these swinging symbols. Swinging can be both a relationship practice and an identity—where one or both partners has multiple casual partners outside of …
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AS ETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY (ENM) continues gains traction in today’s culture, so does swinging. Sure, you’ve probably joked about upside-down pineapples and the Secret Live of Mormon Wives, but there’s way more to these swinging symbols. Swinging can be both a relationship practice and an identity—where one or both partners has multiple casual partners outside of …
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IF THERE’S ONE thing Aaron Taylor-Johnson has made clear on screen through the years, it’s that he’s a born survivor. That’s never been more evident than in Danny Boyle’s new horror-thriller 28 Years Later, though the complex and flawed characters he’s played have often struggled to adapt to the difficult circumstances they’ve been dealt in …
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IN 2018, Vuong Tran, 32, was experiencing what felt like an impossibly dark depression and he attempted to end his life. When he survived his suicide attempt, he wasn’t sure where he fit in or what to do next. Men’s Health spoke with Tran about community, generational trauma, and his volunteer work with the American …
LAST JULY, JOHN Foster, a 62-year-old management consultant, walked into Love.Life, a 45,000-square-foot gym housed in a former Best Buy in El Segundo, California. He arrived during the grand opening to find out about the new club’s shiny fleet of membership options, many of which beefed up the traditional gym-going experience. Only, where most luxury …
THE TOUGHEST STEP to make is the first one. That truism applies to just about everything in life, but goes double for when you want to give a new fitness regimen a try. If you’re holding out against giving an activity like yoga a try, consider this your push to branch out. Everyone is a …