When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Cooking Matters courses offer practical nutrition information, hands-on food preparation, and food budgeting and shopping.

Feature / Young people are facing a mental health crisis. This group of Cincinnati teens thinks they know how to solve it.

For many medical students, the earliest years of training are heavy on textbooks and light on real patient contact. But a new ...

Adult literacy challenges deepen health inequities, limit opportunity and are linked to incarceration. Even so, efforts to ...

Only 40% of adults meet criteria for obesity when BMI alone is used. A new definition of obesity could nearly double the prevalence of U.S. adults with the condition, according to a study published ...

Adults 50 and older are increasingly pursuing healthcare AI and other digital health tools, according to AARP. Here are four key findings from the Dec. 8 report: 1. The share of older adults who say ...

About 1 in 8 adolescents and young adults in the U.S. are using AI chatbots for mental health advice, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, ...

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for ...

Americans are going into 2026 more anxious about health care costs than at any other point in recent years, a new West Health-Gallup survey finds. Almost half of adults, 47%, say they’re worried they ...

Many in the U.S. are not living long enough to receive Medicare health — especially marginalized communities. The disparity between those who pay into the benefit and those who live to use it is ...