Senators seek UnitedHealth records on push to curb nursing home hospitalizations

Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the healthcare conglomerate on Thursday citing a Guardian investigation

I’m a perinatal psychiatrist. The US is promoting misinformation on SSRIs and pregnancy

A recent FDA advisory panel discussion contained falsehoods and overstated risks. That’s dangerous for mothers-to-be

Trump revives presidential fitness test – will US students run a mile?

Pull-ups, sit-ups and a mile-long run on menu of test first introduced by Eisenhower – but does it actually work?

Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US

The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it

Dear heads of state: Donald Trump won’t love you back. He may be the worst boyfriend the world has ever seen

The frantic attempts to decode his behaviour reminds me of self-help relationship babble in the 1990s. Then, as now – it’s not you, it’s him, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Fearing Ice raids, some LA residents skip doctor’s visits: ‘Everybody’s life is on pause’

Health networks in other US cities fear the Ice operations seen in LA will be replicated in their communities

RFK Jr and Dr Oz announce insurers’ ‘pledge’ to reform prior authorization

Health secretary and chief of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid hail voluntary agreement as a ‘good start’

UnitedHealth faces federal scrutiny into whistleblower claims

Attention comes in wake of ex-employees’ allegations that insurer paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers and used improper tactics to gain Medicare Advantage enrollees

Toxic truth? The cookware craze redefining ‘ceramic’ and ‘nontoxic’

Designer brands such as Always Pan and Caraway are booming – but safety experts are raising questions

Norma Meras Swenson obituary

Sociologist and women’s health activist who was a co-author of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves