3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1192+ words) Prescription costs have become one of the hardest parts of treatment for many patients, and researchers who studied prescription spending found that 1 in 5 people who filled a prescription in 2025 rationed their medicine because of cost. Some split doses, while others…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (747+ words) Health insurance is supposed to protect people from high medical costs and help them get the care they need. But a new survey of 1,887 people with health insurance conducted from May through July of this year by GoodRx, a platform…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (166+ words) The 67th Heart of America Marathon took place Monday morning, with runners enjoying cooler weather than had been around over the weekend. The race, which goes around parts of southwest Columbia and southwestern Boone County, started at 6 a.m. Temperatures stayed lower than…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (381+ words) When you’re young, it’s easy to feel invincible. As you age, however, the things once taken for granted in youth become the reasons you end up in the hospital. This can look like a misstep that would be no big…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (798+ words) For years, concerns about social media were largely framed as a matter of personal responsibility: Parents could limit screen time, teenagers could put down their phones, and users could simply log off. That framing is changing as research, litigation and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (503+ words) Gen Z adults are at the stage when lifelong habits start to take shape. They’re launching careers, reflecting on their values, and building relationships and routines. They’re also navigating messages about beauty standards that sometimes oppose the needs of their…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (727+ words) Blood work used to start with a doctor’s order, usually to diagnose or monitor disease. But people are increasingly using blood work to ask proactive questions like: How healthy am I? Is something beginning to change? Could I feel or…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1095+ words) “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” once reflected a culture that praised long hours and treated rest as time that could be sacrificed. But that attitude has become harder to defend as more people connect a poor night of sleep with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (871+ words) Creatine is not a new product. It’s a commodity ingredient that every supplement brand on earth already sells, and it’s been that way since the early 1990s. This makes what’s happening on Amazon right now genuinely strange: The creatine subcategory is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (819+ words) Women with higher blood levels of several common “forever chemicals” reached menopause about a year earlier than women with lower levels, according to a 2026 study of nearly 5,000 women. Forever chemicals, collectively called PFAS, are found in everything from tap water…...