Health
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Burned out and going nowhere: the American worker is too mentally drained to even look for a new job
The résumé sits unfinished in a Google Doc. The LinkedIn tab stays open, untouched. For millions of American workers, the search for something better has ground to a halt — not because the jobs aren’t there, but because they’ve done the math. The door, it turns out, is barely open. More than half of U.S.…
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Half of older Americans are unfulfilled. Their doctors can’t see it
A landmark study of more than 6,600 adults ages 62 and older found nearly half (46%) reported lacking a fundamental sense of purpose, wholeness, and connection—what researchers call “fulfillment”—despite living in an era of longer life expectancy and medical advancement. The research, published by CenterWell, the health care services arm of Humana, tracked participants between 2023…
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American overdose deaths decline for third straight year to 2019 levels
About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data. It was the third straight annual drop, making it the longest decline in decades, according to federal data released Wednesday. The 2025 total is about the same as the tally in 2019, before…
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American schools have been quietly killing recess to focus on test scores—and pediatricians are warning it’s a mistake
Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages. That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected. The updated…
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Evacuations begin for hantavirus-hit cruise ship, with American passengers to be quarantined in Nebraska. ‘This is not another COVID’
The first passengers to be evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship now anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands arrived Sunday afternoon in Madrid, where they were being taken to a military hospital. Soon after, a French evacuation plane landed in Paris, where it was met by emergency vehicles that whisked passengers to hospitals. Spanish nationals were…
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How the next CDC director could reshape America’s $5.3 trillion health care industry
After a long hunt for the next CDC director, former Deputy Surgeon General Erica Schwartz officially got the nomination on April 16. But in the $5.3 trillion healthcare industry that makes up 18% of the country’s GDP, what sort of impact can just one job really have? Especially considering how the Trump administration has made…
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The viral TikTok $1.75 bid to save Spirit Airlines is fighting the wrong villain
On Tuesday, what remains of Spirit Airlines is being picked apart in bankruptcy court—aircraft lenders are repossessing those bright yellow airplanes while the major U.S. carriers jockey for the rest of their assets, like their gates. But some fans of Spirit aren’t ready to give up yet. Hunter Peterson, a 22-year-old voice actor for video…
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The dark side of the American work ethic: widespread sleep deprivation, linked to obesity, depression, even early death
Many Americans are long overdue for a good nap. Their health—and that of the economy—might depend on it. A rising share of Americans are sleeping less than they should, adding on to the country’s persistent sleep deficit that public health experts say will lead to far worse outcomes than simple grogginess. In 2024, 30.5% of…
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Goldman: AI will save the economy someday. First, it has to stop inflating it
Artificial intelligence is supposed to be the engine of the next great productivity boom. But before it gets there, it’s going to cost you — and a growing number of Americans, especially young ones, are starting to wonder if that payoff will ever arrive. That’s the converging picture across Wall Street research and Main Street…
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We’re the CEOs of Peloton and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Living longer isn’t enough, we need to live better, too
Americans are living longer than ever before. But too often those extra years are not healthy ones — sapping the sweetness from what should be our golden years. Today, babies born in the United States can expect to live more than 79 years, nearly eight years longer than the average just 50 years ago. Yet…