Weight loss is complex – and goes beyond counting calories, according to experts. Dr. Jason Fung, a kidney specialist and author of the recent book “The Hunger Code,” said lasting weight loss requires a shift in how people understand and respond to hunger. “Most of the time, we focus on eating less or what we’re eating, ...

The Trump Administration abruptly canceling – then perhaps reinstating or partially reinstating – federal health grants is creating overall “funding volatility” in state and local public health programs, officials told state lawmakers this week. The ongoing cuts and constant back-and-forth policy changes have confounded efforts to maintain state and local programs as well as retain ...

More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third of what state officials had projected. Nevada ...

Medicaid applications in Nevada skyrocketed by an average of 62% in December 2025 and this January and February over the same months a year earlier. The largest spike was in January, when the average daily number of pending applications for three categories of Medicaid – family medical; aged, blind, and disabled; and unregistered applicants (those who have ...

The Trump administration is preparing to impose new tariffs on branded drugs from pharmaceutical companies that have not struck landmark deals with the president to lower their U.S. drug prices, CNBC has learned. Patented medications and their active ingredients would be hit with a 100% tariff, according to a draft of the document obtained by ...

Two-year-old Bain Brandon has Type 1 diabetes and needs insulin to live. But even with health insurance, the price tag isn’t cheap. A one-month supply of insulin vials and a three-month supply of backup pens for the Mississippi toddler cost his parents $194 last week, according to his mom, 29-year-old Marlee Brandon. They can afford it right ...