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What to Know About Leucovorin, an Old Drug Rebranded as an Autism Treatment
In a Sept. 22 press conference, the Trump Administration introduced what it says is an “exciting treatment” for autism: leucovorin, a decades-old medicine that treats toxic effects of chemotherapy. Early research suggests it can be helpful for a certain group of people with a neurological condition related to autism, though some medical experts say it’s…
Read MoreHow to Keep Your Child Calm When You’re Stressed Out
While parenting has always been challenging, raising kids in today’s world is uniquely stressful. In addition to balancing work and family life, parents are anxious about the state of the world, their finances, and their children’s safety and mental health. With so much to worry about, parental stress has reached a fever pitch. A 2023…
Read MoreTrump Links Tylenol Use During Pregnancy to Autism. What Does the Science Show?
The Brief September 23, 2025 Medical experts speak out after Trump links Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism, a new poll looks at Republican frustrations, and more Skip backward 15 seconds Length: Long Speed: 1.0x Skip forward 15 seconds In an announcement on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump said that using Tylenol during pregnancy increases…
Read MoreThe Nightmare of Finding After-School Care in America
The after-school program disappeared from the Utah school where Jessica Langford sends her two older children, ages 7 and 9, in October 2024. At first, the charter school for neuroatypical kids replaced the program that had been charging Langford’s family $200 a month with one that charged around $1,500 a month, Langford says. Then, when…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Daughter Vivian Wilson Says She’s “Financially Independent” Amid Estrangement
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About Changes to Childhood Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee voted to stop recommending the combination vaccine protecting against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox for children under the age of 4, indefinitely postponed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine schedule, and moved away from a broad recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine during a chaotic two-day meeting. On…
Read MoreHow TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025
This year, TIME has published its first ranking of the World’s Top HealthTech Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The ranking aims to highlight health tech companies that drive innovation, enhance accessibility, and contribute to a more effective and sustainable health care system. Here’s how…
Read MoreWorld’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025
Developing accurate and inexpensive ways to diagnose disease also remains a challenge, although a few standout companies such as Fedo, which uses a selfie to assess certain vital signs, and Canary Speech, which uses a person’s voice to detect various cognitive and behavioral disorders, (both marked Outstanding performance in Diagnostics) are making strides using new…
Read MoreBrilliant or Blank? ‘Art’ Frames Love-Hate Bromances on Broadway
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale star in Art, now on Broadway. Photo by Matthew Murphy Since the inciting event of Yasmina Reza’s Art involves the valuation of cultural objects, let’s start at the price point. Would purchasing a $471 orchestra seat to the Broadway revival make you a shrewd culture vulture or…
Read MoreHow Dancing With the Stars Judge Bruno Tonioli Flubbed Whitney Leavitt’s Score at Premiere
Whitney Leavitt is doing a happy dance after this scoring mistake. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star hit the Dancing With the Stars ballroom for the season 34 premiere on Sept. 16, performing the tango with pro partner Mark Ballas to the HUNTR/X song “Golden.” And judges Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli were quite impressed,…
Read MoreRural Texas EMS leaders discuss ideas to address challenges in rural healthcare access
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A new $50 billion federal program is giving states the chance to share and develop new strategies to transform rural healthcare across the country. Emergency medical service providers in rural Texas counties have some ideas to help address unique challenges they face everyday. The new program, called the Rural Health Transformation program,…
Read More'No longer a student': Texas State expels student after mocking Charlie Kirk's death
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas State University confirmed the individual who appeared to be mocking Charlie Kirk’s death in a video during a memorial on Monday is “no longer a student at TXST.” This action comes after the university acknowledged in a Tuesday statement that it will identify the individual in the “disturbing video that was…
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