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Think You’re Too Young to Worry About Alzheimer’s? Maria Shriver Says Think Again. Maria Shriver wants everyone to know there are proactive strategies to support brain health. Maria Shriver. Photo by Peter Yang Author and journalist Maria Shriver is raising awareness about brain health. When her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she made it her mission to inform others about what they can do to lower their risk of cognitive decline. As a longtime advocate for Alzheimer’s, Shriver wants people to take agency over their brain health. Maria Shriver wants women to know that they’re nearly twice as likely.

Fullspan Health Announces First-Ever 2026 Healthline Awards. The inaugural Healthline Awards showcase credible health and wellness products vetted by a team of expert testers and medical reviewers. Design by Healthline Winners of the inaugural 2026 Healthline Awards have been announced by Fullspan Health, a B2B healthcare platform under Healthline’s parent company, RVO Health. The Healthline Awards feature more than two dozen health and wellness products vetted by a team of experienced product testers and medical reviewers. The 2026 Healthline Awards offer consumers trustworthy, evidence-based, credible wellness products to enhance health and well-being. Healthline Media announced the winners.

Coffee is an underrated longevity hack. Here's how to use it to optimize your health. Coffee is full of nutrients for gut health, longevity, and performance. Drink your daily caffeine the right way for a boost with fewer side effects.

Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths. State health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses.

Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America. Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are investors betting so big on this category? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, […].

RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise. AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.