Kennedy’s Crusade Against Food Safety Rule Threatens Supplement Industry

By going after an obscure regulatory designation he describes as a “loophole,” Mr. Kennedy has put an industry he champions on the defensive.

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Can An App Help You Tackle Jetlag? We Put Two to the Test.

Apps promising to swiftly ease jet lag have proliferated. We traveled to the other side of the globe and back to see if they made a difference for a long-haul journey.

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RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Restrict Opioid-Like Kratom Product

Federal officials said a psychoactive ingredient in kratom had been refined and added to supplements that could quickly become addictive.

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How Midge Purce, Gotham FC Star, Spends Her Day Training

Ms. Purce, a Gotham F.C. forward, begins her day with “Game of Thrones,” then hits the gym with her teammates and makes time for a little dress up.

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S. Daniel Abraham, the Force Behind Slim-Fast, Dies at 100

He turned a tiny family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with “just add milk.”

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Inside the Arms Race to Create a Better Lactose Intolerance Pill

A new class of high-powered, slickly branded lactose intolerance treatments is targeting consumers. But do they actually work?

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Virginia Farmers Are Reviving a Tradition of Harvesting Herbs

Farmers have banded together to make the market for herbal supplements and remedies, part of Appalachia’s cultural heritage, more sustainable and more profitable.

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What Sleep Hacks Actually Work?

Mouth tape, melatonin, “worry journals” — here’s what might actually help you sleep.

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Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill

After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.

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Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments

In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.

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