Caitlin Owens

A sampling of the tabs I opened this week:

The CDC is out with new data on the prevalence of obesity by state last year, including for different races and ethnicities.

I recently zoomed with Aengus Tran, CEO of Harrison.ai. He was in ... Sydney, Australia. I was in Northern Virginia. You tell me which is cooler.

Yes, hospitals are closing around the country, but even more often, hospitals shut down specific services, especially relatively unprofitable ones like maternity care and behavioral health care.

Hospitals are closing around the country, but even more often, hospitals shut down specific services.

New research sheds light on how different forms of childhood trauma can shape how the body functions and make a person susceptible to chronic illness.

Relieving patients of medical debt is en vogue around the country, but preventing it from accumulating in the first place is much harder because it requires addressing some of the U.S. health system's fundamental problems.

The Steward Health debacle may be nearing an end, but critics worry some of the arrangements in place to keep the chain's hospitals and 5,000-person doctors group up and running could trigger another fiasco.

A CVS breakup — which reportedly is on the table — would be pretty hard to actually do and could come with a lot of downsides, and most people seem skeptical it'll happen.

RFK Jr., known for his vaccine skepticism, has vowed to "clean up" health agencies.