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Opinion: How the military may be fueling eating disorders in men

As a yoga instructor in a clinic for people with eating disorders, I don’t see many straight cisgender male clients. But when I do, many have one thing in common: military service.

It is so common that, anecdotally, I would say a military background is one of the greatest risk factors for eating disorders in this population. Indeed, troops and veterans experience eating disorders and disordered eating at higher rates than civilians. For example, veterans have bulimia at rates about three times higher than civilians. Many of the male service members and veterans I work with feel their bodies will never be lean enough, strong enough, or “combat-ready” enough.

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STAT+: NIH cuts weakened network primed to respond to outbreaks like Ebola

In 2020, the National Institutes of Health funded a network of 10 centers intended to “expand knowledge on re-emerging and emerging infectious diseases.” But when dangerous Ebola and hantaviruses spilled over and caused outbreaks in recent months, those research centers have not been in a position to provide aid. In 2025, the centers’ grants were terminated by the Trump administration as part of cuts that targeted work related to Covid-19 and pandemic preparedness.

The network “has been deemed unsafe for Americans and not a good use of taxpayer funding,” the agency told its grantees in May 2025. Of the $82 million allocated to the program over the course of five years, $14.9 million remained unspent, according to data collected by Grant Witness. 

While the centers weren’t on the front lines of outbreak responses like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or USAID, some researchers involved in the network said the NIH cuts have weakened relationships with experts in other countries that they spent years fostering, with the hopes that it would streamline outbreak responses and the creation of diagnostics and treatments. 

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STAT+: Trump’s Medicaid work requirements have an unwelcome surprise for some states and patients

Medicaid leaders and advocates say they’re shocked by the Trump administration’s harsh directives for implementing Medicaid work requirements, which they say mark a pivot from how federal officials had characterized their plans just weeks ago. 

Much of the conversation around the nearly 400-page rule that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released Monday afternoon centers on one of the ways that people can be exempted from work requirements: medical frailty. Getting that exemption will be more difficult than most people had expected, meaning that more sick and disabled people are likely to lose their Medicaid coverage. 

“This is where we’ll see large and harmful coverage losses,” said Benjamin Sommers, an economics professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. “This is a population that has high medical needs and is at major risk for harm if they lose coverage. That is the headline implication of the new rule.”

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GAIP ASD Research Study

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder; Autism; ASD; Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Interventions: Biological: Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Stem Cells and Exosomes; Drug: Glutathione

Sponsors: Greater Atlanta Integrative Pediatrics

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Regulating Together for Intellectual Disability: A Group Behavioral Therapy for for Emotion Dysregulation in Autism and Intellectual Disability

Conditions: Autism; Intellectual Disabilities With Other Behavioral Symptoms; Intellectual Disability

Interventions: Behavioral: Regulating Together group therapy

Sponsors: Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City; National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS); Frontiers Clinical & Translational Science Institute

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NeuroFinance Human Stress Trial During Financial and Informational Volatility

Conditions: Psychological Stress; Anxiety; Emotional Stress; Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction; Sleep Disturbance; Insomnia; Behavioral Health; Cognitive Fatigue; Occupational Stress; Financial Stress; Burnout Syndrome; Heart Rate Variability; Neurobehavioral Manifestations

Interventions: Device: Wearable Physiologic Monitoring Platform

Sponsors: Truway Health, Inc.

Not yet recruiting