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Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jan 19-Jan 26, 2026. A workbook for all eating disorders and all body sizes. If you ha...

The CBT Rewrite We’ve Been Waiting For: A Weight-Inclusive Path to Eating Disorder Recovery, featuring Drs. Lauren Muhlheim, Jen Averyt, and Shannon Patterson—three psychologists reshaping how we trea...

In rural America, finding eating disorder treatment is nearly impossible: 20% of patients can find no residential treatment in their state.

For years, the media image of anorexia was an emaciated white female. There's even an acronym: SWAG. But eating disorders don't discriminate.

A small group of care navigators and lawyers help patients, often desperately ill, battle with health insurers to access services.

Eating disorders are America's deadliest mental health condition. For those seeking care, obstacles from health insurers are a huge barrier.

Deadly Denials: A four-part investigative series supported by the Pulitzer Center.

The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.

From a humble base, it gobbled up big chunks of the U.S. health system, including doctor practices, pharmacy-benefits managers and medical billing services.

A health insurance company executive turned whistleblower, Wendell Potter thinks that the backlash to the industry is missing something key.

New legislation would force UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna to each sell their pharmacies within three years.

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s ho...

First-of-its-kind data analysis finds UnitedHealth Group pays many of its own physician practices significantly more than the average it pays other doctors in the same markets