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Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.

Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

By Sharon Adarlo

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.

Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

The UK's recent moves to ban gender-affirming treatment has created a robust black market for hormonal medications.

Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect

A first-of-its-kind study in Australia found that giving men a common antidepressant helped reduce domestic violence rates.

Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence

in a new episode of "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian's doctor told her that she has "holes" in her brain that are related to "low activity."

Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity”

By Victor Tangermann

A new study strongly suggests that low doses of weight loss drugs like Ozempic can counteract aging in middle aged mice.

Low Doses of Ozempic-Like Drug Can Counteract Aging in Older Mice, Study Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

A man cryogenically froze his 49-year-old wife after she died from lung cancer in 2017. A mere three years later, he was ready to move on.

Man Cryogenically Freezes Wife, Gets New Girlfriend in the Meantime

By Victor Tangermann

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has smoked the powerful psychedelic DMT, according to a new book by Olivia Nuzzi, his one-time online fling.

The “Sober” RFK Jr. Has Allegedly Been Smoking DMT

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at MIT have invented "Circulatronics," a medical platform they say enables non-invasive treatment of neuroinflammation.

MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips

Researchers at the University of Nottingham say they've come up with a new type of gel that can repair and rebuild tooth enamel.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've come up with a way for the body to produce its own store of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Reprogram the Pancreas to Produce GLP-1s Without Ozempic

By Victor Tangermann

The President announced a deal to cap the prices of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for some Medicare recipients.

Trump Strikes Deal to Offer Americans GLP-1 Drugs for Much Cheaper

A pharmaceutical executive collapsed during an event where president Donald Trump announced a new initiative for subsidized weight-loss drugs.

Man Collapses During Oval Office Event on Drug Prices

By Victor Tangermann

Women report higher sex drives, more energy, better moods and tons of other benefits to testosterone therapy.

Women Are Getting on Testosterone and They Say It’s Absolutely Awesome

Reddit's conversational AI Reddit Answers highlighted users' positive experiences managing their pain with heroin.

Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

A new way of delivering vaccines using nanoparticles could prevent or slow down a number of different cancers in mice.

Doctors Intrigued by Shot That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Fred Ramsdell and his wife were backpacking through the Rocky Mountains when they missed the Nobel Assembly's call.

Committee Unable to Contact Nobel Prize Winner Because He’s Too Chill, Had Phone on Airplane Mode

A research team says that for the first time in history, it's successfully treated Huntington's disease, a devastating, inherited disorder.

In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

Men die from preventable causes way more than women, and some experts think it's because they don't go to the doctor enough.

An Astonishing Number of Men Are Dying Because They Refuse to Go to the Doctor

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new photo of president Donald Trump's hand slathered in bad makeup to cover a bruise is extra concerning amid his cankle debacle.

As Health Questions Swirl, Weird Spot Appears on Trump’s Hand

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK.

Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn’t Use a Laser on Eyeball

By Victor Tangermann

Two women, who attended the "Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival" in Las Vegas, received peptide injections, had to be hospitalized.

Women Take Peptide Injections at “Age Reversal” Event, End Up Leaving in Ambulances

By Victor Tangermann

An unlicensed and untrained wellness practitioner is injecting bleach into people's tumors — and now, he's trying to bring it stateside.

Random Guy Who Is Not a Doctor Charging $20,000 to Inject Bleach Into Your Cancer Cells

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-enhanced robot has autonomously completed a gallbladder removal on a lifelike patient with "100 percent accuracy."

Doctors Let AI Control Surgery Robot and Perform Gallbladder Removal on Its Own

By Victor Tangermann

A ten-year-old girl undergoing brain cancer treatment was removed from the country when her parents were detained and deported.

US Deports 10-Year-Old Girl Who Was Partway Through Brain Cancer Treatment

By Frank Landymore

46-year-old youth-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson injected his face with "fat-derived extracellular matrix." It didn't go well.

Anti-Aging CEO Injects Face With Strange Treatment, Experiences Bizarre Reaction

By Victor Tangermann

As GLP-1 weight loss drugs fly off shelves, Kourtney Kardashian Barker is getting in on the hustle — well, sort of.

Kourtney Kardashian Is Selling a Scam Weight Loss Treatment That Says “GLP-1” on the Bottle But Isn’t a GLP-1

By Noor Al-Sibai

In clinical trials, a new male birth control gel seems to adequately reduce sperm count without decreasing libido.

Test of Male Birth Control Treatment Produces Promising Results

By Noor Al-Sibai

Therapists suggest in a new study that there are some intense drawbacks, on their sides and for patients, of psychedelic therapy.

Therapists Warn That Taking Magic Mushrooms for Treatment Can Lead to Unwanted Romantic Feelings

By Noor Al-Sibai

A forthcoming Elvis hologram tour is the latest in a string of holographic AI resurrections that fail to deal with their subjects' darkness.

Alleged Groomer to Get the AI Hologram Treatment

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Friends" actor Matthew Perry, who was undergoing ketamine treatment at the time of his death, had high levels of the drug in his body.

Matthew Perry Was Undergoing Ketamine Treatment at Time of Ketamine-Linked Death

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists in China claim they were able to give deaf children the ability to hear after a novel genetic treatment.

New Genetic Treatment Successfully Lets Deaf Children Hear

By Sharon Adarlo

A new, large study out of Oxford found that just a single synthetic mushroom "trip" can help ease depression symptoms for multiple months.

Taking Psilocybin Just Once Eases Treatment-Resistant Depression in Study

By Noor Al-Sibai

A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathic treatments as actual, proven medicine.

Lawsuit Accuses Walmart and CVS of Equating Homeopathic Treatments With Real Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at UCSF say they've developed a new treatment that causes cancer cells to rat on themselves, allowing the immune system to easily kill them.

New Treatment Turns Cancer Genes Into “Eat Me” Signs For Immune System

By Frank Landymore

Doctors researching an experimental cancer treatment were shocked when every single patient in the small trial went into remission.

Scientists Intrigued by Treatment That Put Every Single Patient’s Cancer Into Remission

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of MIT scientists behind the biotech firm Frequency Therapeutics has developed a new type of regenerative therapy that can reverse hearing loss.

MIT Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Treatment That Reverses Hearing Loss

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists from Yale announced this week that a common arthritis medication is helping alopecia patients regrow their hair.

Scientists Say New Treatment Lets Alopecia Patients Regrow Hair

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers might have developed an incredibly promising way to treat — and possibly vaccinate against — Alzheimer’s disease.

Potential Alzheimer’s Treatment Restores Lost Memories in Mice

By Tony Ho Tran

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

By Dan Robitzski

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental antibody treatment made adult mice regrow missing teeth, hinting that a treatment for people could be around the corner.

New Treatment Makes Teeth Grow Back

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are developing a low-cost version of a coronavirus antiviral medication using antibodies grown in horses exposed to viral proteins.

A Low-Cost, Experimental Coronavirus Treatment Uses Horse Antibodies

By Dan Robitzski

The first human trials for a COVID-19 antibody treatment are beginning. If it works, it could be available by the end of the year.

Scientists Test First COVID-19 Antibody Treatment on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has identified 77 drug compounds that could stop the coronavirus.

World’s Fastest Supercomputer Finds 77 Potential COVID-19 Treatments

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just published the results of the United States first trial of CRISPR-edited cells in cancer patients — and they're very encouraging.

Human Trial Suggests CRISPR Could Be a Viable Cancer Treatment

By Kristin Houser

A link between the protein Sestrin and exercise could one day allow us to enjoy the benefits of physical activity without ever leaving our couches.

Study: Treatment Provides Benefits of Exercise Without Exercising

By Kristin Houser

Netherlands-based startup Hydraloop has developed a wardrobe-sized device that can sterilize and reuse household water, saving you money.

This Giant Box is a Waste Water Treatment Plant For Your Home

By Victor Tangermann

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Boosting NAD+ Levels May Be the Key to Effective Anti-Aging Treatments, Study Finds

By Futurism Creative

Researchers discover that antiretroviral therapy (ART) completely eliminates gay men's risk of HIV transmission through sex.

Study Finds “Zero Risk” of HIV Transmission During Drug Treatment

By Kristin Houser

Scientists say they've devised antibodies that block a specific gene related to brain aging — causing old mice to regain lost cognitive abilities.

“The Mice Became Smarter”: New Treatment Restores Aging Brains

By Jon Christian

Yerba santa, a plant dubbed the "holy herb" by native California tribes, could have a previously unknown medical use as an Alzheimer's treatment.

“Holy Herb” Shows Promise as Alzheimer’s Treatment

By Kristin Houser

A new cancer treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer is scheduled to start human trials in 2019.

Scientists to Test New Cancer Treatment on Human Patients in 2019

By Jon Christian

A new virtual reality simulation built by Cambridge University scientists gives a high-resolution detail view into the cells of a breast cancer tumor.

Virtual Reality Tumors Could Help Lead to New Cancer Treatments

By Dan Robitzski

A dementia reversal treatment is moving from animal testing to human safety trials thanks to $10 million in funding from the Australian government.

Treatment to Reverse Alzheimer’s Symptoms Moving to Human Trials

By Kristin Houser

14 Smart Clothes and Accessories to Give Your Wardrobe the Tech Treatment

The First “Cell-Free” CRISPR Tech Is Here To Personalize Cancer Treatment

The First “Cell-Free” CRISPR Tech Is Here To Personalize Cancer Treatment

By Kristin Houser

That “Game Changer” Treatment for MS Is Too Good To Be True — Really

That “Game Changer” Treatment for MS Is Too Good To Be True — Really

By Lou Del Bello

A New Chemical Treatment Could Make Water Safe to Drink for Months

A New Chemical Treatment Could Make Water Safe to Drink for Months

Brain-Zapping Pacemaker Implant Could Be a New Treatment for Opioid Addiction

Brain-Zapping Pacemaker Implant Could Be a New Treatment for Opioid Addiction

By Patrick Caughill

FDA Says Kratom Is An Opioid, Damaging Hopes for Addiction Treatment

FDA Says Kratom Is An Opioid, Damaging Hopes for Addiction Treatment

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New App for Depression Uses Artificial Intelligence for Therapy Treatments