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

Stimulating Growth

"This is so exciting, because the data clearly show how effective [it] is."

Scientists Say New Treatment Lets Alopecia Patients Regrow Hair

Supermodel Linda Evangelista hid for five years after a non-surgical cosmetic treatment when the fat she hoped to freeze off turned hard and lumpy.

Side Effects

"I don't look in the mirror."

Supermodel Says She Was "Permanently Deformed" by Cosmetic Procedure

Cured

This is big.

First Woman Reportedly Cured of HIV

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.

Spinal Mice

"If this works in humans, and we believe that it will, it can offer all paralyzed people hope that they may walk again."

Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice With Spinal Cord Implants

After celebrating a hallmark heart transplant in which a human patient received a pig heart, news outlets have been reporting on the man's troubled past.

Healthcare for All

Doctors really shouldn't make that call.

Newspapers Criticized for Reporting That Patient With Gene-Hacked Pig Heart Stabbed Someone Decades Ago

Scientists are developing a vaccine that targets oxycodone addiction and are currently testing it on volunteers with substance abuse disorders.

Opioid Crisis

The vaccine is currently being tested on patients with substance abuse disorders. 

Scientists Are Testing a Vaccine to Treat Opioid Addiction

DMT is joining the ranks of party drugs including LSD, MDMA, ketamine and psilocybin mushrooms as a promising mental health treatment.

DMT Therapy

Doctor Machine Elf will see you now.

Scientists Are Now Testing Medical DMT on Human Subjects

Eye drops that could potentially replace reading glasses for millions of people was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in October.

Ditching Glasses

"It's definitely a life changer."

FDA Approves Eye Drops That Replace Reading Glasses

British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is ready to start human trials of its potential cure for HIV some time next year.

HIV Cure

A cure could become a reality "by 2030 if not sooner."

Pharma Company to Start Human Trials of HIV Cure Next Year

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is about to kick off a groundbreaking clinical trial of a new nasal vaccine meant to prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer's — 20 years of research in the making.

Nose Goes

This could be a game changer.

A Hospital Is About to Start Testing an Anti-Alzheimer's Nasal Spray

A team of researchers in Japan has created a vaccine that was able to kill a type of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in macaques during an early trial.

Killing HIV

The virus became undetectable in six out of seven test subjects.

New Vaccine Kills HIV in Monkeys, Researchers Planning Human Trial

Despite its very recent approval, startups are already lining up to prescribe a new weight loss drug called Wegovy, a tradename for semaglutide.

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