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The mysterious pneumonia-like virus that hit China last month has now spread to Japan and Thailand. Experts still aren't sure how.

China’s Mysterious Virus Spreads to Japan and Thailand

By Dan Robitzski

In an attempt to limit the spread of the pneumonia-like virus 2019-nCoV, the government in China is screening passengers on departing flights.

In China, Hazmat Teams Are Searching Flights For Deadly Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

In the face of a worsening public health crisis, the Chinese government is censoring social media and articles about the Wuhan virus.

China Censored Info About Growing Pandemic on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Now four cities in China are in lockdown quarantines to try and nip the coronavirus pandemic in the bud, trapping a total 20 million residents.

China Quarantines Three More Entire Cities to Fight Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

According to a news bulletin, all travel out of Wuhan, China has been suspended in an attempt to contain the spreading 2019-nCoV virus.

China Quarantines Entire City Where Mystery Virus Outbreak Began

By Dan Robitzski

The "Please Try This At Home" biohacker conference focused on carving out a space for people harmed by mainstream healthcare systems.

This Biohacker Conference Sounds Absolutely Outrageous

By Kristin Houser

Researchers couldn't find any reason why human hibernation shouldn't be possible — and cracking it could help us explore the cosmos.

Scientists: Human Hibernation Is Entirely Possible

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland have found a way to keep human livers alive for an entire week outside the body.

Scientists Keep Human Livers Alive In Machine For a Week

By Victor Tangermann

The Food and Drug Administration announced a ban on most fruit and mint-flavored nicotine vaping products to reign in use by teenagers.

FDA Bans All Vape Pod Flavors Except Tobacco and Menthol

By Victor Tangermann

MIT scientists developed a system of lasers that works like a remote ultrasound system: it can peer into a patient's body without touching them.

MIT Scientists Can Look at Your Insides From a Distance

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Brazilian researchers have succesfully bioprinted tiny organoids like a mini-liver that perform all of the human liver's functions.

Scientists Print Functional Human “Mini-Livers”

By Victor Tangermann

We're solidly into the beginning of the 2019-2020 flu season and so far it's proving to be an unusual one as atypical strains of flu virus are turning up.

2020 Flu Season Off to Quirky Start, Also Affects Seals

A team of bioethicists argue that it's high time GoFundMe better regulate its platform to keep out medical scammers and unregulated treatments.

Bioethicists: GoFundMe Is Profiting off Medical Scams

By Dan Robitzski

According to a New Scientist exclusive, the first ever pig that had a small proportion of Its cells derived from a monkey was born in a lab in China.

First-Ever “Pig-Monkey Chimeras” Born in Chinese Lab

By Victor Tangermann

A measles outbreak in Samoa has left 60 people dead, the vast majority of them children under the age of four, prompting a nationwide vaccination campaign.

Nation’s Entire Gov Shuts Down to Focus on Measles Outbreak

By Kristin Houser

Three charities have launched the world's first sperm bank for HIV-positive donors called Sperm Positive in New Zealand. Three men have already signed up.

New Zealand Opens World’s First HIV-Positive Sperm Bank

By Victor Tangermann

Indian researchers have submitted a male birth control injection to regulators for approval, which it could have in as few as six months.

Fate of Male Birth Control Injection Now in Government’s Hands

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine placed humans in "suspended animation" for the first time.

Scientists Place Humans in “Suspended Animation” for First Time

By Victor Tangermann

Ever since Trump announced a flavored vape ban, advisers and lobbyists have been trying to nip it in the bud. Now, it seems that they succeeded.

Courting “Vapers Who Vote,” Trump May Cancel Flavored Vape Ban

By Dan Robitzski

A special panel of scientists studied the idea of hibernation pods for astronauts and how it would affect the design and size of habitation modules.

Scientist: Astronaut Hibernation Pods “Actually Not so Crazy”

By Victor Tangermann

Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect personal medical records from millions of Americans.

Google Is Secretly Hoarding Your Medical Records

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors are treating two people in China for an outbreak of the pneumonic plague, the most serious form of the infamous Black Death disease.

There’s an Outbreak of the “Black Death” Plague in China

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at a U.S. healthcare provider trained an AI to predict when you'll die by which patients were at a higher risk of dying within the next year.

This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How

By Victor Tangermann

Ambrosia Health, the "young blood" transfusion clinic formerly known as Ivy Plasma, is back, touting a new overnight shipping service.

Ambrosia Is Back to Selling Transfusions of Young People’s Blood

By Dan Robitzski

Over a year later, the veteran who got the world's first penis transplant that included the scrotum and surrounding flesh reports that he's doing just fine.

Doctors Announce First Ever “Fully Functional” Penis Transplant

By Dan Robitzski

According to Axios, the Trump administration will announce plans for a complete ban on all flavored vape products, except tobacco and mint flavors.

Report: Trump to Ban All Vape Flavors Except Tobacco, Menthol

By Victor Tangermann

The life expectancy for American men has steadily dropped for several years. Meanwhile, deaths from drug overdose have nearly doubled.

The Life Expectancy for American Men Keeps Falling

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report by Common Sense Media found that the average screen time for children in the U.S. is as high as its ever been.

Most American 11-Year-Olds Now Have Smartphones

By Victor Tangermann

Compared to the casualties caused by the mysterious vape lung illness, taking up smoking at all is still drastically more deadly.

Idiots Are Starting to Vape, Then Switching to Cigarettes

By Dan Robitzski

People in the Phillipines are selling organs on Facebook, supplying an illegal human organ trafficking ring in exchange for some desperately-needed cash.

People Are Selling Human Organs on Facebook

By Dan Robitzski

By the end of 2018, 50 Salt Lake City-based users of a CBD vape product called Yolo! experienced "an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures."

A CBD Vape Called “Yolo!” Contained a Psychosis-Inducing Drug

By Victor Tangermann

An international group of scientists is compiling a biological "atlas" of all the individual cells that make up the human body.

A New Project Is Helping Map Every Cell in the Human Body

Experts argue the prevalence of "vape lung" in the U.S. comes from the country's tendency to treat public health concerns as moral issues, unlike the UK.

Here’s How the UK Avoided A “Vape Lung” Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study reveals a link between dads drinking in the months leading up to conception and an increased risk of congenital heart defects in their kids.

Dads Drinking Before Conception May Cause Heart Defects in Babies

By Dan Robitzski

A 17-year-old teenager from New York died of "vaping-related illness" on Friday according to officials, as the New York Times reports.

First Teen Dies of “Vaping-Related” Illness in the U.S.

By Victor Tangermann

California is now the first state to allow residents to obtain the HIV prevention drugs PrEP and PEP directly from their pharmacists.

New Law Makes HIV Prevention Drugs Available Without Prescription

By Kristin Houser

New warnings about "zombie deer disease" are sweeping the U.S., but according to one expert, it may already be too late to stop the spread to humans.

Expert: “Zombie Deer Disease” May Have Already Spread to Humans

By Kristin Houser

Jesse Karmazin, founder of blood transfusion clinic Ivy Plasma, suggested a former patient faked his own death. He says it must have been a prank caller.

Did a Life Extension Patient Fake His Own Death?

By Dan Robitzski

A judge ruled that plans to open an overdose prevention site in Philadelphia would not violate the Controlled Substances Act's "crack house statute."

US Drug Addicts May Soon Have a “Safe” Place to Shoot Up

By Kristin Houser

A team of Japanese scientists have created artificial blood that can be used in any patient, regardless of their blood type.

New Artificial Blood Could Be Transfused Into Any Patient

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Ben Margolis founded the Autopsy Center of Chicago, where provides the option to have the procedure recorded for educational videos or streamed online.

Meet the Doctor Who’s Livestreaming Human Autopsies

By Dan Robitzski

The CEO of Juul Just Quit, Bowing to Pressure from White House

By Victor Tangermann

After promising results in animal studies, doctors from the University of Pennsylvania are about to test an experimental herpes vaccine on humans.

Scientists Are Testing a Herpes Vaccine on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Those mysterious "sonic attacks" that gave diplomats visiting Cuba in 2016 concussion-like symptoms may have actually been caused by pesticide fumes.

Cuban “Sonic Attacks” May Have Been Caused by Neurotoxins

By Dan Robitzski

Ethan J. Lindenberger, an advocate of vaccines, spotted his own photo amongst those of "dead" children at an anti-vax vigil in California.

Pro-Vaxxer Spots Own Photo at Vigil for Kids “Killed by Vaccines”

By Kristin Houser

A Russian research lab known to house smallpox suffered an explosion that blew out windows and sent one person to the hospital with severe burns.

Explosion Reported at Russian Facility Storing Smallpox

By Kristin Houser

A company called Trusii told customers it would pay them monthly if they took out a loan to participate in a study testing its hydrogen water machine.

Biohackers Got Scammed by a Company Selling “Hydrogen Water”

By Dan Robitzski

After photographing dead bodies for 17 months, scientists at a body farm made a greusome discovery: decomposing corpses wriggle around as they dry up.

Horrifying Study: Corpses Thrash Around For a Year After Death

By Dan Robitzski

At the press conference where he called for a flavored vape ban, Trump claimed that children are running home and begging their parents for vapes.

Trump Claims Kids Are Saying “Mom, I Want to Vape!”

By Dan Robitzski

some people are planning — or at least tweeting about planning — to stock up on their beloved Mango-flavored Juuls and other tropical-flavored vape juices.

With Looming Ban, People Are Plotting to Hoard Juul Pods

By Dan Robitzski

Trump told reporters on Wednesday morning that the FDA would soon ban the sale of flavored vape products, saying that they were becoming a problem for kids.

White House Calls for Ban on Flavored Vape Juice

By Dan Robitzski

Three more health departments have announced vape-related deaths, bringing the total death tally of the mysterious lung disease up to five people.

Terrifying Vape Disease Has Now Killed Five People

By Dan Robitzski

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes

First US State Bans Flavored E-Cigarettes

By Kristin Houser

A new gel could someday help people regrow tooth enamel, potentially erasing tooth decay and replacing artificial fillings.

Scientists Figured out How to Regrow Teeth

By Dan Robitzski

Medical testing startup uBiome based its consumer gut-testing kits on some shoddy science, including keeping animal and infant research in its database.

Microbiome Testing Startup uBiome Based Tests on Infant, Pet Data

By Dan Robitzski

In a newly filed lawsuit, an Illinois teen accuses JUUL and Phillip Morris of violating the RICO Act by marketing their e-cigarettes to minors.

Teen Files Lawsuit Against JUUL, Phillip Morris for Targeting Kids

By Kristin Houser

Teens and young adults are finding themselves in the hospital with severe respiratory illnesses caused by vaping, even when they're otherwise healthy.

Health Officials Blame Vaping for “Severe Respiratory Illnesses”

By Dan Robitzski