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New research found that ChatGPT was only able to correctly diagnose less than half the medical cases it was asked to look at.
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By Frank Landymore

Researchers are claiming that their new AI algorithm can detect with near-perfect accuracy what ails you — all by looking at your tongue. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

For the second time in just over two years, the WHO has declared an outbreak of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, a global emergency. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have developed smart insulin that can respond to changing blood sugar levels in real-time, a "holy grail" for diabetes treatment.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at Northwestern University say they've invented a goo — yes, a goo — that might open the door to regenerating human knee cartilage.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

American women getting abortions actually increased in the first quarter of this year, compared to previous periods.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The safety of the Seine River continues to be called into question after a practice session for marathon swimmers on Tuesday was canceled.
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By Frank Landymore

Belgium's Olympic team announced it had forfeited a competition after one of its athletes became sick after swimming in the Seine River.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Food and Drug and Administration warned about the dangers of self-administering injections using compounded forms of Ozempic.
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By Frank Landymore

Surfing star Kai McKenzie lost his leg after encountering a ten-foot great white shark. The limb later washed ashore and has been put on ice.
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By Victor Tangermann

Lawyers are already creating so-called "revival trusts" for cryogenically frozen rich people — even though resurrection is not yet possible.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Death Valley has claimed another victim after record soaring temperatures killed a motorcyclist this past weekend.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A new procedure called normothermic regional perfusion allows doctors to ensure that donor organs stay viable after the patient dies.
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By Victor Tangermann

Scientists hooked up brain tissue to a neural interface, allowing it to pass on instructions to a humanoid robot body.
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By Victor Tangermann

Facebook users in America have been coming upon ads for an addictive drug that's banned in several countries.
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By Sharon Adarlo

In a bid to crackdown on pro-Palestinian protestors, lawmakers across the country, Republican and Democrat, want to criminalize masks.
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By Frank Landymore

Medical practitioners are finding that new obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are causing other chronic diseases to go away.
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By Victor Tangermann

A former employee at Elon Musk's startup Neuralink is suing the company, alleging she was scratched by a monkey with Herpes.
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By Victor Tangermann

Women are able to recover faster from spaceflight better than men, according to a new study, though it's not clear why.
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By Frank Landymore

People who have eaten one brand's mushroom-infused chocolate bars are getting sick — and some of them have had to be hospitalized, too.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists think they might have discovered the cause of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's Disease.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Louisiana has voted to pass a deeply unscientific bill that criminalizes abortion pills by classifying them as a schedule IV drug.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the words "in class" are recommended as the top autocomplete suggestion.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

In her new book, hotel heiress Paris Hilton revealed that she had an, er, peculiar way of handling having babies via surrogates.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Raw milk enthusiasts are dead set on being infected by the H5N1 aviary flu virus by drinking contaminated and unpasteurized cow milk.
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By Victor Tangermann

Roughly two months after becoming the first human to receive a gene-hacked pig kidney transplant, Richard "Rick" Slayman has passed away.
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By Victor Tangermann

Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade drink, the highly caffeinated drink linked to at least two deaths, is being discontinued.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The study found that, among teenage users, urinary lead levels were up to 30 percent higher for frequent vapers than occasional ones.
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By Frank Landymore

A common bacteria can easily manipulate the enzymes present in blood supplies to turn it into a universal donor type.
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By Victor Tangermann

In England, a woman was told repeatedly by healthcare providers that she was dead — even though she was, obviously, very much alive.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A grisly new trend is emerging on TikTok, with self-proclaimed "veneer technicians" performing illegal dental surgery.
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By Victor Tangermann

Experts caution that there's limited evidence backing the benefits of these stem cell treatments, while pointing to plenty of risks.
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By Frank Landymore

At least three women were diagnosed with HIV after receiving a bloody "vampire facial" at an unlicensed New Mexico wellness spa.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Belgian man who worked at a brewery was arrested for drunk driving, but was acquitted because his body makes its own booze.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

On multiple occasions, Donald Trump has been seen dozing off in court — and there are a few theories about why it keeps happening. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this week, Oregon governor Tina Kotek recriminalized hard drugs in the state, restoring criminal penalties, including jail time.
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By Victor Tangermann

The experimental cell therapy attempts to grow a second liver on lymph nodes using cells extracted from a donated organ.
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By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that producing drugs like Ozempic only costs anywhere from $0.89 to $4.73 for a monthly supply.
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By Victor Tangermann

An elderly couple in the Netherlands decided to get euthanized together, a bittersweet end to a long-lasting relationship.
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By Victor Tangermann

Surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living man.
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By Victor Tangermann

A study found that practitioners of intermittent fasting who fasted for at least 16 hours a day had a higher risk of dying from heart disease
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By Frank Landymore

The two biggest pharmacy chains in the US plan to start selling the abortion pill mifepristone within the next week.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

South Korean scientists have created a bizarre meat-rice hybrid — and Arnold Schwarzenegger, of all people, is calling bull. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study came out in Nature Metabolism that suggests that eating excessive amount of protein is bad for your arteries.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The use of drug and hormonal therapies to induce breastfeeding in trans woman is safe and just as good for the baby as a cis mom's milk.
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By Frank Landymore

Doctors are already using unregulated and little-tested AI tools to aid in diagnosing patients, prompting concern.
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By Jon Christian

During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a horrifying scene.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers have brought a children's hospital in Chicago to its knees, an especially cruel attack that has made life for staff a nightmare.
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By Victor Tangermann

Exposure to lead in Stanley Cups is low but there are still health costs associated with how these very popular drinking vessels are made.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Stanley's wildly popular cups contain lead. The company says that lead poisoning due to using the viral tumblers is "rare" — but possible.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the FDA to take action on tianeptine, or the addictive drug better known as "gas station heroin."
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors used a genetically-modified pig liver to successfully filter the human blood of a brain-dead patient.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Following a shocking study, the bottled water industry has cried foul, claiming that it's totally fine we're all ingesting nanoplastics.
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By Victor Tangermann

It is the second recently reported case of organs missing from the bodies of inmates who died in Alabama's prison system.
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By Frank Landymore

The investigation comes after the FDA received reports linking these side effects to semaglutide drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic.
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By Frank Landymore

Scientists from Texas have developed a method to control gene expression by switching them on and off via molecular means.
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By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested a whopping $180 million in a startup that's looking for novel ways to extend human longevity.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers accessed user data from almost 7 million people from the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe.
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By Sharon Adarlo

There's no need to freak out about that surge in respiratory viruses in China, according to both China and the WHO.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The yet unnamed disease has infected hundreds of dogs in at least five states and does not respond to antibiotics so far.
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By Frank Landymore

NASA-funded researchers found that deep space travel might inflict long-lasting erectile dysfunction symptoms on male astronauts.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

UnitedHealthcare uses its AI to systematically cut the time severely ill patients can spend in extended care, according to the lawsuit.
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By Frank Landymore

In a first-of-its-kind, doctors said they had transplanted an entire eyeball into an Arkansas man who had suffered a high-voltage accident.
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By Sharon Adarlo

An industry group of sleep doctors is renewing its plea for Daylight Savings Time to be abolished, saying it's harmful to public health. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai