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Varda Space Industries' orbital drug manufacturing spacecraft is still stuck in orbit. But it may have found a future fix.
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By Victor Tangermann

About a month after his surgery, a man who received a genetically modified pig heart has no sign of rejection or infection.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Introducing bonesmashing, an ostensible TikTok trend in which young men claim that they're hitting themselves in the face with hammers.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The Sinoloa Cartel has ordered producers and smugglers of fentanyl to stop working in an effort to deflect American law enforcement.
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By Sharon Adarlo

The pig was actually a miniature pig, which was engineered with nearly 70 gene edits, including the addition of human DNA.
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By Frank Landymore

Researchers have developed a material that can remotely stimulate neural tissue and allow nerve signals to flow again.
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By Sharon Adarlo

A week after setting a world record for being the oldest person to skydive, a Chicago woman died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 104.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Seattle is to pay nearly $2 million in the death of William Yurek, who may have survived a heart attack were it not for poorly kept paperwork.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some physicians are willing to perform CPR on a patient, whose heart has stopped beating — even though they know there's no hope of survival.
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By Victor Tangermann

Sorry everyone, but the government says Varda Space's orbital pharmaceuticals can't come back to Earth just yet.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Veneers are trending. According to some experts, however, the cost of a perfect smile is higher than those seeking the procedure might think.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A member of a gruesome scheme has pleaded guilty to procuring and selling body parts, some of which were sourced from the Harvard morgue.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Laxatives are having a major cultural renaissance — so much so that soaring demand for the drugs is reportedly causing a national shortage.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twice now, senator Mitch McConnell has frozen in front of a podium. Experts can only offer guesses as to what could be wrong with him.
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By Victor Tangermann

Throw out those serums and scrubs because, as it turns out, lifting weights may be enough to improve your skin.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Florida has had a recent surge of leprosy cases and the disease may have become endemic to the state, according to the CDC.
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By Sharon Adarlo

It's easy to poke fun at the idea of marijuana addiction. But the addiction can be very real – and the stigma isn't doing addicts any favors.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research has found that microwaving plastic food containers spews out toxic microplastics — and it's freaked out the guy studying it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A secret lab was found with 1,000 mice designed to carry COVID-19, alongside vials of human blood and diseases like malaria and HIV.
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By Sharon Adarlo

Some patients taking semaglutide medications Ozempic and Wegovy are experiencing gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to several lawsuits filed in the US, people are dying after overdosing on an herbal supplement called kratom.
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By Victor Tangermann

Four patients infected with anthrax after eating horse meat escape a Siberian hospital, panicking local officials who send out an alert.
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By Sharon Adarlo

In light of extreme heat waves, hospitals are packing overheated patients in body bags with a bucket of ice. Others show up comatose.
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By Victor Tangermann

Google has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Since 2020, the number of different e-cigarettes being sold in the US has tripled in large part due to unauthorized Chinese imports.
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By Frank Landymore

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk and podcaster Joe Rogan harassed vaccine expert Peter Hotez on Twitter. Hotez says he's since been stalked near his home.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of scientists has created synthetic human embryos from stem cells without the need for either an egg or sperm.
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By Victor Tangermann

Cedric Lodge, manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, allegedly let some of his patrons into the morgue to shop for human remains.
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By Frank Landymore

A 76-year-old woman who'd been declared dead after a stroke gasped for air when her coffin was opened at a funeral home.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors using ChatGPT to communicate with patients in a more empathetic way and even tell them about bad news.
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By Victor Tangermann

Office vibes a little off? Some startups say you should try group workplace ketamine sessions. File under: that's one way to do it.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the next pandemic following COVID-19 could be even worse.
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By Victor Tangermann

Authorities are hunting a woman who has an untreated case of tuberculosis. She's been at large for over a year.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

An eccentric millionaire obsessed with staying young forever has apparently taken to getting blood transfusions from his teen son.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Insurance denials are on the rise, and in the case of one newborn baby in the neonatal ICU, they're getting crueler.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

If you haven't heard: there's drama. Hollywood kidney transplant drama. But who's in the right, and who's in the wrong?
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers at Cornell University created an AI that is a lot more transparent about the medical literature it cites, earning praise from doctors using it.
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By Frank Landymore

Officials from the CDC and EPA fell ill when investigating the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment earlier this year. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

When Stanford researchers compared ChatGPT's medical advice on real scenarios compared to what medical experts said, they discovered a notable discrepancy.
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By Frank Landymore

In what may be the first-ever recorded case of its kind, a 61-year-old mycologist in India contracted a severe case of silver leaf disease.
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By Victor Tangermann

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2022 firebombing of an anti-abortion office in Wisconsin via DNA he left on a burrito.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers just confirmed that nanoplastics can cause wretched malformations and growth defects in baby chicks when injected into chicken embryos.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's an old joke in the bisexual community that goes: "How can you tell if someone is bisexual? Don't worry, they'll tell you."
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Babesiosis ticks
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By Frank Landymore

Elementary school students have discovered that EpiPens can turn poisonous after being launched into space due to space radiation.
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By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.
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By Simon Spichak

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.
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By Victor Tangermann

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The fallout from the train derailment and subsequent chemical spill and burn in East Palestine, Ohio continues apace with new reports of illnesses.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The "NoFap" movement encourages (mostly) men to stop watching porn and masturbating — but it may be doing more harm than good. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The lawyer of a 24-year-old woman, who is eight months pregnant and currently in jail, is alleging that his client's fetus is being illegally detained.
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By Victor Tangermann

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story.
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By Jon Christian

The residents include both those in the town itself and even those living outside the evacuation area, with ailments affecting babies, pets, and livestock.
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By Frank Landymore

Using stem cells to grow minitiarized intestinal tissue called organoids, the researchers recreated a human immune response inside mice.
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By Frank Landymore

Hot tubs are, according to scientists, exactly as gross as you've always been warned — and in fact may be even grosser than you could imagine. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's many self-inflicted wounds are really starting to catch up with him. He's still suvering from "severe back pain" and a lack of sleep.
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By Victor Tangermann

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.
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By Frank Landymore

Two Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a bill that would allow inmates to donate organs or bone marrow for reduced prison sentences.
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By Victor Tangermann

Tech centimillionaire and middle-aged human man Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payment behemoth Braintree, wants to be 18 again. Biologically.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Carb-lovers, today's your lucky day — an Australian food scientist has pretty expertly shot down criticisms that claim pasta is an unhealthy food. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

CRISPR, like many other powerful and complex tools, has… a bit of a PR problem. Is that holding it back from broader integration into health therapies?
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists in China have successfully been able to restore normal erections in pigs with injured penises by way of bionic tissue transplant.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré