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

World’s Cruelest Hackers Went After, Yes, a Children’s Hospital

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.

There’s a Terrible Cost to Stanley Cups’ Use of Lead

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.

Stanley Cups Only Expose Drinkers to Lead If Damaged, Company Says

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."

Please Don’t Take This “Gas Station Heroin” Even Though It’s Technically Legal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Gene-Hacked Pig Liver Successfully Filters Blood of Human Patient

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.

Bottled Water Industry Says Please Disregard This Horrifying Discovery About Our Product

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.

Inmate’s Body Returned to Family Missing All Organs, Including Brain

By Frank Landymore

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

FDA Investigating Link Between Semaglutide and Hair Loss, Suicidal Thoughts

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Way to Turn Genes On and Off Like Light Switches

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.

Sam Altman’s Life Extension Guy Warns of Injections That Cause Wild Tumor Growth

By Victor Tangermann

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

Oops! 23andMe Admits Hackers Stole 7 Million Customers’ Genetic Data

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.

China Says Surge of Illness Not Caused by New Virus

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.

Mysterious Disease Spreading Among Dogs

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Have Bad News for Astronauts’ Genitals

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.

America’s Largest Health Insurer Denying Care With AI That’s Wrong 90 Percent of the Time, Lawsuit Alleges

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.

Surgeons Perform World’s First Successful Eyeball Transplant

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.

Doctors Call for Eliminating Daylight Savings Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Startup Still Attempting to Smuggle Orbital Drug Factory Back to Earth

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.

Man Is Doing Well With Implanted Pig Heart, Doctors Say

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Doctors Recommend Not Hitting Your Face With Hammers, Regardless What You Saw on TikTok

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.

Brutal Mexican Cartel Bans Fentanyl Production and Sale

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists Say New Material Can Reconnect Severed Nerves

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.

104-Year-Old Dies Days After Skydiving From Airplane

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.

Man Died After 911 Put His House on a “Blacklist” and He Had a Heart Attack

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.

Should Doctors Only Pretend to Resuscitate Dying Patients?

By Victor Tangermann

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

US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth

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.

Celebrities Are Permanently Damaging Their Teeth for a “Perfect Smile,” But It’s Coming Back to Haunt Them Later

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.

Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Body Parts From Harvard Morgue

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.

Americans Are Buying So Many Laxatives That It’s Creating a Shortage

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.

Neurologists Speculate What Might Be Wrong With Mitch McConnell

By Victor Tangermann

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

Turns Out Weight Lifting Is Really Good for Your Skin, Scientists Say

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.

Very Normal! Leprosy Cases Surging in Florida, Government Says

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.

Marijuana Addicts Say Nobody Takes Them Seriously

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.

After Seeing This Terrifying Study, We’re Never Microwaving Plastic Again

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.

Authorities Raid Unlicensed Lab Full of Infectious Diseases

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Doctors Say People Taking Semaglutide Are Suffering From Stomach Paralysis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Lawsuits Claim People Are Dying From Taking Kratom

By Victor Tangermann

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

Russia Says Patients Infected With Deadly Bacteria Have Escaped

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.

Brutal Heat Wave Is Literally Putting People Into Comas

By Victor Tangermann

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

Google Is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in Hospitals

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.

These New Gas Station Vapes Are Horrifying

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

Scientists Test Drug Designed by AI on Human Patients

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.

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan Publicly Harass Vaccine Researcher on Twitter

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.

Scientists Create Synthetic Human Embryos Using No Sperm or Egg

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.

Harvard’s Morgue Manager Accused of Selling Stolen Body Parts

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.

Funeral Home Startled When Body in Coffin Turns Out to Be Alive

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Microsoft Alarmed at Doctors Using ChatGPT to Tell Patients Bad News

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.

Startups Have a Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions

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.

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

The Next Pandemic Could Be “Even Deadlier,” WHO Warns

By Victor Tangermann

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

Woman With Untreated Tuberculosis on the Run, Seen Headed to Casino

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Youth-Obsessed Tech Mogul Now Swapping Blood With His Teenage Son

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.

Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: “You Are Drinking From a Bottle”

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?

Fallout Between Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa May Involve Kidney Transplant

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.

New AI Gives Doctors Advice on Patient’s Ailments Like a Human Colleague

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.

Investigators Fell Ill During East Palestine Derailment Probe, Government Admits

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.

ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious

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.

Fungus Learns to Infect Human, Spreading “Root-Like Filaments”

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.

Wisconsin Firebombing Suspect Arrested From DNA Left on Burrito

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos

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."

Scientists Tested Whether People Could Identify Bisexual Men by Listening to Their Voices, and the Results Were Hilarious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Babesiosis ticks

Summer 2023’s Hot Tick-Borne Flu Disease to Fear: Babesiosis

By Frank Landymore

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

NASA Surprised When School Children Discover That EpiPens Become Toxic in Space

By Victor Tangermann