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The FDA just authorized an iOS game as a treatment for adolescent ADHD, making it the first ever prescription video game.

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FDA Approves First-Ever Prescription Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

According to experts, a drug used to reduce inflammation for a variety of conditions cut the risk of death of COVID-19 patients on ventilators by a third.

Cheap Drug Appears to Cut COVID Deaths By 30 Percent

By Victor Tangermann

Michael Flor, who survived a record-setting 62-day hospital stay for the coronavirus, just got hit by a $1.1 million hospital bill.

Man Survives Coronavirus, Gets $1.1 Million Hospital Bill

By Dan Robitzski

Leaked documents dated to earlier this week, obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Yahoo News.

Leaked CDC Documents: Coronavirus Is Spiking in US Again

By Jon Christian

Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

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Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

By Dan Robitzski

Over the next three months, three potential COVID-19 vaccines will begin phase III clinical trials, the final test before regulatory approval.

Three COVID-19 Vaccines Are Ready For Final Stage of Testing

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Swiss researchers have created a transparent surgical face mask, intended for essential workers, that no longer hide people's faces.

These Transparent Medical Face Masks Won’t Fog Up

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that, without lockdowns, the U.S. would have likely had nearly 5 million more cases of the coronavirus by early April.

Research: Coronavirus Lockdowns Prevented Millions of Infections

By Dan Robitzski

Several employees were instructed to stay at home after testing positive for the coronavirus after Tesla defied lockdown orders in California.

After Tesla Defied Lockdown, Workers Started Catching Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Claims that rubber bullets are nonlethal or less lethal than other forms of ammunition don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.

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Researchers: Rubber Bullets Often Cause Death, Permanent Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Health officials have raised concerns about whether the ongoing protests could trigger a second wave of coronavirus cases. Some are downplaying the risks.

Experts: Protests Unlikely to Cause Huge Wave of COVID Cases

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.

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Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.

Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is actually a genetic hybrid of a bat and pangolin virus that happened to swap genes.

Scientists: Coronavirus Likely a Hybrid of Two Other Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are working hard to develop cost-efficient UVC light lamps that could be used to sanitize anything from hospital rooms to subway car interiors.

Killing the Coronavirus With UV Light Shows Promise

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple scientists have found that greater humidity seems to block the coronavirus from spreading, but experts warn against complacency if cases drop.

Two Studies Find That Humidity Prevents Coronavirus Spread

By Dan Robitzski

The first human trials for a COVID-19 antibody treatment are beginning. If it works, it could be available by the end of the year.

Scientists Test First COVID-19 Antibody Treatment on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

In order to track local outbreaks of the coronavirus, scientists are analyzing samples from sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.

Scientists Are Testing Sewers For Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Regularly hitting a vape can mess up your mouth's microbiome so much that harmful bacteria start producing a layer of slime.

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Vaping Creates a “Slime Cloak” in Your Mouth, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on people taking psilocybin revealed the biological mechanisms responsible for feelings of bliss associated with the drug.

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Neuroscientists: This Is How Shrooms Break Down Your Sense of Self

By Dan Robitzski

A new system allows the interior cabin of Ford Police Interceptor Utility vehicles to literally bake at sweltering temperatures to neutralize any infected surfaces

Ford Software Update Lets Cop Cars Bake Away Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Whenever a coronavirus vaccine becomes available to the public, only 49 percent of Americans responding to a poll said they'd actually get it.

Only One in Two Americans Say They’d Take a COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study involving 96,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was linked to an increased risk of mortality.

Large Study: Hydroxychloroquine Linked to Increased Death Risk

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.

Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built tiny, iron nanobots that they can implant and track inside a patient's body, which they say could be used to kill off cancer cells.

These Scientists Say Nanobots Could Kill Individual Cancer Cells

By Dan Robitzski

In order to limit the number of doctors who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, hospitals are using mixed reality goggles to communicate across rooms.

Doctors Are Using Mixed Reality to Treat COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of biostatistical models predicting the future U.S. coronavirus death toll agree: there will likely be 110,000 fatalities by June 6.

Multiple Models Predict 110,000 US Coronavirus Deaths by June

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical device that looks and spins like a fidget spinner can test for and diagnose a urinary tract infection in under an hour.

A Fidget Spinner-Inspired Test Can Diagnose UTIs in Under an Hour

By Dan Robitzski

This startup is selling a gigantic air-filtration helmet that it says will filter out the COVID-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus. Does it work?

Will This Gigantic Air-Filtration Helmet Protect Against COVID?

By Jon Christian

Police in China, Italy, Dubai, and multiple other countries are now wearing thermal cameras embedded in their helmets to scan for fevers.

Cops Around the World Are Scanning for Fevers With Helmet Cams

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how the coronavirus takes over cells, and they think they found potential treatments that stop it.

Scientists Have a Promising New Idea to Defeat the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

"This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan said on Thursday.

WHO: The Coronavirus Might Be Here Forever

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft and the biotech company Adaptive are launching a study on coronavirus patients' T cells, and they're buying blood samples to get started.

Microsoft Is Buying COVID-19 Patients’ Blood for Biotech Research

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Chinese and Iranian hackers are targeting US efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

US Officials: Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Vaccine Research

By Victor Tangermann

A resurgence of coronavirus cases is starting to hit China, South Korea and Germany — just as governments are starting to loosen restrictions.

There’s a Resurgence of Coronavirus Cases in China

By Victor Tangermann

Dark web marketplaces are full of listings for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and debunked or experimental treatments like hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.

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Darknet Marketplaces Are Full of COVID-19 Tests and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

In a new report, scientists discussed how to ensure that space travelers don't contaminate distant planets — and that they won't bring back pollutants.

Stanford Scientist Warns of Risk From Alien Pathogens

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

By Dan Robitzski

Recent earning reports from companies like Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb show that the coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating effect on the sharing economy.

The Coronavirus Is Killing the Gig Economy

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study by an international team of researchers, antibodies found in the blood of llamas were able to stave off coronavirus infections.

Scientists Say Llama Antibodies Could Be Key to Defeating COVID

By Victor Tangermann

Health Department official Rick Bright filed a whistleblower complaint about officials in the Trump administration ignoring warnings about the pandemic.

Whistleblower: Trump Repeatedly Ignored Coronavirus Warnings

By Dan Robitzski

New genetic analysis suggests that COVID-19 spread to the U.S. and Europe weeks or even months earlier than official reports say.

Scientists: COVID-19 Spread Globally for Months Before We Noticed

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, researchers outline a new dominant strain of coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than the previously dominating one.

Scientists Warn of More Contagious Strain of the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Staff at the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo have been noticing that their roughly 300 tiny garden eels have been burying themselves in sand more often.

Tokyo Aquarium Asks People to FaceTime Its Shy Eels

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese intelligence warned the country's leadership that its response to the coronavirus pandemic created a massive wave of global anti-China sentiment.

China Fears Its Coronavirus Coverup Could Destabilize the Country

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey led by researchers from a number of US universities found that the majority of Americans want to continue physical distancing measures.

Survey: Majority of Americans Don’t Want US to Reopen Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just approved its first treatment for COVID-19: an experimental antiviral drug called remdesivir that showed promise in preliminary research.

FDA Grants Emergency Use of Remdesivir For COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia, England have found links between low levels of vitamin D and COVID-19 mortality rates across Europe.

Scientists Find Link Between Vitamin Deficiency and COVID Deaths

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

By Dan Robitzski

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Wednesday that all city and county residents can get a free COVID-19 test, with our without symptoms.

LA Offers Free Coronavirus Test to Every Resident

By Victor Tangermann

White House health advisor Anthony Fauci said yesterday that early drug trial testing of antiviral drug remdesivir showed "quite good news."

Fauci: This COVID Drug Might Actually Work

By Victor Tangermann

As various teams race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, one group at Oxford University says that, under the right conditions, theirs could be available as soon as September.

This COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Ready by September

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists have found new evidence that the coronavirus could be able to spread through the air after finding genetic material in airborne droplets.

Scientists Find Airborne Coronavirus Floating in Wuhan Hospital

By Victor Tangermann

Hong Kong researchers developed a protective coating that they say can kill the coronavirus on treated surfaces for up to three months.

This Disinfectant Can Keep Surfaces Coronavirus-Free for Months

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis found that from March to April 4, the number of total deaths in the US far exceeded the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19.

Report: COVID May Have Killed Way More Americans Than We Think

By Victor Tangermann

An administrator for an anti-quarantine Facebook group in North Carolina, local native Audrey Whitlock, confirmed she tested positive for COVID-19.

Oops: Organizer of Anti-Quarantine Protests Catches Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

This Virus-Proof Suit Lets You Vape, Have Sex

This Virus-Proof Suit Lets You Vape, Have Sex

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials announced that there are no longer any patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, but they're concerned about a second outbreak.

Wuhan Hospital Discharges City’s Last Coronavirus Patient

By Dan Robitzski

The United States has ditched a global initiative led by the World Health Organization to accelerate cooperation on a coronavirus vaccine.

US Ditches Global Team Helping Develop COVID Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

A team of NASA researchers have developed a ventilator for treating COVID-19 patients in just 37 days and is requesting the FDA for fast-tracked approval.

NASA Develops Ventilator to Treat Coronavirus Patients

By Victor Tangermann

Trump is suggesting more unproven and likely deadly ways to fight the coronavirus. This time, it's injecting patients with disinfectant.

Trump Suggests Injecting COVID Patients With Disinfectant, UV Light

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are pleading with states that allow capital punishment to release their stores of lethal injection drugs, which could also help COVID-19 patients.

Doctors Want to Use Lethal Injection Drugs on COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

"COVID toes," mysterious blue or red discoloration in toes and sometimes fingers, could be another early symptom of the coronavirus.

The Coronavirus May Be Doing Something Strange to Your Toes

By Victor Tangermann

The prognosis of a COVID-19 patient being hooked up to a ventilator is grim: a NY study showed that 88 percent of those placed on ventilators died.

Almost All COVID Patients on Ventilators Are Dying, Study Suggests

By Victor Tangermann