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Scientists gene hacked Toxoplasma gondii, the same brain parasite that can be spready by cat litter, into becoming a carrier for drugs.

Scientists Gene Hack Parasite to Deliver Drugs to Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

More younger people are getting hit with all sorts of different cancers, and microplastics may be one big risk factor.

Microplastics Likely Causing Wave of Cancer in Young People

By Sharon Adarlo

In a small study, researchers have found that an Ozempic-style drug seems to slow the progression of Alzheimer's.

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Ozempic-Style Drug Slows the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, Experiment Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, elderly lab mice given an anti-aging drug were referred to as "supermodel grannies" because they looked so youthful.

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Scientists Intrigued by Drug That Extended Lifespans of Mice While Keeping Them Young-Looking

By Noor Al-Sibai

Eli Lilly, the maker of Zepbound, is hoping that new studies into off-label treatments will help get the drugs covered by insurance.

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Drug Companies Have a Sneaky Idea to Get Insurance to Pay for Drugs Like Zepbound

By Noor Al-Sibai

The air is becoming so hot that even rescue helicopters are struggling to stay airborne, a dangerous development.

It’s Getting So Hot That Medical Choppers Can’t Fly to Rescue People Dying From Heat

By Victor Tangermann

After an alarming new study came out suggesting a link between Ozempic and a condition that causes blindness, some experts are calling foul.

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Experts Not Convinced That Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

By Noor Al-Sibai

Noise levels from the Bitcoin mine can exceed 90 decibels, and residents of Granbury, Texas, are powerless to stop it.

Residents Blame Bizarre Medical Symptoms on Huge Bitcoin Mine

By Frank Landymore

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's Ozempic and Wegovy, has been linked to an eye condition that can cause blindness.

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Active Ingredient in Ozempic Linked to Condition That Causes Blindness

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are calling on the makers of weight loss drugs like Ozempic to make them cheaper.

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Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Demands Drug Companies Cut Price of Ozempic and Other New Weight Loss Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neuralink has canceled its second human implantation after discovering medical issues in the person who was going to get the brain chip.

Neuralink Cancels Second Implant Surgery Due to Medical Issues

By Noor Al-Sibai

Eli Lilly, the pharma firm behind Zepbound and Mounjaro is, ironically, calling people out for using the drugs to lose weight.

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Eli Lilly Blasts Use of Mounjaro and Zepbound for “Cosmetic Weight Loss”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about counterfeit Ozempic, noting that some of the batches might contain a different drug.

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Scary Counterfeit Ozempic Contains the Wrong Drug

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that there may be a link between tattoos and cancer. But the findings have proved controversial.

New Research Links Tattoos to Developing Cancer

By Frank Landymore

As China prepares to beef up its weight loss drug market, the Danish firm that makes Ozempic may soon have its dominance threatened.

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China’s Creating Cheapo Versions of Ozempic That Could Majorly Shake Up the Market

By Noor Al-Sibai

In clinical trials, a new male birth control gel seems to adequately reduce sperm count without decreasing libido.

Test of Male Birth Control Treatment Produces Promising Results

By Noor Al-Sibai

The UK's National Health Service is fast-tracking patients for its new cancer vaccine trials that customize each jab to each patient.

Thousands of Patients to Be Given World’s First Cancer Vaccine

By Noor Al-Sibai

More and more kids are using Ozempic and Wegovy than ever before, and that might not necessarily be a good thing.

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So, So Many Kids Are Taking So, So Much Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company behind those viral ED ads is releasing its own version of Ozempic — but its means of acquiring the drug might not be the safest.

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Online Pharmacy Launches Cheaper Version of Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world's first clinical trials of "tooth regrowth medicine" at the Kyoto University Hospital.

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Scientists About to Test Medicine to Grow New Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Turns Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type

By Victor Tangermann

Novo Nordisk, the Danish drugmaker responsible for Ozempic and Wegovy, is planning to slash prices amid shortages and competition.

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Novo Nordisk To Slash Prices On Buzzy Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FTC is seeking to clear the path for generic Ozempic — but there will be a long road ahead before cheaper versions hit the shelves.

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FTC Moves to Allow Generic Versions of Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Therapists suggest in a new study that there are some intense drawbacks, on their sides and for patients, of psychedelic therapy.

Therapists Warn That Taking Magic Mushrooms for Treatment Can Lead to Unwanted Romantic Feelings

By Noor Al-Sibai

The fringe benefits of the new class of weight loss drugs, which includes Ozempic and its weight loss sister Wegovy, keep adding up.

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People on Ozempic Find That They’re Drinking and Smoking Less Too

By Noor Al-Sibai

Abuse of ketamine has been implicated in young people experiencing bladder issues that are commonly associated with older people.

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Ketamine Is Destroying Young People’s Bladders

By Sharon Adarlo

The International Space Station has long been known to be gross, and according to a new study, it has bacteria mutating into something alien.

Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists seem to be close to creating a "one-and-done" vaccine that can protect against any strain of a virus with just one shot.

New Vaccine Could Protect Against Any Strain of a Virus With One Shot

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study puts to rest the claim that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are causing cardiac arrest in young men and often killing them.

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Conspiracy Theorists Said People Who Got the COVID Vaccine Would Be Dropping Like Flies. That Hasn’t Remotely Happened

By Noor Al-Sibai

A respected Houston transplant surgeon has been accused of altering database information for patients waiting on a new liver.

Texas Surgeon Accused of Manipulating Government Database to Deny Liver Transplants

By Noor Al-Sibai

The not-so-buzzy version of coffee can harbor a chemical that can cause cancer, which has activists pushing to have the substance banned.

Decaf Coffee Contains a Horrifying Poison, Experts Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Costco shoppers can start getting weight loss drugs like Ozempic through the company's health care partner Sesame.

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Costco Now Offering Ozempic Prescriptions

By Sharon Adarlo

On social media, a bizarre trend seems to be emerging: people discussing their surprise pregnancies when taking Ozempic or Wegovy.

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People Unexpectedly Getting Pregnant on Ozempic and Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

After months of speculation, Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, has revealed that she has cancer in a new video.

Kate Middleton Reveals She Has Cancer, Will Undergo Chemotherapy

By Noor Al-Sibai

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy fly off the shelves, scientists are working on an exercise pill.

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Scientists Working on Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

By Noor Al-Sibai

After spending nearly a decade hyping WeightWatchers, Oprah Winfrey has changed her tune and is now taking the CEO of her ex-sponsor to task.

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Oprah Questions Need For WeightWatchers Now That We Have Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

In his hour-long interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, Elon Musk argued that taking ketamine has been good for Tesla.

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Elon Musk Says Ketamine Is His Special Medicine

By Victor Tangermann

The maker of Wegovy has been granted FDA approval to sell its wares to help cut the risk of heart attack, heart disease, and stroke.

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Wegovy Approved to Cut Heart Disease and Stroke Risk

By Noor Al-Sibai

While trying to slim down a bit for her wedding day, one woman decided to take some compounded semaglutide — and it landed her in the ER.

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Woman Takes Grey Market Ozempic, Lands in Hospital

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pharmaceutical manufacturers in India are looking to cash in on the weight loss injection craze by making their own version of Wegovy.

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Indian Drugmakers Whipping Up Generic Versions of Wegovy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ocean water and Arctic ice may contain viruses that can help trap pollution — and scientists are figuring out ways to enhance them.

Scientists Propose Hacking Viruses to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace officials confirmed today. We still don't know what kind or what stage.

King Charles Has Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers gene-hacked a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a spider silk-like material as strong as Kevlar.

Scientists Gene-Hack Bacteria to Turn Waste Plastic Into Kevlar-Like Spider Silk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During the Trump administration, the White House's personal pharmacy operated as a glorified pill mill, a new watchdog report claims.

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Unregulated White House Pharmacy Gave Out Uppers and Downers to Senior Staff Under Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

An 11-year-old boy with congenital deafness can now hear sounds after he received groundbreaking gene therapy.

Gene Therapy Administered Via Virus Cures Deafness in 11-Year-Old Boy

By Sharon Adarlo

Young people are getting diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than ever before — and doctors are stumped as to why.

Doctors Alarmed by Young People Getting Cancer at Unprecedented Rates

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FDA says there's not a strong link between semaglutide and suicidal thoughts — but there's more to those results than meets the eye.

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The FDA Says Ozempic Probably Won’t Make You Suicidal

By Noor Al-Sibai

A forthcoming Elvis hologram tour is the latest in a string of holographic AI resurrections that fail to deal with their subjects' darkness.

Alleged Groomer to Get the AI Hologram Treatment

By Noor Al-Sibai

People who stopped using Ozempic and Wegovy have reported one unfortunate, if not life-threatening, side effect: regaining the weight back.

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Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections

By Noor Al-Sibai

People have evidently been overdosing on semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, because they're taking too much of it.

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Thousands of People Have Reportedly Overdosed on Ozempic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Iconic French-Canadian singer Celine Dion's is apparently unable to move much as her stiff person syndrome has worsened.

Celine Dion’s Family Shares Grim Medical News

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Friends" actor Matthew Perry, who was undergoing ketamine treatment at the time of his death, had high levels of the drug in his body.

Matthew Perry Was Undergoing Ketamine Treatment at Time of Ketamine-Linked Death

By Sharon Adarlo

A cancer-combating pill called divarasib could be a breakthrough in treating a specific form of bowel cancer.

Anti-Cancer Pill Shows Promising Results in Human Experiment

By Frank Landymore

Pfizer's new experimental weight-loss pill worked in achieving its stated goal — but with that weight loss came some pretty bad side effects.

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Pfizer Cancels New Weight Loss Pill After Patients Experience Serious Side Effects

By Noor Al-Sibai

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in China claim they were able to give deaf children the ability to hear after a novel genetic treatment.

New Genetic Treatment Successfully Lets Deaf Children Hear

By Sharon Adarlo

A public employee in Washington State is suing to get her health insurer to cover Wegovy, the expensive, headline-grabbing weight loss med.

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Woman Sues to Get Wegovy Covered by Her Health Insurance

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Ozempic, the uber-popular injectable diabetes drug, has had to update its potential side effect warnings to include intestinal blockage.

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The FDA Says Ozempic Might Block Your Intestines

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe they have developed a drug that can trick the body into thinking it has exercised — but as always, there are caveats.

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Scientists Intrigued by Drug That Mimics the Effects of Exercise in Mice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Got a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Consider: donating it to Harvard Medical School in exchange for naming rights.

Harvard Says That for $1 Billion, You Can Rename Its Medical School

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists calculated that almost one out of three men on Earth carries at least one variation of the human papillomavirus (HPV).

One in Three Dudes Has an STI, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

50 percent of cardiac patients have a physical symptom a day before a heart attack, with men and women experiencing distinct warning signs.

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Scientists Find There’s Usually a Telltale Sign the Day Before a Cardiac Arrest

By Sharon Adarlo

A recent study showed that OpenAI's ChatGPT was providing incorrect advice on cancer treatment, potentially causing harm to patients.

ChatGPT Caught Giving Horrible Advice to Cancer Patients

By Sharon Adarlo