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

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.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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.
RX and Medicine

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.
Treatments

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.
RX and Medicine

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.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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.
Treatments

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic
Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

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

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. 
RX and Medicine

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.
Medical

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).
Viruses

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.
RX and Medicine

By Sharon Adarlo

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

A drug trial has found that Wegovy provides substantial heart health benefits, which could finally convince insurers to begin covering it.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers discovered a new mechanism that could force cancer cells to self-destruct, hijacking their ability to replicate uncontrollably.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers pinpointed six chemical cocktails that can reverse aging in cells and turn them into a more "youthful state."
RX and Medicine

By Sharon Adarlo

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The International Agency on Cancer Research will list aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" next month, according to a report.
Cancer

By Frank Landymore

A team of German scientists has discovered a parasitic tapeworm that can allow a certain species of ants to live way longer when infected.
Parasites

By Sharon Adarlo

The Food and Drug Administration just approved the first topical erectile dysfunction drug in the US that works within just ten minutes.
RX and Medicine

By Frank Landymore

One of the scientists who invented the underlying mechanism of Ozempic has a pretty severe warning for those interested in taking it.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Before her tragic death, iconic singer Tina Turner shared a health warning that may inspire others to avoid some of the issues she faced.
Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

A decade-long global study has shown that a once-daily pill reduces the risk of dying from lung cancer by over half.
Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Startup Accidentally Tells Over 400 Patients They Might Have Cancer
Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors are warning about oral sex leading to an "epidemic" in throat cancer — but headlines fail to mention a vaccine that can help.
Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking a curious approach to the knowledge of his own death — by treating it as a beautiful mystery.
Cancer

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.
Medical

By Frank Landymore

Gwenyth Paltrow, reigning queen of oversharing, is back to let us all know that she has, in fact, used ozone therapy rectally. You know, as one does.
RX and Medicine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FBI is alleging that Perryman knowingly created and sold "dummy," plastic medical implants to medical systems and chronic pain patients for $16k each.
Medical

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient "zombie" viruses found in permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change's freakiest eventualities.
Viruses

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Simon Spichak

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria. 
Bacteria

By Noor Al-Sibai

The process to create Chevron's "biofuels" from plastic waste would be so toxic, it could quite literally cause cancer — and the EPA approved it knowingly.
Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman, ever full of bright ideas, thinks that AI will be a force for good that will help poor people without healthcare become "healthier."
Medical

By Frank Landymore

Bloomberg has decided to chastise the lab-grown meat industry's failure to address cancer concerns — because of the fact that there... aren't... any.
Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a truly bizarre case, doctors have documented for the first time ever a man developing a random Irish accent after getting prostate cancer.
Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.
Fungi

By Frank Landymore

Which is worse: crapping yourself in a sensory deprivation tank, or being fined multiple thousands of dollars for doing so?
Viruses

By Noor Al-Sibai

Patients had their holiday spirits quashed and were unfairly distressed by the accidental mass text sent just two days before Christmas.
Cancer

By Frank Landymore

The FDA has changed its rules to make it easier for patients to access abortion pills, which until now were difficult to get.
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harm reduction works, as evidenced by a new study in Ohio that found easy access to narcan to prevent nearly 1,000 overdoses in less than two years. 
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems that grey wolves are the latest victims of toxoplasmosis — but in their case, the effects of the brain worm are kind of, well, based.
Parasites

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new, large study out of Oxford found that just a single synthetic mushroom "trip" can help ease depression symptoms for multiple months.
Treatments

By Noor Al-Sibai

E-cigarette vapor caused lung cancer and possibly even bladder cancer in mice, found a new study from New York University.
Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

In what could be a groundbreaking treatment for hair loss, Japanese scientists have, for the first time ever, grown hair follicles in a lab. 
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers at Boston University have staunchly denied that they developed a hyper-deadly COVID-19 strain in their labs using gain of function research.
Viruses

By Noor Al-Sibai

The married couple who helped create Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine predict that the new vaccine they're developing will cure cancer within the decade.
Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "Ice Bucket Challenge" to fund ALS research was so effective, it resulted in the development of a new drug that was just approved by the FDA.
Medical

By Noor Al-Sibai

A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathic treatments as actual, proven medicine. 
RX and Medicine

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists in the UK conducted a trial of an experimental cancer therapy that uses the cold sore virus to make cancer cells explode.
Cancer

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are using genetically modified parasites inside mosquitoes to deliver life-saving malaria vaccines in a new clinical study.
RX and Medicine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An AI artist unexpectedly discovered that private medical photos from over ten years ago were included in the AI training image database LAION.
Medical

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at UCSF say they've developed a new treatment that causes cancer cells to rat on themselves, allowing the immune system to easily kill them.
Cancer

By Frank Landymore