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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.

Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? It Ended Up Funding a New ALS Drug

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.

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Lawsuit Accuses Walmart and CVS of Equating Homeopathic Treatments With Real 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.

Virus Modified to Kill Cancer Cells Appears to Have Saved a Patient’s Life

By Frank Landymore

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

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Scientists Trick Mosquitoes Into Vaccinating Against Malaria by Biting

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.

Woman Horrified To Discover Her Private Medical Photos Were Being Used To Train AI

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.

New Treatment Turns Cancer Genes Into “Eat Me” Signs For Immune System

By Frank Landymore

Early-onset cancer is an increasing threat to the global population, according to a new report. Early-onset cancer may be a new epidemic.

Young People Are Getting Way More Cancer Than Old People Did

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Navy SEALs candidates go through brutal training, including a Hell Week. One Navy SEAL candidate died after completing training, and took drugs to survive.

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Navy SEALs Are Allegedly Taking Viagra for a Very Strange Reason

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Low doses of minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, may reverse balding super cheaply — and yet most of us still haven't heard of it.

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Doctors Say a Random Cheap Pill May Actually Reverse Balding

By Noor Al-Sibai

$A new Yale study says children born while living next to fracking locations are almost three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia.$

Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Disease experts are worrying that the next pandemic could be caused by fungi, National Geographic reports, a terrifying possibility.

Next Pandemic Could Be Caused by Horrid Fungi, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Africa is getting close to securing monkeypox vaccine, incredibly important because of high case rates in African countries and virus severity.

Africa on the Verge of Getting a Monkeypox Vaccine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hundreds of people living in New York state may have polio, the New York's Department of Health said. Wastewater samples tested positive for polio.

Hundreds May Have Polio, New York Health Officials Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Death Valley flood trapped 1,000 people after record rainfall caused flash flooding. The National Park Service said climate change will continue.

Death Valley Flooding Traps Nearly 1,000 People

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Friday as monkeypox infection rates rise. New Yorkers can sign up for texts about monkeypox.

New York Declares State of Emergency As Monkeypox Infections Increase

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study shows that resistant starch has an astonishing ability to help prevent a range of hereditary cancers, cutting risk by 60 percent.

Study Suggests That Pill Can Cut Hereditary Cancer Risk by 60 Percent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is reportedly launching a Web3 drug discovery platform called Druglike, allegedly to democratize and decentralize the industry.

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Martin Shkreli Is out of Prison, so of Course He’s Getting Into Web3

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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WHO Declares World Health Emergency Over Monkeypox

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Japanese scientists say cultured human muscle cells can stay swole with their bear serum injection. Bears hibernate without losing muscle, unlike humans.

Scientists Supercharge Human Muscle Cells By Injecting Them With “Bear Serum”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Less than 24 hours after her death, New York City’s chief medical examiner completed Ivana Trump's autopsy and said she died from blunt force trauma.

Medical Examiner Releases Details About Death of Ivana Trump

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After somehow losing a human skeleton in transit, FedEx used perhaps the milquetoast possible way to apologize for the loss.

FedEx Apologies for Losing Human Skeleton Shipped Via Its Service

By Noor Al-Sibai

Health officials in France are saying that the preservative nitrates often added to processed meat — including charcuterie — are linked to colon cancer.

Doctors Warn That Scrumptious Instagram Trend Is Giving You Colon Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”

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North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.

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People Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills and Emergency Contraceptives After Roe Reversal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.

Scientists Worried NASA Will Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Pathogens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists say they've figured out at least part of North America's invasive, imported fire ant problem by turning a virus that kills them into a weapon.

Scientists Suggest Killing Ants With Viruses

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of researchers say they found the molecules in mouse blood that reduces appetite and obesity — an exercise pill, if you will.

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Scientists Say They’re Honing in on a Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A UK toddler started puberty at just two years old after being exposed to his dad's testosterone gel, a hormone used for gender-affirming care.

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Doctors Puzzled by Two-Year-Old Boy Who Already Hit Puberty

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Plans for the Russian Orbital Space Station (ROSS) are moving ahead but a top scientist says International Space Station modules could be contaminated.

Russian Scientist Complains That the ISS Is Tainted With Disgusting Pathogens

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Doctors researching an experimental cancer treatment were shocked when every single patient in the small trial went into remission.

Scientists Intrigued by Treatment That Put Every Single Patient’s Cancer Into Remission

By Noor Al-Sibai

Immunity-boosting drugs may have huge implications in the pharmaceutical fight against COVID-19.

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Doctors Impressed by Drugs That Rejuvenate Immune System

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have found a new avenue for finding out whether someone's been exposed to the world's preeminent parasite — by looking at their eyeballs.

It’s Surprisingly Likely That You Have a Nasty Parasite in Your Eyeball

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is getting clowned on Twitter for sending out a bizarre tweet about cancer they haven't deleted yet.

CDC Mocked for Bizarre Tweet About Cancer Causing Cancer

By Lonnie Lee Hood

There may be a link between cats and psychosis, according to new reserach from scientists at McGill University in Montreal.

Can Cats Infect You With a Psychosis-Inducing Brain Parasite? The Answer Is Complicated

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan say they managed to break down liver tumors in rats, using nothing but noninvasive ultrasound waves.

Scientists Say They Partially Destroyed Tumors With Sound

By Victor Tangermann

More than 100 people from the same New Jersey high school have developed rare brain tumors, possibly because of radioactive material left behind.

More Than a Hundred Graduates of a Particular High School Got Rare Cancers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of MIT scientists behind the biotech firm Frequency Therapeutics has developed a new type of regenerative therapy that can reverse hearing loss.

MIT Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Treatment That Reverses Hearing Loss

By Victor Tangermann

A new report finds Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps cancer doctors who work on thyroid diseases on call or with him at all times.

Putin Almost Always Accompanied by Cancer Specialist, Investigation Finds

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists from Yale announced this week that a common arthritis medication is helping alopecia patients regrow their hair.

Scientists Say New Treatment Lets Alopecia Patients Regrow Hair

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The heads were slated to be used for medical research when they were pilfered sometime between last Wednesday and Thursday.

Someone Stole a Bunch of Human Heads from a Medical Truck

By Tony Ho Tran

President Joe Biden's top science advisor Eric Lander resigned Monday night after admitting that he abused employees.

Scientist Hired by Biden to Cure Cancer Ousted for Abusing Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.

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Scientists Heal Paralyzed Mice With Spinal Cord Implants

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Joe Rogan actually used to want people to get the vaccine as evidenced by a resurfaced clip with guest Dr. Michael Osterholm, member of Biden’s COVID board.

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Video Shows Joe Rogan Mocking Vaccine Skeptics Back in 2020

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Frogs have regrown limbs from an experimental drug cocktail — and in the near-ish future, humans may be able to do so, too.

Scientist Predicts Humans Will Be Able to Regrow Limbs “Within Our Lifetime”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The American Cancer Society revealed on Wednesday that overall cancer death rates dropped 32 percent from its peak in 1991 to 2019.

Good News: Cancer Deaths Have Dramatically Fallen in the Past 30 Years

By Tony Ho Tran

A group of 270 doctors and educators have signed a letter calling on Spotify to start moderating misinformation, particularly on the Joe Rogan Experience.

Hundreds of Medical Experts Sign Letter Condemning Joe Rogan

By Victor Tangermann

To no one's surprise, a new study has found that many purported hangover "cures" are pretty much worthless.

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Hangover “Cures” Are Total Nonsense, According to Science

By Noor Al-Sibai

DMT is joining the ranks of party drugs including LSD, MDMA, ketamine and psilocybin mushrooms as a promising mental health treatment.

Scientists Are Now Testing Medical DMT on Human Subjects

By Tony Ho Tran

She may look like a pre-teen, but Shauna Rae is legally old enough to drink — and soon, the world will know her story, or at least the TLC version of it.

The Fascinating Saga of the 22-Year-Old Woman Trapped in Body of 8-Year-Old

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death

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Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers in Kyoto, Japan have created a mask that glows under a UV light when exposed to the coronavirus.

Scientists Invent New Mask That Glows When Exposed to Coronavirus

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers might have developed an incredibly promising way to treat — and possibly vaccinate against — Alzheimer’s disease.

Potential Alzheimer’s Treatment Restores Lost Memories in Mice

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX's fourth crewed launch to the International Space Station on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft had to be delayed yet again due to a medical issue.

NASA Delays SpaceX Launch Due to “Medical Issue”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists believe that there are people out there who are genetically immune to COVID-19, and they want to study them for treatments.

Scientists Believe There Are People Genetically Immune To COVID

By Tony Ho Tran

WHO Honors Woman Whose Cells Were Taken Without Consent for Medical Research

WHO Honors Woman Whose Cells Were Taken Without Consent for Medical Research

By Tony Ho Tran

Doctors say that a woman who refused treatment and took CBD oil instead showed a remarkable improvement and that the tumor in her lung shrank drastically.

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Doctors Say CBD Oil Shrank a Patient’s Tumor

By Dan Robitzski

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization gave the world's first malaria vaccine the green light, but it will be a challenge to deploy for the countries that need it.

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Bureaucracy Could Keep Kids From Getting the Lifesaving New Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization says that the world's first malaria vaccine is finally ready for widespread use, and that it could save countless children.

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The World’s First Malaria Vaccine Is Finally Ready for Rollout

By Dan Robitzski

Jeffrey Smith, the man whose wife sued a hospital to force it to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin and kicked off a messy legal fight, recently died.

Wife Sues Hospital to Treat Husband With Ivermectin, Then Husband Dies

By Dan Robitzski

Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.

Hospital Says It Won’t Do Organ Transplants on Unvaccinated People

By Dan Robitzski

As Arctic ice melts away, it could unleash dangerous, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, nuclear waste, and toxic chemicals that had been sealed away.

Melting Arctic Could Release Nuclear Waste and Deadly Pathogens, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Pharmaceutical company Merck claims its new COVID-19 pill called molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalization and even death by half.

Company Claims Pill Cuts Risk of Dying of COVID-19 in Half

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.

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Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years

By Dan Robitzski