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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

Pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky says that most the antivaxxer patients he recently vented about have since died of their coronavirus infections.

COVID Patients Tell Doctor Coronavirus Is Fake, Then All Die

By Dan Robitzski

A new MIT research center aims to merge humanity with tech like brain-computer interfacesor robotic limbs in order to treat or erase physical disabilities.

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MIT Establishes New Initiative to Meld Humans and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus extended the booster shot moratorium and called out rich countries for hoarding their COVID-19 vaccines.

WHO Chief “Appalled” By Rich Countries Hoarding COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

The water supply on the International Space Station is teeming with bacteria, so scietnists are trying to figure out what that means for astronaut health.

Study: Space Station Drinking Water Is Teeming With Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.

Inmates Treated With Ivermectin Without Their Knowledge

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Paul Davies warns that any alien world capable of supporting extraterrestrial life would probably be teeming with viruses as well.

Scientist Warns About Alien Viruses From Other Planets

By Dan Robitzski

the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.

Researchers Are About to Infect Humans With Home-Grown COVID Strain

By Dan Robitzski

According to NASA, Mark Vande Hei, a current crew member on board the International Space Station, has suffered a "minor medical issue."

Astronaut Suffers Medical Incident on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

By Victor Tangermann

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.

Why You Might Want an mRNA Booster Shot, In One Simple Graphic

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.

Pharmacist Busted for Selling Real COVID Vaccine Cards to Anti-Vaxxers

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard researchers have discovered a connection between exposure to wildfire smoke with roughly 20,000 infections and 750 deaths due to COVID-19.

Wildfire Smoke Is Apparently Making COVID Worse

By Tony Ho Tran

Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.

Pfizer and Moderna Hike the Price of COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.

Preliminary Research Explains Why the Delta Variant Is So Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.

Scientists Discover Dozens of Ancient Viruses, Frozen in Ice

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists were able to lump every kind of cancer out there into two categories based on whether they express a single protein.

Doctors Say They Found a Protein Linking All Cancers

By Dan Robitzski

Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.

Israel Begins Administering World’s First COVID Booster Shots

By Dan Robitzski

The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.

There’s Something Fishy About the Teletubbies’ Vaccination Cards

By Dan Robitzski

Juul paid the American Journal of Health Behavior $51,000 to have the entire May/June issue filled with 11 studies funded by the company.

Juul Paid a Medical Journal to Run a Bunch of Pro-Vaping Studies

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.

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Doctors Are Really Psyched About This New Weight Loss Drug

By Dan Robitzski

Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.

Scammers Inject Thousands of People With Fake Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it's investigating a rare but deadly bacterial infection in the United States.

CDC Warns of Outbreak of Deadly Bacteria

By Tony Ho Tran

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.

Texas Hospital Fires Over 150 Employees For Refusing To Get Vaccinated

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer to make a coronavirus vaccine, is now injecting patients with a vaccine for cancer.

First Patient Injected With Cancer Vaccine in Phase II Trial

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed a pee test that they say can diagnose brain cancer before it's too late to treat or remove the tumor.

Pee Test Could Diagnose Brain Cancer, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Bacteria could provide us with a far more effective and green method of extracting precious metals from used electric car batteries.

Bacteria Could Allow Us to Recycle Electric Car Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.

International Vaccine Program Still Struggling After Rich Countries Hoard Shots

By Dan Robitzski

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

By Dan Robitzski

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.

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Furious FDA Advisors Resign to Protest Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug That They Say Doesn’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.

There’s a Large New Coronavirus Outbreak in China

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a key difference in the way that axolotls and mammals respond to injuries, potentially revealing a pathway to regenerative medicine.

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Scientists Say Humans Have “Untapped” Limb Regeneration Capability

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, eating just 18 grams of mushroom a day, roughly the equivalent of two mushrooms, could almost halve the risk of cancer.

Eating Mushrooms Vastly Cuts Cancer Risk, According to New Research

By Victor Tangermann

A man tried to treat his bipolar disorder with psychedelic mushrooms. But after he injected instead of eating them, the shrooms grew inside his bloodstream.

A Man Injected Himself With Mushrooms and the Fungi Took Over His Blood

By Dan Robitzski

As COVID-19 vaccine supply outweights domestic demand in the US, travelers are coming to the country to grab some of the extras.

Wealthy Travelers Are Flocking to America for Precious COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found a new novel canine coronavirus discovered in a child who was hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia two years ago.

Scientists Say a New Coronavirus Jumped From Dogs to Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.

Doctors Hack Virus to Make Tumors Kill Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.

Small Country Claims to Have Vaccinated 108 Percent of Population

By Dan Robitzski

While millions of people are offering up their arm to get a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, labs around the world are already working on the next generation.

The Next COVID Vaccine Could Come in Pill Form

By Victor Tangermann

As the pandemic begins its 15th official year, doctors are seeing severe cancer cases that went ignored for too long for one reason or another.

Severe Cancer Is on the Rise

By Dan Robitzski