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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

A week after spreading dangerous medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, Joe Rogan kind of dialed it back and clarified his statement.

Joe Rogan Explains Anti-Vax Comments: “I’m Not a Doctor, I’m a F*cking Moron”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a highly effective vaccine for malaria that offers far better protection than any past attempts.

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Scientists Say They’ve Invented a “Highly Effective” Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A medical journal retracted a paper that claimed "current smoking was not associated with adverse outcome" in COVID-19 patients due to conflict of interest.

Paper Claiming Cigarettes Protect Against COVID Retracted for Ties to Tobacco Industry

By Victor Tangermann

According to Eran Segal, scientist at the Weizmann Institute, Israel has "pretty much eradicated COVID-19 from Israel, at least for the time being."

Most-Vaccinated Country on Earth Has “Pretty Much Eradicated” COVID

By Victor Tangermann

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that we'll probably need a third vaccine dose and frequent boosters to optimize our protection against the coronavirus.

Pfizer CEO Says You’ll “Likely” Need a Third Dose of COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA and CDC have called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout to further investigate blood clot risk.

CDC Says Don’t Take J&J Vaccine While We Figure Out Clotting Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Despite widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, people in the US are still trying to track down drugs that weren't designed to treat COVID symptoms.

Good God, Please Do Not Take Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.

Scientists Claim to Discover “Unexpected” New Viruses in Wuhan

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.

Scientists About to Start Testing a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine in Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.

People Are Experiencing a “Contact High” at Vaccination Centers

By Dan Robitzski

The death count as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been astronomical — but there may be an even bigger threat facing humanity today.

Something Else Killed Three Times as Many People As COVID This Year

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have designed a personalized cancer vaccine capable of inducing a years-long immune response that fights off melanoma.

Harvard Scientists Excited by Results on New Cancer Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study by the CDC, those who have been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer no longer carry the virus.

Vaccinated People Don’t Appear to Spread COVID, and That’s Incredible News

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.

Scientists Engineer Synthetic Bacteria That Multiplies Like the Real Thing

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental antibody treatment made adult mice regrow missing teeth, hinting that a treatment for people could be around the corner.

New Treatment Makes Teeth Grow Back

By Dan Robitzski

German scientists have tested a special vaccine targeted at helping the body fight brain cancers for the first time in humans.

Scientists Complete First Human Test of Vaccine Against Brain Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden has announced that his administration has distributed 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in just 58 days.

Biden Admin Gives Out 100 Million Vaccine Doses in Just 58 Days

By Victor Tangermann

BioNTech cofounder Ozlem Tureci says that the company is returning to its original goal of developing a vaccine against cancer.

COVID Vaccine Developer: Cancer Shots Are Next

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.

An AI Built to Tell Apart Pastries Was Great at Spotting Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

Preliminary research suggests that coronavirus vaccines might also serve as a treatment for persistent long-hauler symptoms.

Coronavirus Vaccines Seem to Treat Long-Hauler Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

The marketing agency ICF Next promised employees a coronavirus vaccine. Instead, it was a surprise test on cybersecurity practices.

A Company Promised Employees Vaccines as a Phishing Test

By Dan Robitzski

Pfizer executives recently announced that they're looking into raising the price of the coroanvirus vaccine once the worst of the pandemic is over.

Pharma Execs Scheming About How to Make More Money Off COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski