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Wendy Williams' team has confirmed that the daytime TV host has been diagnosed with dementia ahead of a new documentary about her life.
Health & Medicine

Wendy Williams Diagnosed With Dementia Amid Legal Guardianship Drama

Medicare could soon start to pay for weight-loss treatment drug Wegovy, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Health & Medicine

Medicare Says It Will Start Paying for Wegovy

A rival to weight loss drug semaglutide has been shown to drastically improve people's blood pressure after 36 weeks of taking the medication.
Studies

Mounjaro Patients Show Hugely Improved Blood Pressure

Bad news for all you diet soda lovers — lower-sugar beverage alternatives may come with a heart-shaped price tag.
Studies

Diet Sodas Linked to Heart Issues

A new study from Mayo Clinic shows that for folks with arrhythmia, sudden cardiac arrest and energy drinks often go hand-in-hand.
Energy

Study Finds That Cardiac Arrest Frequently Occurs After Consuming Energy Drink

A 76-year-old woman who'd been declared dead after a stroke gasped for air when her coffin was opened at a funeral home.
Developments

Funeral Home Startled When Body in Coffin Turns Out to Be Alive

OpenAI's released a new update to ChatGPT, which allows users to upload PDFs. The update effectively killed dozens of startups.
OpenAI

OpenAI Signals That It’ll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products

Will delaying menopause — which is linked to countless other health problems, including cardiac failure — keep women healthier for longer?
Studies

White House Exploring Whether Delaying Menopause Could Keep Women Healthier

The project in Iceland will be the first ever attempt of drilling straight into the incredibly hard to find magma beneath the Earth's surface.
Energy

Scientists Drilling Into Magma Chamber for Potentially Unlimited Energy

The asphalt in one Arizona county is so hot, people are getting life-threatening burns simply for falling on the blistering ground.
Climate Change

It’s So Hot That People Are Getting Burned From Falling on the Ground

In light of extreme heat waves, hospitals are packing overheated patients in body bags with a bucket of ice. Others show up comatose.
Developments

Brutal Heat Wave Is Literally Putting People Into Comas

After a decade of research, scientists have managed to recreate a song from brain recordings with the help of AI.
Brain

Scientists Extracted a Pink Floyd Song From Someone’s Brain Waves. Here’s What It Sounds Like.

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

English officials say thousands of peoeple could die in this week's heatwave. Temperatures could hit 104 degrees and caused a emergency heat red alert.
Climate Change

English Officials Horrified by Heat Wave They Say Could Kill Thousands

Richard Hernandez rarely gets the opportunity to use his body while upright, but taking advantage of a new exoskeleton, he's also taking on royalty.
Health & Medicine

Man Who Can Only Walk With Exoskeleton Plays Ping Pong Against King of Spain

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

Man’s Cancer Caused “Uncontrollable” Irish Accent, Doctors Say

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

"Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke has spoken out about surviving two separate brain aneurysms while filming the epic HBO series in 2011 and 2013.
Developments

Emilia Clarke Says She Had “Quite a Bit” of Her Brain Removed

A team of Stanford scientists claims to have come up with a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say New Brain-Computer Interface Lets Users Transmit 62 Words Per Minute

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.
Brain

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain