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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

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

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is under investigation by two attorneys general for his new company, Druglike, which he says isn't a pharmaceutical company.

Martin Shkreli’s Crypto Startup Under Investigation by Two Separate Attorneys General

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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WHO Declares World Health Emergency Over Monkeypox

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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.

English Officials Horrified by Heat Wave They Say Could Kill Thousands

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A suit filed against Mars Inc, on Thursday claims the company doesn't inform customers that Skittles contains titanium dioxide, which could be toxic.

Please No! Lawsuit Claims Toxic Ingredient in Delicious Skittles

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

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

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

David Bennet Sr. passed away at the University of Maryland Medical Center after he received an experimental pig heart transplant in January.

Man Who Received Experimental Pig Heart Transplant Dies

By Tony Ho Tran

A team at the University of Southern California managed to capture images of a memory form in laboratory zebra fish brains in real time.

Science & Energy

Scientists Watch Memories Form in Living Brain

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

A study published in Nature found that astronaut's bodies are destroying their own blood through hemolysis, causing space anemia after returning to Earth.

Space Is Wreaking Havoc on Astronauts’ Blood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Experts say that neural implants that can deliver pleasure directly to our brains are coming soon. The question is what it will mean for us when they do.

Prosthetics and Devices

What Are the Ethics of an Implant That Delivers Pleasure Directly Into Your Brain?

By Dan Robitzski

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

New research conducted on five Russian cosmonauts confirms that traveling to space damages the human brain. Now scientists want to know why.

Neuroscience and Brain

Russian Study Confirms That Space Travel Damages Your Brain Cells

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

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

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

Scientists discovered that a protein called sonic hedgehog seems to play a huge role in Parkinson's, potentially revealing new treatment opportunities.

Brain Protein Named After Sonic the Hedgehog May Be Key to Treating Parkinson’s

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists 3D printed living, functional brain cells that they say could be more useful than animals in preclinical research.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists 3D Print Living Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental neural implant seems to restore both muscular control over and sensation in people's limbs, even when a spinal cord injury is in the way.

Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neural Implant Could Give Spinal Injury Patients Control Over Their Own Limbs Again

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

After a casualty on Sunday, officials in India are now scrambling to nip a new outbreak of the extremely-deadly Nipah virus in the bud.

Extremely Deadly Virus Spreading in India

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to 3D print a "viable" glioblastoma tumor so that they can develop better, more effective treatments for the deadly brain cancer.

Scientists 3D Print Living, Viable Brain Tumor, to Practice Killing It

By Dan Robitzski

Synchron CEO and founder Thomas Oxley explains how his neural implant startup beat Neuralink in the race to achieve FDA approval.

Neuroscience and Brain

How a Small Neurotech Startup Beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Human Studies

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

A scientist working on an artifiical placenta that provides oxygen for babies born prematurely says it may be ready for human experiments in five years.

Prosthetics and Devices

Artificial Placentas for Human Babies Coming Within Five Years, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.

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Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic surgeon Scott Green signed into a courtroom Zoom proceeding to fight a traffic violation while he was operating on a patient.

Surgeon Contests Traffic Ticket While Operating on Patient

By Dan Robitzski

Guinea declared that it's facing a new Ebola epidemic on Sunday after seven people caught the infectious disease and three died.

In a Grim Development, There’s Officially a New Ebola Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

By Dan Robitzski

The Democratic Republic of Congo is now staring down its 12th Ebola outbreak just three months after the previous one ended.

After Second Death, Experts Fear New Ebola Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

World Health Organization investigators found evidence that the coronavirus outbreak in China may have started as early as October 2019.

WHO Investigators Find Evidence COVID Was Circulating in China Long Before Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

The highly-infectious B.1.1.7 variant of the coronavirus could have mutated entirely within one patient, scienitsts suspect.

Mutated COVID Virus Evolved Inside One Person, Scientists Believe

By Dan Robitzski

Biologist Jimmy Bernot willingly infected himself with hookworms as part of a clinical trial on an experimental vaccine for the parasite.

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Biologist Deliberately Infects Himself With 50 Hookworms

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. Representative Ron Wright died from the coronavirus on Sunday, becoming the first sitting Congressperson to die of COVID-19.

Congressman Who Criticized COVID Lockdown Dies From COVID

By Dan Robitzski

A new study warns that the highly-infectious variant of the coroanvirus first spotted in the U.K. could be the dominant variatn in the U.S. by March.

Deadly UK COVID Variant Will Dominate US by March, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a small skin patch covered in microneedles that could replace medical tests that require drawing blood.

Pressing a Tiny Patch Onto Your Skin Could Replace Medical Blood Tests

By Dan Robitzski

A study found that the death rate for coronavirus patients was nearly three times higher among people already diagnosed with schizophrenia.

People With Schizophrenia Vastly More Likely to Die From COVID

By Dan Robitzski

A man's vape exploded in his mouth, burning his mouth and shattering several of his teeth, according to a new case report.

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Vape Explodes, Knocking Out Man’s Teeth

By Dan Robitzski

IBM developed an algorithm that can predict who might develop Alzheimer's disease by spotting changes in their writing style.

IBM Algorithm Can Tell Who’s Going to Get Alzheimer’s by Reading Their Writing

By Dan Robitzski

Controversial new research suggests that COVID-19 has a notable negative impact on male fertility, making it harder to have kids.

Study: Catching Coronavirus Makes it Harder for Men to Have Kids

By Dan Robitzski

A trio of scientists say that a new field of research called longevity medicine is emerging and that powerful AI is essentially leading the way.

AI Poised to Revolutionize Longevity, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a neural implant they can both control and recharge remotely, cutting down on the need for battery-changing surgeries.

Prosthetics and Devices

Remote Controlled Neural Implant Controls Rats’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical AI algorithm can spot problems in Black and underserved patients better than some doctors, potentially mitigating medical racism.

Scientists Trying to Build Medical AI That’s Less Racist Than Doctors

By Dan Robitzski

Disturbing footage shows a man in excruciating pain crawling out of a hospital after medical staff dismissed his pain as imaginary.

Health & Medicine

Video Shows Agonized Man Crawling Out of Hospital

By Dan Robitzski

The average life expectancy in the United States dropped more sharply than it has in over 40 decades thanks to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Slashed the US Life Expectancy by More Than a Year

By Dan Robitzski

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Implant Successfully Fights Off Depression, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.

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Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite infamously spread by pet cats, is linked to a greater risk of brain cancer.

Parasite Spread to Humans by Pet Cats Linked to Brain Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

The UFC is working with Johns Hopkins University to see if psychedelic drugs can help fighters with traumatic brain injuries.

UFC Investigating Whether Psychedelics Help Fighters With Traumatic Brain Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

A new human stem cell derived from fat cells seems to be capable of adapting to and repairing damage in many parts of the body.

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Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists in Ohio found two new strains of the coronavirus, both of which seem to be more infectious than the dominant strain.

Two New Coronavirus Strains Emerge in the United States

By Dan Robitzski

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

After being arrested in late 2019 for attempting to take biological samples with him to China, cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng was sentenced to time served.

Cancer Researcher Sentenced for Stealing Biological Samples

By Dan Robitzski

Medical schools can perpetrate outdated assumptions about race and health as part of doctors' education, and scientists have ideas on how to fix it.

Scientists: Medical School Educations Still Shockingly Racist

By Dan Robitzski

The more infectious strain of the coronavirus first identified in England could create a devastating new wave of the pandemic, experts warn.

Scientists Worried New COVID Strain Will Cause Devastating New Wave

By Dan Robitzski

Egyptian hospitals lost every coronavirus patient in their intensive care units when they ran out of the oxygen necessary for treatment.

Every COVID Patient in Egyptian ICU Dies When Oxygen Supply Fails

By Dan Robitzski