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Amazon is reportedly developing a device, codenamed "Brahms" that uses radar to track your breathing and monitor for sleep apnea.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.

RX and Medicine

Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.

RX and Medicine

TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new nanomaterial biosensor can spot coronavirus antibodies — and track whether the vaccine is working — in ten seconds.

Nanomaterial System Detects Coronavirus Antibodies In Just Seconds

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors who perform surgery on their birthday seem to lose more patients than on any other day, according to a new study on emergency operations.

RX and Medicine

Surgeons Who Operate on Their Birthday Appear to Kill Way More Patients

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just granted emergency approval to the first over-the-counter coronavirus test, making tests vastly more accessible in the U.S.

FDA Approves Over-The-Counter Coronavirus Test

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just approved a gene-hacked pig that was specifically engineered to not produce the allergen alpha-gal for human consumption.

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption

By Dan Robitzski

Blocking a single protein called 15-PGDH made old mice much stronger and healthier, as though they had been made younger as a result.

RX and Medicine

Blocking a Single Protein Makes Aging Mice Way Stronger and Healthier

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental robot pill grows needles made of sugar when swallowed and inject medications — from inside someone's intestine.

RX and Medicine

This “Pill” Sprouts Needles to Inject Medicine Inside Your Body

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical distributor AvKare issued a recall for trazodone and sildenafil after the two were mixed together in the same bottles.

RX and Medicine

Packaging Error Mixes Up Antidepressant and Erectile Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious outbreak that's causing epilepsy-like symptoms in southeast India continues to grow, and experts have no idea what's causing it.

Mysterious, Epilepsy-Like Outbreak Still Spreading in India

By Dan Robitzski

Hospitals in India report hundreds of new cases caused by a mysterious, yet-unidentified illness from over the past weekend.

There’s a Mysterious New Disease Outbreak in India

By Dan Robitzski

The federal government says it can dole out 40 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine — enough for 20 million people — this month. Experts say probably not.

Experts Say Trump Promise For 20M December Vaccinations is Unrealistic

By Dan Robitzski

By reversing molecular changes that happen naturally with age, a team of scientists restored vision to blind mice that they made more genetically youthful.

Harvard Scientists Claim to Reverse Mouse Aging at Cellular Level

By Dan Robitzski

Vape Lung, or EVALI, never actually went away. The CDC stopped tracking cases in February, but a small number continue to pop up.

Remember Vape Lung? It’s Still Happening.

By Dan Robitzski

Operation Warp Speed officials just announced that the first coronavirus vaccines would be distributed based on state population rather than need.

Here’s How the First Coronavirus Vaccines Will Be Distributed

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre device called the ClearMate reportedly makes people sober up three times faster by making them hyperventilate alcohol out of their systems.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Device Sobers You Up By Sucking the Alcohol Out of Your Breath

By Dan Robitzski

A massive scientific review that combined the results of thousands of studies found that regularly eating chili peppers is linked to major health benefits.

Huge Meta-Study: This Food Appears to Actually Make You Live Longer

By Dan Robitzski

If This COVID-Blocking Nasal Spray Works on Humans, It Could Change the Course of the Pandemic

If This COVID-Blocking Nasal Spray Works on Humans, It Could Change the Course of the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday alone, the U.S. confirmed over 107,800 cases of COVID-19, making it the worst day and week of the outbreak so far.

With 100,000 New COVID-19 Cases, the US Broke its Own Daily Record Again

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface doesn't actually touch the brain or require open-skull surgery. Rather, it snakes through the jugular vein and listens in.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain-Computer Interface Doesn’t Even Need to Touch the Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A series of visualizations show how the dangers of indoor COVID-19 transmission can be mitigated but not eliminated with masks and ventilation.

Visualization Shows Likelihood of COVID-19 Spread in Bars, Homes, Classrooms

By Dan Robitzski

Contrary to what Trump has been insisting for the whole pandemic, the surge in new coronavirus cases has nothing to do with how many tests are administered.

Trump’s Head of COVID Testing Says Trump Is Totally Wrong About COVID Testing

By Dan Robitzski

A third wave of COVID-19 cases — shaping up to be the worst one yet — is hitting the U.S., and the federal government is throwing in the towel.

A Third Wave of COVID-19 Is Crashing Over the United States Right Now

By Dan Robitzski

New research links Parkinson's Disease dementia to the activity of a specific hormone found in our guts, perhaps leading to new treatments or diagnostics.

Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Link Parkinson’s to a Hormone in Your Gut

By Dan Robitzski

A rare neurodegenerative disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is becoming more common in Japan as its population ages.

Neuroscience and Brain

As Japan’s Population Ages, a Rare Brain-Eating Disease Is Becoming More Common

By Dan Robitzski

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.

RX and Medicine

Study: Microdosing LSD Improves Mood and Cognition

By Dan Robitzski

New high-resolution brain scans enabled doctors to discover a new organ hiding in the human skull: a fourth pair of salivary glands.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Claim to Discover New Organ in Human Skull

By Dan Robitzski

In an unusual case report, a high dose of Ambien temporarily restored the ability to speak and walk to a man who'd spent eight years in a coma-like state.

Neuroscience and Brain

Ambien Temporarily Restored a Man’s Ability to Walk, Speak

By Dan Robitzski

While a popular politically-motivated document calls for the U.S. to focus on herd immunity against COVID-19, but doctors agree that it would be disastrous.

Experts: Herd Immunity Is an Absolutely Terrible Idea, You Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

A woman died after catching the coronavirus, even though she had recovered from COVID-19 months prior. It's the first confirmed death linked to reinfection.

Woman Dies After Catching COVID-19 a Second Time

By Dan Robitzski

A coronavirus patient caught the disease on two separate occasions, and the second time around was even more severe than the first.

Reinfected Patient’s Second Case of COVID-19 Was Even More Severe

By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.

RX and Medicine

Researchers Built a Powerful Robot Arm to Do Colonoscopies

By Dan Robitzski

Extended trips in space could make the heart age faster, because it gets used to not having to work as hard in zero gravity.

Spending Time in Space Makes Your Heart Age Faster

By Dan Robitzski

A new delivery mechanism for gene-editing enzymes allows doctors to target specific kinds of cells or regions of the brain.

New Injection Can Gene-Edit Specific Parts of the Brain, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.

RX and Medicine

MIT Scientists Making Key Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Claim to Invent Hydrogel That Heals Nerve Damage

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Still, the White House says it will not require people to wear masks.

Masks Still Aren’t Required on White House Grounds, Official Says

By Dan Robitzski

Trump may have shown COVID-19 symptoms as early as Wednesday, meaning he could have inadvertently and knowingly spread the disease during his busy week.

Trump Exposed Countless People to COVID-19 After Learning He Might Have It

By Dan Robitzski

President Trump says he caught the coronavirus. If it's true, his weight and age put him at an above-average risk compared to the typical patient.

People in Trump’s Age Range Are 90 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19 Than Young Adults

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Just Found Something That Happens Before Alzheimer’s Sets In

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company LambdaVision is launching a project to manufacture artificial retinas for blind patients out in space.

Biotech Company Plans to Manufacture Artificial Retinas in Space

By Dan Robitzski

An AI algorithm learned how to dose anesthetized patients during surgery. In a simulated environment, it outperformed what doctors use today.

MIT Trains Neural Network to Keep Patients Anesthetized During Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization and other groups are coordinating a global effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. refused to help.

US, Russia, China Opt Out of Global Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

The City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, just unanimously voted to decriminalize all psychedelic plants and mushrooms, citing potential health benefits.

A City in Michigan Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study on alcohol consumption found that those who drank to the point of passing out developed dementia at over twice the normal rate.

Neuroscience and Brain

Research Links Blackout Drinking to Doubled Dementia Risk

By Dan Robitzski

As colleges and universities open their doors, it's becoming clear that they are not prepared to offer mental healthcare to everyone who will need it.

The Mental Healthcare Crisis Coming to American Universities

By Dan Robitzski

A study involving hundreds of Russian cosmonaut brain scans reveal how the brain temporariy changes after months in orbit.

Neuroscience and Brain

According to Scans, Astronaut Brains “Reorganize” During Space Travel

By Dan Robitzski

When a volunteer in AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial fell sick, the entire study had to be put on hold to see if it was a side effect.

COVID Vaccine Trial Paused After Volunteer Develops Mysterious Illness

By Dan Robitzski

A Russian biologist plans to gene-hack more CRISPR babies in an attempt to prevent deafness despite other scientists' warnings.

Russian Scientist Still Plotting to Create More CRISPR Babies

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors engineered a virus that can infect treatment-resistant tumors and make them more vulnerable to existing therapies.

Doctors Fight Deadly Tumors Using Gene-Hacked Virus

By Dan Robitzski

The bodybuilding supplement AKG keeps mouse alive and healthy for longer, so scientists want to see if it does the same for humans.

RX and Medicine

This Drug Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 scientists are running out of primates to test their experimental vaccines on, meaning important research can't be conducted.

Scientists Are Running Out of Primates to Test Vaccines On

By Dan Robitzski

Tiny doses of the psychedelic drug LSD could be an effective painkiller — perhaps as powerful, scientists found, as conventional opioids like morphine.

RX and Medicine

Research: LSD Microdoses as Effective as Opioids at Treating Pain

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.

RX and Medicine

Doctors Think They Cured a Woman’s HIV by Doing Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian government is about to start a 40,000-person experiment on its COVID-19 vaccine, which is usually something that happens before they approve it.

40,000 Russians Are About to Get That Untested COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.

Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Want to Put Chips In Your Body to Monitor Tumors

By Dan Robitzski

At the clinic CityMD, the software allows you to set your "owner" as your emergency contact. We got to the bottom of what's going on.

Why CityMD Lets You Set Your “Owner” As Your Emergency Contact

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors still aren't sure if pets can spread COVID-19 to their owners or vice versa, so they recommend assuming that they can in the meantime.

Scientists Warn That Pets Might Infect People With COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, mindfulness and meditation can make depression and anxiety worse in a small subset of people who try it.

Health & Medicine

Serenity Not Now: Meditation and Mindfulness Can Make Depression Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Built an Inhaler They Claim Stops Coronavirus

Scientists Built an Inhaler They Claim Stops Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

In extremely preliminary research, blood transfusions seem to have reversed some aspects of menopause and allowed women to get pregnant.

RX and Medicine

Blood Transfusions Helped a Menopausal Woman Get Pregnant

By Dan Robitzski