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Texas escalates legal attacks against Tylenol maker, asks judge to stop advertising (accurately) that the pain killer is safe
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the makers of Tylenol ...
US children receive 92 vaccine doses? RFK, Jr.’s vaccine math doesn’t add up
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Senate hearing ... that children receive up to ...
Implantable brain technology: ALS patient is first to control iPad by thought
A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has become the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely ...
Viewpoint: Physician challenges RFK, Jr.— ‘Here’s why you’re wrong in scaring people about the hepatitis B vaccine’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt ...
Viewpoint: Texas is a measles superspreader: With anti-vaccination ideology surging, the state is exporting the pandemic crisis to the rest of the US and the world
Measles, a highly contagious disease that was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, has made a resurgence in West ...
5 medical breakthroughs over the past year
From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include ...
1 in 9: More than 10% of US children are diagnosed with ADHD, as surge that began in 2016 continues
Diagnoses of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have surged in the United States over the last several years, according to a new ...
Ozempic for life? Weight loss drugs are meant to be used long term. What happens if you stop taking them?
Those who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if ...
3D-printed coral reefs? Can this new approach to reef decline revive coastal ecosystems?
Several acres of 3D-printed artificial reefs are currently being planted in coastal North Carolina to bolster the region's biodiversity and ...
Monkey kept alive for two years with a genetically engineered pig kidney suggests pathway to developing organs for humans
Harvard-affiliated scientists say they have been able to keep a monkey alive for two years with a genetically engineered pig ...
Fact check: No, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have not been added to livestock or produce
COVID-19 vaccines are not being passed along through livestock or produce, and experts say that would not be an efficient ...
Mutant mosquito that transmits malaria year round and is resistant to local insecticides identified in Kenya
Researchers from Kenya’s Medical Research Institute have detected a new species of mosquito in the East African nation that has shown ...
HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ under the microscope: Could a zombie fungus really infect humans?
The hit HBO series "The Last Of Us" describes a post-pandemic world devastated by a mass outbreak of a "zombie ...
‘We’re in the biotech era’: The push to make cattle and dairy production more sustainable
With rising temperatures and worsening drought, scientists are dreaming up ways to ensure farming and agriculture can be better for ...
Can we learn? How Israel — a world leader in handling COVID — is ramping up to deal with monkeypox
Despite having recorded only 125 cases of the disease, Israeli health authorities have taken the unusual approach of securing 10,000 ...
Large New England Journal of Medicine study reconfirms Ivermectin does not reduce COVID hospitalizations
The antiparasitic drug ivermectin did not reduce the risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a large study published ...
More than half of the 600,000+ abortions in the US each year are now done with pills, not surgery
For the first time, medication abortion now makes up the majority of abortions in the United States, according to data released ...
HIV treatment breakthroughs continue: 3rd person cured after undergoing umbilical cord blood transfer
Researchers revealed on [February 15] that an American, described as a middle-aged woman of mixed race, has likely been cured ...
Cancer might soon be detectable by a simple blood test
Every year, thousands of Americans undergo routine screening to catch cancer in its early stages, while it’s still treatable. But ...
Vaccine hesitancy’s roots in deeply religious and technophobic Amish community
The vaccination drive is lagging far behind in many Amish communities across the U.S. following a wave of virus outbreaks ...
Rapidly-spreading COVID-19 variant currently ravaging India makes first appearance in the US — in children with no recent travel history
Scientists [at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found] two cases of the variant first detected in India using ...
As independent scientists’ do-it-yourself-COVID-vaccines proliferate, bioethicists counter with warnings
"It's actually simpler than most recipes in home cookbooks," said Preston Estep, chief scientist and co-founder of a DIY [COVID ...
Systemic racial disparity among lung cancer diagnoses has nearly vanished, study finds
Because of deeply-rooted systemic problems, Black Americans tend to experience disproportionate rates of many common illnesses. However, a recent study ...
Gene therapy for hemophilia delayed until 2022 after FDA rejects one-time treatment, shocking doctors and scientists
U.S. regulators rejected [Biomarin’s] potentially game-changing hemophilia A gene therapy over concerns it might not really be a one-and-done lifetime ...
Coronavirus heart threat: 10-to-30 percent of those hospitalized end up with ‘molecular damage’
More than six months into the global pandemic, studies have shown that COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, ...
Video: Study vindicating red meat reignites age-old debate over dietary guidelines, conflicts of interest
It's not the first time researcher Bradley Johnston has had the nutrition community up in arms over his work. Johnston, ...
Video: Cancer patient testifies against Monsanto in Roundup weed killer trial
It is the first time St. Louis-based Monsanto Company has had to defend one of its products, Roundup, in front ...
Monsanto, cancer patient’s lawyers face off on first day of Roundup-glyphosate weed killer trial
Opening statements began in federal court in San Francisco on [July 9] in the trial for the first of thousands ...
