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The serotonin effect: Here’s an intriguing explanation for the mystery of long COVID
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that serotonin reduction is triggered by remnants of the virus lingering in the ...
Does same-sex bonding in animals provide insight into sexual orientation in humans?
Apes branched off from other primates about 25 million years ago and evolved a much higher rate of same-sex sexual ...
Ocean-bound fish farms are increasingly unsustainable. Land-based salmon farms can address environmental challenges
Salmon is the second-most-popular seafood in the United States, where the average American consumes more than three pounds a year ...
These beekeepers don’t want you to start your own honeybee hives. Here’s why
The craze for honey bees now presents a genuine ecological challenge. Not just in Slovenia, but around the world ...
Hot-weather cherries? Drought-resistant melons? Here are 8 new climate-hardy fruits and veggies on the horizon
Recent floods left more than a third of California’s table grapes rotting on the vine. Too much sunlight is burning apple crops ...
Surprising consequence of dinosaur extinction: Helping flowers become a dominant form of plant life
When a mountain-size slab of space rock rammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, the fallout was apocalyptic. Tsunamis washed away coastlines, ...
FDA finally admits that active ingredient in some DayQuil and Sudafed decongestants isn’t effective. How many other commonly-used drugs don’t work?
Nearly two decades ago, several pharmacists started calling into the University of Florida Drug Information and Pharmacy Resource Center hotline ...
Viewpoint: Antidepressants and obesity medications work — but we don’t know why. Here’s why that’s a problem
We like to think we understand the drugs we take, especially after rigorous trials have proved their efficacy and safety ...
Menstruation and evolution: The history of humanity has side-lined the role of women
A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary ...
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic are changing how we think about health — but we still don’t know how they work
Although the drugs seem safe, obesity medicine specialists call for caution because the obesity drugs must be taken indefinitely or ...
Suffering from postpartum depression? Newly-approved drug works in as few as three days
Because the pill works faster than other antidepressants and is taken for only two weeks, it may encourage more treatment ...
American Academy of Pediatrics says it will review evidence on safety of gender care and surgery for children, but keeps current treatment recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical ...
Genetically-modified pig kidney transplants into live patients may be next in wake of successful transplants into brain-dead patients
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a peer-reviewed study showing that modified pig kidneys performed complex life-sustaining ...
Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches undisclosed settlement with ThermoFisher, ending 70-year long battle for compensation after using her cancer cells without permission
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks announced a lawsuit in October 2021 accusing Thermo Fisher Scientific of profiting from cancer cells that ...
‘Effectively banned’: Florida’s GOP-lead legislature battles with College Board after voting to strip sections on gender fluidity and sexual orientation from AP Psychology curriculum
The nonprofit said it would not remove a section on gender and sexual orientation, as Florida had requested, and advised ...
Viewpoint: We still don’t know where COVID truly came from. Should we be concerned?
Ongoing mystery: We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters ...
Are eating disorders hereditary?
Today scientists believe that mental illnesses are highly complex and may be associated with hundreds or possibly thousands of genes ...
Viewpoint: 5 lies Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spread about vaccines, healthcare and more
A longtime vaccine skeptic, Mr. Kennedy is leaning heavily on misinformation as he mounts a long-shot 2024 campaign ...
Self-managed abortion: How well does misoprostol alone work to end pregnancies even at later gestation periods?
Most women who took abortion drugs were successful even at later gestation periods, researchers reported ...
Craving food from morning til bedtime: Anecdotal stories reveal how weight-loss drug Ozempic quells ‘food noise’
Until she started taking the weight loss drug Wegovy, Staci Klemmer’s days revolved around food. When she woke up, she plotted ...
‘The horizon of new possibility is blindingly bright’: Boom in genetic medical breakthroughs could extend for years, says CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna
We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear ...
The ‘natural wine’ craze: Can naturally-fermented alcohol help you avoid headaches and hangovers?
Fewer headaches. Less severe hangovers. Better gut health. How do these health claims stack up against the science? ...
Is late-stage cancer incurable? Drug developments turns some cancers from a death-sentence into a manageable chronic disease
Cures or long-term survival for certain types of the disease—are still stubbornly out of reach ...
Dramatic visual evidence shows how COVID decimates the lungs and causes long-term damage
To better understand the long-term impact of Covid’s assault on the lungs, The New York Times spoke with three patients ...
‘I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases’: Lawyer who used AI to write a legal complaint says he wishes he researched the tool before using it
In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law ...
What is the Shoggoth? Here’s what this meme symbolizes for AI researchers
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment ...
Forgotten by science: Four decades ago, medical researchers launched studies on rural Colombian families with fatal Huntington’s disease. They are just now following up
Huntington’s is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease caused by excess repetitions of three building blocks of DNA ...
Battle between Meta’s open-source AI and proprietary ChatGPT and Google systems heats up
As a race to lead A.I. heats up across Silicon Valley, Meta is standing out from its rivals by taking a different ...
