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Some states are trying to limit residents from getting abortions or gender-affirming treatments in other jurisdictions. Is that legal?
Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. have let loose a wave of state legislation attempting to restrict access to abortions and ...
Will the fast-spreading Omicron variant BA.2 sideline momentum to near-normal return?
As the omicron surge continues to decline in the U.S., infectious disease experts are keeping a close eye on an ...
Why art and music therapy appear to ease brain disorders, from Parkinson’s to PTSD
Arts therapies are increasingly being used to treat brain conditions including PTSD, depression, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. But most of these ...
Fertility fraud: Should there be laws to disclose whether an ‘anonymous sperm donor’ was actually the fertility clinic doctor?
A growing number of people are finding out through DNA testing that instead of being “donor conceived” — the product ...
Video: ‘Ultimately, I want to build a heart for sick kids’: Watch these robotic fish ‘swim’ using lab-grown cardiac muscle
Scientists have built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells. The fish, which swim on their own, ...
If Omicron is so much milder than prior COVID variants, why are hospitals packed with patients?
Omicron has filled up U.S. hospitals with more COVID-19 patients than any other surge of the pandemic. But there's been ...
What is the science behind heartbreak?
When her husband left her after more than 25 years together, science writer Florence Williams says her body felt like ...
The brain science behind thirst
It feels so simple. When we're thirsty, we drink. But the brain science behind that decision is pretty complicated, a ...
Video: How Israeli scientists trained a goldfish to ‘drive’
Picture this: A goldfish swimming in a square tank on wheels as it rolls deliberately from one side of a ...
Podcast: Here’s the case for optimism even as COVID infection rates soar
On average, the U.S. is tallying nearly 500,000 new COVID cases a day. [January 3], the U.S. hit yet another ...
Sí or Oui? Brain imagery shows dogs can differentiate among languages
[Brain researcher Laura Cuaya] and her colleagues designed an experiment with 18 volunteer dogs — including her two border collies ...
CORBEVAX: Could this vaccine corral COVID in the developing world?
A vaccine authorized in December for use in India may help solve one of the most vexing problems in global ...
‘Bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the protective blood-brain barrier’: For a sizable percentage of hospitalized COVID patients, the coronavirus targets the brain
The current catalog of COVID-related threats to the brain includes bleeding, blood clots, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and disruption of the ...
Why is Omicron such a ‘super-spreading variant’?
In a household, the risk of spreading the omicron variant to another member is three times higher than it is ...
Xenobots: Are organic robots programmed to find cancer cells the future of regenerative medicine?
Scientists say they've witnessed a never-before-seen type of replication in organic robots created in the lab using frog cells. Among ...
Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party
"The truth is, I'm still a registered Democrat," says Del Bigtree, a well-known anti-vaccine activist. Even before COVID-19, he wrote ...
Omicron genetic surprise: Its family tree traces back more than a year
Just as people who want to find out their ancestry — were their forebears Nordic? Mongol? — can find traces ...
‘If you’re not going to take a stand now, then when?’: Physicians defer booster shots in protest of global vaccine inequity
They wore white coats and gave a press conference, standing next to a 12-foot-tall pile of fake bones. The 15 ...
Mixing and matching COVID vaccine boosters: Here’s a guide
Is it a good idea to go for a vaccine that's different from the one I got the first time ...
A tiny percentage of employees are bucking vaccine mandates — but this amounts to tens of thousands of people across the US
Across the country, employers are firing workers for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates. Some people are opting to quit ...
80 million workers face COVID vaccine mandates — and that’s a major challenge for OSHA
In early September, just before President Biden ordered 80 million workers to get vaccinated or undergo regular testing, a question ...
How can we encourage people to wear masks?
Researchers from Stanford, Yale, the Bangladeshi nonprofit GreenVoice and the research group Innovations for Poverty Action, among others, are conducting ...
Alzheimer’s is almost impossible to treat. Now there are treatments drawing on brain waves and protein tangles in the pipeline beyond the focus on sticky amyloid plaques
Immune cells, toxic protein tangles and brain waves are among the targets of future Alzheimer's treatments, scientists say. These approaches ...
Science is revolutionizing how elite female athletes train. What we’ve learned could benefit all women
When Dr. Kate Ackerman was in medical school 20 years ago, she'd heard of the term "female athlete triad." Coined ...
Federal court rules Indiana University allowed to impose mandatory vaccination requirement, for now
Indiana University is one of hundreds of colleges mandating COVID-19 vaccinations this year. According to university policy, students and staff ...
$1500 a month? Breakthrough obesity injection Wegovy (semaglutide) approved by the FDA — but high costs and limited insurance coverage likely to limit adoption
When a promising new drug to treat obesity was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale in the ...
In rare cases, teens are developing post-vaccine myocarditis. How big a concern is this?
According to the CDC, after a meeting of expert advisors discussed the data [June 23], more than 300 cases of ...
CRISPR milestone: Crippling transthyretin amyloidosis disease now treatable through gene editing, paving way for addressing other genetic diseases
[65-year-old Patrick] Doherty found out he had a rare, but devastating inherited disease — known as transthyretin amyloidosis — that ...
