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Chronic pain relief: Insights into how the brain works fuels dramatic treatment improvements
The view that chronic pain originates in the brain — that it’s fundamentally a psychological phenomenon, and can be eliminated ...
Living longer: Genes set limits, but diet and exercise can extend lifespans
Death comes for us all. But recent research points to interventions in diet, exercise and mental outlook that could slow ...
Mix and match COVID booster shots have been approved. Should you switch? Here’s a guide
The Food and Drug Administration on [October 20] authorized “mix-and-match” booster shots to increase antibodies to fight the coronavirus. Under ...
Meet Kernza, the climate change-fighting seed: Wheatgrass perfect for baking that sustainably grows back year after year
Most commercial crops are annual. They provide only one harvest and must be replanted every year. Growing these foods on ...
How ‘race norming’ prevented NFL players with concussion-related symptoms from dementia diagnoses — and blocked many from getting health benefits
It has been more than a year since Black former players seeking payments from the landmark NFL concussion settlement first ...
Viewpoint: ‘The vaccine is more harmful than the coronavirus itself’ — How one floundering Ohio lawyer played the right wing circuit and turned disinformation into a lucrative business
In one of dozens of recent media appearances, Ohio attorney Thomas Renz was claiming that coronavirus vaccines were more harmful ...
YouTube bans Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Mercola and other anti-vaccine activists from spreading COVID disinformation
YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...
Facebook allowed COVID conspiracies to circulate unchecked, more evidence shows
Facebook earlier this year faced a torrent of criticism from President Biden and others who have alleged that the company ...
Wide disagreement among religious groups about vaccine mandates
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a standoff between personal freedoms and bodily integrity on one side ...
Viewpoint: Ivermectin dewormer folly — How the right fell in love with the latest bogus COVID cure
For much of the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump and his allies pushed an unproven drug, ...
Inside the quest to develop second-generation vaccines, variant-proof boosters and a shot that works against future pandemics
Even as vaccine supplies outstrip demand in the United States, the scientific quest for coronavirus shots has scarcely eased. In ...
And the death count keeps growing: At least four vaccine-bashing conservative talk show hosts have died of COVID complications
[Marc] Bernier was at least the fourth talk-radio host who had espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask sentiments to succumb to the ...
Will you come to regret not getting your child vaccinated? Ben Franklin did — his son died of smallpox
Five weeks had passed since the death of Benjamin Franklin’s son, and rumors were swirling. Four-year-old Francis “Franky” Franklin had ...
Is a Texas Republican politician’s vaccine denialism responsible for his own death? Here’s how the left and right fueled a partisan firestorm
When H. Scott Apley died at 45 of covid-19, he became a face of vaccine refusal by the political right ...
What’s next as FDA moves to grant full approval of COVID shots: Changing vaccine hesitant minds or more employee mandates?
The Food and Drug Administration on [August 23] offered its first full authorization for a coronavirus vaccine — the Pfizer-BioNTech ...
Far right targets recruits to government conspiracy theories from vaccine skeptics
Far-right groups across the nation have aligned themselves with those opposed to masks and vaccines, seeking new allies around the ...
‘I am sorry for the pain this caused Black former NFL players and families’: How ‘race-norming’ brain injuries cost players tens of millions of dollars
When the settlement in the landmark NFL class-action concussion litigation was finalized in 2017, and the league agreed to pay ...
Delta strain prompts NFL players to recommend tighter coronavirus restrictions
The NFL Players Association told its membership [August 4] that it will propose re-tightening the sport’s coronavirus protocols and testing ...
COVID vaccine mandates at public universities legally challenged after George Mason professor files suit
A law-school professor filed a lawsuit [August 4] challenging George Mason University’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, arguing it is unnecessarily coercive ...
‘Covid exposed so much that was broken’: How can we remake our post-pandemic food system?
The United States spends $1.1 trillion a year on food. But when the impacts of the food system on different ...
Viewpoint: Why attacks on the concept of ‘objective truth’ are escalating
Attacks on the concept of objective truth are not new. Left-wing attacks on objectivity date at least to the 1970s, ...
Vaccine rejectionism takes hold as a Republican litmus test
What began as “vaccine hesitancy” has morphed into outright vaccine hostility, as conservatives increasingly attack the White House’s coronavirus message, ...
73% drop in HIV infections over the past 40 years
HIV infections have declined by 73 percent nationwide since peaking in the mid-1980s, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
‘Cutting nickel-size holes in your skull and plunging in metal-tipped electrodes’: Could deep brain stimulation cure drug addiction?
After nearly two decades of hardcore drug addiction — after overdoses and rehabs and relapses, homelessness and dead friends and ...
Does your college require a COVID shot to return this fall? It mostly depends if you are in a red or blue state
More than 500 colleges and universities plan to require coronavirus vaccination for at least some of their students and employees, ...
The horrific scale of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre has not been fully catalogued — until now, using forensic analysis of remains found in a mass grave
Forensic scientists and archaeologists investigating a mass grave near the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have unearthed skeletal ...
Find coffee bitter? Taste-linked gene identified that could be protecting millions of people from getting COVID
People’s perception of taste (coffee tasting very bitter, slightly bitter or not bitter at all, for example) has been known ...
Vaccine disinformation and conspiracy theories run wild in California among Mexican farm workers. Here’s what’s being done to address that
For months, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories had ripped across northern California’s wine country, invisible wildfires of untruth spreading through some of ...
