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‘Nature’s Ozempic’? How does berberine supplement compare to weight-loss drug Wegovy?
“After seeing how cheap berberine was, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose,” said 34-year-old Savannah Crosby, who has ...
How does social media affect kids’ developing brains? US Surgeon General releases mental health advisory
Today, 95 percent of teenagers use social media, and two-thirds daily. One in 7 kids spends more than seven hours ...
Viewpoint: After years of yo-yo dieting, Ozempic helped me lose 40 pounds. I’m still debating if it was worth it
Opinion: I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions ...
Anti-vax conspiracy-promoting Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr shows early strength against Joe Biden in polls
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported by 1 in 5 Democratic voters in some recent polls, campaigns ...
‘Awakenings’ for real: Trapped in her brain for 20 years, a catatonic woman awakes. Her story may spark a revolution in the treatment of severe schizophrenia
New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that ...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant approved for human trials by the FDA
Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink said May 25 that it got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ...
Race for a cure: ‘After decades of neglect, stigma and underfunding, sickle cell is getting the red carpet treatment in science.’ Here’s what that means
The first gene therapies for sickle cell, including one based on the buzzy, Nobel Prize-winning technique called CRISPR ...
Blood dinner: Why are you targeted by mosquitoes but some lucky few are spared?
Researchers built the ‘world’s largest perfumery for mosquitoes’ to test why some people get eaten alive while others do not ...
Viewpoint: Trump of the left? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. traffics in vaccine misinformation, much like the hard right
It doesn’t surprise me at all that a Trumpian candidate would emerge inside the Democratic Party, someone trying to run ...
Is ADHD a genetic condition, illness, natural neurodiversity of humanity, or ‘super power’? People with ADHD weigh in
ADHD is highly hereditary and scientists are examining other risk factors, including brain injuries and exposure to toxins such as ...
Viewpoint: ‘This advance will increase productivity but also supercharge dislocation’ — How AI could destabilize democracy
The field of technology is convulsed by a debate about whether we have reached the Age of AGI...in which technology ...
Can Hindus, Jews and Muslims eat cell-cultivated meat? Religions search for guidance as lab-grown food beckons
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate — a bellwether rabbinical council for religious certifications in Judaism — declared that an Israeli company’s lab-grown ...
Meet your newest coworker: From retail to medicine to marketing, AI workers will soon abound
Artificial intelligence is increasingly making its way across industries, changing jobs from retail to medicine to marketing ...
How the human brain changes over a lifetime
How does the brain age across the lifespan? New studies offer clues. Our brains are built to change over our ...
Viewpoint: Should the US House investigate COVID origins? Here’s the case for leaving that to scientists
One of the world’s most sensitive and consequential scientific questions will soon be grist for discussion among the members of ...
Anti-vaccine beliefs stoke growing cases of measles and chickenpox in the US
Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S. Anti-vaccine sentiment has increased since the pandemic, driven by politicization around ...
After years of reports of widespread violations of ‘certified organic’ rules, USDA strengthens enforcement
The USDA has a strict definition of “certified organic,” allowing the label to be used only for products that meet ...
Can mindfulness and exercise help slow aging brains? Study puts common wisdom to the test
Researchers looked at how mindfulness and exercise, apart and together, affected aging brains. The results were disappointing ...
9 out of 10 COVID deaths are in people over 65, reviving questions about what we consider to be ‘acceptable loss’
More than 300 people are still dying each day on average from covid-19, most of them 65 or older, according ...
Next generation monoclonal antibody treatments target elusive mutating COVID virus
In the evolutionary chess match between the coronavirus and humans, scientists’ next move can’t come soon enough for the millions ...
‘Critical milestone’: FDA greenlights cellular chicken — first lab-grown meat — for US market
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 16] declared a lab-grown meat product developed by a California start-up to be ...
‘A whole new class of drugs to fight malaria’: Single dose of antibody infusion protects for six months
A single dose of an antibody drug provided strong protection against malaria infections during the six-month rainy season in Mali, ...
‘Splatometer’: Here’s how scientists are trying to understand the environmental implications of the sharp drop of dead bugs on windshields
Experts say the lack of insect innards on our summer windshields is just one symptom of a broader decline in ...
First large-scale long COVID study finds nearly half of survivors experience lingering symptoms
Ask anyone who has experienced the lingering maladies of the pandemic, and they’ll tell you long covid is no figment ...
‘Healthy fat is not about the amount of fat’: Exercising improves the health of fat cells, helping them clean debris from your bloodstream
Many of us may not realize that body fat can be metabolically healthy — or the reverse — no matter ...
Long COVID can strip away a decade’s worth of exercise gains, study suggests
Long covid can rob people of health, energy, employment and joy. It may also strip away the equivalent of a ...
Viewpoint: ‘Darwinian beekeeping’ — Bees have adapted for over 100 million years. Maybe saving them from parasites could be as easy as leaving them alone
Bees have been around for about 120 million years... says Brenda Kiessling, a retired physician and an Eastern Apicultural Society ...
‘When we exercise, we’re not just doing it for ourselves’: Why going on a run today could benefit your future grandkids
Exercising now is good for you. But could it also be good for your future children and grandchildren? ...
