This Mistake Could Make Your Medicare Premiums Even Higher. How to Avoid It.

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Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer - BBC Ne

New way of altering DNA is used to engineer an "exciting", experimental therapy for a 13-year-old girl.

How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

Aerobic Activity can Reduce Risk of Metastatic Cancer by 72%

Tel Aviv University researchers find that exercise defeats cancer by increasing glucose consumption

Why the C-17 is the military’s flying hospital of choice

"We bring the full hospital to the patient.”

COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab

The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give the clearest view yet of a biocomplex in crisis.

The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on

In its latest catalogue of health conditions, the World Health Organization almost equated old age with disease. Then it backed off.

Startup Insider: How A Molecule Becomes A Drug - Crunchbase News

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Searching For The Secrets To Life Everlasting | NOEMA

For millennia, scientists and technologists have been scouring the natural world for clues on how to live longer. But is anyone any closer to finally defeating aging?

An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the ‘Russian Flu’ - The New Yor

Scientists are grasping for any example that could help anticipate the future of Covid, even a mysterious respiratory pandemic that spread in the late 19th century.

A New, Transparent AI Tool May Help Detect Blood Poisoning

The algorithm scans electronic records and may reduce sepsis deaths, but widespread adoption could be a challenge.

A Universal Cancer Treatment?

A medicine that disrupts the DNA replication of cancer cells may be within reach.

Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups

The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses.

Cats Give the Laws of Physics a Biiiiig Stretch

They can fall from potentially infinite heights and survive. They can pivot off of nothing to land on their feet. Scientists still can’t fully explain why.

Drinking Ginger Water Can Actually Help With PMS, Research Says

Its anti-inflammatory properties are no joke.

How Much Water Do You Actually Need? (Published 2021)

Here’s how to know when you truly need to hydrate.

When a face means nothing: What prosopagnosia looks like

It can be difficult for people with prosopagnosia to get a diagnosis.

Scientists Have Long Dreamed of a Memory Prosthesis. The First Human Trials Look Promising

The central idea is simple: replicate the hippocampus’ signals with a digital replacement. It’s no easy task.

The Fatal Error of an Ancient, HIV-Like Virus

It got too cozy with its host.

A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke. (Published 2022)

Physicians suffer one of the highest burnout rates among professionals. Dr. Kimberly Becher, one of two family practitioners in Clay County, West Virginia, learned the hard way.

Study: More Than 335,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved During Pandemic if U.S. Had Universal Health Care

If the U.S. had had a single-payer universal health care system in 2020, nearly 212,000 American lives would have been saved that year, according to a new study

Targeting Cancer’s Achilles Heel

Biden’s Cancer Moonshot aims to cut annual deaths in half. Scientists have the goal in their sights.

40,000 Recipes for Murder

Two scientists inadvertently open the Pandora’s Box of WMDs. What now?

The Curious Hole in My Head (Published 2022)

Born without my left temporal lobe, a brain region thought to be critical for language, I’ve been a research subject for much of my life.

How to Perform 4 Kettlebell Exercises: An Illustrated Guide

Kettlebell exercises for beginners that will work your entire body and help with your regular strength training.

My Mother’s 13 Unbeatable Tips to Staying Youthful

It’s time to ditch the biological clock, run to the nearest fair and jump back on that metaphoric roller-coaster known as your life

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Hemorrhoids

It’s often left out of polite ‘cocktail conversation,’ however this painful inflammation affects many people. Here are some ways to prevent and treat it.

MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body | MIT News | Ma

MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.

Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?

To better understand our brains and design safer anesthesia, scientists are turning to EEG.

3 Robust Bodyweight Exercises to Train Every Muscle Fibre in Your Body

Smash a full-body workout from the comfort of your home

3 Marvellous Full-Body Exercises I Wish I Had Started Way Earlier

Level up your strength, muscle mass, endurance, and functional fitness

The Many Uses of CRISPR: Scientists Tell All (Published 2022)

What do infectious diseases, T-cells, tomatoes, heart failure, sickle cell anemia and sorghum harvests have in common?

What the Anthropology of Smell Reveals About Humanity

Millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19. Anthropologists are investigating the significance of this underrated sense.

A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation

A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.

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Researchers at MIT are investigating the brain of a woman, known by her initials EG, with a missing temporal lobe.

15 Learnings From a Conversation Between a Neuroscientist & Navy SEAL Offic

This Old Man

“I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds.”

Does turmeric’s reputation translate into real health benefits?

Clinical trials show that curcumin, present in the spice, may help fight osteoarthritis and other diseases, but there’s a catch – bioavailability, or how to get it into the blood

Watch a robotic shoulder practice twisting and stretching human cells

Humanoid robots can encourage human tendon cells to grow by stretching them in the same way people do when moving.

3D-printed acoustic holograms against Alzheimer's or Parkinson's

The holograms designed by the team of researchers from UPV and CSIC allow the opening of the blood brain barrier selectively, efficiently and in a highly focused manner, facilitating the administration of therapeutic drugs to treat pathologies that affect the central nervous…

The Only 3 Bodyweight Exercises You Need to Build an Incredible Physique

Working out regularly can be hard.

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What’s the Point of a Primary Care Doctor?

They seem to exist entirely to funnel patients to more expensive specialists—but it may be the consumer, not the healthcare industry, who’s really to blame for this, and we’re suffering as a result.

The 22 Best Ways to Lose Weight After 50

Painless ways to drop extra pounds.

The Air-Ambulance Vultures

The search for why my emergency flight cost $86,184 led me to a hidden culprit: private equity.

Lower Back Pain: The Best Mobility Exercises to Stretch and Strengthen a Sore Back

Lower back pain from sitting at your desk for too long? Try these simple mobility moves.

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The Best Quadratus Lumborum Stretch For Back Pain | Muscle & Fitness

Dr. Mike Wasilisin of MoveU shows you the best way to decompress your back and relieve lower back pain with this quadratus lumborum stretch.

The Medical Miracle of a Pig’s Heart in a Human Body

The first successful transplantation may solve a donor shortage, but this major scientific advancement is not without challenges.

What Internet Search Patterns Can Teach Us About Coping

I analyzed thousands of searches by people who were diagnosed with cancer. Their queries offer valuable lessons that could improve the way doctors treat patients.