When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.
health-medicine
Dogs, devils, clams and catfish: When cancer is contagious
In a handful of animals, tumors can be transmitted like infectious diseases or parasites, defying science’s tidy definitions
Mosquitoes are a choice - Works in Progress Magazine
The Evolutionary Raw Deal of the Human Knee - Nautilus
Why don’t great apes have knee problems?
The Great Cholesterol Scam and The Dangers of Statins
Exploring the Actual Causes and Treatments of Heart Disease
The Family Plan - The Atavist Magazine
When a little girl in Iowa was diagnosed with a rare incurable disease, her parents and their community came together to help her. They wound up making medical history.
Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
the question everyone is asking
He Changed the World of Organ Transplants. Would He Die Waiting for His Own?
A New York transplant surgeon’s experience waiting for a heart transplant laid bare the challenges of a system he had spent decades trying to fix.
The Quest for Universal Flu Vaccines
Modern flu vaccines have an average efficacy of just 40 percent, and they must be revamped each year. How can we make vaccines that are “universal” — both broadly-protective and highly potent?
influenza evolves so quickly that a novel virus emerges each flu season
inactivate viruses with formaldehyde
Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine?
Bill McKibben on beef consumption in the U.S., R.F.K., Jr.,’s recent recommendations, and the environmental harms of the cattle industry.
The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest
Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more powerful.
How the Japanese Practice of "Forest Bathing"—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease
When the U.S. media began reporting on the phenomenon of “forest bathing” as a therapy for mental and physical health, the online commentariat—as it will—mocked the concept relentlessly as yet another pretentious, bourgeois repackaging of something thoroughly mundane.
Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain
Music doesn’t just mask stress, it guides our brain back to a calm state
The Bone-Marrow-Transplant Revolution
Finding a matched donor has always been the major challenge. A drug has solved that problem.
With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot
CNN reports that "A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported." The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the highest dose of the…
The kill switch for harmful genes - Works in Progress Magazine
What if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off?
A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms — here’s what scientists know
Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.
Cure all diseases
Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.
The Horseshoe crab, vampirism and medical engineering
Brain medicines
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
‘A completely new person’: can surgery help Alzheimer’s patients regain basic skills?
Researchers conducting clinical trial for operation that drains abnormal build-up of two protein types in brain.
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.
Ch. 1 Introduction - Psychology 2e | OpenStax
Clive Wearing is an accomplished musician who lost his ability to form new memories when he became sick at the age of 46. While he can remember how to p...
A strange transmissible cancer is spreading through the catfish in this lake
For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
The Sewer Knows What You Ate
During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewater testing became a virus warning system. Now, scientists are using the approach to understand how communities eat.
Fix Your Posture (@fixyourposture)
If your lower back is constantly tight, the problem might actually live in your hips. A deep massage there can release the tension and help your whole back relax. Worth a try.
The 5 Forgotten Movements That Keep You Young
The unusual skills nobody trains — and the ones that quietly decide how you age.
The Terrorist in the Brain
What can Robin Williams and Bruce Willis teach us about dementia? This article explores the complex biological realities of brain diseases, controversies in Alzheimer's research, the risks of new drugs, and the multi-billion-dollar industry exploiting our fear of cognitive…
Frontotemporal Dementia
Lewy Body Dementia
How to lie about radiation -
Drinking a beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 at once. Radiation is similar.
A Woman With Alzheimer’s Spoke in Full Sentences After Taking Psilocybin, Case Study Says
Researchers caution it’s only one case, but the report raises questions about whether psilocybin could restore dormant brain functions.
What happens brain lose sense of smell
Disturbances in this critical sense are often linked to problems with brain health, researchers are learning
The wonder of epidurals - Works in Progress Magazine
Childbirth may be the most painful thing a person can experience, but we have the technology to numb the pain.
12 Things Orthopedic Surgeons Do to Maintain Speed, Balance, and Longevity
From weighted planks to "pogos" at bus stops.
For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony
Sloane Crosley, the author of “Grief Is for People,” reports on misophonia, the neurophysiological disorder characterized by a severe aversion to sound.
The blood cancer that became solvable - Works in Progress Magazine
Multiple myeloma is brutal. We may finally have a cure, but American regulatory inertia means that it was discovered abroad.
10 Things I Saw in the ER That Can Actually Kill You
From an ER doctor that worked at a TRAUMA center in Queens, NY
Laron syndrome: The dwarfism that protects against cancer and diabetes
How resistance to growth hormone creates extraordinary disease resistance
The Protein Shortage Is Coming
Making all that whey is complicated.
Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how - Ars Technica
Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable.
What happens to your brain under anesthesia? - Futurity
New findings challenge the widespread belief that anesthesia is simply a deep sleep. The reality is more complex, researchers found.
Congenitally Blind People Appear to be Protected from Schizophrenia
Sometimes clues to a disease come from the people who don't get it. A 1950 study of the psychological lives of blind people revealed that there are no cases of people who had been blind since birth developing schizophrenia. Double-checking through larger health records confirmed…
Dopamine Depletion: The Hidden Driver of Alzheimer’s Memory Loss - Neuroscience News
Researchers discovered that an 80% drop in dopamine causes Alzheimer's memory loss. Restoring dopamine with Levodopa rescued memory in a landmark study.
‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread
Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans visiting.
Even more astounding is that the team caught on video more than 200 people — tourists, trainees from a local wildlife institute and children with school groups — approaching the cave during the four-month period when the cameras were active. Only one visitor, a tourist, wore a mask. This is despite…
Scientists Say This Solo Outdoor Habit Can Cure Your Loneliness
Somewhere along the way, loneliness became a public health crisis, and nobody could agree on how to fix it. The leading theory for years was essentially: get people outside. They’ll run into other people, conversation happens, problem solved. Logical enough. Also, largely wrong…
Aspirin can reduce the risk of cancer – and we're starting to understand why
The 4,000-year-old drug, most commonly used to treat pain, prevents certain tumours from forming and spreading across the body – findings that are already changing health policies.
Painkiller Pipeline: 300 Million Tapentadol Pills Sent from India to West Africa - bellingcat
Indian companies have sent more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they have not been approved by regulators – in three years.
The DNA Fix for Aging
Everyone’s DNA keeps mutating. Could correcting those errors lead to longevity?
Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment’s Full Potential
CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.
Opinion | We Are on the Cusp of a Revolution in Rare Disease Treatment
We can’t let the most important medical achievement of a decade slip through our fingers.