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FDA Expanding Research Ops to Better Fight the Opioid Epidemic

The Trump administration’s approach to the opioid crisis has been at times clumsy and nonsensical. With that in mind, it seems the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to take a big step in the right direction: It plans to widen the scope of medication-assisted treatment, or MAT. In a speech held at the National…

Health Ed Cara Feb 26

An Australian Tourist Breathed Measles Virus All Over New York City Last Week

Measles has just visited the Big Apple, and public health officials are warning the city’s small unvaccinated population to be on guard. Last Friday, the New York State Department of Health announced that an Australian tourist was confirmed to be carrying the viral disease days into their trip. Because exhaled measles can stay alive for…

Health Ed Cara Feb 26

Science Organizations Cancel Lawrence Krauss Events After Sexual Harassment Allegations

For years, women have quietly warned each other to stay away from Lawrence Krauss, the internationally lauded theoretical physicist and torchbearer for the secular, skeptic, and atheist movement, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation published on Thursday. Now, multiple organizations have canceled events featuring Krauss and disinvited him from others. The exhaustively reported BuzzFeed article by…

Tech News Ed Cara Feb 24

The Fungi That Cause Athlete’s Foot Have Given Up On Sex

For the vast majority of living things, there’s nothing particularly sexy about sex. It’s mostly just an exhausting and dangerous hassle (just ask the insects who get their body parts stabbed or bitten off while mating). Given that, it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise that at least one species of fungi has opted out…

Biology Ed Cara Feb 24

We Might Have Finally Reached Peak Flu

Finally—finally!—it looks like the U.S. has gotten through the worst of this winter’s record-breaking flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there’s still a bit longer to go before we can get the all-clear. The latest surveillance data from the CDC, released Thursday, indicates that rates of flu-related cases, hospitalizations,…

Health Ed Cara Feb 23

Legal Medical Weed Hasn’t Led to More Teen Stoners

For as mainstream as marijuana is becoming, there are still some who are worried about the unforeseen consequences this new social acceptance has or could bring about—from cancer treatment scams to more car crashes. But a new review published this week in Addiction suggests that at least one of these worries hasn’t come true: Teens…

Health Ed Cara Feb 22

E-Cig Vapor Tested Positive for Lead and Arsenic in New Study

A new study, published Thursday in Environmental Health Perspectives, adds more evidence to the idea that e-cigarettes aren’t an entirely risk-free endeavour. It suggests that the very act of vaping might be exposing people to unsafe levels of toxins like lead and arsenic. Researchers at John Hopkins University asked 56 daily e-cigarette users—recruited from vaping…

Health Ed Cara Feb 22

FDA Oversees Kratom Purge After Salmonella Outbreak

It’s no secret that the Food Drug Administration isn’t a fan of kratom, a popular herb purported to help people with digestive problems, chronic pain, and most prominently, opioid withdrawal. So I can only assume the FDA got a small bit of pleasure when it announced it would oversee the destruction of a “large volume”…

Health Ed Cara Feb 22

Social Media Is Corrupting the Youth Slightly Less Than We Feared

Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram might not be destroying the minds of The Youth™ as much as we thought, according to a recent review published in Educational Psychology. In some cases, social media could even be helping them do better at school. German researchers analyzed 59 published and unpublished studies that examined the relationship between academic…

Tech News Ed Cara Feb 21

Alcohol Plays a Much Bigger Role in Causing Dementia Than We Thought

It’s hardly a surprise that too much alcohol is bad for the body, including the brain. But a new study published Tuesday in The Lancet suggests that even doctors are underestimating its impact on our risk of developing dementia. The researchers looked at a nationwide, anonymous database of more than 30 million adult French hospital…

Health Ed Cara Feb 21

How Does a Euthanasia Drug Keep Ending Up in Dog Food?

Owners of very good boys and girls might be perturbed by the latest recall to make the news: 27 brands of dog food pulled from warehouses for possibly containing pentobarbital, a sedative used to euthanize both pets and people alike. As Gizmodo has already reported, the recall concerns wet and canned dog foods manufactured by…

Biology Ed Cara Feb 21

Researchers Say They’ve Created a 90% Accurate Blood Test for Autism

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complicated neurological condition caused by a variety of risk factors, including our genes and environment (but no, not vaccines), that interact in ways we still understand little about. Its symptoms are varied, too—from problems with social interaction to being unable to speak or process sensations normally. This complexity extends…

Health Ed Cara Feb 18

This Season’s Flu Vaccine Isn’t as Ineffective as We Feared

By the time everything’s said and done, this winter’s flu season may very well be the worst in several years, and by some metrics it may even surpass the 2009 pandemic. Some experts have blamed the intensity of this year’s flu in part on a particularly poor vaccine, which was mainly based on research in…

Health Ed Cara Feb 16

The FDA Has Approved the First Blood Test for Concussions

Researchers are only now starting to unravel the potential long-term ramifications of a seemingly minor traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, to our health. Part of the difficulty has been in even figuring out when someone has a concussion in the first place, leading to lots of unnecessary and not entirely risk-free brain imaging tests.…

Health Ed Cara Feb 16

Scientists Successfully Test a Vaccine in Mice That Could Prevent Many Cancers

Even under the best of circumstances, cancer treatment can be an excruciating, costly ordeal that tragically doesn’t even work sometimes. In light of that reality, scientists and doctors have long searched for a way to proactively head off the problem using a vaccine. One potential approach to a cancer vaccine, highlighted in a new study…

Health Ed Cara Feb 15

Canadian Doctors Warn Medical Pot Is Overhyped

More and more people, young and old, are fast becoming fans of legalized weed, Jeff Sessions notwithstanding. That popularity has been greatly aided by the proliferation of laws that allow it to be used as a medical treatment, not just in the U.S., but in other countries such as Canada, which legalized medical pot in…

Health Ed Cara Feb 15

Kidney Stones Are Getting Diagnosed More, but We’re Not Entirely Sure Why

Passing on a kidney stone is one of the most physically painful things a person can go through this side of childbirth. And a new study published this week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings suggests that they’re seemingly becoming more common. But by how much, and why, we’re still not really sure. Mayo Clinic doctors examined…

Health Ed Cara Feb 14

No One Really Knows When Wild Rabbits Became Fluffy Domesticated Bunnies

Rabbits are a treasured source of companionship, entertainment, and—if you’re living most anywhere besides the U.S.—food. But a new analysis published Wednesday in Cell Press Reviews suggests that whether you turn to folk tales or DNA, there’s no easy way to tell when rabbits actually became part of our domesticated stable. Researchers in the U.K.…

Biology Ed Cara Feb 14

After Eight Days of Itchy Eyes, Oregon Woman Finds 14 Worms

It’s a medical discovery you’d hate to be part of: A 26-year-old Oregon woman is believed to be the first human ever reported to be infected with a certain species of eye worm. The woman’s case, reported in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Monday, began in the summer of 2015, soon after…

Health Ed Cara Feb 13

Bed Bugs Are Pooping Histamine Into Our Homes—and Possibly Making Us Sick

There are few living things on earth that can set our nerves more on edge than the aptly named bed bug (Cimex lectularius). Even if you’ve never had the displeasure of being their unwilling blood bank, you probably know someone who has. Since at least the 1990s, bed bugs have started to resist the pesticides…

Health Ed Cara Feb 13

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FDA Expanding Research Ops to Better Fight the Opioid Epidemic

An Australian Tourist Breathed Measles Virus All Over New York City Last Week

Science Organizations Cancel Lawrence Krauss Events After Sexual Harassment Allegations

The Fungi That Cause Athlete’s Foot Have Given Up On Sex

We Might Have Finally Reached Peak Flu

Legal Medical Weed Hasn’t Led to More Teen Stoners

E-Cig Vapor Tested Positive for Lead and Arsenic in New Study

FDA Oversees Kratom Purge After Salmonella Outbreak

Social Media Is Corrupting the Youth Slightly Less Than We Feared

Alcohol Plays a Much Bigger Role in Causing Dementia Than We Thought

How Does a Euthanasia Drug Keep Ending Up in Dog Food?

Researchers Say They’ve Created a 90% Accurate Blood Test for Autism

This Season’s Flu Vaccine Isn’t as Ineffective as We Feared

The FDA Has Approved the First Blood Test for Concussions

Scientists Successfully Test a Vaccine in Mice That Could Prevent Many Cancers

Canadian Doctors Warn Medical Pot Is Overhyped

Kidney Stones Are Getting Diagnosed More, but We’re Not Entirely Sure Why

No One Really Knows When Wild Rabbits Became Fluffy Domesticated Bunnies

After Eight Days of Itchy Eyes, Oregon Woman Finds 14 Worms

Bed Bugs Are Pooping Histamine Into Our Homes—and Possibly Making Us Sick

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