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Weed Edibles Aren’t as Safe as We Think, Doctors Argue

Doctors in Canada are hoping to harsh your buzz a little when it comes to cannabis edibles. In a new paper out Monday, they argue that people have plenty of misconceptions about how safe edibles really are and warn that first-time users are especially likely to take too much for their own good. The paper,…

Health Ed Cara

Big Pharma Continues New Year’s Tradition of Squeezing U.S. Sick for Every Last Dime

Pharmaceutical giants celebrated the dawn of 2020 in the best way they know how: jacking up the prices of drugs for people in the U.S. that need them. According to a report by Reuters, research by analysts at 3 Axis Advisors shows that firms including Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Sanofi SA, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Gilead…

Health Tom McKay

NY Governor’s Veto Outrages Activists Fighting for Medicaid Patients Who Need Opioid Addiction Treatment

Activists and lawmakers in New York are furious over a New Year’s Eve decision by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill intended to make it easier for low income residents on Medicaid to access medication-based treatment for opioid addiction—while signing a similar bill that does expand access to these medications for people on…

Health Ed Cara

Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain

Scientists have uncovered a new kind of electrical process in the human brain that could play a key role in the unique way our brains compute. Our brains are computers that work using a system of connected brain cells, called neurons, that exchange information using chemical and electric signals called action potentials. Researchers have discovered…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Exercise Might Keep Your Sperm in Shape, Too

Regular physical activity can keep a man’s sperm in tip-top shape, a new study suggests. The research was published last month in the journal Human Reproduction. It looked at a sample of more than 700 healthy, relatively young men residing in China who signed up to be potential sperm donors. In addition to the thousands…

Health Ed Cara

Facebook Is Finally Removing Some—But Not All—Misleading Preventive HIV Drug Ads

Following pressure from dozens of LGBTQ groups, Facebook is finally pulling down some ads linking the HIV prevention drug Truvada to serious complications like bone and kidney damage—ads these groups have called false or misleading. In early December, 50 LGBTQ-affliated groups such as GLAAD issued an open letter to Facebook asking them to remove the…

Health Ed Cara

FDA Makes It Official: Legal Smoking and Vaping Age Raised to 21

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially raised the legal smoking age from 18 t0 21. The measure marks a culmination of a monthslong, bi-partisan campaign aimed at curbing the use of tobacco products— particularly electronic cigarettes—among youth amid rising concerns about the health effects of vaping. A new statement on the FDA’s website…

Health Alyse Stanley

A Man’s Penis Started Rotting After Getting Bitten During Sex

A harrowing medical case reported by doctors this month should remind everyone to keep their teeth away from each other’s genitals. It details how an accidental love bite during sex left a man’s penis on the verge of rotting away, though thankfully doctors intervened in time to save it. The 43-year-old man visited the emergency…

Health Ed Cara

FDA Approves the First Drug of Its Kind to Treat Acute Migraines

People dealing with painful migraines will soon have a new treatment available. This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved a unique drug meant to shorten acute migraine episodes. It’s the latest treatment for a condition that’s historically had few. The drug is called Ubrelvy (compound name Ubrogepant), licensed by the pharmaceutical company Allergan. It works…

Health Ed Cara

E-Bikes Riskier to Ride Than E-Scooters and Bikes, Study Suggests

People riding electric-powered bikes are more likely to risk serious injury than those on conventional bikes and motorized scooters, according to a recent study. But e-scooters have their own unique health risks, too. The research, published this November in the journal Injury Prevention, looked at data on injuries caused by consumer products collected by the…

Health Ed Cara

A Woman’s Skin Whitening Cream Gave Her Mercury Poisoning

A woman’s years-long beauty regimen caused severe mercury poisoning and irreversible neurological damage, say her doctors in a recent case report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month. The 47-year woman’s ordeal was detailed in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a clearing house for public health information collected by the…

Health Ed Cara

An Ultramarathon Runner Puked So Hard He Tore Open His Esophagus

Even for the best of us, running a marathon can be hellish. But for one 37-year-old man running his first 100-mile ultramarathon in California, the experience became a downright nightmare when he vomited so hard that he tore a hole in his esophagus. The strange medical case was published in August in the journal BMJ…

Health Ed Cara

Vitamin E to Blame for ‘Vast Majority’ of Vaping Illness Cases, CDC Says

Federal health officials are finally confident enough to single out a primary culprit for the wave of acute lung illnesses linked to vaping: an additive called vitamin E acetate often found in unregulated THC products. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their investigation into the condition known as EVALI, short for…

Health Ed Cara

Big Pharma Money Really Does Influence What Doctors Prescribe, Report Finds

A new ProPublica report out Friday confirms what many people already suspect about Big Pharma’s influence on health care: Doctors who get money from a pharmaceutical company related to a specific brand name drug are more likely to prescribe that same, often expensive drug to their patients. It’s no secret that pharmaceutical companies spend plenty…

Health Ed Cara

A Superbug STD Is on the Loose in Australia

Researchers in Australia are sounding the alarm over a foodborne and sexually transmitted disease that’s become resistant to every common antibiotic used to treat it. The disease is called shigellosis, named after the Shigella bacteria that cause it. It’s one of the most common bacterial culprits of diarrhea and stomach flu worldwide, affecting some 500,000…

Health Ed Cara

MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It

Engineers at MIT have come up with a new approach to medical imaging that is both non-invasive and hands-off the patient. Using lasers, they can peer beneath the surface of the skin without any physical contact required, improving upon the limitations of equipment like ultrasound machines. There’s a myriad of techniques and machines that physicians…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Your Genes Suck at Predicting Your Health, Study Finds

A new study this month is the latest to suggest that our genes really don’t do much to predict our health, at least most of the time. The study, published in PLOS One, is a review of the science surrounding genome-wide association studies (GWASs). These are studies that look at the genes of thousands, even…

Health Ed Cara

Scientists Find Evidence That Sheep Can Cause Mad Cow Disease

Researchers think they’ve solved one of the most enduring mysteries of a strange, always-fatal disease that turns both people and cows mad. In experiments with genetically manipulated mice, they found direct evidence that mad cow disease—a condition caused by a zombie-like, brain-destroying protein called a prion—can be caused by contact with sheep infected with a…

Health Ed Cara

Pet Store Puppies Are Giving People Bloody Diarrhea

Dog lovers beware: Federal health officials are warning that puppies, particularly those found in pet stores, are once again behind an outbreak of a nasty stomach bug that can cause bloody diarrhea. The yucky culprit is a bacteria called Campylobacter jejuni. It’s one of the most common bacterial causes of diarrhea worldwide, often accompanied by…

Health Ed Cara

Here Are the Drugs the Teens Are Into These Days

The teens are smoking nicotine, drinking alcohol, and using illegal drugs less than ever before, according to U.S. government data released Wednesday. Yet a new report highlights that they’re also increasingly vaping cannabis and nicotine. The report, published in JAMA, is based on data from the annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey, which polls a…

Health Ed Cara

Weed Edibles Aren’t as Safe as We Think, Doctors Argue

Big Pharma Continues New Year’s Tradition of Squeezing U.S. Sick for Every Last Dime

NY Governor’s Veto Outrages Activists Fighting for Medicaid Patients Who Need Opioid Addiction Treatment

Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain

Exercise Might Keep Your Sperm in Shape, Too

Facebook Is Finally Removing Some—But Not All—Misleading Preventive HIV Drug Ads

FDA Makes It Official: Legal Smoking and Vaping Age Raised to 21

A Man’s Penis Started Rotting After Getting Bitten During Sex

FDA Approves the First Drug of Its Kind to Treat Acute Migraines

E-Bikes Riskier to Ride Than E-Scooters and Bikes, Study Suggests

A Woman’s Skin Whitening Cream Gave Her Mercury Poisoning

An Ultramarathon Runner Puked So Hard He Tore Open His Esophagus

Vitamin E to Blame for ‘Vast Majority’ of Vaping Illness Cases, CDC Says

Big Pharma Money Really Does Influence What Doctors Prescribe, Report Finds

A Superbug STD Is on the Loose in Australia

MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It

Your Genes Suck at Predicting Your Health, Study Finds

Scientists Find Evidence That Sheep Can Cause Mad Cow Disease

Pet Store Puppies Are Giving People Bloody Diarrhea

Here Are the Drugs the Teens Are Into These Days

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Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

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