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Dog Owners Fake-Cried So Researchers Could Confirm the Sweet Truth About Our Pups

Canine lovers hardly need more evidence that dogs are, in fact, good. But for any remaining heartless monsters, there’s this new study published on Monday in the journal of Learning and Behavior. It suggests that many dogs will rush over to comfort their owners if they think they’re in a predicament. That dogs are experts…

Health Ed Cara

FDA Now Chill About the ‘Blood’ in Plant-Based Impossible Burgers

The Silicon Valley startup behind the plant-based Impossible Burger seems to have evaded concerns that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would deem an ingredient in its food potentially unsafe. The New York Times reported a year ago that documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests by advocacy groups showed that an ingredient in Impossible…

Health Jennings Brown

Generic Viagra Trial Among Pregnant Women Shuts Down After 11 Newborn Deaths

A Dutch trial meant to study whether sildenafil, the active ingredient in the brand-name drug Viagra, can prevent children from being born with low birth weight has been halted early amid a wave of tragic deaths. Nearly 100 pregnant women were given the drug during their pregnancy in the trial, and 11 babies later died.…

Health Ed Cara

Yelp Will Now Show You Restaurant Hygiene Scores

It’s getting a lot easier to avoid getting violently ill from food poisoning, and to see just how divey your favorite dive bar is. Yelp announced today that the platform will start featuring hygiene scores of restaurants alongside reviews, photos, and other information. As of today, the feature is available in California, Illinois, New York,…

Health Jennings Brown

Common Food Additives Could Have ‘Lifelong’ Health Consequences, Pediatrician Group Warns

The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning of the dangers of common additives found in foods and packaging. In a policy statement and accompanying report released Monday, the professional medical organization bluntly declared that many additives could have disastrous effects on health, especially for children. It also called for a dramatic overhaul in how the…

Health Ed Cara

Juul Customers Are Going to Court Over Allegedly Super-Addictive E-Cigarettes

Electronic cigarette company Juul Labs is facing increasing controversy lately, thanks to its huge appeal among teens. The latest batch of bad publicity comes from three recent lawsuits, brought by young Juul users and their families, who allege Juul’s products are more addictive than traditional cigarettes. The lawsuits were all reported by Wired on Monday.…

Health Ed Cara

Irate Polish Dog Lovers Flame Costco on Facebook for Abandoning Their Beloved Sausage

People who fall in the center of the Venn diagram of warehouse club membership and processed meat fandom are angry about Costco’s recent decision to remove a beloved item from its menu—and are logging on to vent their rage. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times reported that Costco would stop serving Polish dogs in its…

Health Jennings Brown

Bayer Will Soon Stop U.S. Sales of Controversial Birth Control Implant Essure

A controversial birth control treatment that is alleged to have harmed thousands of women in the past two decades is finally being phased out completely. On Friday, the pharmacy Bayer announced it would stop selling its Essure birth control implant within the U.S. by December 31 of this year. It follows a similar move by…

Health Ed Cara

Study: Eating Beef Jerky Might Be Linked to Manic Episodes in Some People

There is no singular cause of mental illness. Any number of things—our genes, environment, and even social mores—play a role in determining whether someone’s mental health will deteriorate to the point of being diagnosable as a disease. But researchers from Johns Hopkins have stumbled onto a possible trigger for manic episodes they didn’t expect to…

Health Ed Cara

Raw Turkey Is Spreading Superbug Salmonella

Getting a stomach bug is bad enough. But a new outbreak of salmonella bacteria spread by raw turkey that has sickened nearly 100 people across several states has an troubling wrinkle to it: The germ at fault is likely also resistant to multiple antibiotics. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported…

Health Ed Cara

An Experimental Painkiller Combines the Best Parts of Botox and Opioids—at Least in Mice

Scientists are scrambling to find painkillers that can ease suffering without the addictive potential of opioids. One potential solution, a new study out Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine suggests, might involve creating modified versions of the common wrinkle treatment botox, otherwise known as botulinum toxin. Botox is produced by its namesake Clostridium botulinum, a soil-loving…

Health Ed Cara

More Young Adults Are Dying From Alcohol-Caused Liver Disease

Over the past few years, there’s been a steady rise in the rate of Americans who die by suicide and drugs each year. But while much of the attention surrounding these deaths has focused on the opioid crisis, a new study out Wednesday in the BMJ highlights a different aspect of that increase: More people,…

Health Ed Cara

Woman With Face ‘Completely Covered With Bees‘ Stung 200 Times

A woman in Lake Forest, California, was hospitalized after she was attacked by a swarm of bees on Monday. According to local ABC and Fox affiliates, the woman is a housekeeper in her 50s who was working at one of her clients’ homes when she was attacked. The homeowner said the housekeeper went out to a…

Health Jennings Brown

The Waterpik ‘Flossing Toothbrush’ Is Being Recalled Because It Might Set Your Bathroom on Fire

A freshly debuted $200 toothbrush that promises to both brush and floss your teeth is heating up bathrooms for all the wrong reasons. This month, the electric toothbrush and water flosser company Water Pik announced a voluntary recall of all units of its Sonic-Fusion toothbrushes over claims that some of the products have shot off…

Health Ed Cara

Prankster Tricks Wyoming City Into Growing Weed in Its Downtown Decorative Flower Pots

Park department employees in Powell, Wyoming, found marijuana budding out of decorative planters in the downtown area last week. The workers had been unwittingly watering and tending to the plants for weeks before realizing the growth spouting out of the zinnias and marigolds was illegal, reports the Powell Tribune. Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt told…

Health Jennings Brown

Doctors Find Tapeworm Larvae in Spine of Woman Hobbled by ‘Electric Shocks’ in Legs

A tapeworm that normally infects barn animals and dogs came as a literal shock for one 35-year-old French woman, according to a case report published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine. The woman learned her three-month ordeal of worsening muscle weakness and electrical zaps in both legs was ultimately caused by worms that…

Health Ed Cara

People Are Getting Sick With a Parasite After Eating McDonald’s Salads

Even under the best of circumstances, ordering salad at McDonald’s is a dicey endeavor. But now an outbreak of the foodborne parasite cyclospora has sickened over 100 people in Iowa and Illinois since May, and several cases are tied to salads purchased at the fast food giant. The outbreaks were jointly reported Thursday by Iowa…

Health Ed Cara

Two Cancer Drugs Found to Boost Aging Immune Systems

Drugs that can lengthen life have long been a hallmark of speculative science fiction—many hope for an invention that could extend average lifespans well into the triple digits in the distant future. But the timeline of these drugs could be shorter than we think. A new clinical trial published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine has…

Health Ed Cara

Pregnant Millennials May Get Depression More Than Their Mothers in the 1990s

Being a millennial is no picnic. But a new study published this Friday in JAMA Open suggests it’s especially hard for expectant moms. It found that pregnant women today are more likely to feel depressed than their mothers were during their pregnancies a generation ago. Researchers looked at data from an ongoing population study in…

Health Ed Cara

Honey Smacks Linked to Salmonella Outbreak Still on Store Shelves, FDA Says

Despite a massive recall of Honey Smacks last month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that some grocery stores and other retailers are still selling the cereal from a batch that has been linked to a salmonella outbreak across the United States. An estimated 1.3 million cases of Honey Smacks were taken off…

Health AJ Dellinger

Dog Owners Fake-Cried So Researchers Could Confirm the Sweet Truth About Our Pups

FDA Now Chill About the ‘Blood’ in Plant-Based Impossible Burgers

Generic Viagra Trial Among Pregnant Women Shuts Down After 11 Newborn Deaths

Yelp Will Now Show You Restaurant Hygiene Scores

Common Food Additives Could Have ‘Lifelong’ Health Consequences, Pediatrician Group Warns

Juul Customers Are Going to Court Over Allegedly Super-Addictive E-Cigarettes

Irate Polish Dog Lovers Flame Costco on Facebook for Abandoning Their Beloved Sausage

Bayer Will Soon Stop U.S. Sales of Controversial Birth Control Implant Essure

Study: Eating Beef Jerky Might Be Linked to Manic Episodes in Some People

Raw Turkey Is Spreading Superbug Salmonella

An Experimental Painkiller Combines the Best Parts of Botox and Opioids—at Least in Mice

More Young Adults Are Dying From Alcohol-Caused Liver Disease

Woman With Face ‘Completely Covered With Bees‘ Stung 200 Times

The Waterpik ‘Flossing Toothbrush’ Is Being Recalled Because It Might Set Your Bathroom on Fire

Prankster Tricks Wyoming City Into Growing Weed in Its Downtown Decorative Flower Pots

Doctors Find Tapeworm Larvae in Spine of Woman Hobbled by ‘Electric Shocks’ in Legs

People Are Getting Sick With a Parasite After Eating McDonald’s Salads

Two Cancer Drugs Found to Boost Aging Immune Systems

Pregnant Millennials May Get Depression More Than Their Mothers in the 1990s

Honey Smacks Linked to Salmonella Outbreak Still on Store Shelves, FDA Says

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

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Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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