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Poo Germs, Not Sharks, Make Swimming in the Ocean So Treacherous

It’s polluted, germ-filled sludge, not sharks, that will make going to the beach more dangerous than just staying home this summer—at least according to a cleverly titled review published this week in the International Journal of Epidemiology. Researchers looked at 40 past studies that examined whether people who regularly swam in seawater experienced any increased…

Health Ed Cara

Study Shows Just How Stressed Out Latino Parents Are Over Immigration Policy

Much of the discussion around U.S. immigration policy has focused on how it might affect undocumented residents, but new research finds that even Latino U.S. citizens are experiencing high levels of anxiety and distress over the current immigration debate. The study, published today in the Journal of Adolescent Health, might be one of the first…

Health Ed Cara

There’s a Tiny Dip in Gun Injuries When Gun Owners Head to Annual NRA Convention

Gun advocates often argue that guns are only dangerous to the public when wielded by amateurs, criminals, and the mentally ill. But a study this week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that people are a little bit safer from guns when tens of thousands of experienced gun owners pack up for the…

Health Ed Cara

Doctors Think They’ve Nabbed Culprit Behind Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Paralyzing Kids

Since 2014, doctors have been stymied by a medical mystery: People, mostly children, were coming down with a previously unknown, polio-like illness that causes paralysis. Now, an international team of doctors published in The Lancet believe they’ve managed to confirm the main culprit. Ever since the defeat of polio in the U.S. a half-century ago,…

Health Ed Cara

Your Hatred of Body Odor Reveals Your Inner Dictator, Study Finds

There’s been no shortage of pundit pontification and data analysis that’s tried to figure out why people voted for now President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. But a new study published today in Royal Society Open Science suggests that one seemingly unrelated behavioral quirk might have played a small role: An abject hatred of…

Health Ed Cara

This Guy Injected His Dick With Stem Cells to Try to Make It Bigger

Ben Greenfield is a cult figure among fitness fanatics, a guru to the sort of nerds who devote themselves to meticulously monitoring their own biometric data for insight into their personal health. He has more than 50,000 Twitter followers, 60,000 Facebook fans, and 30,000 YouTube subscribes. Now he may become known for something else entirely:…

Health Kristen V. Brown

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

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

Vaccinations Drop in Europe, and the Result Was Over 21,000 Cases of Measles

Measles is pulling off a disconcerting resurgence across the continent of Europe at the same time the vaccination rate is falling, per recent data from the World Health Organization. Over 21,000 people caught measles across the continent in 2017, “following a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016,” the WHO wrote in a press release.…

Health Tom McKay

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

In a ‘Key Milestone,’ Scientists Get a Clear Look at Huntington’s Disease Protein

Scientists announced that they have observed the structure of huntingtin, a large and essential protein in many animals’ bodies which, when produced by a mutated gene, causes Huntington’s disease in humans. Huntington’s disease is a heartbreaking disorder that causes degrading brain cells, leading to difficulties controlling movement and behavior, and eventually death. There’s no known…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

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

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

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

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

Florida State House Declares Porn Is a Health Risk, Assault Weapons Totally Fine Though

Legislators in Florida—where a gunman authorities later identified as Nikolas Cruz opened fire on the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, killing at least 17 last week—have apparently decided that the threat they need to focus on right now is pornography. Per the Sun Sentinel, as surviving students from the…

Health Tom McKay

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

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

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

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

Poo Germs, Not Sharks, Make Swimming in the Ocean So Treacherous

Study Shows Just How Stressed Out Latino Parents Are Over Immigration Policy

There’s a Tiny Dip in Gun Injuries When Gun Owners Head to Annual NRA Convention

Doctors Think They’ve Nabbed Culprit Behind Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Paralyzing Kids

Your Hatred of Body Odor Reveals Your Inner Dictator, Study Finds

This Guy Injected His Dick With Stem Cells to Try to Make It Bigger

FDA Expanding Research Ops to Better Fight the Opioid Epidemic

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

Vaccinations Drop in Europe, and the Result Was Over 21,000 Cases of Measles

We Might Have Finally Reached Peak Flu

In a ‘Key Milestone,’ Scientists Get a Clear Look at Huntington’s Disease Protein

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

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

Florida State House Declares Porn Is a Health Risk, Assault Weapons Totally Fine Though

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

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

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

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

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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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