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A Baby Conceived in 1992 Was Born Just Last Month

Wrap your head around this one: On November 25, 2017 a healthy baby girl was born to a 26-year-old mother in Tennessee—but the embryo that would later result in the baby was conceived and cryogenically frozen in 1992. It’s now considered the oldest known frozen embryo to result in a successful birth. As CNN reports,…

Health George Dvorsky

Experimental Heroin Vaccine Triggers the Immune System So Mice Can’t Get High

One of the white whales of vaccine research—a cure for addiction—is a very small step closer to reality. Last week, researchers working at the Walter Reed Army Center published a study showing that their experimental vaccine was able to block the euphoria-inducing effects of heroin and other commonly abused opioids in mice and rats. Almost…

Health Ed Cara

The FDA Is Cracking Down on Homeopathic Remedies

Gwyneth, watch out. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to crack down on so-called “homeopathic remedies”—treatments that due to agency enforcement policy have managed to avoid regulatory oversight. But no more, says the agency. Many of those products, it said in a statement, aren’t just herbal tea cures for a sore throat.…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Are Screen Time Guidelines for Children Too Strict?

In guidelines produced last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised parents to limit screen time to one to two hours a day for children between the ages of two and five years. New research suggests these recommendations aren’t producing the desired psychological benefits, and that the AAP’s recommendations are unreasonably strict. But given how…

Health George Dvorsky

Boy, I Sure Wonder Why the CDC Has Banned Staff From Using a Bunch of Words Like ‘Science-Based’

Do you remember a time when life did not consist entirely of having your brain bludgeoned to mush with copies of The Art of the Deal? Nope? Didn’t think so. Anyhow, our rapidly decaying consensus reality took another neuron-devastating blow this week with news that scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must…

Health Tom McKay

California Warns People to Limit Exposure to Cellphones

Since the earliest days of mobile phones, a small but steady contingent of environmental activists, conspiracy-inclined folks, and some scientists have warned about the hidden damage they could be causing to our bodies, due to the radio frequency energy cellphones use to communicate with cell towers. They fear that this non-ionizing radiation could penetrate our…

Health Ed Cara

Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study

When it comes to preventing suicide, true breakthroughs are hard to come by. The overall rate of suicide in the U.S. has increased since the turn of the millennium, reaching a 30-year-high in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And although there are many drugs and therapy approaches available for people…

Health Ed Cara

The Doctor Who Branded a Patient’s Liver With His Initials Just Pled Guilty to Doing It Twice

Some people commemorate time spent together by etching their names onto an old tree or desk; others might get matching tattoos; and some just send a card. None of these gestures of love and camaraderie were enough for British surgeon Simon Bramhall, who burned his initials into at least two of his patients’ livers. Another…

Health Ed Cara

Bad News, Male Virgins: You Could Already Have HPV

If there’s one trick that terrible sex-ed programs rely on to scare teens out of boning, it’s the idea that only abstinence can keep you safe from spiritual ruin and disease. But a new study published in The Journal of Infectious Disease seems to undercut even the basic premise of that scare tactic: Being a…

Health Ed Cara

AI Will Turn Regular Fitness Trackers Into Potentially Life-Saving Medical Devices

When the Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it had approved the first-ever medical accessory for the Apple Watch—a wearable EKG monitor made by the medtech company AliveCor—it was big news. Apple has increasingly invested in health tech, eyeing it as a market where the Watch might hit big. The FDA announcement suggested that…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Scientists Figure Out Why Italian Family Can’t Feel Pain

An Italian woman, her two daughters, and her three grandchildren have always had trouble feeling pain. They can’t sense temperature. They break bones without noticing. Now, a team of scientists in the United Kingdom think they’ve figured out why. Pain—whether it’s the sharp agony of a stubbed toe or the warning heat that comes before…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

That ‘Man Flu’ Study Is From BMJ’s Irresponsible Holiday Issue (Updated)

Every December, for about the last 30 years according to the New York Times, the BMJ (formerly known as the British Medical Journal) publishes a batch of studies and papers that sound way more fun than the typical science fare. Last year, for instance, a Stanford epidemiologist asked whether caviar could be a risk factor…

Health Ed Cara

Brain Stimulation Trains Monkeys to Perform Tasks

Recall The Matrix. Neo asks Trinity if she can fly a helicopter. She can’t. This has happened to most of us. But then, she makes a phone call to Tank, who uploads the knowledge of helicopter flight directly into her brain. I tell you this because a researcher at the University of Rochester implied to…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

This Temporary Tattoo Is Made From Living Cells

It’s a little more high-tech than the tattoos you might remember fishing out of the bottom of a Cracker Jack box as a kid. Engineers at MIT have developed a temporary tattoo that’s 3-D printed with living ink. The tattoo is made up of bacterial cells that are genetically programmed to light up when exposed…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Why DARPA Is Investing Big in Gene Drives

A powerful and controversial new genetic engineering technology called a gene drive offers the potential to drastically reshape our world by overriding natural selection. And the US military’s research arm is one of the technology’s biggest research funders. It’s no secret that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has its eye on gene drive technology.…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Why a DNA Test Is Actually a Really Bad Gift

If you’d like to gift your loved ones the chance of unwittingly sharing extremely sensitive personal information, then a DNA testing kit may be the perfect stocking stuffer-sized present. But if you’d rather not have your mom or dad or girlfriend send away private health information with a tube of their spittle, we’d strongly suggest…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Spooked by Amazon, CVS Decides to Buy Massive Health Insurer Aetna

E-commerce giant Amazon’s power has steadily grown to the point where it can flash-fry competitors just by pointing its fearsome gaze in the general direction of their retail sector, like a magnifying glass aimed at ants or a really efficient Eye of Sauron. Now it’s eyeing moving into the pharmacy sector, and competitors are sufficiently…

Health Tom McKay

Why Basement Biohackers Might Need to Start Fearing the FDA

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a stern warning to biohackers in America: Undertaking DIY gene therapy, it warned, is risky, and selling the supplies to do it is flat-out against the law. “FDA is aware that gene therapy products intended for self-administration and ‘do it yourself’ kits to produce gene therapies for…

Health Kristen V. Brown

For the First Time in Decades, a Drug for Migraines Shows Promise

A new drug, called Erenumab, has shown promise in preventing migraine attacks, the intense headaches that chronically plague millions of adults each year in the US alone. Erenumab is a lab-made antibody that works by blocking a neural pathway called CGRP. Data from a recent phase three reported Thursday in the New England Journal of…

Health Kristen V. Brown

Unconscious Patient With ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Tattoo Causes Ethical Conundrum at Hospital

When an unresponsive patient arrived at a Florida hospital ER, the medical staff was taken aback upon discovering the words “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” tattooed onto the man’s chest—with the word “NOT” underlined and with his signature beneath it. Confused and alarmed, the medical staff chose to ignore the apparent DNR request—but not without alerting the…

Health George Dvorsky

A Baby Conceived in 1992 Was Born Just Last Month

Experimental Heroin Vaccine Triggers the Immune System So Mice Can’t Get High

The FDA Is Cracking Down on Homeopathic Remedies

Are Screen Time Guidelines for Children Too Strict?

Boy, I Sure Wonder Why the CDC Has Banned Staff From Using a Bunch of Words Like ‘Science-Based’

California Warns People to Limit Exposure to Cellphones

Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study

The Doctor Who Branded a Patient’s Liver With His Initials Just Pled Guilty to Doing It Twice

Bad News, Male Virgins: You Could Already Have HPV

AI Will Turn Regular Fitness Trackers Into Potentially Life-Saving Medical Devices

Scientists Figure Out Why Italian Family Can’t Feel Pain

That ‘Man Flu’ Study Is From BMJ’s Irresponsible Holiday Issue (Updated)

Brain Stimulation Trains Monkeys to Perform Tasks

This Temporary Tattoo Is Made From Living Cells

Why DARPA Is Investing Big in Gene Drives

Why a DNA Test Is Actually a Really Bad Gift

Spooked by Amazon, CVS Decides to Buy Massive Health Insurer Aetna

Why Basement Biohackers Might Need to Start Fearing the FDA

For the First Time in Decades, a Drug for Migraines Shows Promise

Unconscious Patient With ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ Tattoo Causes Ethical Conundrum at Hospital

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

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

Apple Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK Now. Could the US Be Next?

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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