‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78
Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron ...
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FDA approves first drug for common form of liver inflammation
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medication for a common form of liver ...
Deep brain stimulation didn’t work for a young OCD patient until new brain maps changed everything
Five years ago, in a wheelchair, Julia Hum was admitted to a state mental hospital ...
A significant number of US 12th-graders report using delta-8 products, study says, and it may be a public health concern
High school seniors’ use of delta-8, a cannabis compound that’s sometimes marketed as “light THC” ...
New study challenges scale of maternal health crisis in the US
Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and ...
Biden administration announces focus on ‘flooding the zone’ with life-saving overdose reversal medicine
The Biden administration launched an initiative Wednesday that it describes as a nationwide call to ...
Living drugs that reprogram patients’ immune cells show early promise against hard-to-treat brain tumors
For decades, a diagnosis of glioblastoma – an aggressive, hard-to-treat cancer in the brain – ...
Doctors identify source of man’s migraines: tapeworm larvae, likely from undercooked bacon, in his brain
A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his ...
This risk assessment tool helped Olivia Munn discover her breast cancer
A tool that’s available as an online calculator played a key role in actress Olivia ...
People in East Palestine were told their homes were clear of toxins last year. That might not have been the case
When government officials lifted an evacuation order for people who lived near the site of ...
