Around 10 million new cases of dementia are diagnosed globally every year, with Alzheimer’s disease accounting for 60-70% of cases. Alzheimer’s first steals memories, then independence, and finally the ties that hold families together. Existing medications can help some people think a little clearly for a while. A few may slow down the decline for...
Hearing that a medication you take every day might not be safe anymore can really make your stomach drop. That is what happened when a blood pressure drug recalled by Teva Pharmaceuticals hit the news. The company found a chemical impurity in several batches of prazosin hydrochloride, something that could increase cancer risk over time....
When 23 year old actress Isabelle Tate passed away on October 19, her cause of death shocked fans everywhere. Reports confirmed she died from a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a condition that affects the nerves and muscles in the body. Her story feels both heartbreaking and inspiring, showing how rare disorders can shape lives...
Joan Bennett Kennedy taught her son something when he was 12 years old, lying in a hospital bed with part of his leg gone from cancer. He was trying not to cry. Trying to be brave. She held his hand and told him, “Brave boys can cry, too.” That was the kind of woman she...
Edgar Cayce was one of America’s most celebrated psychics in history. Born on March 18, 1877, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Cayce lived a humble life before gaining fame. He died on January 3, 1945, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at age 67. Cayce worked as a Sunday school teacher and photographer with little formal education beyond 8th...
When a truck carrying lab monkeys overturned on a Mississippi highway, a normal day turned into chaos. Crates fell apart, monkeys ran into the trees, and soon rumors spread that the animals carried hepatitis, herpes, or even COVID. What started as a simple accident quickly became a public scare. As responders rushed in, the quiet...
When 75-year-old grandfather Dave Richards began a bike ride with friends in July 2021, he expected nothing more than a pleasant afternoon. But in a few chaotic seconds, his life changed forever. A drunk driver, distracted by his phone, sped up behind the cyclists and crashed into them. Richards got pinned beneath the vehicle. The...
Texas has sued the makers of Tylenol, saying they misled pregnant women about possible neurodevelopmental risks. The case arrives as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration begins a label-change process and notifies physicians about studies that suggest an association. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists responded on the same day, affirming acetaminophen’s role in...
Let’s be real, the discovery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was pretty exciting on its own. But then headlines started appearing that suggested that it could perhaps be more than just a comet. One man in particular, Avi Loeb, suggested that while it may not be a spacecraft, there was a chance that the object...
A groundbreaking new procedure has restored the vision of 14 people with blinding cornea injuries in one eye. To treat this, the researchers and surgeons transplanted corneal cells from the healthy eye onto a damaged eye. The treatment, called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell (CALEC) transplantation, was developed by a team of experts from Harvard...
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing was held on the 4th of September 2025. It put Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. under an intense spotlight. Senators from both parties pressed him on vaccine policy, his firing of the CDC director, and sweeping personnel changes. Kennedy defended the shake-ups, regarding them as...
Not too long ago, AI just used to serve as the obligatory plot driver of your average science fiction movie. Then suddenly, all these big language models felt like they arrived out of nowhere. Now they are absolutely everywhere, from our social apps to our work. Suddenly, everyone had an opinion about where this all...
