Medicine(Page 3)

Insights into the healthcare system and the latest in pharmaceutical development.

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Toxoplasma gondii oocyst under the microscope, isolated

Bioengineered parasites may one day deliver meds into your brain

a scientists with a gloved hand prepares a blood sample in a test tube

FDA approves new blood test to detect colon cancer

By Laura Baisas

Why millions are trying FDA-authorized alternatives to Big Pharma’s weight loss drugs

By Arthur Allen/KFF Health News

Close up of pills in blister packs

How will astronauts handle expired drugs on Mars?

Nubian spitting cobra (

Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

Pain doesn’t belong on a scale of zero to 10

Pain doesn’t belong on a scale of zero to 10

By Elisabeth Rosenthal/KFF Health News

Close up of human brain neuron

Lab-grown human brain tissue used to control robot

Water tank used for wave modulation system

Sound waves power ping-pong ball through aquatic obstacle course

'fraud' written over man in brain device

In the 1960s, swindlers pushed fake radioactive medicine

By Popular Science Team

a tardigrade. these microscopic animals have right legs and round bear-like bodies with a small pointy appendage in front.

Tardigrade genes edited with an advanced CRISPR technique

By Laura Baisas

a black widow spider on a leaf. the spider is black with a red marking on its abdomen.

New experimental black widow venom antidote uses human antibodies

By Laura Baisas

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy machine in hospital laboratory.

New technology could shrink bulky MRI machines

Hand holding Neuralink implant

85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient

Neuralink N1 implant device breakdown

Neuralink seeks its next brain implant volunteer

Three 3D printed polypills

One 3D-printed ‘polypill’ could fit an entire day’s medications

Gene therapy breakthrough allows toddler born deaf to hear

Tandem insulin pump installed on woman's stomach

FDA issues recall for diabetes app after over 200 reported injuries

Close up of orangutan

Orangutan observed using a plant to treat an open wound

Alexander Milton Ross

The bombastic 19th-century anti-vaxxer who fueled Montreal’s smallpox epidemic

By Sabrina Sholts / MIT Press Reader

shelled and unshelled peanuts on a table

After 100 years, new guidelines propose rules for common food allergy treatment

By Laura Baisas

an yellow-ish bag of liver cells in a suspension.

Experimental treatment grows livers from lymph nodes

By Laura Baisas

Users wearing BCI cap to play video game

This cap is a big step towards universal, noninvasive brain-computer interfaces

Bladder sensor next to smartphone displaying its app

This implant will tell a smartphone app when you need to pee

surgeons in an operating room

Surgeons complete first-ever gene-edited pig kidney transplant

By Mack DeGeurin

Neuralink shows first human patient using brain implant to play online chess

Woman talking with nurse chatbot on iPad

Silicon Valley wants to deploy AI nursebots to handle your care

The decades-long quest for lab-grown organs

The decades-long quest for lab-grown organs

By Bill Gourgey

A doctor puts a bandage on the upper arm of a senior citizen.

CDC recommends Americans 65 and over get additional COVID-19 vaccine

By Laura Baisas

Varda W-1 capsule reentry video screenshot

Watch the plasma fly in space capsule’s dramatic fall to Earth

A syringe with a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine next to its packaging.

How to check your measles vaccination status amid outbreak

By Laura Baisas

Pigs in sty at factory farm

Gene-edited pigs immune to deadly virus could arrive on farms by next year

Surgeon using spaceMIRA remote surgery tool on ISS

First remote, zero-gravity surgery performed on the ISS from Earth (on rubber)

Illustration of 3D printed brain tissue culture with 25nm scale

Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue

Stem cells found in menstrual blood could unlock new therapies and diagnostic tests.

The untapped potential of stem cells in menstrual blood

By Sneha Khedkar / Knowable Magazine

Elon Musk alleges Neuralink completed its first human trial implant

Just cutting DNA to bits isn’t a big deal. The special trick that CRISPR systems add is to make those cuts only in precise, targeted spots.

What’s going on with CRISPR gene editing?

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

The packaging for an inhaler called Flovent HFA. Flovent is a popular inhaled corticosteroid that helps keep inflammation in the lungs low and the airways open for people with asthma.

Popular corticosteroid asthma inhaler Flovent was discontinued this month

By Laura Baisas

Brainoware biocomputing study illustration

A ‘brain organoid’ biochip displayed serious voice recognition and math skills

Pharmacy shelves stocked with medications

Law enforcements can obtain prescription records from pharmacy giants without a warrant

A researcher handles a petri dish while observing a CRISPR/Cas9 process through a stereomicroscope at the Max-Delbrueck-Centre for Molecular Medicine.

FDA approves the first gene-editing treatment in the US

By Laura Baisas

Researchers working with laser array in lab

Swapping surgical bone saws for laser beams

A woman in pain puts her hands up to her nosed with her eyes closed.

It’s stuffy nose season. Here’s how to cope

By Laura Baisas

colorful dna strands; illustration

Can our eyes ever fix themselves?

By Aparna Nathan

A researcher handles a petri dish while observing a CRISPR/Cas9 process through a stereomicroscope at the Max-Delbrueck-Centre for Molecular Medicine.

The UK becomes the first country to approve CRISPR treatment

By Laura Baisas

Close up of doctor's hand attaching wearable soft stethoscope patch to patient's chest

This tiny wireless wearable continuously monitors your body’s internal soundtrack

The synthetic melanin is being applied to Inflamed skin. Just under the surface of the skin are green free radicals, also known as ROS, or "reactive oxygen species."

Lab-made ‘super melanin’ speeds up healing and boosts sun protection

By Laura Baisas

A microscopic image of small drug-resistant germs in yellow surrounding a larger human cell, in red.

Poop transplants might protect vulnerable patients from superbug infections

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A box of a nasal decongestant called SudafedPe on a store shelf.

CVS to stop selling cold and allergy pills that FDA warns don’t work

By Laura Baisas

Red and white tianeptine antidepressant pills, which are unregulated by the FDA, on a hand on a red background

The US won’t regulate this deadly, addictive antidepressant

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

This non-invasive device blasts apart tumors with sound waves

This non-invasive device blasts apart tumors with sound waves

By Charlotte Hu

Patient wearing a highly integrated bionic hand in between many others

Titanium-fused bone tissue connects this bionic hand directly to a patient’s nerves

Bacteriophage destroying antibiotic-resistant bacteria during phage therapy. Illustration.

Viruses could be an unlikely ally in battling antibiotic-resistant bacteria

By Jessica Craig

Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity

Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity

By Karin Modig/The Conversation

Many schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma

Many schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma

By Rae Ellen Bichell and Virginia Garcia Pivik/KFF Health News

Sweat sensor worn like a ring on finger

A new noninvasive patch could monitor a vital hormone

mass-casualty triage occurring via different technologies

DARPA wants to modernize how first responders do triage during disasters

By Sarah Scoles

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. This is an illustration of the two scientists.

mRNA vaccine innovators win the Nobel Prize in medicine

By Laura Baisas

An open mouth showing a drug delivery patch adhered to a cheek.

Afraid of needles? Check out this octopus-inspired drug patch.

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Elon Musk in suit

Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts

Spider silk stronger than Kevlar spun by an unlikely source

Spider silk stronger than Kevlar spun by an unlikely source

Elon Musk sitting with finger tips touching in steeple shape

Neuralink is searching for its first human test subjects

Sick person with tan skin and black hair checking fever on a thermometer

What makes a fever an infection-busting superpower

By Edmund K. LeGrand and Joe Alcock/The Conversation

Do I need a COVID booster? And all of your other questions answered.

Do I need a COVID booster? And all of your other questions answered.

By Arthur Allen/KFF Health News

Turmeric may help stomach aches, study shows

Turmeric may help stomach aches, study shows

By Sara Kiley Watson