The Supreme Court Just Stepped In To Preserve Mail Access To The Most Common Abortion Medication In The US
The Supreme Court stepped in on Monday to temporarily preserve telehealth and mail access to mifepristone, the medication used in more than 60 percent of abortions in the United States, while the justices review emergency appeals challenging a lower court ruling that had reinstated a nationwide requirement that the drug be obtained in person. The […]
Scientists Just Proved For The First Time That Human Hearts Can Repair Themselves After A Heart Attack
For decades, medicine has operated on a widely accepted assumption: when a heart attack destroys heart muscle cells, they are gone permanently, replaced by scar tissue, with no hope of natural repair. A landmark study from the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute, and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital has now overturned that assumption for […]
He Was One Of The First People To Get A Pig Kidney And His Story Traces The Golden Age Of Transplant Medicine
Tim Andrews of Concord, New Hampshire was running out of options three years ago when doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital offered him a chance at something the world had never seen: a genetically modified pig kidney, transplanted into a living human being. Andrews became one of the first 10 people in history to undergo the […]
The 2026 Met Gala Was Absolutely Iconic, Here Are Some Of The Best Moments
Fashion’s biggest night delivered. The 2026 Met Gala themed “Costume Art,” with a dress code of “Fashion Is Art” took over the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday night, and the looks, surprises, and sheer spectacle did not disappoint. The undisputed headline of the evening was Beyoncé, who returned to the Met Gala red carpet […]
A 12-Year-Old Fighting Brain Cancer Raised $22 At A Lemonade Stand For Research And Then Something Incredible Happened
When 12-year-old Rowan Rieve learned that federal funding for childhood brain tumor research had been cut, he set up a lemonade and sweet tea stand with his friends, raised $22.25, and brought every coin to his next cancer appointment in a small plastic bag for the research team, telling his doctor simply that the hospital […]
Every Patient In This Bowel Cancer Trial Has Been Cancer Free For Nearly Three Years
In one of the most striking results from any cancer clinical trial in recent years, every single patient in a bowel cancer study has remained cancer-free for nearly three years after receiving a short course of immunotherapy before surgery, with zero relapses recorded in the entire cohort as of the latest follow-up data. The NEOPRISM-CRC […]
Colorado Just Banned Pet Store Dog And Cat Sales
Colorado has become the latest state to ban the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores, with Governor Jared Polis signing the measure into law this week and declaring that Colorado is going to help shut down the puppy mill pipeline. The new law, formally known as House Bill 26-1011 and nicknamed the Pistol […]
Happy Star Wars Day! The Galaxy Far Far Away Is More Popular Than Ever
May the 4th be with you. Today is Star Wars Day, and Nielsen just dropped the numbers to prove that nearly 50 years after the first film hit theaters, the galaxy far, far away has never had a bigger audience. According to fresh data released this morning, U.S. viewers streamed a staggering 33 billion minutes […]
Scientists Just Restored Memory In Alzheimers Models By Blocking One Protein And The Implications Are Huge
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have identified a new potential strategy for fighting Alzheimer’s disease, finding that blocking a single protein called PTP1B restored memory and improved the brain’s ability to clear the toxic plaque buildup that drives the disease in mouse models. The protein PTP1B was first discovered by lead researcher Professor Nicholas […]
Manhattan Restaurant Owner Has Been Feeding And Sheltering Homeless People Every Week
On East 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, a Turkish restaurant owner named Ali Riza Dogan has been doing something quietly extraordinary for years: every Wednesday night at eight o’clock, regardless of weather, he heads to Chinatown to personally serve warm meals of lamb, chicken, and Mediterranean sides to people experiencing homelessness, and on cold nights […]