UCLA Scientists Just Found A Way To Reverse Fatty Liver Disease Without Changing Diet
Scientists at UCLA have discovered that a specific group of dysfunctional immune cells quietly accumulates in the liver as people age and in people with fatty liver disease, and that eliminating these cells in mice reversed the liver damage entirely, even when the animals kept eating an unhealthy diet throughout. The cells, which researchers describe […]
Replacing Opioids With A Cannabis Compound That Has No High And No Addiction
Scientists are closing in on something the medical world has been searching for for decades: a way to treat chronic pain as effectively as opioids, without the addiction, overdose risk, or mind-altering effects that make opioids so dangerous. Two separate research teams have recently made significant progress toward that goal using compounds derived from the […]
A Common Plant That Grows In Your Backyard Could Be The Answer To Microplastics In Drinking Water
Scientists in Brazil have discovered that seeds from the moringa tree, a plant native to India that grows widely across the tropics and is already consumed as food in many parts of the world, can remove microplastics from drinking water as effectively as the industrial chemical currently used to treat water supplies. Microplastics, tiny fragments […]
Scientists Just Discovered A Protein That Has Been Silently Aging Your Immune System And They Found How To Stop It
Scientists at the University of Tokyo and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered an unexpected way that the immune system ages, and in doing so they may have uncovered a new path toward keeping it young for much longer. The culprit turns out to be a protein called MLKL, long known for its role […]
95% Of People Carry This Virus For Life And Scientists Just Found A Way To Stop It
A virus that 95 percent of the global population carries silently for life has long resisted efforts to stop it, but scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle have just announced a breakthrough that could finally change that. The Epstein-Barr virus, which most people encounter in childhood and which lies dormant in the body […]
New York Just Made Billionaires Pay For The Services Working New Yorkers Depend On
New York City is taking a significant step toward funding free childcare, cleaner streets, safer neighborhoods, and other public services by doing something that cities around the world have long debated but rarely pulled off: making the ultra-wealthy pay into a city they profit from without actually living in. A new tax on luxury second […]
A New Study Of 10,000 People Just Put The Fluoride Fear To Rest
A major new study has put one of the most widely circulated health fears of recent years to rest, finding that exposure to fluoride in drinking water during childhood has no effect on IQ or cognitive function at any point in life. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, and the University […]
Woman Injected Her Own Tumor With A Virus She Grew In Her Lab.
When Dr. Beata Halassy learned in 2020 that her breast cancer had returned for the third time, she faced a choice that almost no one else on earth could have made. A virologist at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, she had spent her career growing and studying viruses in the laboratory, and after two […]
Cancer Patients Are Watching Their Tumors Disappear Without Surgery And Doctors Are In Disbelief
After nearly a century of development, a new wave of cancer treatment is achieving results that doctors are describing as almost impossible to believe. Immunotherapy works by training the body’s own immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells, rather than attacking tumors with toxic drugs or radiation, and it is now producing outcomes once […]
Dark Chocolate Contains Something That Slows Down How You Age
Scientists just handed chocolate lovers some genuinely exciting news, and this time it has nothing to do with the taste. Researchers at King’s College London analyzed blood samples from more than 1,600 adults across the United Kingdom and Germany and found that people with higher levels of a natural compound called theobromine in their blood […]