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 […]
Mexico Just Gave 130 Million People Access To Free Healthcare At Any Hospital
More than 130 million people in Mexico are on the verge of gaining something that could change their lives in a very practical way: the ability to walk into any public hospital or clinic in the country and receive care, no matter where they work, what they earn, or which health program they belong to. […]
Your Cat May Be The Secret Weapon Against Breast Cancer
Scientists have long known that cats share their homes, their routines, and their daily environmental exposure with their owners, but a landmark new study has revealed they may also share something far more surprising: a potential key to fighting breast cancer. An international research team conducted the world’s first large-scale genetic analysis of cancer in […]
The Man Who Just Became Only The Seventh Person Cured Of HIV
A 60-year-old man in Berlin has become only the seventh person in recorded history to be cured of HIV, and the circumstances surrounding his case have left the scientific community genuinely stunned. The man was diagnosed with HIV in 2009 and later developed a serious form of blood cancer that required a full stem cell […]
World’s First Human Trial Of A Drug That Regrows Adult Teeth
Most people assume that losing an adult tooth means living without it forever. A team in Japan is working to change that, and they have now begun the world’s first human trial of a drug designed to make adults grow a third set of teeth. Beneath every person’s gums are dormant tooth buds, the biological […]