Health

The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF

A look back at the history of infertility treatments and ahead to the tech that could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.

Kristin Houser

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Drugs

The exciting research that may cure Parkinson’s

GeneCode is developing a drug it hopes won’t just alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms but also protect and restore patient’s neural health.

Kevin Dickinson

A child sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, holding and looking intently at a tablet, as if testing the Goldilocks hypothesis for the perfect screen brightness.

Mental Health

Beyond screen time: Rethinking kids’ tech use with the “Goldilocks hypothesis”

The “Goldilocks hypothesis” asks parents to think beyond screen time and consider the habits that teens build around technology use.

Kevin Dickinson

Medicine

Does online opioid treatment work?

A sudden shift to virtual health care has increased access — and possibly outcomes — for patients with opioid use disorder.

Lola Butcher | Knowable Magazine

Coronavirus

Volunteers were purposefully infected with COVID-19. Was it worth it?

It has been a year since the first COVID human challenge data was published. What did we learn, and can HCTs prepare us for the future?

B. David Zarley

Medicine

New drug could extend lives of people with deadly bone cancer

A new drug might extend the lives of people with bone cancer without subjecting them to painful or unpleasant treatments.

Kristin Houser

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Neuroscience

Scientists inject stem cells into the brain of Parkinson’s patient

A new stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease has just been administered to the brain of a person for the first time.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

New kind of pill cut “bad” cholesterol up to 60% in clinical trial

In a phase 2 trial, a daily oral medication reduced LDL cholesterol levels by up to 60%.

B. David Zarley

Mental Health

Exercise is even more effective than counselling or medication for depression

A recent study showed exercise is an effective way to treat mental health issues – and can be more effective than medication or counselling.

Jacinta Brinsley and Carol Maher and Ben Singh

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Medicine

Scientists treated heart attacks in mice — before they happened

By toggling an important heart gene, scientists have treated mice for a heart attack preemptively.

B. David Zarley

Surgery

New transplant technique cures type 1 diabetes in monkeys

Massachusetts General researchers have developed a new form of transplantation that cured type 1 diabetes in monkeys.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Tirzepatide: A novel obesity drug ushers in a new era of weight loss — because this one works (Updated)

Patients who received tirzepatide in a recent clinical study lost more than 20% of their body weight (52 pounds, or 23.6 kg).

Peter Rogers

woman in hospital bed using nasal disinfecting device

Medicine

Lasers can help prevent surgical site infections in hospitals

Canadian company Ondine is using laser frequencies to help prevent surgical site infections.

B. David Zarley

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