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

Overlay of hands and abstract patterns in purple and blue tones, symbolizing hope for Parkinson's cure.

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

First-of-its-kind therapy sends girl’s incurable cancer into remission

A first-of-its-kind CAR T-cell therapy sent a UK girl’s blood cancer into remission when all other treatments failed.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine reduces risk of recurrence or death by 44%

Moderna’s new mRNA cancer vaccine reduced melanoma patients’ risk of recurrence or death by 44% compared to a standard treatment alone.

Kristin Houser

Mental Health

Anxiety treatment in early childhood can lower long-term mental health risks

Some anxiety is normal and, in fact, necessary and helpful. But what happens when it interferes with a child's daily functioning?

Elana Bernstein

Coronavirus

Cheap liver drug can prevent COVID-19

A cheap, readily available drug used to treat liver disease could also prevent COVID-19 infections — regardless of the variant.

Kristin Houser

Mental Health

A new class of antidepressant works in 2 hours

Most types of antidepressants work by increasing neurotransmitter levels throughout the brain, which take weeks. A new drug takes hours.

Peter Rogers

Public Health

Breakthrough drug cures sleeping sickness with one dose

A new, one-dose treatment for lethal sleeping sickness was 95% effective at clearing the parasite from patients.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

These tiny bubbles are “warheads” for killing cancer

By combining tiny nanobubbles with ultrasound, Israeli researchers showed they can destroy tumors.

B. David Zarley

Medicine

Old Parkinson’s drug helps teens with type 1 diabetes

The Parkinson’s disease drug bromocriptine lowered blood pressure and reduced aortic stiffness in young people with type 1 diabetes.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Scientists uncover key to future hepatitis C vaccine

While treatments are available for HCV-related infections, they are expensive, hard to access, and do not protect against reinfection.

Alba Torrents de la Peña and Lisa Eshun-Wilson

Medicine

FDA approves US’s first fecal transplant therapy

The FDA has approved Rebyota, a slurry used during fecal transplant therapy to treat recurrent C. difficile infections.

Kristin Houser

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