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Every year, tens of thousands receive new organs. Kidneys top the list. Livers follow close. Success rates impress. But lifelong drugs shadow every victory. Immunosuppressant...
The gas turbines run around the clock. Dozens of them, arrayed across a sprawling facility in southwest Memphis, burning natural gas to feed one of the most power-hungry arti...
Max Hodak wants to put living cells inside your skull. Not as a metaphor. Not as a far-off research concept. As an actual medical device, implanted in an actual human being,...
A former neuroscience researcher thinks she can fix one of the brain's oldest limitations — its tendency to forget. And she's raised real money to try.Tina Bhargava, w...
A federal health report years in the making has confirmed what some researchers suspected early on: COVID-19 vaccines carry a statistically meaningful association with vaccin...
The half-life of caffeine in the human body is roughly five hours. This is one of the most frequently cited facts in sleep science, nutrition advice, and casual conversation...
The math is brutal. Infants under 12 months can't receive the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. That means millions of babies in the United States depend entirely on the i...
For more than four decades, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has served as the scientific backbone of America's vaccination policy. Its recommendations determ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention completed a study showing clear benefits of updated COVID-19 vaccines for adults — and a senior Trump administration official b...
The Office of Personnel Management has proposed a rule that would give the federal government broad authority to collect the medical records of its own employees — and the ju...
The pharmaceutical industry has spent decades building global supply chains that stretch from chemical plants in China and India to sterile manufacturing floors in Ireland an...
The thermometer didn't lie. March 2025 was the warmest March ever recorded across the contiguous United States, a record stretching back 132 years to 1893. The average temper...
Kecia Steelman has been running Ulta Beauty for less than a year, and she's already identified a force that could reshape the entire beauty retail business. It isn't a new so...
Google is rebuilding the front door to its flagship AI chatbot — not to make it smarter, but to make it harder to misuse.The company announced a significant interface...