Eli Lilly’s oral pill for weight loss and diabetes demonstrated success in another late-stage clinical trial.
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The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced last week that its investigational drug, orforglipron, proved effective in a third…
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How mRNA Vaccine Platform Suffers Mainly From Manufactured Distrust
WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently stated that the mRNA technology…
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ChatGPT Parental Controls Will Sound Alert When Child Is Distressed
ChatGPT will alert parents to concerning conversations
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OpenAI has announced a series of measures to protect vulnerable users, including ChatGPT parental controls that notify parents when their child is distressed.
The parents of 16-year-old…
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How Are Health Data Priced? Why Health Data Are Like Zika Prevention Programs
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Imagine pricing a product that spreads on its own and benefits people who never even touch it. That might sound like science fiction, but it’s remarkably similar to the story of…
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Scientists discover how to wipe out breast cancer’s hidden cells
A first-of-its-kind, federally funded clinical trial has shown it’s possible to identify breast cancer survivors who are at higher risk of their cancer coming back due to the presence of dormant cancer cells and to effectively treat these cells…
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Study finds cannabis improves sleep where other drugs fail
Insomnia patients taking cannabis-based medical products reported better quality sleep after up to 18 months of treatment, according to a study published August 27 in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health by Arushika Aggarwal from Imperial…
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Adding more green space to a campus is a simple, cheap and healthy way to help millions of stressed and depressed college students
Stress on college students can be palpable, and it hits them from every direction: academic challenges, social pressures and financial burdens, all intermingled with their first taste of independence. It’s part of the reason why anxiety…
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Scientists reveal how breathwork unlocks psychedelic bliss in the brain
Breathwork while listening to music may induce a blissful state in practitioners, accompanied by changes in blood flow to emotion-processing brain regions, according to a study published August 27, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Amy…
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The midlife crisis is over, but something worse took its place
A new survey-based study suggests that the “unhappiness hump” — a widely documented rise in worry, stress, and depression with age that peaks in midlife and then declines — may have disappeared, perhaps due to declining mental health among…
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Powerful new painkiller ADRIANA shows promise in ending opioid dependence
Opioids like morphine are widely used in medical practice due to their powerful pain-relieving effects. However, they carry the risk of serious adverse effects such as respiratory depression and drug dependence. For this reason, Japan has strict…
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