You’ve likely heard about vitamin D’s important role in maintaining strong bones and teeth. But it also plays several other important roles to keep your body healthy – including the function of your gut.
As part of our research on how…
Category: 5. Health
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Supreme Court considers whether states may prevent people covered by Medicaid from choosing Planned Parenthood as their health care provider
Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the Supreme Court is weighing whether people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance have that right, and if they do – is…
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Study finds nearly five-fold increase in hospitalizations for common cause of stroke
Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five-fold increase in the number of U.S. hospitalizations…
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Novel point-of-care technology delivers accurate HIV results in minutes
A team of Northwestern University scientists spanning disciplines have developed new technology that could lead to the creation of a rapid point-of-care test for HIV infection competitive with traditional lab-based HIV testing in a fraction of…
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Psychiatric BCI Gears Up For Prime Time
Inner Cosmos is developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) to help patients with treatment … More
Inner Cosmos is a startup reinventing care for depressed patients unresponsive to conventional pharmaceutical…
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New antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug
Researchers from the universities in Konstanz and Vienna discover a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. These substances trigger a self-destruction program, which also…
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InnovationRx: Trump Administration Health Agency Layoffs Threaten Biotech Innovation
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Trump’s massive health agency layoffs, Palantir’s trade secret lawsuit, Gather Health’s new primary care model, Airna’s $155 million deal, and more.
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Skin cells emit slow electrical pulses after injury
Wounded skin cells scream with slow-motion electric pulses.
Such electric spikes are a surprise because only nerve cells were thought to communicate this way. These signals move at a snail’s pace compared to nerve impulses and can…
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23andMe is potentially selling more than just genetic data – the personal survey info it collected is just as much a privacy problem
As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, concerns about what would happen to the personal information contained in its massive genetic and health information database were swift and widespread. A…
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Schools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfires
The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days. Among the devastation were 11 public and private schools and 30 child care facilities. In all, the fires disrupted the education and daily lives…
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