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Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. You can reach Mario on Signal at …

🇺🇸 MIT JUST MADE “INJECTABLE BRAIN CHIPS” A THING MIT scientists just dropped what sounds like sci-fi: microscopic “circulatronic” chips that can be injected into your bloodstream. They travel to your brain, and self-implant, all without a single cut. Once  X New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery  MIT News A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell–electronics hybrid …

Several lots of ADHD medication recalled over failed tests  WTHR FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now  health.com ADHD Drug Recall; Postpartum Psychosis; Antibiotic for Schizophrenia Risk?  MedPage Today Millions Affected As Nationwide Recall Issued For ADHD Medication  dailyvoice.com ADHD medication recalled over failed tests  WSB-TV Source link

Testosterone and Women’s Sex Drive  The New York Times Testosterone therapy for women helps energy and muscles: Study  NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts Marius Pharmaceuticals Leads Effort to Redefine Women’s Health Through Testosterone Research  Toronto Star Testosterone Treatments & Women’s Libidos; Deborah Willis Celebrates Black Photographers; Get Lit: S.A. Cosby’s ‘King Of Ashes & Yaya Bey  WNYC Testosterone therapy for women helps energy and …

Dr. Neil Cornwell, a family medicine physician in Boston completing his residency, has struggled with anxiety “for quite some time,” but was never able to put a label on it, he tells TODAY.com. So when he and his fiancée adopted a dog with anxiety a few years ago, it was a match made in social media heaven. Both Cornwell and …

It’s wild to think that we’ve grown organs in labs, built robots that can perform surgery, and started producing mind-controlled prosthetics, but we still don’t know exactly how anesthesia works, or what’s actually going on when a baby has colic. For all the incredible progress made in modern science, it seems the human body continues to hold some stubborn secrets. …

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A new study argues the oft-repeated “plague of Akhetaten” likely never struck the city itself. Researchers compared local burials, city life, and population patterns to what real epidemic-hit places look like. The scale is not small. Four city cemeteries hold roughly 11,350 to 12,950 people, and hundreds of graves were examined in detail. Those cemeteries were excavated between …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That’s the message after some scary-sounding reports about a preliminary study involving the sleep-related supplement. It raised questions about the safety of long term use of melatonin for insomnia. Doctors have long known that too little or interrupted sleep raises the risk of heart disease. But heart …

Rise in Kidney Disease Tied to Other Chronic Conditions, Study Finds  The New York Times India’s Chronic Kidney Disease Cases Hit 138 Million In 2023, 2nd Globally: Study  NDTV Chronic Kidney Disease Is Now the Ninth Leading Cause of Death  Yahoo Finance Why unlicensed alternate medicines may be harming kidneys in Telangana now  Business Standard The top 10 causes of death worldwide – scientists …