Medicine Stories for 2019

MIT Reveals First Ever Laser Ultrasound Pictures of a Human Body 15
40% of Anti-Vaccine Group's Funding Came From Wealthy 'Alternative Health' Vendor 110
FDA Approves First-Ever Ebola Vaccine 34
Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Declining, As CDC Confirms Vitamin E Acetate As Main Culprit 107
Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be 99
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Cigna Uses AI To Check If Patients Are Taking Their Medications 32
New Zealand Orders 1,300 Square Feet of Skin From US To Help Burned Volcano Victims 65
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
Low-Risk Ultrasound Procedure Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers In One-Year Study 78
Chronic Pain is an Impossible Problem 180
Scientists Find a Weak Spot In Some Superbugs' Defenses 27
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
Researchers Call Chronic Inflammation 'A Substantial Public Health Crisis' 91
Hospitals' New Issue: A 'Glut' of Machines Making Alarm Sounds 77
Anti-Vaxxer Arrested As Samoa Executes Mass-Vaccination Campaign To Stop Measles Outbreak 226
142,000 People, Mostly Children, Died From Measles In 2018 168
China Gene-Edited Baby Experiment 'May Have Created Unintended Mutations' 77
Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures 59
Amazon Lets Doctors Record Your Conversations and Put Them in Your Medical Files 66
What Happened After The Explosion at a Virology Campus in Siberia? 34
Toshiba Claims Its Device Tests For 13 Cancer Types With 99% Accuracy From a Single Drop of Blood 56
Health Concerns Mount As More Old Sewer Pipes Are Lined With Plastic 95
Psilocybin For Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy By FDA 89
Introducing Mosquitos Infected with Bacterium Reduced Dengue Fever Cases By 75% 28
An Alarming Discovery In an Astronaut's Bloodstream 90
A Blind Man Sees His Birthday Candles Again, Thanks To a Bionic Eye and a Brain Implant 13
Ayahuasca Alters Brain Waves To Produce Waking Dream-Like State, Study Finds 115
Humans Placed in Suspended Animation For the First Time 166
Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors 142
Juul Sued by California for Marketing E-Cigarettes To Teens 68
Germany Makes Measles Vaccinations Compulsory For Children 130
Declaring State of Emergency, Samoa Makes Measles Vaccinations Compulsory 89
Pointless Work Meetings 'Really a Form of Therapy' 109
Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing 31
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
The Black Death Plague Just Reappeared In China 115
Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon 22
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab 26
Study Reveals How Two Strains of One Bacterium Combine To Cause Flesh-Eating Infection 17
How Some Fast Rood Restaurant Chains Are Confronting the Threat of Antibiotic Resistance 69
Company Seeks FDA Approval For Single-Dose Drug To Cure HIV/AIDS 92
Acetaminophen In Pregnancy May Be Linked To Higher Risk of ADHD, Autism 57
'Is Eating Red Meat OK, After All? Probably Not' 185
The World's First Gattaca Baby Tests Are Finally Here 166
Vaping Illnesses Linked To Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says 51
Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business 83
Ransomware, Data Breaches At Hospitals Tied To Uptick In Fatal Heart Attacks 35
First New HIV Strain In 19 Years Identified 70
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China 58
Screen Time Might Be Physically Changing Kids' Brains 56
Alcohol Breath Tests, a Linchpin of the Criminal Justice System, Are Often Unreliable 136
Iceland Livestreams 10-Year-Old McDonald's Cheeseburger That Won't Decompose 200
Scientists Find a Way To Target the Protein Behind Huntington's Disease 22
Black Salve Is A Dangerous Fake Cancer Cure, But It Continues To Flourish In Facebook Groups 163
Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins 57
Asthma Carbon Footprint 'As Big As Eating Meat' 221
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
Hospital Algorithms Are Biased Against Black Patients, New Research Shows 79
Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer's Yeast In His Guts 72
Researchers Find Racial Bias In Hospital Algorithm 114
You Got a Brain Scan at the Hospital. Someday a Computer May Use It To Identify You. 19
AI Allows Paralyzed Person To 'Handwrite' With His Mind 9
Air Pollution 'Triggers Hundreds More Heart Attacks and Strokes,' Study Finds 58
Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit 80
Testosterone Significantly Boosts Women's Athletic Performance, Study Shows 280
In New Headache, WeWork Says It Found Cancer-Causing Chemical in Its Phone Booths 72
Study: Many Popular Medical Apps Send User Info To 3rd Or 4th Parties 18
Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression and Boost Mood, Study Finds 56
Today's Politics May Be Bad for Your Health 203
Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes To 3 Scientists For Discovering How Cells Use Oxygen 10
Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers 100
Montreal Law Firm Looks To Launch Class-Action Lawsuit Against Fortnite Developer 90
In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer 17
Intel Wants To Use AI To Reconnect Damaged Spinal Nerves 31
Government Plans To Collect DNA From Detained Immigrants 232
Lung Damage From Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns, Report Says 146
Ransomware Forces 3 Hospitals To Turn Away All But the Most Critical Patients 89
Is 'Amazon Care' a True Benefit Or Industrial Era-Style Healthcare? 155
Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits 301
Transferring Vaginal Fluids Could 'Revolutionize' Women's Health, Researchers Say 83
AI Equal With Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds 37
Plastic Tea Bags Shed Millions of Microplastic Particles Into the Cup, Study Finds 140
Apple Watch May Have Saved A Biker's Life 63
Was Cuba's Mysterious Sonic Weapon Just Mosquito Gas? 60
Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much More in America 348
Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics 148
Vaping Criminal Probe Announced By FDA As Illnesses Rise To 530 100
Research Finds Black Carbon Breathed By Mothers Can Cross Into Unborn Children 107
C-Section Babies Have More Potentially Infectious Gut Bacteria 28
India Bans E-cigarettes as Global Vaping Backlash Grows 105
Millions of Americans' Medical Images and Data Are Available On the Internet 22
CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report Shows 32
Trump Calls On FDA To Ban All Flavored Vapes After Mystery Lung Illness 197
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro Is Triggering 'Fear of Holes' Or Trypophobia In Some 158
Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight 34
New Prosthetic Legs Let Amputees Feel Their Foot and Knee In Real-Time 15
Juul Violated Federal Rules by Marketing Vaping Products as Safer Than Cigarettes, FDA Says 95
First Long-Distance Heart Surgery Performed Via Robot 25
Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Officials Say 115
Lab-Testing Startup uBiome Files For Bankruptcy 5
Michigan Set To Become First State To Ban Flavored E-cigarettes 100
Soft Drinks, Including Sugar-Free, Linked To Increased Risk of Early Death 229
Optimism Increases Lifespan By 11-15%, New Study Finds 76
North Carolina Sues 8 E-Cigarette Companies For Allegedly Marketing To Kids 81
Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders 87
Purdue Pharma Offers $10-12B To Settle Opioid Claims 68
Mutant Sheep Are Being Bred in Lab To Fight Lethal Child Brain Disease 53
Seattle Has Figured Out How To End the War On Drugs 316
Vaping Is Suspected In Severe Lung Illnesses 166
Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive 49
Pig To Human Heart Transplants 'Possible Within Three Years' 83
YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp 69
Scientists Reverse Aging Process In Rat Brain Stem Cells 34
Scientists Have Created a Vaccine For Cat Allergies, But You Can't Have It Yet 64
Scientists Discover a Cure For the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis 26
Ebola Is Now Curable 66
Study Blames Rise In Teens Who Need Glasses On Excessive Screen Time 53
Middle-Aged Hearing Loss Doubles Risk of Dementia 61
Researchers Can Accurately Measure Blood Pressure Using Just A Cellphone Video Of Your Face 37
First Human-Monkey Chimera Raises Concern Among Scientists 175
Possible Link Found Between Body Weight and the Immune System 211
High Levels of Oestrogens In the Womb Linked To Autism, Study Finds 185
Google's DeepMind Says Its AI Tech Can Spot Acute Kidney Disease 48 Hours Before Doctors Spot It 25
The Law Isn't Ready For Psychedelic Medicine 185
Trump Administration Plans To Allow Imports Of Some Prescription Drugs From Canada 267
In a 1st, Doctors In US Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder 67
Luke Skywalker-Inspired Prosthetic Arm Lets Amputee Feel Objects Again 38
Evolutionary Gene Loss May Help Explain Why Only Humans Are Prone To Heart Attack 145
IBM Gives Cancer-Killing Drug AI Project To the Open Source Community 42
A Clue To the Reason for Women's Pervasive Car-Safety Problem 301
Delta, Alaska, and American Airlines Have All Been Sued Over Their Uniforms. 99
Elon Musk Unveils Neuralink's Plans For Brain-Reading 'Threads' and a Robot To Insert Them 201
Scientists Close In On Blood Test For Alzheimer's 50
Doing Five Things Could Decrease Your Risk of Alzheimer's By 60% 132
Amazon's Alexa Will Deliver NHS Medical Advice in the UK 45
Billions of Air Pollution Particles Found in Hearts of City Dwellers 56
Fatal Accident With Metal Straw Highlights a Risk 328
German Entrepreneur Wants To Develop Lab-Grown Psilocybin 118
Google Sued For Conspiring To Share Medical Records Against Patient Consent 71
Bladder Cancer 'Attacked and Killed By Common Cold Virus' 51
Researchers Have Eliminated HIV In Mice For the First Time 64
First Flu Vaccine Created By AI To Be Trialed In the US 61
Facebook Downgrades Posts That Promote Miracle Cures 87
44 US States Still Allow 'Religious Exemptions' For Vaccines 426
FDA Warns About Insulin Pump Cybersecurity 38
Risk For Dementia May Increase With Long-Term Use of Anticholinergics, Study Suggests 53
Are Medical IDs 'The Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health'? 162
Digital Assistants May Be Able To Automatically Detect When Someone Is Having a Heart Attack, Study Finds 31
Meds Prescriptions For 78,000 Patients Left In a Database With No Password 33
China Is Harvesting Organs From Detainees, Tribunal Concludes 414
Robocalls Are Overwhelming Hospitals and Patients, Threatening a New Kind of Health Crisis 152
Upgrade Your Memory With A Surgically Implanted Brain Chip 110
One Dead After Fecal Transplant Gone Wrong, FDA Warns 145
Digital Marketer Mailchimp Bans Anti-Vaccination Content 193
Sleep Trackers Can Make Your Insomnia Worse 53
Study Finds Nearly 400 Medical Devices, Procedures and Practices That Are Ineffective 153
'Medicine Needs To Embrace Open Source' 77
Researchers Use Lasers To Detect and Destroy Tumor Cells In Melanoma Patients 66
Why Pfizer Ignored Data Suggesting Their Drug Could Affect Alzheimer's 66
Is Our Reliance on GPS Shrinking Our Brains? 121
Drug Company To Pay Just $15.4 Million Over Doctor Bribery Scandal Involving Medicine That Brings in $1 Billion a Year 114
'Pumping Heart Patch' Ready For Human Use 40
Quest Diagnostics, One of the Biggest Blood Testing Providers In US, Says Up To 12 Million Patients May Have Had Info Stolen 78
Russian Trolls Fueled Anti-Vaccination Debate On Twitter, Study Finds 209
Use of Male Mice Skews Drug Research Against Women, Study Finds 157
Heavily Processed Food Like Ready Meals and Ice Cream Linked To Early Death 272
WHO Officially Classifies 'Gaming Disorder' As An Illness 205
A Solution For Loneliness: Get Out and Volunteer, Research Suggests 161
Google's Lung Cancer Detection AI Outperforms 6 Human Radiologists 97
Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As You Think 200
Scientists Invent Light-Activated Bio-Glue That Stops Bleeding In Seconds 74
Scientists Create Mind-Controlled Hearing Aid That Allows the Wearer To Focus On Particular Voices 51
City Residents Live With Mental Illness At Higher Rates Than General Population 214
Scientists Create World's First Living Organism With Fully Redesigned DNA 158
LED Light Can Damage Eyes, Health Authority Warns 174
Genetically Modified Viruses Help Save a Patient With a 'Superbug' Infection 64
Yet More Research Links Appendectomies and Parkinson's Disease 99
Rwanda Is Way Ahead On Delivery Drones 49
New HHS Rule To Force Drug Companies To List Prices In TV Ads 76
End To Aids In Sight As Huge Study Finds Drugs Stop HIV Transmission 186
Propelled By Spread of Misinformation About Vaccines, Measles Outbreak Hits 'Completely Avoidable' 25-Year-High in the US 498
FBI Searches Microbiome Testing Startup uBiome In Billing Probe 22
Scientists Have Developed a Brain Implant That Can Read People's Minds 54
America Reports Its First Cases of A Fungus Resistant To All Major Drugs 79
New Device Treats Childhood ADHD With Electric Pulses To Their Foreheads While They Sleep 98
Doctors Used HIV To Develop Cure For 'Bubble Boy' Disease 103
Researchers 3D-Print Heart From Human Patient's Cells 74
Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research 91
New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn 322
Baby With DNA From Three People Born In Greece 86
Researchers Develop AI To Predict Hospital Readmission Rates From Clinical Notes 29
Final Results of NASA Twins Study Show How Scott Kelly Changed After a Year In Space 43
Scientists Have Found 600 New Cancer Vulnerabilities, Each Could Be the Target of a Drug 42
The ISS Is a Cesspool of Bacteria and Fungi, Study Finds 151
Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Is 'Quietly Spreading Across the Globe' 117
The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet 195
Alzheimer's Disease Affects 'Twice As Many People' As Experts Thought 60
Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total 419
New Male Birth Control Pill Succeeds In Preliminary Testing 181
Scientists Find Genetic Mutation That Makes Women Feel No Pain 106
UPS Is Using Drones To Transport Medical Supplies Between Hospitals 30
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says 30
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says 63
'It Took 10 Seconds For Instagram To Push Me Into an Anti-Vaxx Rabbit Hole' 143
GoFundMe Bans Anti-Vaccine Campaigns 171
Florida Citrus Trees To Be Sprayed With Thousands of Kilograms of Antiobiotics 143
First Medical Device To Treat Alzheimer's Is Up For Approval By the FDA 32
750,000 Medtronic Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacking 54
San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known 228
Jury Finds Bayer's Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer 249
Bill Gates Talked With Google Employees About Using AI To Analyze Ultrasound Images of Unborn Children 52
Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says 286
Vaccines Can Help Fight the Rise of Drug-Resistant Microbes 103
Bacteria Discovered In Irish Soil Kills Four Drug-Resistant Superbugs 88
Massive Study Finds Apple Watch Can Detect Undiagnosed Heart Rhythm Problems 67
Are Online Activists Silencing Researchers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? 273
Scientists Call For Global Moratorium On Gene Editing of Embryos 111
Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds 228
Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks 175
23andMe Plans New Genetic Test on Risk of Getting Diabetes 61
A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot 223
A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV 47
Amazon's Joint Health-Care Venture Finally Has a Name: Haven 46
What It's Like To Smoke Salvia For Science 72
Scientists Report a Second Person Has Been Cured of HIV 139
Wireless Skin Sensors For Newborns Will Let Parents Cuddle Fragile Babies 35
Microsoft Builds a Chat Bot To Match Patients To Clinical Trials 9
Facebook Moderators Are Routinely High and Joke About Suicide To Cope With Job, Says Report 217
Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts 267
Drug Pollution In Rivers Reaching Damaging Levels For Animals and Ecosystems, Scientists Warn 102
Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab 184
Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database 357
FDA Warns Against Using Young Blood As Medical Treatment 169
Middle-Age Men Who Can Do 40+ Push-Ups Have Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds 217
Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' 443
What Can We Learn From The Retraction of the Mediterranean Diet Study? 114
New Drug Rapidly Repairs Age-Related Memory Loss, Improves Mood 84
Common Weed Killer Glyphosate Increases Risk of Cancer By 41 Percent, Study Says 162
How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People 175
Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests 243
FDA Warns Supplement Makers To Stop Touting Cures For Diseases and Cancer 199
New Study Finds More Post-Surgery Deaths Globally Than From HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria Combined 113
Alphabet's 'Verily' Plans to Use Tech To Fight The Opioid Crisis 121
Nearly All US Teens Short On Sleep, Exercise 116
Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children 524
Teenager Builds Himself a Robotic Prosthetic Arm Using Lego Pieces 63
Scientists Are Working On Ways To Swap the Needle For a Pill 58
Colin Kroll, Founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, Died of Accidental Drug Overdose 117
Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated 411

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