Medicine Stories for 2022

Scientists Develop Blood Test For Alzheimer's Disease 18
Psychedelic Drugs May Launch a New Era in Psychiatric Treatment, Brain Scientists Say 75
Big Nonprofit Hospitals Expand in Wealthier Areas, Shun Poorer Ones 216
Scientists Created Male and Female Cells From a Single Person 131
First Human Trials Test Light and Sound Therapy For Alzheimer's Disease 23
Genome Sequencing Trial To Test Benefits of Identifying Genetic Diseases At Birth 64
Moderna Says mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reduces Melanoma's Return By 44% 88
Teenager's Incurable Cancer Cleared With Revolutionary DNA-Editing Technique 78
'The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022' 60
What Causes Alzheimer's? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer 41
Gut Bacteria Are Linked To Depression 86
Brains of Post-Pandemic Teens Show Signs of Faster Aging, Study Finds 45
Neuralink Expects Human Trials Within Six Months 118
Cocaine Synthesized In a Tobacco Plant 87
Alzheimer's Drug Lecanemab Hailed As Momentous Breakthrough 48
Universal Flu Vaccine May Be Available Within Two Years, Says Scientist 283
FDA Approves Most Expensive Drug Ever, a $3.5 Million-per-Dose Gene Therapy For Hemophilia B 195
Leprosy Bacteria Might Be Able To Regenerate Organs 48
Beyond Spike Proteins: Researchers Suggest New Design for Longer Lasting Covid Vaccines: 106
FDA Approves a Treatment that Delays Onset of Type 1 Diabetes 33
Competition Between Respiratory Viruses May Hold Off a 'Tripledemic' This Winter 88
Vaccine Shown To Prolong Life of Patients With Aggressive Brain Cancer 69
Fentanyl Vaccine Developed By Researchers Could Eliminate Drug's 'High' 154
Amazon Starts Virtual Health Referral Service Linking Patients to Doctors 21
Lucid Dying: Patients Recall Near-Death Experiences During CPR 170
New Drug Reverses Neural and Cognitive Effects of a Concussion 21
Psychedelic Drug Research Held Back By UK Rules and Attitudes, Say Scientists 34
Psychedelic Mushroom Dose Can Treat Stubborn Depression, Trial Suggests 54
Pfizer Study Says the Updated COVID Boosters Significantly Rev Up Protection 268
CVS, Walgreens To Pay More Than $10 Billion To Settle Opioid Lawsuits 55
Former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov Hospitalized In Serious Condition 67
'Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem' 190
The World Is Running Out of Helium. Why Doctors are Worried 130
Study Suggests Blood Pressure Meds May Reduce Risk of Dementia 29
Indonesia Bans All Syrup Medicines After Death of 99 Children 34
Five Hours' Sleep Is Tipping Point For Bad Health 53
Boston University Researchers' Testing of Lab-Made Version of COVID-19 Draws Government Scrutiny 112
Vaccines to Treat Cancer Possible by 2030, Say BioNTech Founders 150
FDA Officially Declares a Shortage of Adderall 66
Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven't Fully Recovered Months Later, Study Finds 102
Sony Releases Its First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids 68
Lab-Grown Brain Cells Play Video Game Pong 44
A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson's, Leading To An Experimental Test For the Illness 40
Why a $158,000 Drug With Unclear Benefits Hurts Whole Health System 176
India Facing a Pandemic of Antibiotics-Resistant Superbugs 63
Ransomware Attack Delays Patient Care at Several Hospitals Across the US 30
AI Eye Checks Can Predict Heart Disease Risk In Less Than Minute, Finds Study 17
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded To Svante Paabo 10
LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip 40
What Is a 'Healthy' Food? The FDA. Wants To Change the Definition. 93
Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Detects COVID From a Cough 39
FDA Approves ALS Drug Whose Study Was Partly Funded By Ice Bucket Challenge 28
Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds 68
Japan Should Consider Allowing Medical Cannabis, Health Panel Says 49
North Korea Launches Mass Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign 40
Brussels Tests Cultural Visits To Treat Anxiety 14
Cybersickness Could Spell an Early Death For the Metaverse 135
Daily 'Breath Training' Can Work As Well As Medicine To Reduce High Blood Pressure 56
Tech Workers Paying To Get Taller 330
President Biden Says Covid-19 Pandemic is Over in the US 339
Crispr Gene-Editing Drugs Show Promise In Preliminary Study 30
End of COVID Pandemic is 'in Sight' - WHO Chief 228
Breakthrough: Air Pollution/Cancer Research Challenges the Science on Tumors 33
A Quarter of Healthcare Orgs Say Ransomware Attacks Result In Patient Deaths 61
Scientists Found Genetic Mutations In Every Astronaut Blood Sample They Studied 46
San Francisco Decriminalizes Psychedelics 168
US Plans Shift To Annual COVID Vaccines Akin To Flu Shots 171
World's First Covid Vaccine You Inhale Is Approved in China 196
Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to Cancer and Early Death, Studies Find 129
FDA Authorizes Updated Covid Booster Shots, Targeting Omicron Subvariants 189
This Is Not the Monkeypox That Doctors Thought They Knew 97
Moderna Sues Pfizer Over Covid-19 Vaccine Patents 68
Study First To Link Weed Killer Roundup To Convulsions In Animals 79
AI Model Can Detect Parkinson's From Breathing Patterns 14
New Study Results: Ivermectin Failed to Help Covid-19 Patients Avoid Hospitalization 194
Almost Half of Cancer Deaths Globally Are Attributable To Preventable Risk Factors, New Study Suggests 84
Scientists Discover How Mosquitoes Can 'Sniff Out' Humans 17
Where Did the Pandemic Start? Anywhere But Here, Chinese Scientists Argue 205
FDA Approves First Cell-Based Gene Therapy, Becomes Most Expensive Drug In US 91
Newly Discovered Molecule Fights Off Over 300 Kinds of Drug-Resistant Bacteria 71
Researchers Change Blood Type of Kidney In Transplant Breakthrough 22
FDA Clears Path For Hearing Aids To Be Sold Over the Counter 143
An Eye Implant Engineered From Proteins In Pigskin Restored Sight In 14 Blind People 19
Ransomware Causes 'Major', Long-Lasting Outage for UK Health Service's Patient Notes 26
Polio Has Been Detected In New York City Wastewater, Officials Say 86
New Research Reveals the Circadian Clock Influences Cell Growth, Metabolism, and Tumor Progression 19
CDC Drops Quarantine, Distancing Recommendations For COVID-19 159
Newly Identified Langya Virus Tracked After China Reports Dozens of Cases 97
Major Test of First Possible Lyme Vaccine In 20 Years Begins 58
VR Is As Good As Psychedelics At Helping People Reach Transcendence 51
US Officials Declare Monkeypox a Public Health Emergency 193
MIT Engineers Develop Stickers That Can See Inside the Body 22
Oldest Patient Yet Cure of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant 49
WHO Declares Global Health Emergency Over Monkeypox Outbreak 149
Potential Fabrication In Research Images Threatens a Key Theory of Alzheimer's Disease 99
New York Reports First US Polio Case In Nearly a Decade 163
Amazon To Buy Primary Health Care Provider One Medical for Roughly $3.9 Billion 59
Apple Argues It's Now a Major Force in the Health-Care World 51
Brain-Computer Interface Startup Implants First Device In US Patient 47
Ghana Reports First Cases of Deadly Ebola-like Marburg Virus 45
As Y Chromosomes Vanish With Age, Heart Risks May Grow 51
Some Beijing Travelers Asked To Wear COVID Monitoring Bracelets 72
Genetically Engineered Pig Hearts Transplanted Into Dead People 40
Edits To a Cholesterol Gene Could Stop the Biggest Killer On Earth 69
Amazon Launches Cancer Vaccine Clinical Trial in Partnership With Fred Hutchinson 22
The Video Game Prescribed By Doctors To Treat ADHD 29
BioNTech, Pfizer To Start Testing Universal Vaccine For Coronaviruses 102
Smart Contact Lens Prototype Puts a Micro LED Display On Top of the Eye 37
A Single AI-Enhanced Brain Scan Can Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease 10
Pig Heart Transplant Failure: Doctors Detail Everything That Went Wrong 61
Revolutionary New Cancer Treatment Harnesses Light Therapy 29
Chinese Officials Are Weaponizing COVID Health Tracker To Block Protests 74
WTO Nations Agree To Ease Patent Rights To Boost Covid-19 Vaccine Supplies in Poorer Nations 46
Gel That Repairs Heart Attack Damage Could Improve Health of Millions 22
Doctors Transplant Ear of Human Cells, Made By 3D Printer 13
Dogs Can Detect COVID-19 With Great Accuracy 66
Scientists Use Nanoparticles To Break Through Shield That Brain Tumors Use To Avoid Detection By the Immune System 9
Smart Pacemaker Simply Dissolves Inside the Body When It's No Longer Needed 14
CVS Will Stop Filling Controlled-Substance Prescriptions for Cerebral, Done 99
Contact Lens That Can Release Drug Could Be Used To Treat Glaucoma 12
South Korea Turns To Surveillance As 'Ghost Surgeries' Shake Faith In Hospitals 71
Promising Early Results From Largest-Ever Trial Testing LSD For Anxiety 66
Blocking Inflammation May Lead To Chronic Pain 128
Magnets Made By Soil Bacteria Offer Hope For Breast and Prostate Cancer 17
Scientists Try Injecting Tumor-Fighting Viruses Coated in Magnets Made By Soil Bacteria 20
World's True COVID-19 Death Toll Nearly 15 Million, Says WHO 213
The Gene-Edited Pig Heart Given To a Dying Patient Was Infected With a Pig Virus 45
COVID-19 Deaths Top 1 Million In US 282
Stem-Cell-Loaded Silk Scaffolds Speed Healing of Injured Tendons 8
Deadly Venom From Spiders and Snakes May Cure What Ails You 37
Vaccine-Derived Polio Is On the Rise 83
More Than Half of Americans Have Been Infected With COVID-19 At Least Once, Says CDC 263
TikTok-Famous Doctors Are Getting Into NFTs And It's A Mess 53
Bill Gates Gives TED Talk Proposing New Global Team to Quickly Prevent Epidemics 118
Study Finds New Clues About Causes of Cancer 15
Shanghai's Low Covid Death Toll Revives Questions About China's Numbers 185
Bill Gates Urges Investing in Faster Development for Life-Saving Drugs 58
Researchers Rejuvenate Skin Cells of 53-Year-Old Woman To the Equivalent of a 23-Year-Old's 63
MS Symptoms May Have Been 'Reversed' In Immunotherapy Breakthrough 31
Researchers Create Bacteria That Could Protect Your Gut From Antibiotics 36
Amazon Workers Made Up Almost Half of All Warehouse Injuries Last Year 60
Apple Targets Watch Blood-Pressure Tool for 2024 After Snags 33
Psilocybin Frees Up Depressed Brain, Study Shows 97
Incomplete Data May Mask an Increase in US Covid Cases, But Infection Counts De-Emphasized 140
VR Role-Play Therapy Helps People With Agoraphobia, Finds Study 18
Diabetes Successfully Treated Using Ultrasound In Preclinical Study 63
US Life Expectancy Falls For 2nd Year In a Row 209
New Blood Test Predicts Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke With Twice Previous Accuracy 51
India Reports First Case of Highly Transmissible XE Variant 64
$4 billion Health Tech Startup Olive Overpromises and Underdelivers 24
7,000 Steps Can Save Your Life 68
Alzheimer's Study Finds 42 More Genes Linked To Higher Risk of Disease 28
This Snakelike Robot Slithers Down Your Lungs and Could Spot Cancer 28
Writing Google Reviews About Patients Is Actually a HIPAA Violation 71
Experts Push For Genetic Testing To Personalise Drug Prescriptions 27
Walgreens Turns To Robots To Fill Prescriptions 66
'We Study Virus Evolution. Here's Where We Think the Coronavirus Is Going.' 130
Patients With Covid and Flu Double the Risk of Dying, Say Scientists 81
CNBC: 'Stem Cells May Finally Offer a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes' 60
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Could Also Cause New Epidemics, Health Experts Worry 67
Dangerous Chemicals In Food Wrappers At Fast-Food Restaurants, Grocery Chains 95
Half of Women Will Get a False Positive 3D Mammogram, Study Finds 39
CDC Coding Error Led To Overcount of 72,000 COVID-19 Deaths 213
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Now Spreading Conspiracy Theory that Moderna Created Covid 177
Scientists Say They Can Read Nearly the Whole Genome of an IVF-Created Embryo 44
Ivermectin Didn't Protect People from COVID-19, Finds Largest Trial Yet 289
Long Naps May Be Early Sign of Alzheimer's Disease, Study Shows 49
Dentist Broke His Patients' Teeth To Make Millions Installing Crowns, Jury Finds 103
Superbug-Infected Chicken Is Being Sold All Over the US 85
Fourth Shot 'is Necessary', Pfizer CEO Says 372
Pfizer Halts Clinical Trials In Russia But Will Continue To Supply Medicine 73
Sleep In Dimly Lit Room Can Be Bad For Your Health, Study Suggests 110
Hong Kong Lacks the Resources For a China-style Pandemic Response, the City's Leader Says. 39
This Year's Flu Vaccine Was Basically Worthless 101
It's Been Two Years Since Covid-19 Became a Pandemic 187
WHO Says It Advised Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs To Prevent Disease Spread 204
In Mice, a Potential New Treatment Eradicates Ovarian and Colorectal Cancer In Days 38
Doctor Apologizes For Ranting About 'Console Wars' From Operating Room 88
Half of US Adults Exposed To Harmful Lead Levels As Kids 111
Just One Drink Per Day Can Shrink Your Brain, Study Says 125
The Surgeon General Calls on Big Tech To Turn Over Covid-19 Misinformation Data 90
Epstein-Barr Virus May Be Leading Cause of Multiple Sclerosis 32
Are We Prepared for Contamination Between Worlds? 54
Telemedicine Leaves Behind Non-English Speakers, Study Shows 80
Oxford Study Finds Low-Meat, Meat-Free Diets Associated With Lower Cancer Risk 165
The CDC Isn't Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects 159
Ivermectin Doesn't Prevent Severe COVID-19, New Study Finds 314
Your Brain Doesn't Slow Down Until Your 60s 98
US Has Suffered More Than 1 Million Excess Deaths During Pandemic, CDC Finds 285
FDA Clears First Smartphone App For Insulin Delivery 13
First Woman Reported Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant 81
Scientists Build Synthetic Fish That Swim Using Lab-Grown Human Heart Cells 15
Luc Montagnier, Nobel-Winning Co-Discoverer of HIV, Dies At 89 12
Two Simple Movements Can Reduce Dizziness When Standing Up, Study Finds 32
Next-Generation Spinal Implants Help People With Severe Paralysis Walk, Cycle, and Swim 31
Can Mapping Differences in Cancer Rates Help Pinpoint Environmental Factors? 25
US Government Expands Sewage-System Testing for Data on Spread of Pathogens Including Covid-19 79
'Pulsed Electromagnetic Energy' Could Cause Havana Syndrome 72
Living Near Fracking Sites Raises Risk of Premature Death For Elderly, Study Finds 132
Moderna Starts Trial of an Omicron-specific COVID-19 Vaccine 82
Covid-19 Infection Can Reactivate the Latent Retroviruses In Human DNA 194
Mark Cuban on His Online Pharmacy: 'Our KPI is How Much We Can Reduce the Stress of Our Patients' 68
Israel Says Fourth Vaccine Dose Brings 2X Protection Against Omicron Infection, 3X Against Serious Illness - For Those Over 60 311
Three Large Studies Show COVID Vaccines Fight Omicron - With Booster Shots 282
MIT Is Working On An All-In-One Approach To Diabetes Treatment 36
'Havana Syndrome' Unlikely Caused By Hostile Foreign Power, CIA Says 64
Antimicrobial Resistance Now a Leading Cause of Death Worldwide, Study Finds 101
China Claims First Omicron Case Arrived Through Foreign Mail 143
Fourth Pfizer Dose Is Insufficient to Ward Off Omicron, Israeli Trial Suggests 173
Omicron Surge Shows Signs of Easing in States Hit Early by the Fast-spreading Variant 110
Decades of Research: the Story of How mRNA Vaccines Were Developed 121
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Banned For Life From Drug Industry in Monopoly Case, Ordered To Pay $64.6 Million 67
Epstein-Barr Virus Found To Trigger Multiple Sclerosis 52
Study Finds Cannabinoids Prevent COVID-19 Infection 280
Every Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden 15
US COVID Hospitalizations Hit New Record High, Raising Risks for Patients 238
In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig 91
Blood Test Could Help Detect Cancer Earlier In People With Nonspecific Symptoms 38
Judge Orders FDA To Hasten Release of Pfizer Vaccine Docs 118
Women's Periods May Be Late After Coronavirus Vaccination, Study Suggests 47
Canada Considers Making Vaccines Mandatory 312
US COVID Cases More Than Triple in Two Weeks 403
China's Locked Down City Thrown Into Chaos After Covid App Crash 98
Psilocybin Has No Short- Or Long-Term Detrimental Effects In Healthy People 141
WHO Official Downplays Coronavirus Variant Found in France 62
New Patent-Free COVID Vaccine Developed As 'Gift To the World' 202
US Sets Global Daily Record of Over 1 Million COVID-19 Cases 187
Omicron is Spreading at Lightning Speed. Scientists Are Trying To Figure Out Why 262
Studies Suggest Why Omicron Is Less Severe: It Spares the Lungs 70