Medicine Stories for 2023

Chemicals of 'Concern' Found In Philips Breathing Machines 43
Scientists Still Shoot For the Moon With Patent-Free Covid Drug 11
Vibrating Pill May Give Dieters a Feeling of Fullness, Study Suggests 56
How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don't Work 143
California Workers Say Herbicide Is Giving Them Parkinson's 43
US Pharmacies Share Medical Data with Police Without a Warrant, Inquiry Finds 23
Seeking 'Superbug' Antibiotics, Scientists Use AI to Synthesize Molecules from Neanderthals 12
Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Morning Sickness To Hormone Made By Fetus 145
Every Homeopathic Eye Drop Should Be Pulled Off the Market, FDA Says 177
AI As Good As Doctors At Checking X-Rays 83
FDA Approves CRISPR-Based Medicine For Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease 43
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
Wasabi Linked To 'Substantial' Boost In Memory, Japanese Study Finds 78
Research Finds That Renting Ages You Faster Than Smoking, Obesity 267
FDA Considers First CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment That May Cure Sickle Cell 39
A Viral Post on Social Media Will Clear the Medical Debt of Strangers 221
UK Approves World's First CRISPR-Based Medicine 21
Global Decline In Male Fertility Linked To Common Pesticides 144
Amazon To Stop Selling Seven Eyedrops After FDA Warning 22
AI Could Predict Heart Attack Risk Up To 10 Years in the Future, Finds Oxford Study 21
Cancer Researchers Show CRISPR-Edited CAR T Cells Could Improve Immunotherapy 11
Researchers Identify a 'Switch' That Might Someday Kill Tumor Cells 29
Covid Lockdowns 'Were Worth It', Argues Infectious Disease Expert on CNN 274
Doctors Complete First Successful Face and Whole-Eye Transplant 27
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Hospitalized In Mexico City 84
Amazon Expands Healthcare Push With One Medical Benefits For Prime Members 55
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams On Demand 98
Parkinson's Patient Able To Walk Again Without Problems After Spinal Implant 14
FSF Warns About the Perils of Medical Devices with Un-Free Software 58
FDA Warns of Infection Risk From 26 Big-Brand Eye Drops 37
Are Face Masks Effective? CBS News Explains What We Know 391
Google Can Turn ANC Earbuds Into a Heart Rate Monitor With No Extra Hardware 20
Breakthrough Kidney Stone Procedure Makes It Possible For Astronauts To Travel To Mars 70
Around 20 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Balance Out the Harms of Sitting, Study Finds 79
Pfizer Hikes Price of COVID Antiviral Paxlovid From $530 To Nearly $1,400 169
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted To Drugs 265
Amazon Starts Delivering Medications by Drone in Texas City 29
World Rugby To Introduce Smart Mouthguards To Detect Player Concussions 35
Roundup Herbicide Ingredient Connected To Epidemic Levels of Chronic Kidney Disease 106
Woman's Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test 33
World-First Trial of Gene Therapy To Cure Form of Deafness Begins 14
MIT Creates an Implantable Device That Produces Insulin 18
US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report 41
Nobel Prize Awarded To Covid Vaccine Pioneers 184
'Cancer Moonshot' Projects Funded Include Implant to Sense and Treat Cancer, Tumor-Targetting Bacteria 42
People Experience 'New Dimensions of Reality' When Dying, Groundbreaking Study Reports 110
World's First Drug To Regrow Teeth Enters Clinical Trials 61
Neuralink Is Recruiting Subjects For the First Human Trial of Its Brain-Computer Interface 85
New 'Inverse Vaccine' Shows Potential to Treat MS and Other Autoimmune Diseases 73
YouTube Under No Obligation To Host Anti-Vaccine Advocate's Videos, Court Says 281
Humanized Kidneys Grown Inside Pigs For the First Time 34
Scientists Grow Whole Model of Human Embryo, Without Sperm Or Egg 149
A Biotech Company Says It Put Dopamine-Making Cells Into People's Brains 30
US Officials Look To Move Marijuana To Lower-Risk Drug Category 220
Woman's Mystery Illness Turns Out To Be 3-Inch Snake Parasite In Her Brain 103
Marketers Overstate Fish Oil Claims for Heart Health, Study Shows 65
Paralyzed Woman Able To 'Speak' Through Digital Avatar In World First 14
Hookworms Successfully Prevent Type 2 Diabetes In Human Trial 126
WHO Aspartame Safety Panel Linked To Alleged Coca-Cola Front Group 71
Blue-Blocking Glasses Might Not Do Much of Anything, Says New Review 36
NYU Surgeons Claim Advance In Transplant of Pig Kidney To a Human 88
Amazon Pharmacy Automates Discounts To Help Insulin Patients Get Pledged Prices 41
New Nanophotonic Sample-Testing Chip Could Detect Multiple Viruses or Cancers In Minutes 8
Air Pollution Linked To Rise in Antibiotic Resistance That Imperils Human Health 61
UK Woman Fitted With AI-Powered Bionic Arm 40
Scientists in Japan Develop Experimental Alzheimer's Vaccine Showing Promise in Mice 33
A New Mode of Cancer Treatment 36
EPA Approved a Chevron Fuel Ingredient That Has a Lifetime Cancer Risk 121
Amazon Rolls Out Its Virtual Health Clinic Nationwide 32
Red Meat Allergy Caused By Ticks Is an 'Emerging Public Health Concern': CDC 116
Hearing Aids May Cut Risk of Cognitive Decline By Nearly Half 26
Alzheimer's Drug Donanemab Helps Most When Taken at Earliest Disease Stage, Study Finds 34
New Study Finds Heavy Drinkers Don't Really 'Hold Their Liquor' Better 79
New Tinnitus Therapy Can Quiet Torturous Ringing In the Ears 50
FDA Says Aspartame Is Safe, Disagreeing With WHO's Cancer Link 161
Aspartame Is Possibly Linked To Cancer In Humans, the WHO Says 96
Ohio Plastic Surgeon Loses Medical License After TikTok Livestreams 51
Who Employs Your Doctor? Increasingly, a Private Equity Firm. 120
Google Is Testing Its Medical AI Chatbot At the Mayo Clinic 38
Dispute Over Database Use Could Disrupt US Organ Transplant System 20
AI Tool Decodes Brain Cancer's Genome During Surgery 4
FDA Grants First Full Approval For an Alzheimer's Drug In 20 Years 29
VR Hospitals To Be Used On Worcestershire Hospital Wards 34
The First Fully AI-Generated Drug Enters Clinical Trials in Human Patients 38
First US Malaria Cases Diagnosed In Decades In Florida and Texas 165
Reducing Cholesterol Lowers Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, and Death, Study Finds 65
Doctor Walmart Will See You Now 46
For First Time, US Task Force Recommends Screening Adults For Anxiety Disorders 174
A Startup Tries Making Medicine in Space 21
Gas Stoves Pollute Homes With Benzene, Which Is Linked To Cancer 297
Google Lens Can Now Search For Skin Conditions 11
Cause and Cure Discovered for a Common Type of High Blood Pressure 62
Long Space Missions Take a Toll On Astronaut Brains, Study Finds 54
Common Energy Drink Ingredient Taurine 'May Slow Aging Process' 140
Google Cloud is Partnering With Mayo Clinic 11
Health Firm 'Grail' Wrongly Told Hundreds of People They Might Have Cancer 27
Healthcare Org With Over 100 Clinics Uses OpenAI's GPT-4 To Write Medical Records 111
Lung Cancer Pill Cuts Risk of Death by Half, Study Finds 28
Neuralink Announces FDA Approval of In-Human Clinical Study 56
Researchers Induce Hibernation In Non-Hibernating Species With Ultrasound 52
A Paralyzed Man Can Walk Naturally Again With Brain and Spine Implants 41
Brain Waves Can Tell Us How Much Pain Someone Is In 70
Human Trial of mRNA Universal Flu Vaccine Begins 266
Mutation Protected Man From Alzheimer's Disease, Hinting at Treatment 26
WHO Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners 296
Researchers' AI Predicted Pancreatic Cancer 3 Years Before Doctors 26
Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Small Trial 91
WHO Declares End To COVID Global Health Emergency 146
Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Slows Cognitive Declines in Large Trial, Drugmaker Eli Lilly Says 41
People In Comas Showed 'Conscious-Like' Brain Activity As They Died, Study Says 65
A Brain Scanner Combined With an AI Language Model Can Provide a Glimpse Into Your Thoughts 23
Washington Passes Law Requiring Consent Before Companies Collect Health Data 13
How China Censored Research About Covid-19 229
Researchers Discover Our 'Motor Cortex' Actually Links to Other Parts of the Brain 19
GPT-4 Will Hunt For Trends In Medical Records Thanks To Microsoft and Epic 54
Study Reveals Cancer's 'Infinite' Ability To Evolve 45
Cancer and Heart Disease Vaccines 'Ready By End of the Decade' 154
Xanax and Adderall Access Is Being Blocked by Secret Drug Limits 242
Sugar-Powered Implant Successfully Manages Type 1 Diabetes 50
IBM Installs World's First Quantum Computer for Accelerating Healthcare Research 44
Psychedelic Brew Ayahuasca's Profound Impact Revealed In Brain Scans 119
Cancer Patient Sues Hospital After Ransomware Gang Leaks Her Nude Medical Photos 85
How Medicare Advantage Plans Use Algorithms To Cut Off Care For Seniors In Need 92
People Were Unwittingly Implanted With Fake Devices In Medical Scam, FBI Alleges 55
Moderna CEO Defends Pricing Plans for Covid-19 Shot 128
America's FDA Wants to Update Its Definition of 'Healthy'. The Food Industry Doesn't 221
2 Drug Companies Can Legally Start Selling Cocaine, Heroin, and MDMA 179
Three-Parent Baby Technique Could Create Babies At Risk of Severe Disease 48
'Havana Syndrome' Not Caused By Energy Weapon or Foreign Adversary, US Intelligence Says 68
Artificial Sweetener Erythritol Linked To Heart Attack and Stroke, Study Finds 221
Google Rolls Out Fall Detection To All Pixel Watch Users 11
America's CDC Warns of Increase in Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infections 18
Custom, 3D-Printed Heart Replicas Look and Pump Just Like the Real Thing 18
Amazon Closes $3.9 Billion Deal To Acquire One Medical 45
Apple Is Reportedly Closer To Bringing No-Prick Glucose Monitoring To the Watch 43
Republican Bill In Idaho Would Make mRNA-Based Vaccination a Crime 518
5th Person Confirmed To Be Cured of HIV 72
Discovery of 'Bond Villain' DNA Could Be a 'Gamechanger' for Cancer Treament 24
Staring At Screens Could Strain Cervical Spine, Cause 'Tech Neck' 46
Moderna Promises US Its COVID Vaccine Will Remain Free for All, Even the Uninsured 90
First UK Child To Receive Gene Therapy For Fatal Genetic Disorder Is Now Healthy 11
New Mechanism Proposed For Why Some Psychedelics Act As Antidepressants 53
Zantac's Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years 98
Male Birth Control Stopped Sperm In Mice, Study Found 84
WHO Abandons Investigation Into Origins of COVID-19 Pandemic 248
Pill Treats Constipation By Vibrating Its Way Through Your Body 55
Anti-Aging Scientists Extend Lifespan of Oldest Living Lab Rat 65
Nestle's $6,000 Peanut Allergy Pill Has Been a Dud 94
Maryland Motor Vehicles Agency Wants To Know About Your Sleep Apnea 155
Blobs of Human Brain Planted In Rats Offer New Treatment Hope 33
Australia To Allow Prescription of MDMA and Psilocybin For Medical Use 71
Vaccine Makers Kept $1.4 Billion in Prepayments for Canceled Covid Shots for the World's Poor 64
Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice 10
Wearable Ultrasound Patch Images the Heart In Real Time 5
Large Study Finds Link Between Viral Infections and Future Brain Illness 50
Amazon Deepens Healthcare Push With $5 Monthly Subscription 63
70% of Drugs Advertised On TV Are of 'Low Therapeutic Value,' Study Finds 107
FDA Vaccine Advisers 'Disappointed' and 'Angry' That Early Data About New Covid-19 Booster Shot Wasn't Presented For Review Last Year 168
Harvard's 'RoboBee' Project Finally Lifts Off as a Surgical-Tech Company 8
US Cancer Death Rate Falls 33% Since 1991, Report Says 50
Moderna CEO: 400% Price Hike on COVID Vaccine 'Consistent With the Value' 296
FDA No Longer Needs To Require Animal Tests Before Human Drug Trials 78
US Federal Agency Considers Ban On Gas Stoves Amid Health Concerns 369
Cryonics Company Charges a Monthly Subscription Fee (Plus Your Life Insurance Payout) 192
FDA Approves New Treatment for Early Alzheimer's 19
Patients Wrongly Told They've Got Cancer In SMS Snafu 27
Why Armored CAR T Therapy Is Our Best Shot At Curing Cancer 40
Could Getting Rid of Old Cells Turn Back the Clock on Aging? 107