America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People
[ad_1] Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced a nationwide shortage of immediate release amphetamine mixed salts. For many people who take this medication, the announcement just…
The Pandemic Uncovered Ways to Speed Up Science
[ad_1] The pandemic highlighted broad problems in research: that many studies were hyped, error-ridden, or even fraudulent, and that misinformation could spread rapidly. But it also demonstrated what was possible.…
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
[ad_1] As unease about Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling grows, along with concerns about the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, officials in Kyiv are distributing iodine pills to help protect…
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS
[ad_1] At the end of September, a spot of good news: Relyvrio, a new drug for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—or ALS, a neurological disorder without a cure—was approved in the…
A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr
[ad_1] Dornbusch thinks this strategy will spare patients from serious side effects and “off-target” edits—unintentional cuts elsewhere in the genome that could cause problems such as cancer. The regions targeted…
Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups
[ad_1] The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something wrong with the fetus’s blood, so they decided to perform an emergency…
Why Therapy Is Broken | WIRED
[ad_1] Even for people who have the time and money to choose, it’s hard to know what to look for. In the absence of a referral or personal recommendation, many…
A Better Birth Is Possible
[ad_1] September 2000, Atlanta. I had just celebrated my 23rd birthday. After a summer spent cashiering at Whole Foods for $8.25 an hour, and with my senior year at Spelman…
To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
[ad_1] This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working out the immunopanning and culturing the astrocytes,” recalls Caldwell. One…
Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. There’s No One Reason Why
[ad_1] Add to that: There’s little past experience with the vaccine, known as Jynneos in the US, being used against this disease. It was only approved by the US Food…
How a ‘Living Drug’ Could Treat Autoimmune Disease
[ad_1] In lupus, a type of autoimmune disease, the body’s natural defense system can’t tell the difference between its own cells and foreign ones, so it mistakenly attacks its own…
Monkeypox Cases in the US Are Falling. No One Knows Why
[ad_1] Add to that: There’s little past experience with the vaccine, known as Jynneos in the US, being used against this disease. It was only approved by the US Food…
This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness
[ad_1] “I think it’s a realistic vision,” says Maria Kasper, associate professor of cell and molecular biology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. However, she emphasizes that it’s too early…
What Abortion Pill ‘Reversal’ Really Accomplishes
[ad_1] The American antiabortion movement is on a full-court press to remake the nation in its image. In June, its decades-long campaign to install sympathetic Supreme Court justices paid off…
Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?
[ad_1] In April 2021, a widely anticipated paper in the field of psychedelics dropped. The study, a small trial run at Imperial College London and published in The New England…
For Some Patients, Long Covid Symptoms Mask Something Else
[ad_1] It was overuse of acetaminophen that finally led to Nic Petermann’s cancer diagnosis. For months, the then 26-year-old had been contending with exhaustion, night sweats, recurring fevers, and abdominal…
Egg and Sperm Donors Could Be Required to Share Their Medical Records
[ad_1] Laura High’s hormones have been out of whack since she was as young as 13 years old. Her period was “all over the place,” so her doctors put her…
This Man Set the Record for Wearing a Brain-Computer Interface
[ad_1] With so few people outfitted with these devices, their longevity is still unknown. So far, the Utah array has lasted up to 10 years in monkeys. In Copeland’s case,…
Doctors Are Pioneering a Better Way to Perform Autopsies on Kids
[ad_1] The autopsy, which comes from the Greek word autopsia, meaning “the act of seeing with one’s own eyes,” is a centuries-old technique and a cornerstone of medical diagnostics. Autopsies…
The Unintended Consequences of OTC Hearing Aids
[ad_1] I have nearly 98 percent hearing loss in both ears. For over 30 years, I’ve spent thousands of dollars on my hearing aids, costs that were partially subsided by…
A Bioengineered Cornea Shows It Can Improve People’s Sight
[ad_1] After their transplants, the researchers followed the volunteers for two years. They concluded that the implants were safe to use and restored the thickness and curvature of the recipients’…
In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
[ad_1] The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an artificial intelligence model that turns…
What Is Paxlovid? Everything You Need to Know
[ad_1] Hopes that it could be useful for treating people with mild illness have also proved unfounded. In June, a trial of Paxlovid’s effects in standard-risk Covid patients was ended…
What to Ask Your Doctor If You’re Getting Medical Tech Implanted
[ad_1] Three years ago, I walked from my office in a hospital to meet my boss, a neurosurgeon. On the way, I felt my entire body slow down. After two…
The Fall of Roe Makes Complex Pregnancies Even Riskier
[ad_1] Doctors who care for pregnant people often have to make time-sensitive decisions when lives are on the line. But in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision,…