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22-Year-Old’s “Stomach Ache” Leads To Diagnosis Of One Of The World’s Rarest Cancers
A stomach ache seemed like a symptom that could have almost any ordinary explanation. For one 22-year-old, however, the complaint eventually led to a devastating diagnosis and a prognosis of around a year to live. The cancer involved is renal medullary carcinoma, an exceptionally rare form of kidney cancer that is known for affecting young…
The Happiness Researcher Who Started Crossing Things Off His Bucket List
Arthur Brooks had spent years doing what most people are told will make them happy. By 50, the happiness researcher had worked through a bucket list he had written at 40, checking off every goal he once believed would make his life feel complete. The strange part came afterward. Instead of feeling satisfied, Brooks realized…
Reading May Be The Simplest Brain Workout You Already Own
For years, the hunt for better brain power has produced a parade of complicated answers. Supplements, apps, puzzles, productivity systems and increasingly elaborate routines have all promised to keep the mind sharp. But one of the strongest candidates may already be sitting on a bookshelf. Research into what happens inside the brain when people learn…
Scientists Found Biological Traces Of Parental Trauma In Children
The babies were too young to understand what happened in New York on September 11, 2001. Yet researchers found that their bodies appeared to carry traces of what their mothers had experienced. The clue was not in their memories or behavior. It was in their saliva, their stress hormones, and eventually in the way scientists…
Scientists Asked AI To Create New Viruses. It Invented 16 That Never Existed Before
For decades, scientists have searched nature for viruses that could help tackle some of medicine’s toughest problems. This time, they tried something completely different. Instead of hunting for naturally occurring viruses, researchers asked artificial intelligence to design entirely new ones from scratch. What happened next surprised even the experts. Out of thousands of AI-generated genetic…
Two Deaths Reported As Weight-Loss Jabs Face Fresh Safety Questions
Weight-loss injections have rapidly become one of the most sought-after medical treatments in the UK, helping thousands of people lose significant amounts of weight and improve obesity-related health conditions. But fresh government figures have also drawn attention to the medicines’ safety after two deaths in Northern Ireland were reported to regulators as being potentially linked…
Sydney Towle Death Brings Attention To Rare Bile Duct Cancer Symptoms
Sydney Towle spent nearly three years showing the world what life with a rare and aggressive cancer really looked like. Millions of people watched her celebrate milestones, share difficult hospital updates, walk fashion runways, and continue chasing experiences that many assumed would be impossible after such a devastating diagnosis. Now, following her death at the…
Inside Bernie Sanders Plan for a 32 Hour Workweek
The five-day, 40-hour workweek has shaped American life for generations. It determines when schools open, when businesses operate, and how millions of families organize their lives. Now, Senator Bernie Sanders wants to change that system in what could become one of the biggest workplace reforms in decades. The Vermont independent has introduced legislation that would…
Psychologist Says the Male Loneliness Epidemic May Be Rooted in Emotional Intelligence
A man’s phone can be full and silent at the same time. Hundreds of contacts. Years of group chats gone quiet. Not one name he trusts enough to call at midnight when something in his life gives way. Multiply that phone by a few million and you get the ache the internet has learned to…
Study Finds Dancing May Be More Effective Than Medication for Depression
Roughly 332 million people around the world are living with depression, according to the World Health Organization. A number that size blurs into abstraction. The living is done one person at a time, one heavy morning at a time. Laura Hogzett knows those mornings. She is a licensed professional counselor, trained in the exact skills…