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A 16-Year ADHD Study Just Turned One Major Assumption On Its Head
For years, researchers had a straightforward expectation about ADHD: as life becomes more demanding, managing the condition should become harder. A new study that followed people with ADHD for 16 years found something that went in the opposite direction. Researchers tracked 483 people diagnosed with ADHD during childhood, and their symptoms did not simply remain…
Scientists Found The Mushroom Behind The Tiny People Hallucinations
A mushroom served across parts of southwest China comes with an unusually specific warning: wait before eating it, or you might start seeing tiny people. That strange effect has been documented in hospital records and firsthand accounts for decades. Now researchers have sequenced dozens of specimens and discovered something even more puzzling. The usual mushroom…
Scientists Warn Modern Life May Be Overloading The Human Brain
The train doors close and within seconds, phones appear across the carriage. One commuter checks a message, another scrolls through a video, someone reads a breaking-news alert while another watches a stranger’s carefully edited holiday unfold on a screen. In the space of a single journey, the human brain can be exposed to war, celebrity…
The Hidden Health Risk Facing California Quartz Countertop Workers
A kitchen upgrade that has become a fixture in modern homes is at the center of a growing health crisis in California. Workers who cut and polish engineered stone countertops are developing a severe lung disease that can permanently damage their ability to breathe. The number of reported cases has risen sharply in recent years,…
12 Year Old Dancer Takes Her First Steps After A Rare Spinal Stroke
Morgan Lopez was just 12 when a routine dance practice turned into a medical emergency that left her unable to walk. Within hours, her family was facing the possibility that their daughter might never move normally again. Three months later, Morgan walked out of rehabilitation on her own. The California dancer is still undergoing treatment,…
12-Year-Old Maya Survived A School Shooting. Her Family Says Her Personality Is Coming Back
For months, Maya Gebala’s family had to search for hope in the smallest changes. A movement from her hand could become a major milestone. A response to a voice beside her hospital bed could mean everything. The 12-year-old had suffered devastating injuries during the February 10 shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia,…
Native Teen’s Science Fair Experiment Found A Surprising Effect From Traditional Chokecherry Pudding
A traditional Native American food became the center of an unexpected cancer experiment after a high school student decided to investigate something she had grown up seeing in her own community. Destany “Sky” Pete, a Shoshone and Paiute student from the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Idaho and Nevada, wanted to know whether the traditional…
A Bath Toy Sent This Toddler To The Hospital And Nearly Cost Him His Vision
A routine bath turned into a medical emergency for a two-year-old boy after water from a squirting bath toy accidentally got into his eye. Within hours, the irritation had progressed into a severe infection that doctors warned could threaten his vision. His mother, Eden Strong, had no idea that a toy designed to make bath…
Bride Says Eyelash Extensions Left Her Unable To See Before Her Wedding
Polly Bibby had one simple goal before her wedding: she wanted to feel like a princess on the biggest day of her life. Instead, the 26-year-old bride-to-be ended up in hospital after her eyelash extensions triggered a severe allergic reaction that left her eyes red, swollen and, at one point, so badly affected that she…
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…