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North Carolina Teen Critically Ill After Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection
A North Carolina teenager is critically ill after contracting a rare infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic amoeba commonly found in warm freshwater. The frightening organism has earned the nickname “brain-eating amoeba” because, in extremely rare cases, it can enter the nose and travel toward the brain, causing a devastating infection that progresses rapidly…
Nine Drugmakers Join Trump Push to Cut Prescription Drug Costs
President Donald Trump has announced agreements with nine additional pharmaceutical companies as his administration intensifies its effort to reduce prescription drug prices in the United States. The White House says the expanded initiative could save Americans more than $600 billion over the next decade. The latest agreements bring the total number of pharmaceutical manufacturers participating…
Why the Modern “Healing Journey” Rarely Leaves Us Feeling Better
We have more language for emotional pain than ever before. People talk about boundaries, nervous systems, trauma responses, reparenting, and protecting their peace with an ease that would have seemed unusual just a few years ago. Yet an uncomfortable contradiction sits beneath all that self-awareness. If so many people are on a healing journey, why…
Study Claims Medicare for All Could Save Thousands of Lives
America spends more on health care than any other country, yet millions of people remain uninsured or unable to afford the care their insurance supposedly provides. A new analysis now claims a single-payer system could save more than $1 trillion annually and prevent over 114,000 deaths each year. Those numbers have quickly entered the political…
Family Seeks Justice After Freak Badminton Accident Kills Young Girl
What began as an ordinary game of badminton during a family vacation in Maine ended in a tragedy that no one could have anticipated. Now, the family of 6-year-old Lucy Morgan is suing the company that manufactured the racket involved in the accident, alleging that a defective piece of sports equipment turned deadly during normal…
A Hidden Immune System May Be Sitting Inside Your Skull
For decades, the skull was treated as little more than armor, a hard shell protecting the brain from the outside world. Now, scientists studying mice have discovered specialized immune structures hidden inside the skull’s bone marrow that could force medicine to see that familiar bone very differently. The finding suggests the brain may have a…
Scientists Find 26 Genetic Clues Behind Fibromyalgia
For decades, fibromyalgia patients have faced a frustrating problem: the pain was real, but medicine had no blood test or scan that could clearly show why. Now, the largest genetic study of the condition ever conducted has uncovered 26 regions of the genome linked to fibromyalgia risk. The findings point strongly toward the nervous system…
Scientists Find a Way to Cut Cholesterol With a Single Gene Edit
For decades, people with dangerously high cholesterol have faced a familiar reality: lifelong medication, regular injections, and a constant effort to keep a major risk factor for heart disease under control. Now, scientists are testing a radically different approach that could eventually change that routine. A one-time gene-editing treatment lowered LDL cholesterol by roughly 50%…
Popular Sweetener Found in Everyday Foods Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attacks and Strokes
A common sweetener found in products ranging from chewing gum and toothpaste to jam, yoghurt and ice cream has been linked to a higher risk of serious cardiovascular events. Xylitol is widely used as a lower-calorie alternative to sugar, and many people may consume it without giving the ingredient much thought. But new research involving…
Scientists Found Something Strange About Lithium in Nearly 400 Human Brains
There is lithium in your brain right now. You cannot see it, feel it, or measure it on a kitchen scale, but Harvard researchers spent roughly a decade searching for tiny traces of it in nearly 400 donated human brains. When they compared people who died with their memory intact against those with mild cognitive…