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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…
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…