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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
Think about your phone for a second. Hundreds of contacts, probably. Group chats you haven’t opened in months. Now ask yourself honestly: is there one person in there you’d actually call at 2 a.m. if something in your life fell apart? For a lot of men, the answer is no — and that, in a…
Study Finds Dancing May Be More Effective Than Medication for Depression
For millions of people living with depression, getting through an ordinary day can feel like a battle nobody else can see. Laura Hogzett knows that feeling personally. She is a licensed professional counselor who understood the language of mental health, yet she still found herself isolating, withdrawing from people, and slipping further into a place…
Ancient Maya Dentists Used Antibiotic Cement to Set Jade Teeth and It Still Holds After 1,000 Years
A tiny piece of green stone is sitting exactly where an ancient Maya dentist put it more than a thousand years ago. The strange part is not only the jade. It is what held it there. Researchers studying Maya dental work have found complex plant-based sealants packed with organic compounds, including substances known for antibacterial…
The Last Person In America Living Inside An Iron Lung Is Gone
A five-year-old girl woke up on a sunny morning in Oklahoma in 1953 and could barely move her neck. Four days later, Martha Ann Lillard could not breathe. She would spend the next 73 years living with the consequences of polio, much of that time inside a steel machine that forced her lungs to work.…
Scientists Discover a Cellular Switch That Stops Fat Storage and Could Change Obesity Treatment
What would it take to make a body stop building fat in the first place? Not shrink it. Not punish it off in some grim January. Stop it at the source, before a single fat cell ever exists. That is the question Sabita Chourasia carried into a lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in…
Meet the ‘NICU Grandpa’ Comforting the Hospital’s Most Fragile Patients
When Dave Whitlow retired in 2017, he closed the book on a 43-year career in local government management and ran straight into the problem nobody warns you about: a whole life’s worth of usefulness, and nowhere left to put it. He tried the usual answers. He walked shelter dogs. He worked the pharmacy at a…
Two Dead After Rare Parasite Outbreak Linked to Recalled Lettuce Sickens More Than 11,000
What began as a growing foodborne illness outbreak has now taken a deadly turn. Michigan health officials have confirmed that two people have died after contracting cyclospora, a parasite linked to contaminated food that has already sickened more than 11,000 people across the state. The deaths mark the first fatalities connected to an outbreak that…
Dad Uses Fake Ultrasound to Make Daughter Quit Junk Food
Getting children to choose fruit over candy or homemade meals over fast food can feel like an impossible mission for many parents. Every family seems to have its own strategy, from limiting treats to making vegetables more fun. But one father’s unusual approach has sparked a debate that reaches far beyond dinner time. A viral…