ER visits for tick bites are at their highest since 2017. Learn what’s driving the 2026 surge, which diseases ticks carry, and how tick bite
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Statins protect the heart, but research shows they may cause significant medication nutrient depletion of CoQ10 — and what that means for your
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New research links sorbitol, a common sugar-free sweetener, to liver disease when gut bacteria are depleted. Here’s what the 2025 Science
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Trump claimed a drug has “brought people back to life.” Here’s what the Right to Try Act actually does, what the usage data shows, and what
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Tuscany is famous for many things: rolling vine-covered hillsides, Renaissance masterworks, some of the most celebrated food and wine in the world. What it has never been famous for is volcanoes. There are no brooding craters on the Tuscan skyline, no …
Tuscany is famous for many things: rolling vine-covered hillsides, Renaissance masterworks, some of the most celebrated food and wine in the world. What it has never been famous for is volcanoes. There are no brooding craters on the Tuscan skyline, no …
Tuscany is famous for many things: rolling vine-covered hillsides, Renaissance masterworks, some of the most celebrated food and wine in the world. What it has never been famous for is volcanoes. There are no brooding craters on the Tuscan skyline, no …
Something written in every biology textbook of the past 70 years may need a rewrite. Not because the science was careless, or the scientists were wrong to try – but because the tools available at the time created a blind spot so fundamental that …
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas warns that AI could warp humanity in 5 key ways — from war to work to human connection.
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Most of us think of potatoes as a side dish, something humble and starchy that fills the plate around whatever else is happening at dinner. But for one population living high in the Andes mountains of South America, the potato was something else entire…
There are moments when someone says something so precisely true that it doesn’t age. It just waits. Thirty years after Carl Sagan last appeared on television, his words from a single interview keep resurfacing online, shared by people who feel li…
Most people trying to lose significant weight eventually hit a wall. They’ve made the dietary changes, added the exercise, maybe even tried one of the new GLP-1 medications their doctor recommended. And yet, for many, the scale moves only so far….
Kroger’s new CEO Greg Foran is planning broad price cuts and accelerated store openings in the intensifying supermarket chain competition with
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Something rare and deeply unsettling is unfolding right now in suburban Southern California. Tens of thousands of families were told to pack up and leave, with no clear answer about when, or even whether, they could come back. The cause wasn’t a …
Something about the runway scene stops you cold. A sitting president, microphone-ready, pivots from praising a foreign leader to casually suggesting he could run for that country’s top job himself, and then doubles down on a poll number to justif…
Most scientific breakthroughs don’t begin in a laboratory. They begin with someone pausing and noticing something that everyone else walked right past. This one began with a kid lifting a fallen log in his Pennsylvania backyard. Eight-year-old Hu…
Some people get so used to their phone outsmarting them that a name-swap autocorrect barely registers as a story. But when it involves the oldest sitting president in American history, even a tech glitch becomes a flashpoint. On May 6, 2026, Donald Tru…
Most people think of liver disease as something that happens to heavy drinkers. Or maybe to people managing obesity or diabetes for years. The idea that a chemical sitting in a spot remover on your shelf, or lingering in the fibers of a freshly dry-cle…
For a moment, picture something that would have seemed completely implausible five years ago: a Medicare patient walking out of their doctor’s office with free CBD products, covered under a federal program. No out-of-pocket cost. No trip to a spe…
The number 150 used to belong to myth. Ancient emperors sent expeditions in search of immortality elixirs. Medieval explorers mapped coastlines looking for fountains that would stop time. Today, the quest has moved into university genetics labs, Boston…
Think of everything you do with your dominant hand today – your morning coffee, typing, driving, cutting food. It happens without thought, without hesitation. For roughly nine out of ten people on the planet, the right hand does all of this almos…
Look down at your jeans right now. Go ahead. Whether they’re dark indigo, faded, or years past their best, they almost certainly have a handful of small copper-colored metal studs near the pockets. Most people who’ve owned jeans their entir…
Something quietly changed in England’s E. coli story between 2016 and 2023, and most people didn’t notice. The number of cases from one particular type of the bacteria climbed year after year, almost without interruption, until the annual c…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Most of the vitamins you know as a “hair and nails” supplement have never made headlines in an oncology lab. For decades, biotin (vitamin B7) has lived quietly on the shelves of drugstores, associated mostly with thicker hair and stronger n…
Tens of millions of Americans haven’t thought about their passport in years. It sits in a drawer somewhere, maybe a little dog-eared, maybe close to its expiration date, and mostly forgotten until a trip is a few weeks away. That’s precisel…
There are moments in American political life when the most consequential things get said not before committees or at press conferences, but on a late-night television stage. On a Tuesday evening in early May 2026, former President Barack Obama sat down…
Something peculiar has been happening in the United States. Over the past three years, a quiet but growing list of scientists, researchers, and military figures tied to America’s most sensitive programs has been accumulating. Some are gone withou…
The question of what would happen to Melania Trump if the President died in office isn’t one most people want to think about out loud. But in 2026, with renewed scrutiny swirling around Donald Trump’s age, his physical appearance, and his h…
Something shifted in Washington this week that millions of Americans who take antidepressants will want to pay attention to. It didn’t come from a hospital, a medical journal, or a professional association. It came from the federal government, an…
Three people dead on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A rodent-borne virus spreading, perhaps, between human beings in close quarters. The World Health Organization is scrambling to contain a cluster of cases spanning multiple contine…
The moment Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term on January 20, 2025, the pace of change inside the American government became almost impossible to track. The headlines were loud and relentless – immigration raids, tariff announcements…
A luxury expedition cruise. Penguins, Antarctic ice, remote Atlantic islands. For the 170 or so passengers aboard the MV Hondius in early 2026, this was the trip of a lifetime. What nobody could have anticipated was that the voyage would become the cen…
What shapes a person’s character? For most of human history, that question was answered in relatively simple terms: biology, upbringing, and personal choice. Yet an ambitious new study published in one of science’s most prestigious journals…
A global sporting event is supposed to be a moment of celebration. Billions of fans tune in. Host cities polish their streets and stadiums. Governments spend billions to put their best face forward for the world. But as preparations ramp up for the 203…