At 6 a.m. on Tuesday at Newark International Airport, dozens of business travelers are cutting the 15-minute-long TSA line using Clear. High-tech cameras scan their faces and crunch their biometrics—jawbone contour, eye-socket depth, lip curvature—to verify their identity. Within seconds…
Category: 5. Health
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Scientists discovered something surprising about french fries and diabetes
French fries have long been criticized as an unhealthy food choice, and new research suggests they may deserve that reputation more than other potato dishes.
A large study published in The BMJ found that eating three servings of French fries per week was associated with a 20% higher risk of…
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Brain scans reveal two distinct types of autism
An international team of scientists has found evidence that autism may include at least two distinct biological subtypes, each defined by a different pattern of communication across the brain. One subtype is marked by unusually high levels of connectivity between brain regions, while the other…
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The Uncomfortable Truth MAHA Is Exposing About US Healthcare
A woman holds a sign reading “Make America Healthy Again” at a press conference with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP) (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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American healthcare has a strange relationship…
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New Study Shows How mRNA Vaccines Could Transform Cancer Treatment
Malignant melanoma (cancer of the skin or mucous membranes), developed at the expense of melanocytes (melanocytic tumor). (Photo by: CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Nearly 70% of patients who received a mRNA vaccine in…
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Trump’s Most Favored Nation Drug Pricing Has Bold Aims, But Limited Impact
Most favored nation policies being pursued by the Trump administration strive to better align prescription drug prices between the United States and peer nations. Theis approach to pharmaceutical pricing have been on President Trump’s agenda since his first term in office, though it wasn’t…
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Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died within five years of their diagnosis.
Pancreatic cancer is so deadly in part because there are no…
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She Wasn’t Due For Her Colonoscopy. A Blood Test Found Cancer Anyway
Kim Turner in the hospital with her daughter
Kim Turner
It is also one of the most preventable — if caught early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 90%. And yet more than 45 million eligible Americans…
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A single protein may be holding back CAR T cancer therapy
Researchers from Columbia University and University Hospital Tübingen have discovered a protein that appears to play a major role in weakening CAR T cells over time. By disabling the protein, known as NFIL3, the scientists found that these engineered immune cells remained active longer and were…
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Scientists discover gut bacteria that may help protect against autism and ADHD
Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between a baby’s earliest biological programming, the gut microbiome, and later brain development. The findings, published in Cell Press Blue, suggest that epigenetic changes present at birth can influence how gut bacteria develop during infancy….
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