A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an AI chatbot.
“Your…
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 02: A detailed view of the hand of U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on September 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Following days of speculation about his health from users on social media, President Trump made his first public…
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have uncovered evidence that the thymus, a small immune system organ long thought to lose its importance after childhood, may play a major role in adult health. Two new studies found that adults with healthier thymuses were more likely to live longer and less…
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Microsoft just moved Copilot Health from private testing to public preview, and while it’s positioned as a consumer product, healthcare CIOs are paying attention since many are already using the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem.
Microsoft’s…
25 January 2025, Baden-Württemberg, Rottweil: an iPhone on which apps can be seen. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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I co-wrote this piece with Dr Krysti Vo, an adult and pediatric psychiatrist and specialist in…
“Tanfluencers” on TikTok and Instagram are encouraging “tanmaxxing” via suntanning longer, using tanning beds and accelerators and even foregoing sunscreen to maximize the amount, depth and darkness of tans. (Photo: Getty)
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You could call this “sun” kind of a “dark” trend. After years…
The brain has its own built in immune defenses that help detect threats and protect nerve cells. But growing evidence suggests that in Alzheimer’s disease, these immune cells become stuck in a state of chronic activation. Instead of helping, they trigger ongoing inflammation that can damage the…
Cancer becomes more common with age and is often harder to treat in older adults. Yet most cancer studies in mice do not reflect that reality. Fewer than 10% of mouse experiments use aged animals, with researchers typically relying on mice that roughly correspond to humans in their early 20s.
Daraxonrasib, which nearly doubled patients’ survival time, fights the disease in a new way. It bear-hugs a cancer protein that drives cell growth.
More than one billion people worldwide now live with obesity, a condition that raises the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and several types of cancer. Yet losing weight and keeping it off can be extremely difficult. The body does not simply respond to fewer calories in a…