The study focused on recreationally active adults cycling at high intensity while listening to music they personally chose. Most of the tracks fell within a tempo range of about 120-140 beats per minute. Compared to exercising in silence, participants were able to continue riding for nearly six…
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What Have RFK, Jr. And The Trump Administration Done For Mothers?
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. July 30, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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As we approach Mother’s Day, it seems appropriate to review what Kennedy and the Trump administration have done to improve women’s lives. After all,…
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Scientists found the “holy grail” gene that could one day help humans regrow limbs
Scientists studying axolotls, zebrafish, and mice have uncovered a shared set of genes that could someday help researchers develop therapies for regrowing human limbs. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, point to a possible new direction for…
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Hantavirus—How It’s Different From COVID-19 And The U.S. Response
TOPSHOT – This aerial picture shows a general view of the cruise ship MV Hondius stationary off the port of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, on May 3, 2026. An outbreak of “severe acute respiratory illness” on board a cruise ship in the Atlantic has left two people dead and a third in intensive…
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The Gates Foundation Is Funding A Startup’s Plan To Fight Malnutrition With Bacteria
Anaerobic chamber where Kanvas strains are characterized and banked.
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Synthetic microbiomes to treat disease. Sea levels may rise faster than we thought. AI for scientific researchers. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype. To get it in your inbox, sign up…
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Will Insurance Cover Neck Surgery Implants? Spine Societies Speak Out
This is a patient who had an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). The left sided MRI shows a disc at cervical level C5-6 pushing on the spinal cord. The disc is is removed leaving a space which is filled by the titanium interbody spacer seen on the post-operative x-ray. Certain…
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New obesity discovery rewrites decades of fat science
For decades, scientists believed they understood one of the body’s key fat-burning proteins. Known as hormone-sensitive lipase, or HSL, the enzyme was thought to work mainly as the body’s emergency fuel switch, helping release stored fat when energy runs low.
But researchers uncovered something…
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Grandstanding At Hearings In Congress Doesn’t Solve Healthcare Issues
Hearings on healthcare on Capitol Hill are increasingly dominated by grandstanding on both sides of the aisle. The heavily politicized nature of these events doesn’t lend itself to constructive problem-solving.
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Hearings on healthcare on Capitol Hill often devolve into partisan grandstanding…
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‘Ballmaxxing’ Trend Has Men Infusing Saline Into Their Genitals
With ballmaxxing, men have been injecting saline into their scrotums to make them as big as possible, looking like balloons. (Photo: Getty)
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You could say that this trend is a little nuts. Or maybe a lot. It’s called ballmaxxing. And it’s about infusing saline or some other substance into…
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Why The HRT Conversation Is More Complicated Than Social Media Suggests
Hormone replacement therapy is becoming more widely discussed as women seek new approaches to managing menopause symptoms.
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For years, hormone replacement therapy occupied a complicated and often controversial place in women’s health. Now, the conversation around HRT is shifting in ways…
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