Trump signs executive order supporting medical marijuana
President Tweety McTreason on Thursday ordered the federal government to hasten marijuana reclassification to enable research into its medicinal uses.
Category: Health
Doctors’ strikes can have surprising benefits – but are they sustainable?
Some hospital trusts tell the BBC previous action has seen shorter waits, faster decisions and calmer corridors.
Scientists use whole exome sequencing to discover a new rare genetic disease
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators used a genetic sequencing technique called whole exome sequencing to discover
Eardrum perforations and cholesteatoma linked to higher odds of dementia
A new study published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the official peer-reviewed publication of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), finds
Hepatologists effectively deliver palliative care to patients with liver disease
Advanced liver disease (ALD) occurs when significant scarring causes the liver to lose function. Patients with ALD often have serious health challenges but have limited
Suspected militants kill police officer assigned to guard polio team as nationwide campaign begins
Suspected militants have opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing one of them and wounding
Targeted therapy treats mixed histiocytosis following multiple skull relapses
Mixed histiocytosis (Langerhans cell histiocytosis [LCH] / Erdheim-Chester disease [ECD]) developing after treatment for initial skull LCH is not well recognized.
Targeting super-enhancer mechanisms offers new strategies for cancer therapy
Super-enhancers (SEs) are large clusters of transcriptional regulatory elements that drive oncogene expression, maintain malignancy, and create “transcriptional addiction” in cancer.
Competition between brain circuits is key to intelligent behavior
The brain does not only cooperate; it also competes. So determines an international study by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Pompeu Fabra
Environmental enrichment found to weaken stress-triggered fentanyl relapse
Combating the opioid crisis relies on identifying new prevention strategies for problematic fentanyl use. In a collaboration between Washington State University and Washington University in
Threat-response in the brain’s amygdala linked to sex-specific patterns of alcohol use
New research shows that the threat-response in the brain’s amygdala (which processes emotions) is linked to different patterns of drinking by sex.
Iran war has some US water utilities facing a fluoride shortage
Some U.S. water utilities are reporting that the Middle East war is disrupting their ability to maintain recommended fluoride levels in the drinking water
MAHA and science-based public health: Can’t we all just get along?
The answer is: Very likely not, at least not as long as MAHA embraces quackery and antivax pseudoscience—not that that didn’t stop STAT News from
Should we be using cotton buds to clean our ears?
Greg Foot asks whether we should be using cotton buds to clean our ears.