Britney Spears is taking a moment to remind fans just how bad things were in her conservatorship. Having already opened up about some of the wild and wacky restrictions her conservators, including father Jamie Spears, apparently placed on her for the last decade of her life, the pop star opened up about another shocking thing […]
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Kanye West Calls Out Fan For Claiming He’s ‘Off The Meds’ Following Wild Social Media Behavior
Kanye West is making a stand for his mental health. And even though he’ s definitely behaved in some eyebrow-raising ways lately, the Jesus Walks rapper nevertheless makes a pretty good point with this move. Related: How Pete Davidson Has Been Supportive Of GF Kim Kardashian Amid Ongoing Kanye Issues On Thursday afternoon, the Hurricane rapper […]
New spinal implant gets paralyzed people up and walking
Enlarge / Two formerly paralyzed individuals go for a stroll in Lausanne, Switzerland. (credit: EPFL) Spinal cord injuries are life-altering, as they prevent the transmission of nerve impulses past the point of injury. That means no sensory inputs make it to the brain, and no signals from the brain make it to the muscles normally […]
Todd Chrisley Joins Savannah & Ex Nic Kerdiles In Emotional Discussion About Suicide Attempt
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Nic Kerdiles is grateful to be alive today and he’s sharing his story in hopes of helping others struggling with depression or other mental health issues. Nic and his ex-fiancée Savannah Chrisley, as well as her father Todd Chrisley, sat down for an emotional Instagram Live on Wednesday night to discuss […]
For T-cells, omicron is nothing unusual
Enlarge / False-color image of a T-cell (orange) latching on to a cell in preparation for killing it. (credit: Getty Images) From the start, the omicron variant had people worried because its version of the spike protein carried mutations in many of the sites that are recognized by antibodies. This meant that antibodies generated to […]
The genetic engineering behind pig-to-human transplants
Enlarge / Cloned piglets that are engineered to be useful for organ transplants to humans. (credit: Getty Images / Staff) Last week, when we reported on the first pig-to-human heart transplant, we complained that the commercial company behind the transplant wasn’t more forthcoming about the genetic engineering that had converted the pig into a viable […]
Public Health Experts Call Out Spotify Over Joe Rogan And COVID Misinformation — Read The Open Letter!
Medical professionals from a wide range of scientific specialties are coming after Joe Rogan. The Spotify podcast host, who signed a nine-digit exclusive deal with the platform back in 2020, is the target of a lot of public concern right now. On Wednesday night, 270 medical experts published an open letter directed at Spotify regarding Rogan’s […]
Woman Gives Up Baby & Sues Sperm Donor After Learning He Lied About Ethnicity, Education, & Marital Status!
A Japanese woman has given up her baby and sued the man who helped her conceive it as a sperm donor after she discovered that he allegedly lied to her about his marital status, his ethnicity, and his educational background. The woman, who is only identified publicly as a 30-year-old from Tokyo, is believed to […]
Immune system vs. virus: Why omicron had experts worried from the start
Enlarge / Illustration of antibodies responding to an infection of SARS-CoV-2. (credit: Getty Images/Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library) Right from omicron’s first description, researchers were concerned about the variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Looking over the list of mutations it carried, scientists could identify a number that would likely make the variant more infectious. Other mutations […]
UK Doctor Banned From Medicine After Branding His Initials On Two Patients’ Livers During Surgery
A medical governing board in the United Kingdom has revoked a doctor’ s credentials from the country’ h medical rolls after it was determined in a tribunal that he carved his initials into two patients’ livers during transplant surgeries. Simon Bramhall was performing organ transplant surgery on two different patients in two incidents nearly a […]