Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In the US, September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. This feature highlights why catching prostate cancer early can be critical, and what researchers are doing to improve the odds of controlling the disease once it’s found. Prostate cancer is a paradox. It has one of the highest […]
It’s already been a wild week in New England and it’s only Wednesday. Read more…
Enlarge / A phlebotomist draws blood meant for antibody testing. (credit: Frederic J. Brown / Getty Images) We’ve tended to treat the RNA-based vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech as functionally equivalent. They take an identical approach to producing immunity and have a very similar set of ingredients. Clinical trial data suggested they had very similar […]
Prince’s inner circle is opening up about what they believe really led to his death. Obviously we all know the music legend died from an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl back in 2016 — but the initial reason is sure to surprise you. The new story comes from insiders speaking out in a […]
Talk about hitting back HARD… Jamie Spears has filed new legal documents regarding the ongoing conservatorship of his daughter , pop star Britney Spears , and in them he alleges some pretty disturbing things. The docs, first obtained by TMZ on Friday, hold a couple of key claims on Jamie’ s part, including one allegation […]
Enlarge Every living thing on the planet plays host to viruses, and bacteria are no exception. Bacteriophages—or just “phages” in order to those in the know—are the viruses that attack bacteria. And we are in dire need of things that attack bacteria, since many pathogenic bacterial species have developed resistance to the antibiotics we’ve been […]
Sadie Robertson is recalling some really scary moments from giving birth to her first baby, daughter Honey James Huff. Of course, it’s been about two months since the Duck Dynasty star and her husband Christian Huff welcomed their new baby girl into the world. And while the baby girl is happy and healthy now — and growing more and […]
Enlarge / A health worker vaccinates a child against malaria in Ndhiwa, western Kenya. (credit: BRIAN ONGORO / Getty Images) The incredible success of the COVID vaccines has been a triumph of biotechnology. But that triumph has in some ways obscured the amount of luck involved. We’ve been trying for decades to produce vaccines against […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their skin. Now, Google is preparing to launch an app that uses image recognition algorithms to provide more expert and personalized help. A brief demo at the company’s developer conference last month […]
Enlarge / A participant gets his second dose of the Novavax vaccine during the clinical trial. (credit: Karen Ducey / Getty Images) Today, a company called Novavax announced that it had completed a large efficacy trial of its COVID-19 vaccine, and the news was good. The vaccine is highly effective, it blocked severe disease entirely, […]