Category: 4. Health

The clinical trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of an innovative CAR-T cell immunotherapy that is specifically designed to attack cancerous T cells. Participants in the trial had been diagnosed with rare cancers — T…

Researchers have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be changing crucial white blood cells called neutrophils so that instead of working to destroy pathogens, they instead disrupt the activity of other immune cells that are battling the virus. This National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded work may help explain how severe COVID can arise. The findings have been reported in Science Translational Medicine.

In this work, the…

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Trump Administration’s move to halt Harvard from enrolling international students, a 4-D approach to quantum computing, a drug combination that could lead to healthy aging and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration plan to ban Harvard from enrolling international students, which was enacted last week. The move was the latest in a number of…

About 1 in 4 U.S. children – nearly 19 million – have at least one parent with substance use disorder. This includes parents who misuse alcohol, marijuana, prescription opioids or illegal drugs. Our estimate reflects an increase of over 2 million children since 2020 and an increase of 10 million from an earlier estimate using data from 2009 to 2014.

Those are the key findings from a new study my colleagues and I published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

To arrive at this…

Three consumers had a beef about this stew. Apparently, they had found pieces of wood in their Dinty Moore Beef Stew and complained to the makers of the stew, Hormel Foods Corporation. Rather than have anyone else potentially stew over the situation, Hormel decided then to recall voluntarily around 256,185 pounds of its canned beef stew product,…

Think twice before reaching for a bag of chips or your favorite sugary…

The law of unintended consequences is a principle that, when applied to politics, describes what happens when the government passes a law which creates outcomes which were not expected or foreseen. A 1994 article in the Columbia Law Review provided historical examples of unintended consequences related to laws passed by the federal government. A 2025 report on Forbes.com described how the federal government has recently displayed a shock and awe approach…

Chronic cannabis use- whether smoked or consumed in edible form, is linked to significant cardiovascular risk. The corresponding study was published in JAMA Cardiology. 

Legislation for both medicinal and recreational cannabis use has resulted in higher rates of cannabis use. Research meanwhile suggests that people who regularly use the substance have a significantly higher risk of heart attack than non-users and that there may be a causal relationship…

In a 1.5 degrees Celsius warming scenario, 52% of people born in 2020 will be exposed to climate-change-induced extreme weather events throughout their lifetime, such as heatwaves and droughts, compared to only 16% of…

How can cannabis be used to help chemotherapy patients? This is what a recent study published in Pharmacology & Therapeutics hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how cannabinoids could be used to decrease the side effects in chemotherapy patients. This study has the potential to help researchers, medical professionals, legislators, and the public better understand the benefits of cannabis for cancer treatment and the steps that can be…