Category: 4. Health

Well, urine for something that’s not a treat. There’s a new TikTok trend that has people apparently urinating in different public places where they shouldn’t and then sharing evidence of the pee deed using the hashtag #PeeChallenge. As you can imagine,…

Update, Sept. 22: This story, originally published on Sept. 6, has been updated to include President Trump’s Sept. 21 announcement at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service regarding his administration’s findings on autism.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to release a report on the causes of autism, with particular attention to acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and its use during pregnancy,…

Once in the brain, lung cancer cells can plug themselves into the electrical circuitry there and grow, a study of mice shows. The results, published September 10 in Nature, highlight the deep and mysterious connections between cancer and the brain.

“It’s beautiful work,” says neuroimmunologist Sebastien Talbot of Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. “It was very interesting to see how these tumors get reprogrammed, and that allows them to actually form this…

Colorectal cancer is a high disease burden cancer and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The first-line treatment option is surgical resection of cancerous tissue. However, the clinical picture becomes more complex for recurrent disease, which occurs in roughly 20% of patients, and a variety of therapies such as adjuvants and immunotherapies have been employed to manage this manifestation of colon cancer. As a result, novel therapeutics are in demand, and a…

This is the main conclusion after a review of hundreds of the latest studies on the topic, publishing online Sept. 21 in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

The article is being released to coincide with a gathering of experts the same week in New York City to discuss the global impact of plastics on…

The immune system can be a double-edged sword; we need it to protect us from pathogens and aberrant cells, but if it is not carefully regulated it can cause serious harm to the body as well. When the body encounters a pathogen, inflammatory responses are set in motion. Scientists have now learned more about how immune cells are changed when they respond to a pathogen, and have suggested that this process is linked to aging. The findings, which could help…

Transfer RNA, once considered merely a cellular courier, has now been shown to play a critical role in building one of the cell’s most complex machines—a discovery that could redefine our understanding of gene regulation and disease intervention. Recent research…

For people with allergies, even a brief whiff of the airborne allergens these organisms produce can lead to swollen eyes, itchy skin and impaired breathing.

Such allergens can persist indoors for months after the original source is gone, and repeated exposure can exacerbate, and even lead to, asthma.

What if you could just flip a switch and disable them? You can, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.

“We have found that we can use a passive,…

Much attention is given to the fact that young and emerging adults are a higher-risk group for mental health concerns. For example, a 2025 report on InsideHigherEd.com discussed how only one-third of college students reported thriving in their mental health. However, according to other studies, many young adults are now expressing worry about the mental health of their parents. A 2023 study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education indicated that almost 40% of…