Category: 4. Health

Many of these toxic chemicals are highly acidic, meaning they easily give up their protons and become negatively charged. This allows them to dissolve and spread in water more easily.

Now, new research has found that some PFAS are even more acidic than previously thought — an insight critical for predicting their mobility in the environment…

You might think that modern medical…

Employee health costs are likely to surpass $5,000 next year as companies see their biggest cost increases in at least five years, according to projections from Aon.

A new report out earlier this week from Aon shows total employee costs at $4,920 for this year, which is about 5% more than $4,662 in 2024. The total figure…

After finding high levels of corisin — a small peptide produced by Staphylococcus bacteria in the gut — in the blood of patients with diabetic kidney…

A collaborative research team led by Professor Jang Hyun Choi from the Department of Life Sciences at UNIST, in partnership with…

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the hunt for extraterrestrial life, the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, gene editing to cure diabetes and more. To get The Prototype in your inbox, sign up here.

The James Webb Space Telescope has its sights set on seven planets circling a red dwarf star called Trappist-1, about 40 light-years away. One of them, Trappist-1e, may have…

The next frontier of digital medicine isn’t an app that tracks your steps; it’s the rise of the video games in healthcare that treats disease. These are not casual brain training games or wellness distractions that offer momentary zen, but interventions built on cognitive science and behavioral psychology. So far, early…

It was a small anecdote, buried in a lengthy profile in The New Yorker of Commerce S Howard Lutnick, “Donald Trump’s Tariff Dealmaker-in-Chief.” But as a patient safety activist, the…

In May 2025, the White House proposed reducing the budget of the National Institutes of Health by roughly 40% – from about US$48 billion to $27 billion. Such a move would return NIH funding to levels last seen in 2007. Since NIH budget records began in 1938, NIH has seen only one previous double-digit cut: a 12% reduction in 1952.

Congress is now tasked with finalizing the budget ahead of the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. In July, the Senate rejected the White House’s…