Category: 4. Health

Published in the journal Brain Communications the study by academics from the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, reports that Fastball EEG, a three-minute passive test that records electrical activity in the brain while participants view a stream of images, can reliably identify…

The back-to-school rush is marked by supply lists, orientation days and fresh first-day outfits. But alongside new backpacks and sharpened pencils, this season is also a chance to reset your children’s health and well-being for the year ahead.

This year, many families are facing new stresses, from economic uncertainty to confusing and sometimes…

On Sept. 4, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to testify before the Senate Finance Committee, where he is expected to face questions about his vaccine policies.

A few days prior, on Sept. 1, 2025, President Donald Trump demanded pharmaceutical companies to prove that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines work, saying that the CDC was “being ripped apart over this question.” It was his first public acknowledgment of the chaos roiling the Centers for…

Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren. Joseph A. Ladapo, the controversial Florida surgeon general, made the announcement today, according to the New York Times. “Who am I to tell you what your child should…

As students across the country shoulder backpacks and file into classrooms, another school year is in full swing under the quiet protection of science. Indeed, all of us remain the beneficiaries of decades of evidence-based health research, including vaccine development, which has extended human health and longevity beyond our ancestors’ wildest…

Injectable glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, or GLP-1s, were first approved as diabetes medications 20 years ago. They’ve since become popular as weight loss drugs. Taken in conjunction with an…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been asked…

XPANCEO, the Dubai-based deep tech unicorn developing smart contact lenses, and INTRA-KER, an Italian medtech startup, announced today the first working prototype of an implantable device designed to restore vision for patients with corneal blindness. Early tests, including on a human donor…

Metformin is the most widely prescribed diabetes drug in the world. Apart from lowering blood sugar levels, it is also known to have a broad range of beneficial side effects such as against tumors, inflammations and atherosclerosis. However, although it has been used for more than 60…