Category: 4. Health

You may have caught wind of what Christine Connell said about an ex and his bare-butted fart in a TikTok video that’s already been viewed over 436,000 times. In the video, Connell claimed that she’s had either chronic or recurrent sinusitis for about seven years ever since her significant other at the time let out a particularly foul-smelling fart rather near her face. Now, getting…

6 years ago, I wrote a piece, “Doctors Use Youtube And Google All The Time. Should You Be Worried?” In 2025, it’s time to ask, “Your doctor may be using ChatGPT. Should you be worried?”

In a recent unscientific survey, technology entrepreneur Jonas Vollmer asked physicians how many used ChatGPT. 76% percent of the respondents answered “yes.” According to Volmer, a physician friend also told him, “most doctors use ChatGPT daily. They routinely paste the full anonymized…

The secret to maintaining your brain health and staying sharp as…

Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that singing is an easy, safe, and free way to help improve the mental well-being of infants. Because improved mood in infancy is associated with a greater quality of life for both parents and babies, this in turn has benefits for the…

The research, published in Neurology, used data from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial to investigate whether people who had variants in the haemochromatosis (HFE) gene, which is critical for regulating iron levels in the body, might be at increased risk of dementia.

Co-author Professor John Olynyk, from the Curtin Medical…

Study participants were randomized into two groups, one following the Mediterranean diet and the other following the low FODMAP diet, a common restrictive diet for IBS.

In the Mediterranean diet group, 73% of the patients met the primary endpoint for symptom improvement, versus 81.8% in the low FODMAP group.

Irritable bowel syndrome affects…

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…