Health

If you usually try to hold back a sneeze, this new medical case study might make you reconsider. In a rare incident, a man accidentally caused a tear in his windpipe while trying to hold back a sneeze. This...

The world's first treatment using CRISPR therapy, a gene-editing technology, got the green light on November 16, 2023. Casgevy, also called Exa-cel, got the approval from the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) less than a week ago....

In a new medical milestone, doctors successfully transplanted an entire eye at New York University Langone Health . The recipient, Aaron James, a 46-year-old military veteran, had experienced a serious electrical accident at work, resulting in extensive injuries to the left...

It is not uncommon for unexpected objects to end up inside people's bodies. Magnets, chargers, lollipops, and even orange peels found their way into people's bodies and got stuck there, as per the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Moreover,...

When we read the history of worldwide disease outbreaks, the flu pandemic of 1918 stands out as something unusual. Many people believe it mainly affected healthy adults in the prime of their lives rather than just those who were...

Countless headlines refer to the high prices of olive oil. Climate change-induced heatwaves, droughts, floods, and fires have drastically reduced global olive oil production levels. Coupled with high prices for energy and labor, this has driven prices to record...

The prospect of curing cancer with the ease of a few taps on a mobile device is on the horizon. A team of scientists at Rice University has secured forty-five million dollars in funding from the Advanced Research Projects...

A recent study conducted by ETH Zürich in Switzerland introduces the possibility of advanced wearable gadgets (possibly with some implants and genetic modifications) directly improving our well-being. The Swiss researchers developed an innovative technology that utilized gentle electrical pulses to...

The look of humans in the Year 3000 is a projection that seems familiar. Nevertheless, the research is exploring a new look for humans in more ways than one. Some scientists and experts believe humanity is evolving and devolving. That...

A recent study has proposed the use of a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that shows promising potential in quickly identifying sperm in infertile men. The aim of the research was to explore whether AI could speed up the...