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A new startup called MindMed could have the key to providing the upsides of psychedelic drugs for both focus and addiction treatment—while cutting out the downsides of tripping.

Keeping patients awake during operations can help neurosurgeons avoid damaging areas of the brain that govern functions like vision, movement or speech

If you've been vegetarian for ages but are hearing the siren song of meat once again, you may be worried that you'll encounter digestive woes when you take your first bite. Cramps, undignified journeys to the bathroom, a very confused colon, the…

Team at MIT says halicin kills some of the world’s most dangerous strains

A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control could have spawned the contagion in Hubei.

Scientists have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) which can kill some of the world’s most dangerous germs. According to a study published in the journal Cell, the chemical successfully eliminated strains of bacteria in mice that are immune to all known antibiotics.

Discovery could help treat or even reverse the development of age-related conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, and diabetes

At Germany's Bambi Awards for the media industry in November

The death toll from coronavirus nears 2,000 as a Chinese study says the outbreak is 20 times more deadly than the flu.

It is common for people to scoff at tears as a behaviour and a subject of investigation. Tears are, they say, feminine, self-indulgent and melodramatic. It is not hard to notice, in those beliefs, the patriarchal assumptions about what should be valued and what should be mocked. Writing teachers will instruct students not to show their characters’ sadness through crying, calling it cheap.

Bad ventilation and a botched quarantine on the Diamond Princess likely caused hundreds of illnesses and two deaths in the largest outbreak outside China.

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A good-natured Scottish pensioner who experiences virtually no pain has superhuman healing and remains unflappable in life-threatening situations may sound like a Marvel spin-off but has just been reported in a leading scientific journal. UK researchers have discovered Jo Cameron's, now 71, remarkable abilities are apparently down to a previously unreported genetic mutation.

Researchers focused on influenza, monkeypox and norovirus across two studies -- but they say their findings could also be useful for dealing with the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak.

Studies of the world's most unflappable people point to ways we can all better manage stress – and are even inspiring the first stress vaccine

A new review from the FDA says it finds no evidence linking the two, but that research should continue.The findings: The report reviewed 125 experiments carried out on animals and 75 on humans between 2008 and August 2019.

Study tracks pollution from state to state in the 48 contiguous United States.

A study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA found that 41% of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that hospital.

A clinical pulmonologist sees a pattern emerge and becomes the first to identify vaping-induced lung disease (EVALI) in Utah. Here's the scoop.