52+ min ago   (276+ words) For most of our memories, CBD was a wellness pitch running well ahead itself and the evidence backing it up. But the gap is narrowing from both directions at once. Regulators are close to authorising the first CBD food products…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (601+ words) Presbyopia, the age-related loss of near focusing ability, typically begins around age 45 and affects nearly 90% of adults over that threshold. Until recently, the only options were reading glasses, bifocals, or surgical procedures. Now, four FDA-approved eye drops are available in…...

7+ hour, 21+ min ago   (382+ words) The social media post captures the core breakthrough correctly: a dramatically cheaper, portable MRI machine designed for low-resource settings now exists, and Nigerian expertise was central to it. What it oversimplifies is the “one physicist builds it alone” narrative. Is…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (753+ words) Key design features of the trial included: After 24 weeks, the results were striking: Improvements were not limited to the scalp. Most participants on the higher dose also experienced eyebrow and eyelash regrowth, and patients reported meaningful improvements in emotional well-being…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1104+ words) The findings, published in Scientific Reports in April 2026, add to a growing case that cleaner indoor air may be one of the simplest, lowest-cost ways to protect long-term cognitive health for people who live near highways and busy roads. Each…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (532+ words) NEUSLeeP stands for Non-invasive Electrophysiological Recording and Ultrasound Neuromodulation Sleep Patch. It was developed by a team led by biomedical engineering Ph.D. graduate Kai Wing Kevin Tang and principal investigator Huiliang Wang in the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (487+ words) For most of the last century, addiction was commonly framed as a failure of character or willpower. Research over the past two decades tells a more complicated story: for many people, compulsive substance use starts as a functional response to…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (673+ words) The phase 2 HEAL-CHF trial, published in Nature Medicine in August 2026, represents the largest randomized controlled study to date using stem cell-derived heart muscle cells. The results suggest that combining bypass surgery with injections of lab-grown cardiomyocytes could do more than…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (733+ words) Switching to a vegan diet for a single month measurably rewires chemical marks across the human genome, according to a new randomized clinical trial from researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Freiburg in Germany....

1+ week, 29+ min ago   (684+ words) Artificial intelligence is changing that process. Instead of searching for information and assembling an answer ourselves, we can increasingly ask a complete medical question and receive an organized explanation within seconds. This is extraordinarily convenient. It also introduces a new…...