Tickle me pink and color me bad. National Color Day arrives on October 2nd, offering the “chance to stop and reflect on the relationship we share with the colors that surround us and the innumerable ways in which they impact us.” One of those innumerable ways, is through astrology. Since the turn of the new … Read more
Last month, word spread that a drug was finally shown to slow Alzheimer’s disease, and overnight a 73-year-old Swedish professor made $350 million. The lucky man, Lars Lannfelt, was not particularly famous. He had done pioneering work on the disease, but it was in the 90s and belonged to a sub-field that, after a litany … Read more
While tentpoles resuscitated moviegoing this past summer with pics like Top Gun: Maverick, it’s true that the more adult-skewing fare is having a much harder time now. Nowhere was this more true than with David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, which rivals believed had a shot at opening to $12M-$15M this past weekend based on the absurdist … Read more
Hospital rooms, operating rooms and medical equipment are so inadequately cleaned that any patient going into a hospital is at risk of getting a deadly superbug. That’s true even if you’re going for the happiest reason of all, to give birth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest data show alarming increases in the … Read more
Almost 48million birds have been culled this year across Europe due to the biggest ever avian flu outbreak. The highly contagious virus — which experts fear could jump to humans and trigger another pandemic — usually dies out in the summer. Yet this year, avian influenza has persisted all-year round. Government advisers have called the … Read more
When it comes to developing treatments and eventual cures for diseases, being able to diagnose a condition early and accurately makes a huge difference – and scientists have now developed a quick, reliable method of identifying people with Parkinson’s disease. The test can be run in as little as 3 minutes after a skin swab … Read more
The pandemic might be over in the minds of some. But like it or not, COVID is ramping up for a fall wave—one likely to be fueled by multiple variants, experts say, as the virus mutates and spreads exponentially. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and other experts, including … Read more