While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the human body, research in recent years has suggested that astronauts…
Read more Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study findsAt every party, no matter the occasion, my drink of choice is soda water with lime. I have never, not once, been drunk—or even finished a full serving…
Read more What If There’s a Secret Benefit to Getting Asian Glow?Up until a few years ago, Heather Sullivan’s 14-year-old son, Sawyer, had struggled with eczema his entire life. When he was just a baby, most of his body…
Read more Doctors Suddenly Got Way Better at Treating EczemaIn the three-plus decades I’ve been alive, I have never been bitten by a tick. Actually, that may be a lie, and I have no way of knowing…
Read more Ticks’ Secret WeaponThis article was originally published by Undark Magazine. In October 2021, 84-year-old Jim Yeldell was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer. The first drug he tried disrupted his…
Read more A Gaping Hole in Cancer-Therapy TrialsTo be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous. Babies might not meet the…
Read more The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to AnswerWhen it comes to treating disease with food, the quackery stretches back far. Through the centuries, raw garlic has been touted as a home treatment for everything from…
Read more Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a ColdIn the two-plus years that COVID vaccines have been available in America, the basic recipe has changed just once. The virus, meanwhile, has belched out five variants concerning…
Read more Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a niche subset of experimental vaccines has offered the world a tantalizing promise: a sustained slowdown in the spread of…
Read more Will Nasal COVID Vaccines Save Us?Of all the nicknames I have for my cat Calvin—Fluffernutter, Chonk-a-Donk, Fuzzy Lumpkin, Jerky McJerkface—Bumpus Maximus may be the most apt. Every night, when I crawl into bed,…
Read more I Was Allergic to Cats. Until Suddenly, I Wasn’t.For about 60 years, health authorities in the United States have been championing a routine for at least some sector of the public: a yearly flu shot. That…
Read more When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?At a press briefing earlier this month, Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID czar, laid out some pretty lofty expectations for America’s immunity this fall. “Millions” of Americans,…
Read more Should Your Flu and COVID Shots Go in Different Arms?
