Sunday, September 8, 2024

Health

Leonard Hayflick, Who Discovered Why No One Lives Forever, Dies at 96

A biomedical researcher, he found that normal cells can divide only a certain number of times before they age — which, he said, explained aging on a cellular level. Source link

The Painkiller Used for Just About Anything

In huge numbers, older people are taking gabapentin for a variety of conditions, including itching, alcohol dependence and sciatica. “It’s crazy,” one expert said. Source link

How to Help With a Panic Attack

This week a meteorologist stepped away from a live broadcast when he noticed familiar feelings of panic start to arise. We can all learn from how he and his colleagues handled it. Source link

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It.

In an experiment that surpassed expectations, implants in a patient’s brain were able to recognize words he tried to speak, and A.I. helped produce sounds that came close to matching his true voice. Source link

Biden Awards $150 Million in Research Grants as Part of Cancer ‘Moonshot’

President Biden has had a deep personal interest in cancer research since his son Beau died of an aggressive brain cancer in 2015. Source link

When ‘Abortion’ Wasn’t a Dirty Word

The medical term once encompassed any form of pregnancy loss, including miscarriage. Source link

Howie Cohen, Whose Alka-Seltzer Ads Spawned Catchphrases, Dies at 81

A copywriter, he and a partner in 1972 came up with “Try it, you’ll like it” and “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing.” Soon, sales were, well, fizzing. Source link

What Killed Harmony Ball-Stribling?

One woman’s death reveals the myriad ways in which social and economic factors endanger pregnant women in the United States. Source link

FDA Declines to Approve MDMA Therapy, and Seeks Further Study

The agency said there was insufficient data to allow the use of a treatment for PTSD that involves the drug known as Ecstasy. Source link

Veterans and Lawmakers Lobby for Approval of MDMA Therapy

The F.D.A. is poised to rule on the therapeutic use of the club drug Ecstasy, a potential watershed moment in the nascent field of psychedelic medicine. Source link
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