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Two Common Drugs Already on Pharmacy Shelves May Reverse Fatty Liver Disease

It affects an estimated one in three adults globally. It progresses silently, often without symptoms, until the liver is scarred beyond repair. And until...

A Routine Blood Test May Reveal Alzheimer’s Risk Years Before Memory Loss Begins

What if the first warning sign of Alzheimer's disease was already sitting in a blood test that millions of people take every year — and nobody was looking...
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Scientists Find a Hidden Brain Switch That Tells You to Stop Eating – And It’s Not a Neuron

For decades, the search for the brain's appetite control mechanism focused almost exclusively on neurons — the cells that fire electrical signals and are...

CRISPR Just Got Small Enough to Work Inside the Body – And It Hits 90% Accuracy

Gene editing has always had a size problem. The molecular scissors that scientists use to cut and repair DNA — the CRISPR-Cas systems — are powerful, but...

The Reversible Snip-Snip – Cornell Scientists May Have Cracked Male Birth Control Without the Knife

For decades, the burden of contraception has rested almost entirely on women — hormonal pills, IUDs, implants, injections — while men have had exactly two...

Fentanyl Deaths Are Plunging in the US – What’s Replacing It?

For the first time in a generation, fewer Americans are dying from drug overdoses. Fentanyl-related deaths are plunging in what NPR has called a historic dec...

A $4 Diabetes Pill Exposes HIV’s Hiding Places. Big Pharma Has No Comment

Metformin costs about four dollars for a month's supply. It has been prescribed to diabetics since 1957. It is one of the most studied drugs in the history o...

Scientists Figure Out Why You Lose Your Smell Years Before Alzheimer’s Hits

For decades, neurologists observed something they could not fully explain. Patients who developed Alzheimer's disease almost always lost their sense of smell...