Imagine your physician prescribed an expensive new drug for you, hopeful it will control a serious chronic illness. Concerned about its price, you ask what your out-of-pocket costs will be. To help your physician, you even pull out details of…
Category: 5. Health
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Why Tech-Savvy Women Are Leading The New Wellness Renaissance
VIENNA, AUSTRIA. (Photo by Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images)
Once a playground of Silicon Valley visionaries and male-driven biohackers, the longevity space is being fundamentally reimagined, and this time, it’s women who are leading the…
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RFK Jr. says annual COVID-19 shots no longer advised for healthy children and pregnant women – a public health expert explains the new guidance
On May 27, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer include the COVID-19 vaccine on the list of immunizations it recommends for healthy…
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Can Algorithms Revamp Love? The Neurobiology Behind AI-Driven Bonding
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY – MARCH 18. Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images.
Love may be timeless, but the ways we fall into it (or swipe right for it) are anything but. As artificial intelligence redefines human interactions, one…
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Smart Dental Floss Tracks Levels Of Stress Hormone Cortisol In Saliva
“Cortisol is a stress marker found in saliva, so flossing seemed like a natural fit to take a daily … More
Scientists have created a dental floss that doesn’t just clean…
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Hinge May Herald A New Wave Of Digital Health IPOs
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at how Hinge Health’s successful IPO may be a trendsetter, Indian billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s ‘biosimilars’ business, RFK’s changes to Covid vaccine guidance and more. To get it in…
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Bed bugs are most likely the first human pest, new research shows
Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 years ago, bed bugs have enjoyed a thriving relationship with their human hosts.
Not so for the unadventurous bed bugs…
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Nearly five million seized seahorses just ‘tip of the iceberg’ in global wildlife smuggling
Close to five million smuggled seahorses worth an estimated CAD$29 million were seized by authorities over a 10-year span, according to a new study that warns the scale of the trade is far larger than current data suggest.
Published today in…
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Midlife weight loss linked to longer, healthier lives
A University of Helsinki study tracked 23,000 individuals from Finland and the UK, aged 30 to 50 at the outset, over a period of 12 to 35 years. Health benefits were found in overweight men and women who lost an average of 6.5% of their body…
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A high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gain
Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems — not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases.
At the cellular level, hundreds of changes take place in response to a high-fat diet….
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