The new Vision Initiative, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will help extend Warby Parker’s Pupils Project, which includes providing vision screenings and eyeglasses to young students. (Photo: Courtesy of Warby Parker)
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Living with purpose may protect your brain from dementia
Research into Blue Zones — regions of the world where people tend to live longer — shows that having a sense of purpose in life may help people live longer.
Now, new research from UC Davis shows that having a sense of purpose in life may have…
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Autism may be the price of human intelligence
A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that the relatively high rate of Autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past.
About one in 31 (3.2%) children in…
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Four strange secrets scientists just found in beer and wine
Scientists regularly uncork fresh insights into beer and wine — even though they were invented thousands of years ago. Four recent discoveries go beyond buzz and bouquet, diving into the haziness and gluten content of beer as well as the…
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Hidden Alzheimer’s warning signs found in Parkinson’s patients without dementia
A new research paper was published in Aging-US, titled “Age-related trends in amyloid positivity in Parkinson’s disease without dementia.”
In this study, led by first author Keiko Hatano and corresponding author Masashi Kameyama from the Tokyo…
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Trump Drug Tariffs Miss The Mark. There Are Better Ways To Boost Production
A tariff on drugs could increase health care costs.
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Last Thursday evening, President Trump announced, through a post on Truth Social , that he is imposing a 100% tariff on imported drugs.
The announcement contained important caveats. The…
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Cocoa supplements show surprising anti-aging potential
Could cocoa extract supplements rich in cocoa flavanols reduce inflammation and, in turn, prevent age-related chronic diseases? In a new study from the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS), investigators from Mass General…
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Colon Cancer Rising In Adults. ColoSense Offers Noninvasive Screening Tool.
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James Van Der Beek, of Dawson’s Creek, revealed he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at 47, after already experiencing symptoms. As a physician, I see too often that warning symptoms for…
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What happens to your body when you eat too many ultra-processed foods
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially altered products – like soda, snacks and processed meats – packed with additives and stripped of nutrients. Hundreds of new ingredients, previously unknown to the human body, now make up nearly 60% of…
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Could your smartphone detect mental health risks before you notice them?
Data passively collected from cell phone sensors can identify behaviors associated with a host of mental health disorders, from agoraphobia to generalized anxiety disorder to narcissistic personality disorder. New findings show that the same data…