MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The warm, soggy summer across much of the Midwest has produced a bumper crop of wild mushrooms — and a surge in calls to poison control centers. At the Minnesota Regional Poison Center, calls from April through July more than tripled over the same period last year, said Samantha Lee, the center's [...]
NEW YORK — In a dimly lit room strung with fairy lights and ivy, transit workers file in and lie on inflated cots. Soothing piano notes play as a teacher rubs their ankles and toes, helping each with heated blankets and eye masks. “Breathe in,” she says. “Think of a balloon, filling up with fresh [...]
From opposite ends of the world, the uncomfortable conditions Shamim Ahamed and Purvi Tiwari experienced doing separate doctoral research inside greenhouses inspired them to study the heat in the indoor structures. Tiwari, a researcher at Indira Gandhi Agricultural University in India, realized the heat-amplifying effect of greenhouses is a big concern that should be studied [...]
Robin Alderman faces an agonizing reality: Gene therapy might cure her son Camden's rare, inherited immune deficiency. Yet it's not available to him. In 2022, London-based Orchard Therapeutics stopped investing in an experimental treatment for the condition, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and there are no gene therapy studies he can join. "We feel like we are the [...]
The United States’ surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette packages. In a Monday opinion piece in The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental-health crisis among young people. "It is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A closely watched Alzheimer's drug from Eli Lilly earlier this week won the backing of federal health advisers, setting the stage for the treatment's expected approval for people with mild dementia caused by the brain-robbing disease. Food and Drug Administration advisers voted unanimously that the drug's ability to slow the disease outweighs [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study by researchers at [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-a-kind proposal to begin using the mind-altering drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD was criticized earlier this week — a setback to psychedelic advocates who hope to win a landmark federal approval and bring the banned drugs into the medical mainstream. A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug [...]
For more than a decade, some residents of the Richmond, R.I., neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks buried under service stations a few hundred yards from their homes. The residents spent years battling oil companies, dealing with the daily task [...]
At 17, Israel McKenzie said he was so burdened by obesity that he stopped going to high school in person and was embarrassed to speak to people at his restaurant job. "I was in a really dark place," says McKenzie, whose weight had climbed to 335 pounds on his 6-foot-1 frame, despite repeated efforts to [...]