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(MedPage Today) -- When Clarel Antoine, MD, of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, reflected on ...

Health Groups Pleased With Proposed NIH Budget in Bipartisan Funding Bill

(MedPage Today) -- Health groups praised many of the provisions in the joint House-Senate bill that would fund the NIH ...

Are Nurse Strikes Ethical?

(MedPage Today) -- Strikes by nurses are not common -- but they do happen. The longest recent nurses' strike took ...

New York City Nurses Strike Stretches Into Week Two

(MedPage Today) -- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rallied with nurses Tuesday in Manhattan ...

Pregnancy-Related Stroke Tied to Fivefold Higher Mortality Risk

(MedPage Today) -- Pregnancy-related ischemic strokes, while rare, boded poorly for the patient's short- and long-term prognosis, according to a ...

Gwyneth Paltrow Touts TMS; Postpartum Psychosis in DSM? Genes Tied to Schizophrenia

(MedPage Today) -- A 45-year-old woman detailed her experience using a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system (ExoMind) that Gwyneth Paltrow ...

Let’s nitpick about the physics of Stranger Things, not its ending

Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe ...

How – and why – we chose the best 21 ideas of the 21st century

What separates a good idea from a bad one? It isn’t always easy to tell. Take the invention of vaccination, ...

How to spot the lunar X and V

The lunar X, seen from Tokyo in February 2025The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images/Alamy The first time I took a ...

A Hole in the Sky review: Peter F. Hamilton’s latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw

A Hole in the Sky is told through the eyes of 16-year-old HazelAdam Serba/Alamy A Hole in the SkyPeter F. ...

New Scientist recommends Avatar: Fire and Ash – especially the whale

The Score review: Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

Rule-based cooking is very appealing because it produces highly replicable resultsFG Trade/Getty Images The ScoreC. Thi NguyenAllen Lane THIS time ...

Stunning images reveal the rich biodiversity of remotest Tanzania

A yellow baboon stands watchFrederic Noy/Panos Pictures A young yellow baboon (above) looks out over the Udzungwa Mountains National Park ...

The internet feels super lonely right now. Here’s why

Why does it feel so lonely online these days?Breana Panaguiton/Unsplash Right now, I’m glued to my phone. Like most people ...

We were wrong about being able to ‘nudge’ people to improve the world

Our environmental and social problems are pressing and, in many countries, money is short and politics deadlocked. Wouldn’t it be ...

RFK Jr. Links His Vocal Issues to Flu Shots

(MedPage Today) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes his spasmodic dysphonia could be due to taking flu shots, ...

Insider Emails on Hep B Vax Study; Woman Died Awaiting Abortion; Drug Price Hikes

(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare ...

Study Gauges Acne Incidence, Severity in Transgender People

The incidence of acne varies by transgender status, in a multicenter cohort study of transgender individuals starting hormone therapy. Medscape ...

Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientists know how