Women seeking abortions after using ‘natural’ contraception
Getty ImagesThere has been a rise in the proportion of women seeking abortions despite using "natural" methods to prevent pregnancy,…
‘We re-mortgaged to buy our kids ADHD medication’
BBCNearly 400,000 private prescriptions for ADHD medication were issued last year as patients sought to bypass lengthy NHS waiting lists,…
GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload
Deepali Misra-SharpThis is the fifth feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research…
Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data
The lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to…
After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon
The W.N.Y.C. science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of…
Peruvian Mummies’ Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus
With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the…
Martin Karplus, Chemist Who Made Early Computers a Tool, Dies at 94
Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological…
RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past
Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked…
Attempted murder charge after nurse stabbed
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a nurse was stabbed at a hospital and left with life-changing…
Dementia Cases in the U.S. Will Surge in the Coming Decades, Researchers Say
By 2060, new dementia cases per year could double to one million because of the growing population of older Americans,…