medicine

Women’s health a focus of Labor’s budget alongside bulk-billing, cheaper medicine and health workforce

Women’s health a focus of Labor’s budget alongside bulk-billing, cheaper medicine and health workforce

Mickey Vernon

Strengthening Australia’s health system has been positioned as the centrepiece of this year’s federal budget, with women’s health a focus ...

Man and horse rescued from floodwaters near Tambo

Man and horse rescued from floodwaters near Tambo

James Odonell

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags In the midst of the devastating floods in western Queensland, a heartening rescue ...

The World’s First Crispr Drug Gets a Slow Start

The World’s First Crispr Drug Gets a Slow Start

Albert Wagner

Deshawn “DJ” Chow waited a year to receive a treatment that could change his life. The 19-year-old was born with ...

Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm

Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm

Albert Wagner

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for ...

Why Is There So Much Off-Brand Oral Ozempic for Sale Online?

Why Is There So Much Off-Brand Oral Ozempic for Sale Online?

Albert Wagner

Since they debuted, injectable GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have been in high demand. In addition to treating diabetes and obesity, ...

A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People

A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People

Albert Wagner

One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US ...

The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug

The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug

Albert Wagner

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of its blockbuster ...

The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes

The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes

Mickey Vernon

In late March, a smoke shop in Dyersburg, Tennessee, announced the arrival of a new product in its store: a ...

Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed

Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed

Albert Wagner

“The statistics are frightening: Dementia is the biggest killer in the UK. It has been the leading cause of death ...

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed

Albert Wagner

Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into Lisa Pisano, a ...

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