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War Is Breaking Middle East Health Systems Before the Bombs Stop Falling
WHO warns that attacks on health facilities and mass displacement are triggering a cascading public health emergency that will outlast the fighting itself.
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AI Maps the Genetic Rewiring Behind Alzheimer's, and the Findings Are Striking
A new AI system called SIGNET has mapped causal gene networks in Alzheimer's brains, and what it found in excitatory neurons may reshape drug development entirely.
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The Gut Bug That May Be Building Your Muscles
A gut bacterium called Roseburia inulinivorans correlates with greater muscle strength in mice and humans, and the implications reach far beyond the gym.
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The Ancient Japanese Social Ritual That Six American Towns Are Using to Fight Loneliness
Six American communities are borrowing an ancient Okinawan social ritual to fight a loneliness epidemic that affects more than half of U.S. adults.
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The Bobbing Bubbe and What a Viral Toy Reveals About How America Ages
A novelty bobblehead from Stanford's longevity lab encodes a quiet argument about whose stories get told as America ages faster than ever.
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Dirty Air, Fading Minds: How Pollution Is Reshaping Alzheimer's Risk for Millions
For decades, the conversation around Alzheimer's disease has centred on genetics, aging, and lifestyle choices like diet and exercise. But a sweeping new study
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The Body Has a Built-In Inflammation Brake. Scientists Just Found the Pedal.
For decades, medicine has approached chronic inflammation the way a firefighter approaches a blaze: throw suppressants at it and hope the damage stops. Anti-inf
17 Mar 2026
A Battery-Powered Oxygen Gel Could Rewrite the Fate of Diabetic Wounds
Every ninety seconds, somewhere in the world, a lower limb is amputated because of diabetes. The wound that preceded it probably looked manageable at first —
17 Mar 2026
The Shingles Vaccine May Be Our Best Alzheimer's Drug — And We Already Have It
The most promising lead in Alzheimer's research right now might already be sitting in your pharmacist's fridge. After reviewing 80 existing drugs for their pote
17 Mar 2026
The Hidden Mechanism Behind Lecanemab Changes How We Think About Alzheimer's Drugs
For years, lecanemab was celebrated as a breakthrough in Alzheimer's treatment, one of the first drugs to demonstrably slow cognitive decline in clinical trials
17 Mar 2026
A Blood Protein Could Tell You When Alzheimer's Will Strike
For decades, the cruelest feature of Alzheimer's disease has not been the memory loss itself but the invisibility of its approach. By the time a person forgets
17 Mar 2026
The Shingles Vaccine May Be Quietly Slowing the Clock on Biological Aging
A vaccine most people associate with preventing a painful, blistering rash is turning out to have a far more surprising story to tell. A large national study of
17 Mar 2026
The Blood Flow Signal That Could Rewrite How We Detect Alzheimer's
For decades, the dominant story of Alzheimer's disease has been a molecular one: amyloid plaques accumulate between neurons, tau proteins tangle inside them, an
17 Mar 2026
The Pneumonia Bacterium That May Be Quietly Rewiring the Alzheimer's Brain
Every year, millions of people catch a respiratory infection, recover, and move on without a second thought. But a growing body of research is raising an uncomf
17 Mar 2026
Ultramarathons Are Quietly Damaging the Cells That Keep Runners Alive
There is a particular kind of athlete who finds the marathon distance almost quaint. For ultramarathon runners, the real work begins somewhere around mile 30, i
