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Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Are Disease-Free After First-of-Its-Kind Immune-Cell Trial

Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Are Disease-Free After First-of-Its-Kind Immune-Cell Trial

Some diagnoses come with almost no hope attached. Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG, is one of them — a brain cancer so aggressive that most children diagnosed with it don’t survive past two years, and surgery isn’t even an option given where it sits in the brain. So when a small team of…

New Cancer Vaccine Harnesses COVID-19 Immunity to Fight Tumors
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New Cancer Vaccine Harnesses COVID-19 Immunity to Fight Tumors

If you’ve had a COVID-19 vaccine, or caught the virus itself, part of your immune system already remembers exactly how to respond to it. New research suggests that memory could be redirected against something far more dangerous: cancer. Scientists have built a vaccine called PROTEXI that borrows your immune system’s playbook against COVID-19 and turns…

Gen Z’s Decline in Drinking Has Cost the Alcohol Industry $830 Billion

Gen Z’s Decline in Drinking Has Cost the Alcohol Industry $830 Billion

Something strange is happening in the liquor aisle, and it has nothing to do with tariffs or inflation. Over the past four years, the world’s largest beer, wine, and spirits companies have watched $830 billion in market value disappear — a hit analysts are calling one of the biggest structural shifts the industry has ever…

A 10-Cent Heart Drug Just Cut Heart Failure Hospitalizations by 25%

A 10-Cent Heart Drug Just Cut Heart Failure Hospitalizations by 25%

If you’ve been managing heart failure for a while, there’s a good chance your cardiologist has never once mentioned digoxin. It fell out of favor decades ago, pushed aside by newer, pricier drugs. But new research out of the Netherlands — published in two of the most respected medical journals in the world — is…

Clear the Air: New Bill Aims to Remove AI Data Centers From Public Lands

Clear the Air: New Bill Aims to Remove AI Data Centers From Public Lands

A new bill in Congress wants to rip AI data centers off federal land entirely — no phase-out, no grandfather clause, just removal and site cleanup, starting within 30 days of passage. That sounds like a tech story or a land-use story. It isn’t. Strip away the legal language and what’s left is a public…

U.S. Birthrate Drops to Record Low as Nearly Half of Women Reach 30 Child-Free
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U.S. Birthrate Drops to Record Low as Nearly Half of Women Reach 30 Child-Free

The U.S. birthrate has officially hit a record low, with nearly half of women now reaching age 30 without having children. While pundits often frame this drop as a looming demographic disaster, my daily perspective from the exam room is quite different. I do not see a crisis. I see everyday patients making deliberate, informed…

No Data Center Should Cost Us Our Drinking Water and Lung Health

No Data Center Should Cost Us Our Drinking Water and Lung Health

We constantly hear about the incredible things artificial intelligence can do, but we are ignoring the heavy physical cost required to keep it running. Behind every quick AI response is a massive industrial data center that drains millions of gallons of fresh water, burns through fossil fuels, and replaces quiet green spaces with loud, concrete…

Inhaling Vitamin D Directly Into the Lungs Can Treat Lung Disease, Study Finds

Inhaling Vitamin D Directly Into the Lungs Can Treat Lung Disease, Study Finds

If you have a chronic lung condition like COPD or asthma, your doctor has probably told you your vitamin D levels are low. For years, we assumed that prescribing a simple daily pill would solve the problem and improve your breathing, yet the results have consistently fallen flat. It is frustrating to fix a clear…