DNA from Beethoven’s hair reveals new details into his cause of death centuries later: study
A genetic study conducted on locks of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair revealed more details about the composer’s death at a relatively young age in March 1827.
The University of...
Frightening new fungus ‘candida auris’: What is it? Who is susceptible?
Cases of a potentially deadly fungus have risen to an alarming rate — sparking a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it is...
Hormonal birth control raises breast cancer risk slightly: study
Both progestin-only and combined hormonal birth control slightly raises the chances of getting breast cancer, a new study with the University of Oxford found, but the overall risk...
Fentanyl is even deadlier when mixed with xylazine (or ‘tranq’): What you must know now
Most people have heard of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that’s 50 times stronger than heroin and is largely responsible for more than 150 overdose deaths each day, per...
Friends shorten kidney patients’ long waits for transplants to mere months by donating organs
As many as nine in 10 adults with chronic kidney disease do not know they have it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s...
Is Parkinson’s disease, ‘world’s fastest growing brain disease,’ mostly preventable? Study offers clues
Researchers warn that a colorless chemical known as trichloroethylene (TCE) — which has been used to dry-clean clothes, degrease metals and decaffeinate coffee — may be linked to the...
