Category: 5. Health

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue, a study of postmortem brains shows.

This appraisal of microplastics and nanoplastics, published February 3 in…

Brain implants for depression: It sounds like science fiction but it’s real. The Deep End, a new podcast from Science News, will give you a glimpse of what it’s like to live with electrodes in your brain. It might change how you…

An insurer’s decision to delay reimbursement of drugs licensed under the Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated…

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump administration.

Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a rapid pace, leaving rural residents…

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire story of who you are. Your environment is incredibly important in shaping your personality, your likes and dislikes,…

In 2022, the Biden Administration enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a sweeping piece of legislation aimed at reducing healthcare costs. Among its most significant provisions was the ability for Medicare…

The Kansas City Chiefs have had the benefit of sitting their starters during the last week of the regular season, having a playoff bye…

In March 2024, the U.S. government took an unprecedented step toward banning TikTok, the wildly popular social media platform owned by China-based ByteDance. Congress, in…