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The blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, long available as an injectable, is now hitting the market in a brand-new, easier-to-take form: an oral pill. Approved by the FDA in December 2025, this new formulation of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, could change the way millions of Americans approach weight management. For many patients, it could … Read more
Imagine this: a microchip no bigger than a grain of rice is helping people once considered permanently blind see again, not just light, but letters, shapes, and everyday details. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s real, and it’s changing lives. Developed through a massive collaboration involving 17 hospitals across five … Read more
In 2025, the average adult spent between 6 and 8 hours a day consuming media, and most of that time wasn’t spent watching TV, according to the Marketing Charts. Instead, we scrolled endlessly through TikTok and Instagram Reels, hopped between streaming services trying to find something worth watching, listened to podcasts while cooking, and caught … Read more
For decades, the loss of vision due to brain injury was seen as irreversible, a one-way street with no return. But a new study is flipping that long-held belief on its head. Scientists have discovered that, under certain conditions, the brain can partially restore lost vision not by regenerating destroyed cells, but by reactivating and … Read more
Camping has long been treated as the budget alternative to hotels. A tent, a cooler, and a quiet patch of land were supposed to mean low daily costs. But recent data suggests that assumption no longer holds, especially for younger campers. According to the 2025 Camping and Outdoor Hospitality Report published by KOA, Gen Z … Read more
If you wince at the sight of a needle, avoid tattoos like the plague, or feel like a paper cut hurts way more than it should, you’re definitely not alone. But here’s the twist: that sensitivity might not just be in your head, or the result of how you were raised. It could actually be … Read more
For years, the world’s so-called blue zones, those rare regions where people seem to live well into their 90s and 100s, have been held up as the gold standard for longevity. Places like Sardinia, Okinawa, Ikaria, and Nicoya became famous for their high concentration of centenarians, and for lifestyle habits many hoped to replicate: walking … Read more
In a dim lab at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in late 2016, Dr. Luigi Taranto Montemurro wasn’t expecting a breakthrough. He was monitoring a patient with severe sleep apnea, a condition that causes people to stop breathing repeatedly through the night. The man, middle-aged and hooked up to wires that tracked his oxygen and … Read more
At the height of one of the worst flu seasons in years, a group of researchers decided to test a simple but unsettling question: what really happens when sick people and healthy people share the same air? So they did something that sounds reckless on paper. They brought together people who were actively infected with … Read more
For most adults with ADHD, the struggle isn’t dramatic. It’s not the bouncing-off-the-walls version we’re used to seeing in movies. It’s quieter. Messier. It looks like forgetting to respond to an important email. Missing a doctor’s appointment, again. Losing hours to guilt, and then beating yourself up for not doing better. Now, new research suggests … Read more