1+ week, 5+ day ago   (741+ words) For women who experience recurrent urinary tract infections, the cycle can become frustratingly familiar: symptoms appear, antibiotics are prescribed, things improve temporarily, and then the burning, urgency, or discomfort comes back. But what if some of those recurring symptoms aren’t…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (747+ words) Swabbing the inside of your cheek or rinsing your mouth takes about 30 seconds. A study published in Cell Host & Microbe on August 20, 2026, found that those 30 seconds may contain enough biological information to detect signs of two of the world’s deadliest…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (954+ words) Aristotle wrote about hair plucking and nail gnawing as troubling habits in Nicomachean Ethics around 350 BCE. More than 2,000 years later, compulsive hair pulling is recognized as trichotillomania, a psychiatric disorder that can be difficult to control and surprisingly difficult to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (540+ words) The drug is naltrexone, and the question behind the viral label is worth asking seriously: what do people actually need to know about it? Naltrexone’s history is older than most people assume. According to the NCBI, naltrexone was initially developed…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (824+ words) The two women eventually met, and Urban later held the baby who had grown inside the same uterus that had carried her own children. Penn Medicine described the meeting as a profound moment between two women who had once been…...