According to Bloomberg, Apple’s quest to bring blood glucose monitoring to the Apple Watch is now at a “proof-of-concept stage.” The last remaining hurdle is for it to be made smaller. Engadget reports: The technology, which uses lasers to gauge glucos…

Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV. From a report: Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of h…

HealthDay reports:
If you spend hours a day scrolling on your smartphone or tablet, you might get “tech neck.”

“Humans are upright creatures, and our bodies aren’t designed to look down for long periods of time, which puts extra pressure on the cervi…

“Moderna will keep its COVID vaccine on the market at no cost to consumers,” reports ABC News, “even after the federal government stops paying for it, the company announced Wednesday.”

“Everyone in the United States will have access to Moderna’s COVID…

A 19-month-old girl named Teddi recently became the first child in the U.K. outside a clinical trial to receive a new gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a fatal genetic disorder, the National Health Service (NHS) announced. Roughly si…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: New data suggests that psychedelics may activate serotonin signaling in a very different way than serotonin itself can, reaching the receptors in parts of the cell that serotonin can’t get to. Sero…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: A drug aimed at treating eyes immobilized sperm and prevented pregnancy in mice, encouraging researchers that it might work as a contraceptive for men. Injected into male mice, the drug …

Bruce66423 shares a report from Nature: The World Health Organization (WHO) has quietly shelved the second phase of its much-anticipated scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing ongoing challenges over attempts to cond…

A new pill could help alleviate constipation by delivering vibrations that “help kickstart the body’s nature processes for getting rid of waste,” reports Gizmodo. From the report: Vibrant still comes in the form of a pill, but before swallowing (around…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists working on an experimental anti-ageing therapy claim to have broken a record by extending the lifespan of a lab rat called Sima. Named after the Hindi word for “limit” or “boundary”, Sim…