Feno, the “smart electric toothbrush,” promised to take a two-minute toothbrushing routine and bring it down to 30 or even 20 seconds by swabbing each of my teeth at once. The Feno Smartbrush makes brushing faster, but in exchange it requires you to shove an entire mouthpiece in your piehole twice a day just to […]
What You Learned About Cell Division Is Probably Wrong
If you took high school biology, you probably learned about cell division: a crucial process in all life forms officially called mitosis. For over one hundred years, students have learned that during mitosis, a parent cell becomes spherical before dividing into two daughter cells of the same size and shape. A new study, however, might […]
Trump Turns Covid.gov Into a Lab Leak Theory Fan Page
The White House has changed covid.gov into a website for promoting the so-called lab leak theory for the origins of covid-19. Donald Trump, who was president during the first year of the covid pandemic in 2020, has long sought to claim the virus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in an effort to suggest […]
RFK Jr Tells His Favorite Anti-Vaccine Group to Delete Mock CDC Website
Anti-vaccine advocate and health secretary for the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ordered the nonprofit he once chaired to delete a webpage that mimicked the design of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while wrongly linking vaccines to autism. The New York Times earlier reported on the development. RFK Jr. has long been […]
U.S. Measles Outbreak Tops 200 Cases as Second Death Investigated
The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now stands at over 200 cases, according to the latest figures released by local health departments. The news comes just a day after an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico has reportedly died of suspected measles, the second death of this current outbreak. Texas Department of State Health […]
RFK Jr. Touts ‘Spirituality’ as Fix for America’s Health Problems
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his first speech to employees at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, echoing previous sentiments about how he was going to transform the federal agency to focus on issues like chronic disease. But it was Kennedy’s closing remarks on spirituality that point to an […]
Men Have Grown Taller and Bigger at Twice the Rate of Women as Countries Became Richer
An international team of researchers analyzed data on the heights and weights of more than 135,600 non-obese men and women from around the world and linked that data with national levels of prosperity. While both men and women grow taller and heavier as countries become wealthier, the researchers found that the trend in men is […]