A new study showed that people who periodically drank beverages with the low-calorie sweetener sucralose, which is found in low-cal…
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Optimizing use of the ‘hug hormone’ to help those with social difficulties
New research has provided important insight into how oxytocin could be administered in a more targeted and effective way to…
Potential superbug-killing compound
Researchers are testing a new drug that can kill a wide range of superbugs — including some bacteria now resistant…
Not only what you eat, but how you eat, may affect your microbiome
Researchers found that post-stroke patients re-grow a healthy microbiota in their mouth and gut when they revert to normal food…
On the path toward non-addictive painkillers
Opioid-containing painkillers have severe side effects and have also been associated with extensive misuse, particularly in the United States. Recent…
Estimates Fall Short of F.D.A.’s Pledge for 1 Million Coronavirus Tests
Public and private labs say they’re not even close to reaching the federal government’s promises that thousands, if not a…
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Second Case Sets Off Search for Others Exposed
The inquiry stretched from a hospital in Westchester County, where workers faced a possible quarantine, to a college campus in…
Second Case of Coronavirus in N.Y. Sets Off Search for Others Exposed
The inquiry stretched from a hospital in Westchester County, where workers faced a possible quarantine, to a college campus in…
‘No Way Out’: In China, Coronavirus Takes Toll on Other Patients
The outbreak is straining a health care system that was already overburdened, and many patients with other illnesses are now…
I Went to Iraq to Take Photographs. I Stayed On as a Medic.
My plan was to photograph women displaced by ISIS. But in Mosul, I quickly found myself trying to save lives.