We can finally tell which tiny glitches in your blood are totally harmless and which ones are ticking time bombs for a heart attack or cancer.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Apr 6
An AI just went through the whole doctor's routine—from figuring out what's wrong to picking the cure—and it was right 95% of the time in a real clinic.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Apr 6
Some dementia symptoms are just caused by a bad mix of common drugs, and they’re actually completely reversible.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Apr 2
The psychedelic 'trip' caused by ketamine treatment is actually the primary reason patients get better, not just a side effect.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Apr 1
A massive study has debunked the leading theory that hallucinations are caused by the brain trusting its own expectations too much.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Apr 1
Combining common nerve pain and blood pressure drugs doubles dementia risk—but only if you start them in a specific order.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Apr 1
Standard outbreak metrics like the reproduction number ($R_0$) are mathematically incapable of predicting whether a public health intervention will actually work.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 31
A common genetic variant carried by 1 in 12 South Asians acts as a 'stealth' gene that hides diabetes from standard medical tests.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 31
Scientists have developed a way to grow entire sheets of replacement skin using only a few hairs from a patient's head.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 31
A duo of genetic mutations that typically signals a 'death sentence' in most cancers actually helps patients with stomach cancer live longer.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 31
Stroke patients are learning to use their fingers again by tapping into 'backup' nerve pathways we thought were useless for fine movement.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 27
There's an HIV drug that can actually 'de-age' your body’s cells in just three months. It's like a real-life fountain of youth pill.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 27
Doctors always thought our bodies have a 'default' blood pressure setting they try to keep. Turns out, that’s just a myth.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 27
The DNA floating in your spit actually changes every hour depending on whether you're feeling stressed or happy.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 26
A protein problem we thought only caused a rare type of ALS is actually showing up in the most common version of the disease too.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 26
A dangerous heart disease risk factor we thought stayed the same for life can actually spike during menopause.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 26
If you lived through the era of leaded gasoline, you’re at a much higher risk of dying from motor neurone disease decades later.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 25
A massive study just found that exercise doesn't actually make your brain bigger or sharper—everything we thought about it might be backward.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 25
The idea that Parkinson’s starts in the gut might be wrong—it looks like brain-only cases are actually 16 times more common.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 25
A new protocol has dropped the death rate for the world’s deadliest mushroom poisoning to basically zero.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 24
Young cancer survivors are losing the Y chromosome in their sperm—a glitch you usually only see in the blood of the very old.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 24
We found the first proof of MERS jumping from camels to humans in Somalia, even though they have a third of the world's camels.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 24
Over a third of autistic kids having sudden, severe meltdowns actually had undiagnosed juvenile arthritis.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 24
Being able to draw realistically and use complex grammar are actually controlled by the same 'switch' in our brains.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 24
For every person who gets HIV permanently, the body probably fights off four or five infections that just vanish on their own.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 24
That scary surge in 'flesh-eating' bacteria wasn't because of lockdowns; it was because COVID messed with our immune systems.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 23
In India, what you eat is all about religion and family, not body image like we see in the West.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 23
A 'boring' virus we used to ignore is actually behind a scary number of brain infections and deaths in kids.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 20
Measles usually kills your immune memory, but it weirdly helped WWI soldiers bounce back faster from the 1918 flu.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 20
Speaking a second language isn’t just good for travel—it actually helps your brain’s 'plumbing' wash away mental trash.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 20
That ringing in your ears might not be from loud music; it could be a sign your brain’s wiring is just misfiring.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 20
Women have such a natural lead in memory tasks that it's accidentally hiding early Alzheimer's signs.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 19
The specific 'rhythm' of how a nurse types in records can predict if an ICU patient will make it.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 19
A common type of algae can actually fix Vitamin B12 deficiency, proving you don't just need meat for it.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 19
Working out between 7 and 8 AM is way better for your heart than exercising at any other time.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 19
Watching graphic, uncensored videos on social media can give a quarter of the population clinical PTSD.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 19
A single strand of hair can act like a 'biological time machine' to predict autism in babies only a month old.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 19
A new model says COVID waves were driven more by the environment than by people catching it from each other.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 19
Scientists finally mapped out exactly how long those mRNA vaccine pieces stay intact in your blood.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 17
Giving routine blood transfusions to heart failure patients might actually be doing them more harm than good.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 17
A new medical framework uses 'yogic psychology' to predict mental health issues better than the usual doctor's checklist.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 17
When people quit smoking, their brains actually get more 'starved' for food rewards than the brains of people who are already obese.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 17
Your organs don't age at the same speed, and there's one specific spot in your brain that's the best clue for how old you 'really' are.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 17
Thinking about moving your arm looks completely different in your brain than actually moving it, which is a huge deal for brain-computer tech.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 17
Working around airborne microplastics is now directly linked to actual lung damage and higher asthma rates.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 17
People on Reddit are reporting "hidden" side effects of Ozempic and Mounjaro, like random chills and changes to their periods.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 13
Vaping nearly doubles the risk of heart rhythm problems for kids and young adults.
Nature Is Weird medrxiv | Mar 13
A simple brain wave test can tell you if that spinal surgery will actually fix your back pain or just be a total waste of time.
Practical Magic medrxiv | Mar 13
If you want to know your risk of getting Valley Fever, looking at where the wild animals live is actually more accurate than checking the soil.
Paradigm Challenge medrxiv | Mar 13
If you tune brain implants to a "slower" frequency, it actually helps Parkinson's patients think more clearly.
First Ever medrxiv | Mar 13