Your pantry may be bare at home, and your grocery store shelves may be empty, but Florida farms are having the opposite problem. There are many Florida farms with too much produce and no place to sell it. But now, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) is offering to solve both problems …
People tend to enjoy owning pets of various kinds. Some people like dogs and cats while others lean towards much bigger friends: horses. Studies are done all the time to determine the benefits of owning different kinds of pets, such as a recent study that was just completed in Western North Carolina, Northern Virginia, and …
Dear Reader: These are extraordinary times we’re living in, and while we’ve always got an eye toward health and wellness, sometimes it’s not just about calories and fat grams. Self-care might look like an over-the-top carpet picnic in the living room, or sweet treats that aren’t normally a part of your diet. We believe that …
Root canal is a commonly performed procedure in most adults. But is it a wise one? Dr. Robert Kulacz, a dentist, has spent a significant portion of his professional career trying to answer this question. What he discovered profoundly changed his life, and led him to write a book about his findings called, The Toxic Tooth: How …
A tiny laser is being tested inside blood vessels as part of an unusual attempt to tackle pancreatic tumors that surgeons cannot safely remove. The first-in-human clinical trial at UCI Health is investigating whether light-activated treatment can destroy tumor tissue wrapped around major abdominal arteries and potentially make surgery possible. Early results from six patients …
A three-year-old boy with metastatic liver cancer had already endured chemotherapy, major surgery and multiple attempts to remove tumors when doctors turned to an experimental immune-cell therapy. His cancer had returned despite aggressive treatment, leaving researchers with a difficult case and few conventional options. Then came an extraordinary result. After two outpatient infusions of genetically …
The human brain remains one of the most enigmatic organs, even in today’s age of scientific breakthroughs. Hidden within its intricate networks is the pineal gland, a small yet crucial component often referred to as the “third eye.” Recent discoveries, however, are revealing its deeper significance. Alarmingly, there seems to be a compelling link between …
For years, scientists have struggled to explain exactly what happens inside the brain during a psychedelic experience. New research combining hundreds of brain scans now suggests the answer may be more complicated than simply saying psychedelics disrupt normal brain activity. Researchers analyzed more than 500 brain scans from 267 people across 11 independent datasets and …
For millions of people, chronic pain can feel like a signal that never gets the message to stop. Scientists may now have a better idea of what keeps some pain going, after finding a surprising control system deep inside the brain. The discovery came from an experiment that produced almost the opposite result researchers expected. …
Ciara Burnside expected the first moments with her newborn son to be like those of any other new mother. Instead, when baby Ralph was placed on her chest, she immediately noticed something was wrong, and within minutes, medical staff had taken him away for urgent treatment. He wasn’t crying, his hands were bleeding, and patches …
A sugar found in everyday foods has become the focus of an unexpected cancer research finding. Scientists studying ovarian cancer found that fructose may help cancer cells spread after chemotherapy, at least in laboratory models and mice. The finding may sound alarming if you regularly drink sweetened beverages, but there is an important distinction. The …
A mouse that had stopped building nests began doing it again after researchers gave it two injections of an experimental nanoparticle treatment. The same animals also performed better on a memory test, while researchers found more neurons in their brains. The treatment, called Nano-ERASER, is still years away from becoming a human therapy. Yet the …