Cow Dung and COVID-19: Why Indian Doctors Warned Against It
Originally published 2021-05-12. No, cow dung and cow urine do not protect against COVID-19 or cure it. In May 2021, as India's devast...
Treatments & Medical Research
News about new treatments can bring real hope, but early findings are not the same as proven cures. These stories look at medical research and health claims with attention to what the evidence actually shows. Please read critically, check reliable sources and talk to a qualified doctor before making any decision about your health.
Timothy Ray Brown, the First Person Cured of HIV, Dies at 54
Originally published 2020-10-01. Timothy Ray Brown, the American known worldwide as the "Berlin patient" and the first person kn...
Africa Certified Free of Wild Polio: How the Continent Did It
Originally published 2020-08-28. UNICEF health consultant Hadiza Waya vaccinates a child against polio in Kano, Nigeria, on 22 April 2017....
Bill Gates's 2020 Response to Vaccine Conspiracy Claims
Originally published 2020-08-14. In an August 2020 interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates dismissed the conspiracy theories that had grown up...
Canada Lets Four Terminally Ill Patients Use Psilocybin
Originally published 2020-08-13. On 4 August 2020, Canada's health minister Patty Hajdu granted four people with incurable cancer a l...
Sputnik V: How Russia Approved a Covid Vaccine Before Phase 3
Originally published 2020-08-12. On 11 August 2020, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had registered the world's first C...
Inhaled Interferon Beta for Covid-19: The 2020 Trial and What Followed
First published July 23, 2020. Did an inhaled protein treatment really cut Covid-19 deaths by almost 80 per cent? Not quite. In July 2020 a...
Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Early Trial: What the 2020 Results Showed
Originally published 2020-07-21. Trial samples being handled in the Oxford Vaccine Group laboratory at the University of Oxford. Photo: Jo...
Sputnik V: How Russia Raced to Register the First COVID-19 Vaccine
Originally published 2020-07-17. In mid-July 2020, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, said Russia'...
Dexamethasone Cuts COVID-19 Deaths: Oxford's RECOVERY Trial
Originally published 2020-06-28. In June 2020, a large British trial produced the first clear proof that a medicine could save lives from ...
The Gates Foundation's $100 Million Coronavirus Pledge of 2020
Originally published 2020-05-11. On 5 February 2020, weeks before most countries had recorded a single case of the new coronavirus, the Bi...
Lab-Grown Heart-Muscle Sheets: Osaka's First iPS Cell Transplant
Originally published 2020-05-02. In January 2020 surgeons at Osaka University in Japan placed thin sheets of lab-grown heart-muscle cells o...
Handheld Skin Printer for Burns: How It Works and What Pig Tests Found
Originally published 2020-04-29. Yes, a handheld skin printer for burns exists, but it is still a research device rather than standard hos...
Weightless by Marconi Union: Does It Really Cut Anxiety by 65%?
Originally published 2020-04-27. "Weightless" is an eight-minute ambient track by the Manchester band Marconi Union , written wi...
Cannabis Oil for a Child's Epilepsy: One Scottish Family's Story
Originally published 2020-03-27. Lisa Quarrell, a former police officer from Scotland, told The Scottish Sun that cannabis oil transformed...
Jack Ma's 2020 Donations of Masks and Test Kits to Europe and the US
First published March 19, 2020. In March 2020, as COVID-19 spread across Europe and North America, Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and his found...
40 Hz Light and Sound: MIT's Alzheimer's Research Explained
Originally published 2020-03-03. Scientists at MIT have shown that exposing mice to light flickering and sound pulsing 40 times a second c...
Rendever: Group Virtual Reality for Older Adults and Dementia Care
Originally published 2019-10-11. Rendever is a Boston company that brings group virtual-reality sessions into senior living communities, s...
LIFNano and Multiple Sclerosis: What the Research Actually Shows
Originally published 2019-08-31. LIFNano is an experimental approach to multiple sclerosis (MS) developed by Cambridge immunologist Dr Su M...
Can Psilocybin Reset the Brain? What Depression Studies Show
Originally published 2019-08-28. Sebastian Kaulitzki | Wikipedia Can psilocybin, the active compound in "magic mushrooms", res...
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