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Scavengers in Chinese cities are buying discarded CT films and X-rays for 1.5 yuan each, extracting silver from them while also exposing sensitive patient information. The story reveals the gap betwee
A single flawed exam item can distort grading, student trust, and public confidence in assessment systems.
When crops wilt after irrigation, the key questions are not only what happened but where the water changed and how quickly the source can be pinned down.
Reports on the crowded college-application consulting market, including loosely credentialed “planning experts,” show how families can confuse paid confidence with reliable guidance during a stressful
A landmark USC-led study of more than 214,000 older adults across 14 countries reveals that the most important modifiable dementia risk factors — low education, high blood pressure, smoking — differ s
Biogen's diranersen, an antisense oligonucleotide that targets tau protein tangles, slowed cognitive decline by 26-50% across multiple measures in the Phase 2 CELIA trial presented at AAIC 2026 — the
A knowledge brief explaining why health research increasingly studies total environmental exposure over a lifetime.
France's devastating counter-attack meets Spain's possession mastery in the 2026 World Cup semi-final. Here is what the data says about who has the edge.
A reader-friendly note on why difficulty hearing speech in noisy rooms deserves attention.
Reports about encouraging university admission letters to return to a simpler one-page format raise a useful education question: should enrollment communication compete on packaging, or on clarity, di
Reports about strong prescription numbers for oral GLP-1 weight-management medicine highlight a health-business lesson: delivery format can change patient adoption, competition and expectations even w
A reported investigation into fishing bait allegedly containing a controlled sedative shows how public safety can be affected by niche products, informal supply chains and online sales that move faste
A reported elderly-care scam involving fake wellness treatments shows that health literacy is not only about medical facts. It also means recognizing fear-based sales, fake experts and expensive treat
A first-in-human clinical trial from Children's National Hospital shows that T-cells engineered to attack three tumor proteins at once can shrink aggressive pediatric brain cancers, with one child's t
The 2026 World Cup semi-finals feature the four top-ranked teams in world football for the first time in history. Here is how France, Spain, England and Argentina got here.