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Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one morning in May with a swollen face and a sore tooth. He refused painkillers that his mother, Geneva Reynolds, tried to give him. He didn’t sleep or eat and was crying all the time. Within days, Reynolds became desperate and, together with her husband, physically restrained Jonah and poured painkillers down Jonah’s throat as he screamed in pain. “It broke our hearts,” said Reynolds, who was living in Georgetown, Kentucky, at the time. “And I remember thinking, “It doesn’t have to happen that way.” Reynolds was unable to find an open dentist who could treat…

The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the number, but answered anyway. “The person said he was from the Criminal Investigation Department, which investigates drug trafficking and money laundering,” the woman recalled. He seemed to know a lot about her. The state where she and her late husband lived. his name and occupation. And her current address is Washington County, Rhode Island. On her cell phone, he showed her a photo ID with a convincing badge and his name (something along the lines of “Frank”), as well as an article describing the supposed investigation. The…

A new study comparing children with autism, ADHD, and symptoms of both reveals that comorbid conditions can alter the relationship between cognitive abilities and emotional and behavioral regulation, providing new insights into why children with both diagnoses require better assessment and intervention strategies. study: Cognitive and emotional profiles of children with ASD, ADHD, and comorbid conditions: Evidence for distinct clinical phenotypes. Image credit: Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock.com In recent research, frontiers of psychiatry investigated the cognitive and emotional behavioral profiles of children with ASD, ADHD, and both disorders to determine whether comorbid conditions may represent distinct clinical phenotypes that require individualized assessment and…

A new statewide spatial analysis of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) reveals significant differences in how the condition affects people living in rural Maryland. The findings highlight how access to health care can significantly impact health outcomes and provide a clear example of the challenges facing many rural communities across the United States. More than 90% of large hospitals are located in urban areas. As a result, rural hospitals operate with reduced resources and very tight financial margins. One of the most serious obstacles is the lack of doctors, nurses and specialists trained to treat Alzheimer’s disease and dementia,…

A recent study found that dreaming about a specific problem can help you find creative solutions the next day. By playing special audio to participants while they slept, scientists were able to guide the content of their dreams to unsolved puzzles and increase their success in solving subsequent problems. These findings were published in the journal neuroscience of consciousness. Scientists have observed that taking a break from difficult problems tends to help us find solutions. Once a person leaves, attachment to the wrong approach begins to disappear. At the same time, the brain may form new and unexpected connections between…

Emma Walmsley leaves on a high note after nearly nine years as GSK’s CEO, with her total remuneration increasing by nearly 50% to £15.7 million ($21 million) in 2025. The swan song payment, detailed in the company’s latest annual report (PDF), reflects Walmsley’s “outstanding leadership” which, as GSK chairman Jonathan Symonds put it, transformed the British pharmaceutical company “in almost every way”. More specifically, this surge was primarily driven by payments from GSK’s long-term incentive awards, whose value benefited from the company’s share price appreciation. The vested amount of long-term compensation has increased to £10m in Mr Walmsley’s 2025 pay…

Seeing blood in your urine is often the first clue that something is wrong. Many people notice this symptom and seek medical attention, which may lead to an early diagnosis of bladder cancer. However, for people with color blindness, detecting that warning sign can be much more difficult. Many people with color blindness have trouble seeing the color red, so blood in the urine may go unnoticed. Researchers at Stanford Medicine and collaborating institutions report that ignoring this early symptom can have serious consequences. After analyzing health records, the researchers found that people with both bladder cancer and color blindness…

It is a common sight for tribal nations alike to host conferences with dinners and tours of ambitious new projects. But for David Harper, a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribe and CEO of the newly created tribal energy financing organization Hoolab, a recent gathering felt different. Last week at the Bluewater Resort and Casino on the Colorado River Indian Tribal Reservation in western Arizona, Mr. Hoolaf met with tribal leaders, investors and farmers to launch the tribe’s first agricultural power project, a project that will allow crops to be grown under solar panels. This project represents important progress…

A few years ago, nephrologists tried something unprecedented. It is an attempt to remove race from key clinical algorithms and undo the harms of race-based equations for those who are still adversely affected by them. Until 2021, eGFR, which is used to measure kidney function, had been raised by about 16 to 21 percent for Black patients, which can mask severe kidney disease and delay urgently needed transplants. Not only was this equation phased out in 2022, but the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network also mandated amendments to transplant programs for Black patients awaiting transplants. The new study found that…

NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission did more than just change the motion of a small asteroid. A new study shows that the probe’s intentional collision with the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022 also slightly altered the path of the entire asteroid system around the sun. This discovery provides strong evidence that kinetic impactors can be used as a planetary defense tool to reorient potentially dangerous near-Earth objects. Dimorphos and his larger partner Didymos are held together by gravity. The two asteroids orbit a common center of mass, which scientists call a binary star system. They are linked…