Dina Fine Maron, health & science editor at Scientific American, discusses the breakthrough that could help doctors diagnose mental illnesses. Stem cells have enabled researchers to see how lithium affects the brain.
Researchers are converting patients skin cells into brain cells through genetic instruction. This allows them to look at the brain cells of a person with bipolar disorder and better understand how to treat it.
Maron explains this breakthrough will allow doctors to customize a patient's treatment plan, instead of giving them the same treatment given to everyone. Maron says the hope is one day researchers will be able to expose a patient's cells to a particular drug and see how they react before prescribing the drug to an actual patient.
The first over-the-counter drug to reverse opioid overdoses will be available in stores by next week.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it has revised a key rule relating to the nation's waters that would weaken efforts to protect acres of wetlands.
A new study has found that air pollution is a personal health threat and more dangerous than smoking and drinking.
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Narcan, the opioid overdose drug, will be available by next week.
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A rare blue supermoon could raise ocean tides and make flooding worse during Hurricane Idalia.
Cheddar News checks in with a coast-to-coast forecast of the weather for Wednesday, August 30, 2023, including the latest on Hurricane Idalia.
Better catch the show if you can. There won't be another blue supermoon until 2037.
Doctors in Australia removed a three-inch living roundworm from a woman's brain.
