Darie Nani
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Everyday WellnessFormer LA Makeup Artist Kyrsta Morehouse Brings a Non-Surgical Facelift to North Canton
At her one-person studio, Esthetics By Kyrsta, she combines facial cupping, microcurrent and contrast therapy in one treatment, and says 85% of her clients now rebook.
HealthAn Experimental Drug for a Fast-Moving Genetic ALS Meets Its Goal in a Global Trial
FUS-ALS, the rare and often young-onset form of the disease, has never had a treatment made for it, and the FUSION trial is the first real evidence that one could be coming.
Mental Health, Everyday WellnessPhysician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness
An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.
science & techTwo Child Deaths in China's Gene-Editing Trials Went Undisclosed for More Than a Year
The viral vector reaction that killed both children is a known hazard of gene therapy; what was new was the silence around the cases and China's rules, which carry no requirement to make trial deaths public.
Longevity & ScienceAn FDA-Cleared Trial Will Test Engineered Immune Cells Against Advanced Colorectal Cancer
The same class of therapy that clears some blood cancers has almost never worked against solid tumors, and this first-in-human study is designed to test safety, not to prove it works.
Longevity & ScienceAI Study Links Hidden Spleen Features to Higher Heart Disease Risk
The link, drawn from AI reading of abdominal scans in more than 42,000 people, points to what researchers call a heart-spleen axis behind risk that cholesterol control does not explain. It is early science, and the pattern did not hold up when tested in everyday patients.
Longevity & ScienceEating Fewer Calories Slowed the Buildup of DNA Mutations in Mice
It is the first look at the effect across most of the genome, and it says less about human dieting than it first appears.
HealthBird Flu Keeps Spreading Through US Dairy Herds, but Store Milk Is Still Safe to Drink
Federal testing has found no live virus in commercial pasteurized dairy, and health officials still rate the everyday risk to the public as low, even as the number of infected herds keeps climbing.
Longevity & ScienceA Gene-Editing Cure for Sickle Cell Now Works in the Patients Who Need It Most
The science of curing sickle cell is close to settled; whether that cure ever reaches the millions of people who have it is the question a new study begins to answer.
Mental HealthJohn Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland
The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.
HealthGLP-1 Prescriptions Rise 310-Fold Among Young Children With Obesity
The drugs were developed for adults, and clinical guidelines already allow them for obesity in children as young as 8.
science & tech, HealthMounjaro Can Now Be Prescribed to Lower Heart Attack and Stroke Risk in Type 2 Diabetes
The FDA cleared the once-weekly injection for people with type 2 diabetes who face high cardiac risk, based on a trial that tested it against an older drug already known to protect the heart.
FDA Authorizes the JUUL2 Vaping System Four Years After Moving to Ban Juul
The clearance covers a redesigned system with optional built-in age verification, and it returns Juul to a legal market it no longer leads.
Fitness & MovementGLP-1 Users Are Spending More on Fitness and Less on Snacks and Restaurants
The gap runs to nearly four to one by one survey's count, but the shift is concentrated among affluent users and may not outlast their prescriptions.
Longevity & ScienceScientists Race to Make the First Bundibugyo Ebola Vaccine as Congo's Outbreak Grows
The outbreak is the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded, caused by a strain no licensed vaccine can stop, and funders are now backing several vaccine candidates at once, including a new one from an Egyptian company.
Health, Everyday WellnessA Lawsuit Challenges the Paywall Around the Codes on Your Medical Bill
A transparency group is suing the American Medical Association to free the CPT code set, and the outcome could change what patients can look up about their own bills.
Longevity & ScienceThe NHS Will Fund Machines That Keep Donated Livers Alive Outside the Body
The change, recommended by NICE, should let surgeons safely use donor organs they might once have turned down, and improve the odds that a transplant works from the start.
Mental Health, Everyday WellnessAstrologer Nancy Volante Treats Burnout Through the Nervous System, Not the Calendar
The founder of The Whispering Soul in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a former professional dancer who ran a yoga studio for eight years, has folded 25 years of astrology study into a four-session coaching program that starts with the body.
Longevity & Science9/11 Responders With PTSD Have Older-Looking Brains
For the men and women who spent weeks in the toxic dust of Ground Zero, a new brain-imaging study suggests the hours they logged at the site may still be shaping how their minds grow old.
science & techClinical AI Reaches Patients Faster Than Anyone Tracks Its Mistakes
ECRI, a national patient-safety nonprofit, is building the first healthcare-specific system to log the errors AI tools make once they are inside real patient care.
science & techScientists Can Now See What AI Models Learn From Raw DNA
A method called PISA traces a model's prediction at any single DNA base back to every other base behind it, exposing when the model has learned the quirks of an experiment instead of real biology.
Everyday WellnessThe Way You Use Cannabis, Not Just How Much, May Flag Addiction Risk
The people who blend smoking, vaping, edibles and dabbing turned up as the group most likely to meet the clinical bar for a cannabis problem.
Longevity & ScienceA Hidden Molecule Stops Iron From Poisoning Our Cells
The finding, from researchers at MIT’s Whitehead Institute, reveals a surprising second role for polyamines, a class of small molecules found in every cell, and points toward new strategies against cancer and a clue to early-onset Parkinson’s disease.
Longevity & ScienceLight Made a Cancer Drug Up to 96 Times More Potent in the Lab
In mice, the same light trigger that boosted the drug CX-5461 also set off a vaccine-like immune response against their tumors, though the approach is still years from human testing.