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In April 2019, Chloe Meadows was diagnosed with ADHD and began working with her doctor to find a drug cocktail to relieve her symptoms. Among the medicines she took was Wellbutrin, in late 2020. She ...

In March 2013, a 27-year-old man showed up at the Fifth People’s Hospital in Shanghai, China, with a high fever and cough. Within 48 hours, he was admitted to the intensive care unit with severe ...

It was June of 1775 and the British army was in control of Boston. George Washington had only recently become the commander of the colonial army and, while he had not fought at Bunker Hill, he arrived ...

In the game Life is Strange, the main character, Maxine Caulfield, is an 18-year-old high school student with an interest in photography. She has recently moved back to her Oregon hometown, and upon ...

In July 2012, a renegade American businessman, Russ George, took a ship off the coast of British Columbia and dumped 100 tons of iron sulfate dust into the Pacific Ocean. He had unilaterally, and some ...

The largest herds of caribou in the world make their homes here. Polar bears give birth to cubs in dens dug into this soil, some of them more than 200 years old. And birds like the Arctic tern fly ...

Over time, social media has evolved to function as something of a town square, where Americans come to chat, share information, and organize. Unlike actual town squares, however, these platforms are ...

Moderna’s CEO Stéphane Bancel said in January that the company, known for its Covid-19 vaccine using messenger RNA technology, or mRNA, doesn’t plan to invest in new, late-stage vaccine trials. He ...

While the new guidelines say that generally, “saturated fat consumption should not exceed 10% of total daily calories,” the document’s new food pyramid features red meat, cheese, and whole milk at or ...

President Donald Trump‘s administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research ...

One of the world’s leading climate, weather and wildfire science research institutions is being targeted for elimination in what many of those affected see as President Donald Trump’s political ...