Sharon Adarlo

Doctors were using a surgical robot on a Florida woman with colon cancer when the device burned her small intestine, followed by more procedures and ultimately her death, WFLA-TV reports, and now her husband has filed a lawsuit against the maker of the robot. In September 2021, Sandra Sultzer was undergoing a procedure at the Baptist […]

A rival to trendy weight loss drug semaglutide has been shown to drastically improve people's blood pressure after 36 weeks of taking the medication, according to a new study published in the journal Hypertension. The medication is called tirzepatide, developed by the big pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, which the Federal Drug Administration approved a few […]

Say Cheese A spectacular image taken by NASA's Juno probe this past weekend shows Jupiter's moon Io with twin eruptions on the surface, underlining the fact that Io is the most volcanically active place in our Solar System. The NASA image, which Juno captured on February 3 from around 2,400 miles away, shows the faint […]

Money Crunch It seems like the first quarter of 2024 is the season for mass lay offs in many industries, from Snapchat to Business Insider. Now add NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to that list. The vaunted research center will be losing about 530 people or 8 percent of its staff, plus around 40 contractors […]

Instead of signing up for reality tv show Hoarders as a desperate cry for help, a new study from Stanford University proposes that people with a hoarding problem can alleviate their issue by donning a pair of virtual reality goggles and simulate throwing away the mountains of trash that have accumulated inside their homes. The […]