Kidney Stones

"Kidney stones affect roughly 1 in 10 Americans at some point in their lifetime, and rates have been climbing steadily over the past few decades."

https://www.eatingwell.com/what-to-eat-to-reduce-kidney-stone-risk-12031050?hid=4811f21c13a7d3a5abac89f8c16272d61e5cb114&did=25154689-20260807&utm_campaign=etg-daily-nosh_newsletter&utm_source=etg&utm_medium=email&utm_content=080726&utm_term=send1&lctg=4811f21c13a7d3a5abac89f8c16272d61e5cb114&lr_input=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&bvee=1786132201908&kw=myrecipesnl

What Early human might have eaten

"Compared with other primates like chimpanzees and gorillas, humans have very big brains."

https://www.history.com/articles/early-human-ancestors-diet-sugar-carbs?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

MRNA flu vaccine

"The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first mRNA flu vaccine, enabling use of a technology that will make it easier to rapidly target a widely prevalent or particularly virulent strain of the virus."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/health/mrna-flu-vaccine-moderna.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.nBIR.a4YVvJQyRTTe&smid=url-share&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

American Red Cross

"The American Red Cross has declared only the second national blood supply crisis in its history after blood donations fell to a four-year summer low, deepening an emergency shortage that threatens the availability of lifesaving blood for patients across the country."

https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/press-release/2026/red-cross-declares-national-blood-supply-crisis-urges-immediate-.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Neanderthals

"Neanderthals were generally more robustly built than people are today."

https://news.ki.se/neanderthal-gene-variant-may-increase-muscle-mass-in-people-living-today-today?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Long COVID

"Long COVID is defined as a chronic condition that occurs after SARS-CoV-2 infection and is present for at least 3 months."

https://www.cdc.gov/long-covid/about/index.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

COVID-19 woke up viruses in body

"Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists noticed that a SARS-CoV-2 infection can “wake up” other, dormant viruses already present in the body. A study out today in Nature extends those and subsequent observations, documenting viral reactivation for a cohort of more than 1000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 before mid-2021."

https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-can-wake-dormant-viruses-body-large-study-confirms?utm_medium=email&utm_source=1440&utm_campaign=1440&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4