Lucas Franki is an associate editor for MDedge News, and has been with the company since 2014. He has a BA in English from Penn State University and is an Eagle Scout.
News
COVID wars, part nine: The rise of iodine
Plus: Justice for vaccination, a gut feeling about travel, and your inner braniac.
News
Elderly mice receive the gift of warmth
Plus subliminal veggies, TikTok tics, and the obesity paradox.
News
Exercising to lose weight is not for every ‘body’
Compensatory mechanisms will compensate, whether you like it or not.
News
A hot dog a day takes 36 minutes away
Plus: Overstressed and undersexed, pandemic pandemonium, and lifesaving spider venom.
News
Medicinal liquor and edited mosquitoes
Plus, health system’s money gets “adult,” and desk users get “exercise.”
News
Motherhood can get old fast, and snubbing can become phubbing
Plus, COVID-19 treatment is going to the … horses? And vaccination cards are not going in wallets.
News
Please interrupt me, but don't heat your fish
Plus, the latest TikTok trend has people “running to the bathroom.”
News
Money buys life, and a cigarette maker wants to ‘unsmoke the world’
Plus, an autopsy gets interrupted by the patient, and the pandemic gets competitive.
News
Lucid abductions and Candy Crush addiction
Plus, coffee gets credit for heart health and a world leader gets hiccups.
Opinion
Dogs know their humans, but humans don’t know expiration dates
Plus, a unique solution to living longer, and Mr. Clean takes up dentistry.
News
Garlic cloves in the nose and beer dreams and pareidolia faces
Also, breast milk that’s not breast milk, and another reputation hit for garlic.
News
A pacemaker that 'just disappears' and a magnetic diet device
Plus, a face mask that prevents and diagnoses COVID-19 and a pacemaker that removes itself.
News
Gray hair goes away and squids go to space
Also, a new source of vanilla and a visit to the brain bank.
News
The most important meal of the day, with extra zinc
Plus, livers live the hop life and babies get scared by their microbiomes.
News
The pandemic changed smokers, but farming didn’t change humans
Also, find out which organs are secretly sharing their proteins and which dreams are a coping mechanism.