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Parents’ Bill of Rights: Vaccine wars heat up in states allowing exemptions for schoolchildren

Amy Maxmen | 
Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a ...
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Ozempic for life? Weight loss drugs are meant to be used long term. What happens if you stop taking them?

JoNel Aleccia | 
Those who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if ...
Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise

Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise

Dino Grandoni | 
Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, announced [March 6] that it has produced a line of Asian elephant ...
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Scientists losing uphill battle to prevent measles spread

Daniel Engber | 
Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in ...
What do Muslim leaders have to say about ethics of germline editing to prevent diseases?

What do Muslim leaders have to say about ethics of germline editing to prevent diseases?

Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin give ethical analysis of germline genome editing based on Islamic ...
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‘People are going to be better-looking, healthier and smarter – what’s not to like?’ What are the pitfalls of selecting embryos for intelligence?

Sienna Rodgers | 
The second age of eugenics: Would you select an embryo according to its chances of higher intelligence? And is that ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Regulatory vigilantes’ — How former government scientists who are now high-paid ‘expert witnesses’ for predatory law firms use mass tort litigation to sidestep science

David Zaruk | 
Regulatory risk management process allowed policymakers to govern over the last 60 years of technological and industrial development ...
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Should the US ban Chinese genomics companies? Fears rise about genetically-targeted ‘ethnic’ bioweapons

Ken Dilanian | 
Intel officials have warned China is grabbing U.S. genetic info that could be used to create targeted bioweapons ...
The Olympics of the future: Transhumanist-supported Enhanced Games recognizes world records achieved with drug use, steroids and stimulants

The Olympics of the future: Transhumanist-supported Enhanced Games recognizes world records achieved with drug use, steroids and stimulants

Pete Shanks | 
Peter Thiel and two other venture capitalists, Christian Angermayer and Balaji Srinivasan, are now funding “the Olympics of the future.” ...
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Genetic embryo screening for health issues and IQ inch closer to reality. Here’s a primer on what you can expect

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
The world of IVF has introduced a host of ethical quandaries. For now, Alabamians will be spared grappling the latest, ...
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Viewpoint: Revising ‘Right to Try’ laws could save children with rare diseases

Kendra Riley | 
A toddler is thriving after doctors in the US and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she ...
Viewpoint: 23andMe blames its users for the data hack that revealed the names, addresses and genetic information of people with Jewish and Chinese heritage

Viewpoint: 23andMe blames users for data hack that revealed names, addresses and genetic information of people with Jewish and Chinese heritage

Mack DeGeurin | 
23andMe pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums ...
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Viewpoint: Causing more harm than good? How billionaire donors influence global health priorities

Andy Stirling | 
Charitable foundations led by billionaires might aggravate global health and other societal issues as much as they might alleviate them ...
Viewpoint: Consensus as truth? How ‘misinformation police’ control policy narratives

Viewpoint: Consensus as truth? How ‘science misinformation police’ control policy narratives

Roger Pieleke Jr. | 
There are many problems with the notion of consensus-as-truth and the (self)appointment of misinformation police to regulate discourse ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Conversion therapy for gay and transgender youth is one of our darkest chapters. We shouldn’t inflict it on today’s kids’

Steve Silberman | 
New bills aim to create a climate of panic around young LGBTQ people’s access to health care and participation in ...
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‘Anybody could be my sibling’: How poor regulation of US fertility industry leads to accidental incest

Allison Gordon, Kyung Lah, Nelli Black, Rob Kuznia | 
A CNN investigation into fertility fraud nationwide found that most states, including Connecticut, have no laws against it.  ...
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In midst of measles outbreak, Florida Surgeon General defies standard medical practice and allows parents to send unvaccinated kids to school

Amy Maxmen | 
A record number of parents filed for exemptions from school vaccine requirements on religious or philosophical grounds across the US ...
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Scientific paper raising health concerns about abortion pill mifepristone safety has been retracted, author links found to anti-abortion lobbying group

Selena Simmons-Duffin | 
Supreme Court will hear the case against the abortion pill on 3/26: A two-drug regimen with misoprostol for abortions in ...
Death and dying: In our society of lawsuits, here's why we need a more precise definition

Death and dying: In our lawsuit-laden society, here’s why we need a more precise definition

Ariane Lewis | 
UDDA, the U.S. legal standard for death, has deficiencies, particularly with the description of death by neurologic criteria ...
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Are frozen embryos children? Alabama high court thinks so

Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | 
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled February 16 that frozen embryos are people and someone can be held liable for destroying ...
Viewpoint: Rejecting hysteria — ‘Alarmism’ over phthalates illustrates importance of embracing established risk measures

Viewpoint: Rejecting hysteria — ‘Alarmism’ over phthalates illustrates importance of embracing established risk measures

Sam Moxon | 
In October, in what could turn into a landmark case, a Missouri woman sued cosmetics company L'Oréal, claiming that her ...
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A blood test test can detect cancers well before symptoms show up. Don’t expect private insurers or the government to cover costs anytime soon

Allysia Finley | 
Many companies are developing blood tests that can detect cancer signals before symptoms occur, and Grail’s is the most advanced ...
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Delusion and technology: How the internet exacerbates schizophrenia and other mental health problems

Evolving technology and its expanding influence in society are altering evaluation of schizophrenia patients who have delusional thoughts ...
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Viewpoint: Weight loss drug boom raises host of unaddressed ethical and scientific questions

Arthur Caplan | 
The world has launched into an era of injectables not just to treat obesity but to manage weight. Is that ...
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‘We will publish anything!’ — Here’s how predatory journal mills work

Jonathan Jarry | 
A predatory journal exists solely to make money. It’s like a parasite on the back of the scientific endeavour ...
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AI-discovered drug could help 1.6 million Americans with inflammatory bowel disease

Melissa Rudy | 
IBD impacts 1.6 million people in the U.S. — and a new artificial intelligence-generated drug could help alleviate symptoms ...
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‘We need to stem the flow of bogus research’: Effort under way to challenge academic ‘paper mills’

Katharine Sanderson | 
Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature — a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow ...
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