Medical Regs & Ethics
American Academy of Pediatrics says it will review evidence on safety of gender care and surgery for children, but keeps current treatment recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical ...
Viewpoint: Dr. AI? Artificial intelligence on a path to diagnose conditions and prescribe treatments directly to a patient without a physician
The inevitable question isn’t so much if but when these artificial intelligence devices can step into the shoes of doctors ...
Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches undisclosed settlement with ThermoFisher, ending 70-year long battle for compensation after using her cancer cells without permission
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks announced a lawsuit in October 2021 accusing Thermo Fisher Scientific of profiting from cancer cells that ...
Viewpoint: How did science become a messy jumble of politics?
Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really ...
Should University Agricultural Research Scientists Partner With Industry?
Studies show research on GE crops is not significantly influenced by conflicts of Interest. However, it is important to remain ...
‘Effectively banned’: Florida’s GOP-lead legislature battles with College Board after voting to strip sections on gender fluidity and sexual orientation from AP Psychology curriculum
The nonprofit said it would not remove a section on gender and sexual orientation, as Florida had requested, and advised ...
Could we live longer with transfusions of ‘young blood’? It’s worked on mice
Old mice live longer thanks to young blood: Duke University scientists found that their procedure slows down ageing at the ...
Viewpoint: Anti-agrobiotech activists claim European farmers who support relaxing the EU’s de facto ban on cultivating GMO and gene-edited crops are dupes of Big Ag. Here are the facts
Staunch opponents of the agricultural biotechnology revolution spin a narrative that large agribusiness have strong-armed governments to approve genetically modified ...
GOP House adds dozens of riders to spending bills that limit gender-affirming care, marriage equality and other LGBTQ+ rights, but Senate Dems likely to strip out measures
House Republicans have embedded at least 45 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions into must-pass funding bills — many of which would weaken discrimination ...
GLP podcast and video: PFAS bans could do more harm than good; Risks and benefits of ‘magic mushrooms’; ‘Ultra-processed’ foods are nutritious
There are growing calls to ban PFAS chemicals to protect public health. The problem is, these substances are used in ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s campaign has hired anti-vax activists and health conspiracy theorists
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign reveal numerous payments to individuals and groups whose ideologies differ significantly from traditional Democratic Party ...
Viewpoint: ‘Advances in brain-computer interfaces and prosthetics could improve quality of life for millions, but they carry risks that touch upon eugenics’
Advances in brain-computer interfaces and prosthetics could improve the quality of life for millions, but they carry risks that even ...
Viewpoint: 60% of people with sickle cell disease live in sub-Saharan Africa. Gene-based cures must be accessible to everyone
The treatment of sickle cell disease is on the cusp of a historic breakthrough, with makers of two gene-based treatments for the ...
GLP podcast and video: Dunning-Kruger debunked? The evil industry, noble activist myth; The real Vandana Shiva
The less informed someone is about a topic, the more likely they are to overestimate their knowledge of it. This ...
‘I wish I never touched it’: Downside of weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy
Drug regulators say they have received reports of stomach paralysis among patients taking GLP-1 agonist drugs ...
How much would you pay to prolong your life? $100k can get you access to unproven treatments
The Longevity Clinic: The clinics cater to a growing number of people obsessed with fighting aging ...
Mushroom hallucinogen sales booming despite reports of serious side effects
When a hemp dispensary in this Florida city started to stock edibles with certain mushroom extracts last year, state regulators ...
Anorexia and the will to live: Canada poised to expand physician-assisted suicide to those with mental illnesses
The new mental health provision will make Canada one of the most expansive countries in the world when it comes ...
Viewpoint: Breakthroughs in effort to create ‘synthetic’ embryos have sparked criticism — but the research could help us reduce prevalence of miscarriages and genetic disorders
Are human embryo models a cause for hope or alarm? A recent breakthrough in the race to create ‘synthetic’ embryos ...
Every minute, a child under 5 dies from malaria. Here’s how gene editing mosquitoes could quickly dramatically suppress disease-carrying populations
US scientists are hailing a new gene modification technique that leads to the suppression of female mosquitoes of the species ...
Viewpoint: Why do some global cancer research agencies claim that using a cell phone (like drinking Diet Coke with aspartame) poses a cancer risk?
Although some people argue that cell phone usage contributes to rising brain cancer rates, analysis of the data shows no ...
Viewpoint: To mask or not to mask? That remains a hotly debated question in hospitals and other healthcare facilities — although it shouldn’t be
During the years that the COVID-19 pandemic was murderously sweeping the world, it killed about seven million — more than 1.1 ...
Self-managed abortion: How well does misoprostol alone work to end pregnancies even at later gestation periods?
Most women who took abortion drugs were successful even at later gestation periods, researchers reported ...
New wave of migration: Transgender care crackdown prompts surge in families fleeing Missouri, Florida, Texas and other states
Hal Dempsey wanted to “escape Missouri.” Arlo Dennis is “fleeing Florida.” The Tillison family “can’t stay in Texas.” ...
Developing ‘revolutionary’ drugs — This company has spent a billion dollars over 25 years and has come up empty. What now?
The enormously expensive task and challenges involved in developing cutting-edge therapies: $12 billion California stem cell and gene therapy program ...
Birth control pill approved for over-the-counter sale with no age restriction, available early next year
Federal regulators on [July 13] approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill in a landmark decision that will soon ...
Making a new person from skin or blood cells — but no egg and sperm?’ Scientists debate ethics of ‘synthetic human reproduction’
Called in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, it promises to someday provide a cure for many types of infertility ...