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As we recently argued, the American healthcare system’s structure of open-ended reimbursement, subjective diagnostic criteria, and fee-for-service billing creates powerful ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into health care, including but not limited to diagnosis and treatment plans, drug development, prediction of health risks and ...

Corrupt and Unethical Leadership at the FDA There is a particular kind of government betrayal that arrives not with a ...

In 2000, three researchers published a peer-reviewed paper concluding that, “under present and expected conditions of use,” Roundup, a formulation of ...

[T]he chasm between what gets said on Capitol Hill and what actually ends up playing out in policy has never ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made major advances in biomedical research. It has powered tools such as AlphaFold and systems that ...

In the competitive food marketplace, fear-based marketing continues to be a go-to strategy for some food companies trying to differentiate ...

Science communications is not an easy task. You have to be comprehensive and concise, simplifying the message while not dumbing ...

Clickbait headlines often obscure this reality and reinforce misunderstandings. For example, cancer is not a single disease; it’s a catchall ...

Umpiring in sport is a strange profession. A cricket umpire stands for hours under the sun, matching the stamina of ...

The political momentum behind costly climate-change mitigation appears to be weakening, especially in the United States. President Donald Trump has ...

Every day, the same post appears in two places at once. A Facebook user in Munich sees it with a ...

They are newborns, many of them less than two weeks old, and the race to save them is measured in ...

In July 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a pilot program intended to expedite reviews for drug ...

When United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled new dietary guidelines earlier this year to “Make America Healthy ...

Eman, our informally adopted son who is a physician in Monrovia, Liberia, is recovering from the measles. He contracted it ...

For decades, nutrition advice on carbohydrate-rich foods has offered a simple way to enjoy carbs guilt-free: no need to give ...

Here we go again. The rather tiresome Activist Playbook is being applied again, this time not to pesticides, plastics, fossil ...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary recently stated that when it comes to drugs that currently require a ...

Public opinion driven by fear has immense influence in our society, especially when it comes to science and health topics ...

I was saddened to hear of Craig Venter’s passing at the age of 79 on April 30, 2026. Often portrayed ...

I thought it might be a good idea to try to examine the underlying reasons why so many scientists and ...

We’ve done a lot of debunks. After a while, they start to blur together because the formula is almost always ...

After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the ...

Two words used to scare people are impossible to avoid: synthetic and its younger cousin, ultra-processed. They’re everywhere—on supermarket shelves, ...

For decades, farmers have relied on glyphosate — the active ingredient in Roundup and the most widely used herbicide in ...

If you spend any time on social media, you may have noticed a curious trend: wellness influencers singing the praises ...