Health & Medicine
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Chiropractors may no longer be modern-day snake oil salesmen, but the benefits of their therapy are limited–at best
Roughly 11 percent of American adults saw a chiropractor in 2022, mainly for pain management. Chiropractic care is offered by ...
Meat sits atop the U.S.-RFK, Jr. food pyramid. How healthy is the carnivore diet?
Meat is king, according to the U.S. government. The new dietary guidelines encourage people to consume red meat regularly, and ...
Viewpoint: NAD is the wellness grifters latest evidence-lite longevity fad. At least the mice are impressed.
NAD has been discussed in the wellness world for years. In 2019, Jennifer Aniston mentioned it in an interview with ...
Sharp rise in number of parents refusing newborn vitamin K shots, putting babies at 81-fold higher risk of severe bleeding
In the hours after birth, newborns are typically given a shot of vitamin K, which they are naturally deficient of ...
Viewpoint: Doctors can fight health misinformation — if hospitals let them
Health misinformation is a public health problem. According to KFF, more than half of U.S. adults say they get health ...
Social media’s health advice red flags
Researchers ... looked at the social media profiles of 6,828 health and wellness influencers with at least 100,000 followers. Only ...
Viewpoint: No, sugar doesn’t ‘feed’ cancer — common cancer myths, debunked
From avoiding sugar completely to fearing microwaves and mammograms, cancer is surrounded by myths that continue to create panic and ...
Viewpoint—‘Technology is pulling us apart’: Environmental, political, and economic
It could be the relentless news agenda, but the news has been relentless throughout my 11 years as editor-in-chief of ...
West-originated vaccine disinformation sparks murders of health care workers across Africa
Late last year, rumors spread through the villages of Tshopo, a northeastern Congolese province covered in tropical forests, that a ...
Financial incentives, over diagnosis, and weak oversight: Autism claims are driving up Medicare costs
As we recently argued, the American healthcare system’s structure of open-ended reimbursement, subjective diagnostic criteria, and fee-for-service billing creates powerful ...
Brain remains influenced by false information about health, reveals cognitive science
Research shows that false health information continues to influence people’s choices even after official corrections. The mechanism involves how the ...
AI likely to improve health care, research shows—but not for blacks and ethnic minorities
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 ...
Newest hantavirus conspiracy: Online disinformation turns outbreak into latest ivermectin grift
Conspiracy theorists, wellness influencers, and grifters have already started promoting wild claims about the hantavirus outbreak that began aboard the MV Hondius, a cruise ship on ...
Viewpoint — Alternative medicine and the placebo effect: Selling a reassuring illusion of health
For many people who can afford it, it is not their doctor, but an acupuncturist or massage therapist who will ...
Viewpoint: ‘Crisis of public trust’: Autism support community shocked RFK continues to peddle false claims about the danger of vaccines
Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should ...
Viewpoint: Why the retracted Monsanto glyphosate study doesn’t change the science—the world’s most popular herbicide is safe
In 2000, three researchers published a peer-reviewed paper concluding that, “under present and expected conditions of use,” Roundup, a formulation of ...
The FDA couldn’t find a vaccine safety crisis, so it buried its own research
Corrupt and Unethical Leadership at the FDA There is a particular kind of government betrayal that arrives not with a ...
Defying death: The immortality movement goes mainstream
Michael Peel ... [I]n this series, we’re exploring the origins of the longevity movement and how it’s migrating from the ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vax fake ‘turbo cancer’ claims threaten cancer treatment breakthroughs
Since the early 2000s, there have been over 120 promising clinical trials testing the use of mRNA vaccines to treat multiple cancer ...
Viewpoint: Will AI democratize personalized cancer treatment or fuel medical misinformation?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made major advances in biomedical research. It has powered tools such as AlphaFold and systems that ...
As U.S. officials spread medical misinformation, scientists fact check online
[Asma] Khalil is part of a growing movement of physician-scientists leveraging their resources and expertise to push back against what ...
Viewpoint: The state of U.S. vaccine policy? Dismal nationally, but some states are stepping up.
[T]he chasm between what gets said on Capitol Hill and what actually ends up playing out in policy has never ...
Viewpoint: ‘Safer for children?’ Stonyfield yogurt under fire for deceptive organic marketing
In the competitive food marketplace, fear-based marketing continues to be a go-to strategy for some food companies trying to differentiate ...
Facebook swamped by hundreds of thousands of scam ads for illegal or dangerous medical products
Two months ago, a sponsored post for a supplement popped up on Facebook with a miraculous claim: “The doctors have ...
Longevity: Is cellular rejuvenation even possible?
Many scientists now believe that mastering cellular rejuvenation may be the key to transforming how long and how well we ...
Viewpoint: Can this California pediatrician and Congressional hopeful quell anti-vaccine extremists?
Dr. Richard Pan is no stranger to blood. As a pediatrician, he was trained for its inevitability. But unlike your average medical ...
How big health brands are funding online medical misinformation
A study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, which is published by the American Medical Association, found that health care-related ...
