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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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Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s stacked FDA advisory council endorses multicancer screening test from ethically- questionable company that would increase false positives and waste billions of dollars
Grail’s Galleri multicancer blood test flunked its own big trial, and an FDA advisory panel recommended approving it anyway. That’s ...
Viewpoint: The price Americans pay for science denialism
Science denialism is quietly undoing centuries of hard-won progress against disease, and Americans are already paying for it with their ...
Viewpoint: Are these Trump-conservative GOP doctor-politicians violating their medical oath?
Physicians pledge to “do no harm,” but a cluster of Republican doctors in Washington are championing policies that strip health ...
Vaccine-preventable congenital infections are a leading driver of autism
Kids born with certain congenital infections are approximately three times more likely to be diagnosed as having autism, according to ...
Viewpoint: The shocking consequences after a year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s distortions, deceptions, and flat-out falsehoods
If you think having accurate information about your health matters, then the U.S. has a problem. I know, because I've ...
MAHA moms divided over RFK Jr.’s food‑safety efforts, as recall alerts grow and outbreaks spread
The “crunchy moms” who helped power Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement are splintering, as a year ...
Challenging health misinformation? People are more likely to believe AI when it responds with empathy
At a time of rampant medical misinformation online, artificial intelligence can do a good job of correcting falsehoods, but the ...
Anti-vaxxers’ double whammy: Exaggerated vaccine fears have fueled measles outbreaks and preventable deaths—and left survivors more vulnerable to other infections for years
Measles infections make people miserable for up to two long weeks, commonly causing dangerously high fevers, a painful sensitivity to ...
Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse
Promoted as high-tech nutrient delivery, over-the-counter vitamin patches are rapidly gaining popularity among consumers looking to bypass daily capsules. However, ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr. touts AI to guide health care…but searches using the technology he champions expose him as scientifically illiterate
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become an unlikely cheerleader for artificial intelligence in medicine — ...
Viewpoint: How the anti-abortion movement twists medical facts and promotes science misinformation
Misinformation and junk science about abortion are spreading at alarming rates and are becoming key components in legislation and litigation ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2
America’s health care apparatus is caught in a downward spiral of bureaucratic bloat, runaway expenses and eroding patient care. On ...
Viewpoint: How ‘MAHA men’ hijacked the female-built food and wellness movement
Women built the Make America Healthy Again movement, with Instagram-savvy “MAHA moms” railing against food dyes, pesticides and ultraprocessed snacks ...
Convinced COVID shots cause widespread harm, Kennedy plans federal initiative to incentivize doctors to report alleged injuries
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing a sweeping federal push on vaccine injuries, including a dedicated research clinic ...
5 deaths, 1,000 reported cases: These horrific numbers underestimate the consequences of the anti-vax movement
Pennsylvania's measles outbreak has topped 970 confirmed cases across 39 counties since April, sent nearly 200 people to the hospital ...
Widely condemned as unethical, hepatitis B vaccine study funded by RFK Jr’s CDC gets a final greenlight
The University of Southern Denmark confirmed that it has given the green light to a controversial study in Guinea-Bissau, funded ...
How the tobacco industry conspired with conservative activists to kill the Biden administration’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes
When the FDA proposed banning menthol cigarettes in 2022, it was buried under 175,000 public comments — and nearly all ...
Viewpoint: Hijacking Jesus: How anti-vaccine fanatics are exploiting religious exemptions and killing children
Between 1990 and 1991, Philadelphia suffered a large measles epidemic. About 1,400 children were infected, hundreds were hospitalized, and 9 ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s new CDC head Erica Schwartz greenlights hepatitis B vaccine study critics call “unethical and designed to cast doubts on its safety”
The CDC is reopening its wallet for a hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau shelved earlier this year amid an ...
Countries around the world are rushing to pass teenage social media bans. Could they backfire?
Governments are racing to keep kids off social media, but whether those bans will actually improve teen mental health is ...
Personalized mRNA vaccines are poised to revolutionize cancer treatments. Here are the barriers.
Personalized mRNA vaccines that train the immune system to hunt a patient's own tumor mutations are nearing approval, but, as ...
Abortion rights opponents outraged after FDA says its “safety review” of the already-found-safe mifepristone abortion pill will continue into 2027
The FDA’s reevaluation of mifepristone, the nation’s most widely used abortion pill, won’t wrap up until next year — and ...
9 wellness myths busted
Spas and wellness gurus are still peddling ideas that science left behind, as The Times’ Susan d’Arcy reports in her ...
Utah becomes first state to empower AI to bypass doctors and prescribe certain drugs
Utah is letting artificial intelligence slide a little further into the doctor's chair. The state's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy ...
Anti-vax Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton alleges conspiracy by doctors, drugmakers, and insurers to push childhood vaccination for profit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, now the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, has launched a sweeping investigation accusing pediatricians, vaccine ...
Hooked on kratom: The unregulated, natural, alcohol-free “social tonic” that is destroying lives
Feel Free, a tiny blue bottle of kratom-laced “social tonic” sold at more than 30,000 U.S. stores, is leaving a ...
‘Forever chemical’ concerns: Separating hysteria from reasonable concern in the debate over PFAS danger
PFAS have become a flashpoint in the debate over public health, environmental protection, and chemical regulation—but are millions of very ...
