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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Belief in unproven dietary regimes, vitamins, and crank therapies is putting patients’ health in danger and increasing the risk of getting cancer
Social media misinformation about the use of dietary supplements such as turmeric, St John’s wort and magnesium is now so ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s rejection of air conditioning is the poster child for misunderstanding how to mitigate the impact of climate change
Europe is warming: ~0.5°C per decade since the 1980s. Figure 1 shows the continent’s annual count of days since 1950 ...
Viewpoint: SCOTUS strikes a blow against junk science in Bayer glyphosate case. Will it deter mass tort litigators?
Mass tort litigation grows like weeds. Last week, the Supreme Court created the ultimate lawsuit-killer by rejecting state court claims ...
Viewpoint: 21 worthless wellness trends inspired by RFK, Jr.’s ill-informed MAHA followers that can harm or even kill you.
Somewhere along the way, "wellness" went from drinking water and getting enough sleep to taking medical advice from a "looksmaxxing ...
Deeply-flawed ivermectin study revives scientifically unsupported miracle cancer drug myth
Though researchers have been studying the animal deworming drug ivermectin for decades, there is no evidence that it's a safe ...
Do cold plunges and contrast therapy work?
Images of people jumping from icy plunge baths after a period in saunas or hot tubs are heating up social ...
‘Alternative’ cancer treatments that could kill you
The diagnosis of cancer brings fear, uncertainty, and an urgent search for control. In that vulnerable moment, alternative cancer therapies ...
Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense doubles down on support for Idaho mother charged by a grand jury with murdering her twins last year after claiming vaccines killed them
An Idaho mother who said her 18-month-old twins died last year after receiving three vaccines has been charged with murder ...
Signal or noise? Study links GLP-1 drugs to slowing the aging process
A theory that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic or Zepbound might help people live longer has been bandied about by biohackers ...
Viewpoint: Trump poised to politicize all U.S.-supported science research
I recall the precise moment I realized U.S. science was in for a very rough time. My wife and I ...
What happens when a pro-life congresswoman needs an abortion?
Tara Palmeri sits down with Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack of Florida for a wide-ranging and unusually candid conversation. ... In ...
Kennedy blocks preventive health care panel that reviews treatments for HIV, diabetes, and cancer from meeting — for fourth time
For the fourth time, the Trump administration has prevented an important public health panel from meeting as planned. The panel, ...
Viewpoint: Oxygen chambers? Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy? The only thing biohacking improves is the bottom line of preventative medicine hucksters
... [A]longside valuable services such as physiotherapy, dietitian support and exercise programs, increasingly trendy interventions pop up: IV vitamin infusions, ...
700,000-person study reaffirms that getting a flu and Covid shot on the same day is safe
Getting the flu vaccine and COVID shot on the same day doesn't increase the risk of adverse reactions, according to ...
World’s first AI-designed vaccine explained
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Technical milestone or designer baby obsession: Latest gene-editing advance reignites a familiar ethical debate
Scientists at Columbia University have used a precise gene-editing tool, base editing, to make changes in three disease-linked genes in ...
Viewpoint: Treat food as medicine
Diet is one of the three key components to a longer life (along with exercise and sleep), and it offers ...
Viewpoint: How politicized science became a political religion
Political science is a social science that studies the workings of government. Lately it seems to have picked up a ...
Viewpoint: In the science misinformed grifter game plan, the organic-food-is-healthier myth might be the worst.
Organic food marketing, vaccine denialism, cancer pseudoscience, climate denial, wellness culture, and conspiracy theories may look different, but they're all ...
Misnamed ‘medical freedom’ movement stalls in Florida as Republicans fail to advance legislation ending school vaccine mandates
Every state, along with Washington, D.C., requires children to obtain certain vaccinations before they can attend school or childcare. These ...
Is Ebola a hoax created by fake humanitarians to steal African land and resources? Disinformation sweeps through the Congo.
As Ebola virus disease sweeps through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the surrounding region, healthcare workers aren’t ...
Viewpoint: Weaponizing misinformation
There are moments in global debates when a concept becomes so technical, institutional, and wrapped in the language of risk ...
‘Trust, access, and equity’: After billions of doses worldwide, yet another review of COVID vaccine confirms its safety and effectiveness
A comprehensive review of the billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses made with mRNA technology shows that these vaccines are safe ...
Viewpoint—Gutting the CDC: Survey of current and past CDC workforce accuses RFK, Jr. and Trump of destroying the agency and endangering public health
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, the workforce at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...
Viewpoint: The Lackland flu outbreak is fading but Hegseth’s military anti-vaccine fiasco is not
The flu outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has now become more than a military installation health problem. It is ...
Viewpoint: As MAHA blows up over Supreme Court ruling limiting glyphosate litigation, Trump offers toothless plan to reduce pesticides in food
President Trump, facing a backlash from supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allying himself with the chemical ...
PEW study: The sick state of American health information
Most Americans say it’s important to be healthy, but fewer think they are doing a good job at managing their ...
