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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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 ...
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 ...
‘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: 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 ...
From infrared sauna blankets to collagen gummies, here’s the top 10 social-media-promoted wellness shams
The wellness industry has become a multi-billion-dollar business built around one simple promise: feeling better. Better sleep. Better skin. Better ...
Ideological red flag: Led by anti-vax doctor, Tennessee is now the U.S. epicenter selling potent ivermectin shown worthless to prevent or treat Covid
Four years ago, Tennessee became the first state to allow adults to buy the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from a pharmacy ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate may be hazardous, but it is not dangerous as used by farmers. Critics of the Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling garble hazard with risk
... In epidemiology, causation is usually a population-level inference. Researchers ask whether an exposure reliably changes disease risk across groups of ...
Viewpoint—Junk science: How predatory mass tort lawyers twist facts, scare the public about phantom chemical risks, and cash in on billion-dollar settlements
Too many mass tort litigations are being resolved based on so-called “expert” testimony that is, in reality, less than reliable ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Legalized weed drives drug addiction, psychosis?
Drug legalization is supposed to spur several critical improvements in public health. As more states legalize recreational marijuana, we're beginning ...
Celebrities flock to Mexico for for expensive anti-aging stem cell injections despite no evidence that it works
Celebrities are jetting out of the country in search of a pricey anti-aging craze that many claim is helping them ...
Miracle cure or medical mirage? As scientists strip away the hype over psychedelic therapy, evidence of the benefits fades.
Over the last decade, we’ve seen scientific interest in these drugs explode. But most clinical trials of psychedelics have been small ...
Viewpoint: Disinformation grift: The wellness industry is a lucrative and mostly worthless marketplace of ‘balms, brews, and baloney’
Wellness used to mean getting your vitamins from food and eliminating waste in a toilet. Today it means supplements, colonics, ...
Blocked by Kennedy’s CDC, validated by peer-reviewed scientists: Suppressed COVID vaccine study published in JAMA finds 50% risk cut
A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published [on June 23, 2026] ...
Viewpoint: Which is worse: Trace PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ on strawberries or the fear that scares people away from eating them?
A wellness blog called Mamavation had a lab test two containers of Driscoll’s from a single store on a single ...
Viewpoint: From magnetizing your head to taking useless supplements, the wellness craze has morphed into an obsession of the affluent
The health world is awash with what is sometimes referred to, a bit too politely in my opinion, as “woo”; ...
Even in blue states, hospitals have continued to drop gender-affirming care for youths
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who ...
From printers to pigs: The precarious future of organ transplants
At any given time, the US transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Even with a record 41,356 transplants ...
Viewpoint: Appreciating a simpler past without swallowing the misleading ‘nature is healthier and safer’ myth
There is a woman who lives on my For You page. She has wild curly hair and a wardrobe of ...
Viewpoint: The facts behind the grifter-promoting wellness and anti-aging peptide craze: Don’t waste your money
The wellness craze of the moment. Peptides themselves are just short chains of amino acids, the same building blocks that ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s vaccine subterfuge campaign now flies below the media radar
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention halted the publication of a study showing that last year’s covid-19 ...
How the dubious, Trump-backed, addictive drug kratom could enrich cabinet secretary Markwayne Mullin
Sold in gas stations across America, kratom has been linked to liver toxicity, seizures and thousands of deaths. Powerful figures ...
Is cellular reprogramming junk science? Nearly 20 patients are getting eye injections in the first FDA-cleared cellular trial
It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique ...
Why the human genome is less a script than a puzzle
It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does ...
