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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Can we prevent future pandemics while transforming more forests into farms?
Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more common as people ...
Podcast: ‘Angry Chef’ Anthony Warner takes on food pseudoscience and COVID-19 misinformation
Anthony Warner, better known as "the Angry Chef," visits the Fuel the Pedal podcast to examine how nutrition science is ...
Can genetics explain the degrees of misery inflicted by the coronavirus?
“The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.” Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate caused the COVID-19 pandemic? Debunking the latest coronavirus conspiracy
When I saw that Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a ... professor at MIT, wrote an article entitled Connecting the Dots: Glyphosate ...
Skin patch with 400 needles: Another potential coronavirus vaccine ready for human testing
Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine at a University of Pittsburgh lab. The deadly disease that crippled infants disappeared almost ...
‘Next time we might not be so lucky’: The coronavirus shows why we need to learn more about viral threats
Living through the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all now seeing the consequences of a failure to plan ahead when an ...
Infographic: 3 strategies for finding coronavirus treatments
The scientific community is working around the clock, not only to protect us from COVID-19, but to prevent future strains ...
Podcast: Don’t treat that fever—Dr. Paul Offit on why many of medicine’s most popular practices are ‘overkill’
Vaccine skeptics, alternative health advocates and anti-GMO activists are regularly lambasted for ignoring evidence that challenges their ideology. As it ...
If you survive the coronavirus, do you gain immunity? And for how long?
Scientists don’t yet have definitive answers about SARS-CoV-2 immunity. For now, people who have had the disease appear unlikely to ...
Lessons learned from the past: Why rushing a coronavirus vaccine could be dangerous
Annual flu shots don’t need to go through clinical trials every time they are adjusted for each year’s flu strain, ...
Farm workers fear coronavirus infection as they labor to keep US fed during COVID-19 pandemic
While millions of Americans shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, farmworkers on California’s cool central coast move ...
What the rest of the world can learn from Iceland’s mass coronavirus testing project
Big data can come from small places. Iceland’s isolated location and sparse population mean that some vital information about the ...
How would a coronavirus antibody test work?
The hunt is on for a coronavirus antibody test that tells people whether they have had COVID-19 and are immune ...
Opinion: To reduce the likelihood of future pandemics, we need to rethink our relationship with wild animals and wild places
This article by Christian Walzer originally ran at Ensia and has been republished here with permission. The COVID-19 coronavirus has ...
How vaccines, antivirals and antibodies could help fight the coronavirus
There has been a lot of confusion in regard to possible treatments for COVID-19 and the timeline for the development ...
How America is neglecting its growing elderly autistic population
[E]merging research suggests that autistic adults are at high risk of a broad array of physical and mental health conditions, ...
Don’t fear white bread. It’s more nutritious today than it was 200 years ago, new analysis shows
A study comparing historic and modern wheat varieties grown side by side has shown an increase in dietary fiber and ...
Bringing ‘medical lore’ to life: Century-old practice of plasma infusions could be used against coronavirus
An old idea for fighting infections — an approach most physicians know about only from medical lore — is being ...
When will experimental coronavirus drugs will be ready for the clinic?
Is there hope that something will be available soon to help us fight this virus, known as SARS-CoV-2? Here’s a ...
First wave over? Several European nations set to relax coronavirus lockdowns
Europe is getting ready to reopen, slowly. Italy, Austria and Denmark are among the first countries to plot the gradual ...
Herd immunity and where it fits in the fight against the coronavirus
During the opening phases of the coronavirus pandemic, government officials in the UK drew scorn from health experts after suggesting ...
Was it a bat? A lab leak? A bioweapon? Virus hunters battle cornovarius origin speculation
A vacuum of knowledge about the origins of the new coronavirus ravaging the world has provided fertile ground for all ...
‘Anecdote and feeling over science and fact’: Exploring President Trump’s embrace of controversial anti-malarial drug
As he stares down a pandemic, economic collapse and a political crisis of his own, President Trump thinks he may ...
Pandemic path: Tracking the spread of the coronavirus through its genetic mutations
As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, it has mutated in tiny, subtle ways. Those mutations aren’t cause for concern, ...
Global access to education is growing. Here’s how GMO crops might be helping
One of the consistent benefits of GM crop adoption has been a higher farm and household income. In an assessment ...
Racing for a COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t mean we’ll have one this year
THE CORONA-VACCINE RACE: The desperate search for a vaccine for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is in ...
‘Designed to be slow’: Why these coronavirus vaccines in the pipeline won’t be ready this year
New York City has become a curious mosaic of crowds and barrenness, people packed into hospitals and homes, yet familiar ...
