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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22-year frozen embryo: In one of the longest delayed births ever, middle-aged Greek couple gives birth to a daughter
A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl conceived from an embryo that spent 22 years ...
Viewpoint: America’s food-safety system is being methodically dismantled by the Trump administration.
America's food-safety infrastructure is being quietly hollowed out even as outbreaks grow more complex and harder to trace, journalist Eric ...
19%: Plunging support for Trump-RFK, Jr. measles vaccine safety oversight
Two new polls reveal cracks in both US and global trust in medicine, with one showing erosion in Americans’ belief ...
Viewpoint: Why medical and health nonsense spreads so casually on pop culture media
I landed on a show hosted by two women. I’ve heard people talk about it, so I gave it a ...
Is the Defense Department gobbling up research dollars originally targeted for medical research?
The Trump administration wants to gut a core research unit of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
Trump says he’ll require drugmakers to end multiple vaccine doses, reviving discredited autism claims
President Trump said that he'll “demand” drugmakers break vaccines into five smaller doses spaced six months apart, claiming the change ...
Viewpoint: Study links childhood vaccination to autism!!! Here’s how anti-vaxxers twist evidence to corrupt science
A viral post on X claims the “largest vaccinated vs. unvaccinated birth cohort study ever” found vaccinated children far sicker ...
RFK Jr.’s latest crank obsession: Protecting Americans from perfectly safe electromagnetic radiation
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken a first formal step toward possible new rules—or at ...
Should doctors engage in social media to counter misinformation?
Doctors shouldn't retreat from social media just because their words carry extra weight there — they should use that weight ...
‘Symptom borrowing’: Young people are copying health problems they see on TikTok
Young people are increasingly copying health symptoms they see in TikTok videos, a phenomenon one mental health app founder has ...
White House drafting executive order to control what OMB Director Vought claims are “woke” NIH science grants
The White House is drafting an executive order that would create an external committee with power to veto National Institutes ...
From Malaysia to the world: A pioneering science communicator reimagines global science communication for a digital age
By 2024, I was exhausted. For more than a decade, I had carried The Petri Dish through the realities of ...
Vitamin D, omega-3 fish oil and glucosamine supplements could cause brain damage
Vitamin D, omega-3 fish oil and glucosamine — three of the most popular supplements among older Americans — may do ...
AI is helping develop new vaccines
In the early 2000s, immunologist Bali Pulendran started his lab at Emory University to explore the mechanisms underlying vaccine-mediated immunity ...
Viewpoint: Why are the less intelligent more likely to be conservative—and smarter people more socially liberal?
Smarter people tend to be more socially liberal — less racist, less homophobic, less nationalistic, more supportive of free speech ...
Viewpoint: What’s the likely impact when the EPA loosens rules limiting methane pollution from oil and gas wells?
This story was originally published by ProPublica. The Trump administration is poised to loosen environmental restrictions on oil and gas wells ...
RFK Jr. spent two years distancing himself from Children’s Health Defense. Now he’s keynoting its anti-vaccine DC conference.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to headline a Washington, D.C. conference hosted by Children's Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine ...
Viewpoint: Childhood deaths in dispute: Why the CDC vs Pennsylvania conflict over measles vaccines matters
If you’ve been following the dispute between Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
How the reckless AI race among Anthropic, OpenAI and China spawned today’s safety crisis
The AI industry's safety talk is colliding with its own commercial stakes, as The Wall Street Journal reports in a look at ...
AI is being used in dangerous bioscience experiments
Anthropic disrupted five attempts to misuse its Claude models for possible bioweapons development between December and August, including two cases ...
Anthropic claims to thwart AI-based cyberattacks, surveillance, and biological weapons research
In its third disclosure since March 2025, the AI company detailed threat activity it identified between December 2025 and August ...
Viewpoint: Emotion-driven stories of doctors allegedly ignoring patient concerns are driving vaccine hesitancy
As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety. Back in 19th-century ...
Viewpoint: Bad science—Five bogus Trump administration claims about vaccines and autism
[On August 10, 2026], the president signed an unprecedented executive order declaring the administration’s intention to massively overhaul the vaccine ...
‘Glyphosate is not carcinogenic’: Independent EU chemical oversight agency reaffirms—for the 3rd time in 9 years—that the herbicide is safe-as-used
The European Chemicals Agency's Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) has reaffirmed, for the third time in nine years, that glyphosate does ...
Bayer urges court to approve $7.25 billion Monsanto Roundup settlement that could limit its future liabilities
Bayer is asking a Missouri court to grant final approval to a $7.25 billion settlement covering roughly 65,000 lawsuits claiming ...
Here’s why separating MMR vaccines is a bad idea
Singapore has not been spared from the global resurgence of measles. As at end-July, Singapore had recorded 40 measles cases ...
Fibermaxxing: Latest Instagram diet craze raises hope that a fiber-rich diet can improve health
This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine. In the world of dietary trends, proteinmaxxing is taking a back seat ...
