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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‘Silent killer’: Hepatitis B could surge under Trump–RFK Jr. rollback of newborn vaccine recommendations
Scrapping the universal hepatitis B shot for newborns could sharply increase chronic infections in American children, a new modeling study ...
Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda
A new CNN story is based on a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, which is about as scientific as ...
Viewpoint: Yes, our food system stinks, but the attack of ultra-processed foods is often misplaced
Ultraprocessed foods have a terrible reputation. Studies have linked them with multiple chronic diseases. Journalists and health influencers characterize them ...
RFK Jr. blames RSV on a chimpanzee lab leak: Dissecting false claims about the respiratory virus’s origins
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. keeps insisting that RSV — respiratory syncytial virus, which puts more U.S. babies in ...
‘Warp-speeding this treatment’: Trump’s VA readies psychedelic therapy for up to 2 million veterans
The Veterans Health Administration wants to be ready to offer psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA to as many as 2.1 ...
Viewpoint: Should doctors talk with their patients about the politics roiling medicine? Some say it’s their responsibility.
Doctors are supposed to tell patients when they find a worrisome tumor. According to Harvard Medical School professor Jerry Avorn, ...
Viewpoint: Peptides and medical freedom: The MAHA obsession that can damage your health
After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible. “It was like I ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr. gives MAHA health grifters a green light to sell six peptides the FDA previously removed over safety concerns
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has overruled his own agency's scientists, issuing a rule that lets compounding pharmacies make and sell ...
We’re likely over-consuming the world’s most profitable nutrient – and it’s wrecking our waistlines.
Protein has become the darling of the grocery aisle, stamped on everything from cereal to snack bars. But as BBC ...
“Do your own research”: What Medicare’s annual open enrollment circus teaches us about the seductive trap of DIY health and science
A striking example of the dubiousness of that maxim is the annual rite of fall for seniors—Medicare’s Open Enrollment period, ...
Viewpoint: How to rebuild trust in public health in an age of misinformation, political division, and media fragmentation
In the Facebook group Crunchy Moms: Natural Living & Clean Products, a debate rages over childhood vaccines amid posts about ...
Genetics of IQ: At what age do various forms of intelligence peak?
Bad news for anyone counting on getting sharper with age: once a few statistical quirks are corrected, overall IQ most ...
Himalayan and other specialty salts are cool, but they contribute to dangerous iodine deficiency. Here’s how iodized table salt helped raise America’s IQ—and why it still matters for your health
Americans are getting less iodine than they used to, and that could matter for kids’ brains. As Science News’ Aimee ...
26% and far worse than during COVID: Under RFK Jr., Americans’ opinion of ‘revamped’ CDC hits an all-time low
Just 26% of Americans now say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doing an excellent or good job ...
Many hospitals embrace longevity medicine. Are they separating science from hype?
Longevity medicine, long the turf of boutique clinics selling pricey and often unproven screenings, is getting an academic makeover. As ...
China’s 5-year plan to accelerate science innovation is putting the U.S. and Europe in the rearview mirror
China is pouring money and political muscle into science, and the gap with the West is closing fast — by ...
Viewpoint: How badly is the U.S. food-safety net fraying? FDA’s bungled handling of the tainted lettuce crisis deepens concerns over cuts to disease tracking and response
This summer, a Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce sickened almost 13,000 people in 21 states, killing two. Investigators traced the ...
‘A new frontier’: Though scorned by RFK Jr., personalized mRNA vaccine offers hope for many suffering from melanoma skin cancer
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine cut the risk of melanoma recurrence or death by 42 percent compared with standard treatment ...
A ‘shining success’ or ’empty promises’: Two years along, West Virginians assess MAHA’s food promises
West Virginia’s food-dye ban won applause in Washington, but food pantry organizers in the state’s coalfields say the Make America ...
Pennsylvania tells doctors to prepare for a surge in newborn measles cases—a complication unseen in decades
Pennsylvania is warning doctors to get ready for something most of them have never seen: babies born with measles. As ...
Viewpoint: That’ll be $300: The wellness industry’s junk science scam to ‘fix’ your immune system that isn’t broken
One of the most frustrating features of the wellness industry, at least for me as an immunologist, is how readily ...
In Trump administration redirect, U.S. steers NIH sharply away from biodefense and pandemic preparedness
When the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) released its strategic plan for the next five years (2026–2030), ...
Guinea-Bissau halts widely condemned RFK Jr.-backed vaccine trial that would have withheld life-saving vaccines from thousands of newborns
A controversial US-funded trial that would have withheld the hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine from newborns in Guinea-Bissau is dead, as ...
‘Disillusioned’: Controversial RFK Jr. ally and MAHA leader Calley Means quits Trump advisory role
Calley Means, one of the Make America Healthy Again movement’s loudest champions inside the Trump administration, has quit his post ...
Science challenges anti-soda activists: No, sodas won’t make you fat
A new study helps clarify the weight-loss impact of diet drinks and dispel a popular myth about artificial sweeteners. As ...
Health misinformation minefield: Countering online deluge by copying its style
Imagine you’re worried about vaccinating your baby. A message on Facebook tells you: “Protect the community and your kids by ...
Viewpoint: The libertarian case for getting the government out of the business of regulating food choices
Governments worldwide are moving from nudging people toward healthier diets to dictating them, and that's a mistake, as Reason's Jeffrey ...
