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Viewpoint: Weighing the costs of relying on government-reimbursements to address America’s ballooning fat problem

Richard Williams | 
Giving everyone that is overweight or obese access to one of the new diet drugs would increase deficit spending from ...
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Organ shortage and genetic modification: Tissues from 3D-bioprinting and GM pigs could address organ shortages but over-regulation causes lags

Henry Miller, Sally Satel | 
Modern medicine has produced many kinds of high-tech miracles, among them gene therapy to correct malfunctioning genes, electrical stimulation devices to restore ...
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Four out of five people with autoimmune diseases are women. We finally know why

Carmen Leitch | 
It's estimated that four of every five people who have an autoimmune disease are women. For some disorders the ratio ...
‘Heart on a chip’ helps scientists assess cancer therapy cardiac risks

‘Heart on a chip’ helps scientists assess cancer therapy cardiac risks

Christina Elston | 
Chemotherapy can be toxic to heart cells. To help protect the hearts of cancer patients, Cedars-Sinai investigators have created a ...
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Battling skin diseases: Biotech-based skincare products aim to shut down genes responsible for unwanted inflammation and itchiness

Clive Cookson | 
A new biotech company that aims to harness the immune system to treat a range of skin diseases will launch ...
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New malaria vaccines may not be the panacea drugs people are hoping for. Here’s why

Roger Bate | 
New vaccine to eradicate malaria: The vaccine may well help reduce deaths, but we should not exaggerate its efficacy ...
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Viewpoint: No, the data do not show that using sex toys release cancer-causing phthalate microplastics into your body

Hank Campbell | 
Microplastics are a kernel of biological concern that gets magnified by hype, like endocrine "disrupting" chemicals or weedkillers detectable in ...
Here’s how your immune system synthesizes its own antiviral drugs in response to infections

Here’s how your immune system synthesizes its own antiviral drugs in response to infections

Neil Marsh | 
Your immune system makes its own antiviral drug—blocking viruses from replicating their RNA is one way antivirals work ...
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Who should take an obesity drug? A new genetic test class to identify patients most likely to benefit

Tina Reed | 
Homing in on obesity's genetic underpinnings through precision medicine may represent a more cost-effective way of tackling weight loss ...
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Viewpoint: ‘I’m not anti vaccine, I’m pro-vaccine safety’ — Debunking Robert F. Kennedy’s lies about vaccine beliefs

David Gorski | 
CNN host Kasie Hunt interviewed antivax presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Although she did better than most journalists confronting ...
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Engineering cell superpowers: Nanomachines can fix broken parts in our cells, helping break down food, clot blood and destroy germs

Katie Grace Carpenter | 
Engineer Kerstin Göpfrich leads a research group focused on the “engineering of life” at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research ...
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Geroscience: Searching for compounds that could extend our lives

Cassandra Willyard | 
By addressing the root causes of aging, researchers hope to stave off the disability and diseases that can make old ...
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A nutritionist reflects on the sad state of health education about GMOs and farming at schools and universities

Ruth MacDonald | 
Ruth MacDonald, PhD, Author, Professor and Chair, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, and Interim Senior ...
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Anti-aging elixirs: As search for life-extending drugs expands, ethical questions emerge

Siw Ellen Jakobsen | 
Scientists are now researching drugs in many places around the world that might enable us to live even longer ...
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Can cannabis make your workout more productive?

A bit of weed before a workout can boost motivation and make exercise more enjoyable. But if performance is the ...
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Ear-ringing tinnitus is unrelenting and untreatable. Here’s a new strategy on how to live with it

Aaron Steckelberg, Amanda Morris | 
An innovative treatment offers hope to the millions of people who hear sounds that others don’t. Here’s how it works ...
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How might sharply curtailing calories slow the aging process?

Restricting calories is known to improve health and increase lifespan, but much of how it does so remains a mystery, ...
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‘Overly sanitized’ environments? Unraveling why diseases tied to chronic inflammation are spiking in the developed world

Ross Pomeroy | 
Research suggests that people raised in developed countries tend to have higher levels of chronic inflammation than those in developed ...
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Mother Jones joins science-literate chorus criticizing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bungled critique of GMOs and glyphosate

Kiera Butler | 
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines for doctors fielding parents’ questions about the risks of foods containing genetically modified ...
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Filling the gaps of what we know about the first days and weeks of the developing human embryo

Ricki Lewis | 
Several recent reports are filling in the gaps of what we know about the earliest days and weeks of human ...
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Viewpoint: An increasing number of Americans are rejecting vaccinations, and dying as a result of it. Can we reverse the trend?

Peter Marks, Robert Califf | 
Despite vaccines saving lives and improving population health, an increasing number of people are declining vaccinations ...
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Whether you use Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound, you’re going to hit a weight-loss plateau. Then what?

Sarah Zhang | 
Everyone hits a weight-loss plateau, but the race is on for next-generation drugs that can help patients lose even more ...
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Unraveling the mystery of why cancer is soaring among people under 50

Brianna Abbott | 
Researchers are trying to figure out what is making more young adults sick, and how to identify those at high ...
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How the FDA decimated the entire biotech sector of genetically engineered animals — and what needs to be done to revive it

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
In part 1, we learned that avian flu is killing birds globally in record numbers, has crossed the species barrier ...
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‘When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon’: Scientists finally grasping how hunger commandeers the brain

Adam Piore | 
 More than 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight and more than 650 million are obese, a condition correlated with a ...
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Maybe Vitamin D isn’t such the ‘miracle supplement as the hype—and many scientists—have long claimed

Christie Aschwanden | 
For a while vitamin D was looking like a bona fide health elixir. It was recognized a century ago as ...
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