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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AquaWomb offers a life support system for precarious, premature babies. Not everyone thinks that’s a great idea
In the US, more than 10,000 infants are born each year within ... precarious boundaries. Premature birth remains the nation’s second-leading cause of infant ...
Near-death experiences: What happens in the brain when you edge toward the cliff of death?
At the Daily Mail ..., Wiliam Hunter [reported] on a recent study of 48 near-death experiences: Some participants described seeing heavenly beings, while one even said they ...
Challenging Kennedy—MAHA skepticism disinformation: No, the vaccine schedule is not a haphazard, scientific mess
Parents face an overwhelming amount of conflicting vaccine information, so it’s natural for questions to surface: Why are some vaccines given ...
Viewpoint: Follow the science? In this era of hyper-partisanship, Republicans and Democrats follow different paths
We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s ...
Viewpoint: Win for politicized junk science—Vaccine crisis escalates as RFK, Jr.’s hand-picked cronies gut life-saving hepatitis B shot recommendation
Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent ...
In case there was any remaining doubt: 7-year long primate study proves no health issues are linked to GMO crops
Genetically modified foods have become increasingly prevalent in daily life, raising concerns about their safety and public acceptance, which in ...
Amber alert: Can GLP-1 drugs safely and effectively address everything from expanding waistlines to fading libido to memory loss? Hold your horses
In a presidency marked by destructive health decisions, President Donald Trump’s proposal to lower prices for popular weight-loss drugs, known broadly ...
Viewpoint: Life inside the anti-vaccine ecosystem is even scarier than you can imagine
Peter Hildebrand choked back tears as he told the crowd about his daughter, Daisy. She was 8 years old when ...
Viewpoint: ‘Gold standard science’ farce: RFK Jr.’s pledge dangerously mocks U.S. healthcare and endangers medicine globally
The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health ...
‘Miracle’ GLP-1 weight loss drugs could complicate some pregnancies
The more we learn about GLP-1 agonists, the more miraculous they seem to be. What can’t they do?! you might ...
Viewpoint: Toxic politics and the culture wars—MIT’s ‘Undark’ caves to the MAHA—RFK, Jr.—predatort lobby
Few issues reveal the corrosion of scientific reasoning in contemporary politics more clearly than the escalating fight over the alleged ...
While AI revolutionizes the world, the human brain rots
The most high-profile study this year about A.I.’s effects on the brain came out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
We are on the verge of engineering embryos immune from hereditary diseases—and a couple has already volunteered to provide their fertilized egg for a test run
Herasight, which formally launched this summer with backing from influential Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Draper Associates, is charging $50,000 for ...
Viewpoint: TB served in a glass—The legislative rush to legitimize raw milk
Once, pasteurization helped conquer “The White Plague”, saving millions of lives from TB and other diseases. Now, legislators across the ...
Next phase in the weight loss revolution
For all the societal changes ushered in by GLP-1 drugs, their lofty price tags limit who can afford them. Many patients stop ...
Viewpoint: Environmental toxin hysteria—MIT’s Undark embarrasses with hysteria-driven story aligning itself with false claims that ‘environmental toxins’ (whatever that means) are crippling our health
MIT’s Undark magazine describes itself as a publication that “will explore science … as a frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious, and occasionally troubling byproduct of ...
Citing no evidence, RFK, Jr.’s newly-appointed FDA vaccine advisor spreads false information about risks of immunizations, setting the stage for lax policies and a surge in preventable diseases
The Food and Drug Administration will upend its approach to immunizations for respiratory illnesses, including flu vaccines, according to an ...
Rod Kissmee claims ‘‘I have very strong sperm!’: Welcome to the wild west world of social media sperm selling
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organoid intelligence’?—Ethical questions arise in using organoid human brain nuggets to study disease
As months turned to years, Dr. Arlotta’s team set a record for the oldest documented brain organoids. “We never thought ...
How the pro-life movement undermined Trump’s free IVF campaign promise
Social and religious conservatives spent more than a year lobbying first the Trump campaign and then the administration against mandating ...
From creating healthy menus to eliminating food waste, AI is transforming the link between food and health
Across the food system, AI is being harnessed for good—helping consumers make smarter nutritional choices, waste less food, and even ...
The world’s oldest baby: A 30-year old frozen embryo is now a child
A baby born in the U.S. has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had ...
Is the mind distinct from the brain, or are we nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons?
COSM 2025 included a debate between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and well-known skeptic Michael Shermer on the question of “Are Human ...
Viewpoint—Chemophobia: The alliance of environmental activists and lawyers
From tampons to tap water, from cereal boxes to vaccines, nearly every modern health scare rests on the same myth: ...
Surprising scientists five years after the pandemic, coronavirus has not disappeared but continues to mutate and spread
"We thought SARS-CoV-2 would follow the same pattern as influenza, with a clear winter peak. But the virus has been ...
CRISPR opens the door toward treating common health threats like rising cholesterol
A CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing therapy has halved people’s cholesterol levels in a small clinical trial — raising hopes that, with further study, gene editing could ...
Viewpoint: Misrepresentation by journalists and activists of the science of chemicals, processed food, and fossil fuels is corroding America’s future
In 50 years from now, our great-grandchildren will study how affluent societies in the 2020s willfully threw out advanced technologies ...
