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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Is animal testing still necessary? Will it be phased out?
[The] UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. ... The news follows similar moves by ...
Viewpoint: Sobering and scary—An inside report on the growing size and influence of the anti-vaccine movement
From wellness influencers worried about Wi-Fi to crypto enthusiasts trading peer-to-peer coins, the CHD [Children's Health Defense] conference offered something ...
Viewpoint: The Washington Post’s ignorant article suggesting corn country deaths are driven by the herbicide glyphosate
Several weeks ago, the Washington Post ran an article titled “The mysterious rise of cancer among adults in the Corn Belt.” It ...
Tripping through loopholes: Ketamine, Musk and America’s regulation blackout
After trying unsuccessfully to treat his depression with medication over several decades, Noel Farris, a 43-year-old web developer based in ...
A third start-up joins the race to create ethically-acceptable CRISPR babies
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely ...
Our ancestors balanced eating and fasting as a survival mechanism. It still has benefits today
Ever worried that skipping breakfast might leave you foggy at work? Or that intermittent fasting would make you irritable, distracted ...
Rewriting the human code of life: Will we be able to afford the medical advances that gene editing and AI are fast making possible?
We are now in the second great wave of the genetic revolution, not defined by reading the human code of ...
AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life
A group of Stanford University scientists posted a paper online in mid-September, describing a feat that could have been plucked from the ...
An effective safety net for vaccines and the people who need them—and why RFK Jr. is poised to cut it
For nearly four decades, Americans who believe they have been harmed by a vaccine have had access to a little-known ...
