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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The super wealthy are convinced (at least very hopeful) that they can defy death
It’s easy to roll our eyes at people like Xi and Putin who wish for immortality, and to dismiss their ...
Trump’s wacky science: He’s now blaming mothers for autism
The Trump administration’s targeting of women’s behavior as the basis for autism evokes the disgraceful mid-20th-century era of so-called refrigerator mothers, ...
Viewpoint: Got milk? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. drinks the raw, unpasteurized version. Does he know something about its benefits that scientists don’t?
Honestly, I can’t believe I need to repeat this in 2025. Raw milk sales have been soaring since early last ...
GLP podcast: Media keeps hyping the youth cancer ‘epidemic.’ Problem? It’s a myth
Buoyed by sensationalist reporters eager to write alarming headlines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly hyped a dramatic "epidemic" of ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s big bet: Vaccine skepticism and Tylenol scare will cast as a defender of MAGA parents
The vaccine skepticism espoused by Trump and Kennedy is out of step with the views of many Americans and carries political risks, ...
‘We showed her every single horror movie we could find’ but nothing scared her. Why?
One famous Urbach-Wieth patient, known as SM, has been the subject of scientific studies at the University of Iowa in ...
Viewpoint: Starbuck’s synthetic pumpkin spice: The drink RFK, Jr. should ban if wants to protect our health
In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed and both Tesla and LinkedIn were founded. Those were all interesting but ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. needs an update on Biology 101. Let’s start
The only requirement for assuming the position of US Secretary for Health and Human Services is being picked by the ...
The history of vaccine hesitancy, from smallpox to COVID-19
Vaccine policy made national headlines last week when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine guidance committee met and ...
A therapeutic psychedelic without the hallucinatory trip? With the help of AI, it’s in the works
While there's growing evidence that psychedelic drugs can effectively treat severe mental health conditions, especially in cases where traditional treatments have failed, they ...
CRISPR poised to help jump-start space exploration
CRISPR holds significant potential for enhancing various aspects of space exploration and long-duration space missions. One of its promising applications ...
Viewpoint: Trump and RFK, Jr. are wrong: ‘Our study of 2.5 million children shows acetaminophen not linked to autism’
United States President Donald Trump recently claimed that using the common painkiller acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol and by the ...
What’s the genetic secret to living past 110?
There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ...
Viewpoint: Johnson and Johnson’s Tylenol crisis #2: How RFK, Jr. deceived the company and health experts
Tylenol set the gold standard for corporate crisis management in 1982 after people died from taking its pain medication that ...
New evidence underscores that autism stretches back to our early hominid existence and is likely linked to neurons responsible for high intelligence
[As] debates over modern medicine dominate the headlines, new research suggests the roots of autism’s high prevalence in humans may ...
RFK, Jr.’s claim that food additives cause ADHD is more scare-mongering than science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has spent years railing against food additives, framing them as part of a broader threat to public health ...
Making Lawyers Wealthy Again: RFK, Jr., Tylenol, and torts
On Monday, September 22, 2025, President Trump led a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House following a press release on ...
The first human trial of nutrient-rich gene-edited tomatoes is underway in England
The Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin D to take part in the ViTaL-D Study, ...
RFK’s anti-vaccine agenda has created state-by-state disparities across America in vaccine access
In the country’s most conservative states, lawmakers have fallen in line with recommendations from federal agencies and have limited access ...
Could leucovorin be the magic bullet to treat autism?
The medication is called leucovorin. It’s also known as folinic acid; like folic acid, it’s a form of folate, a ...
Why are millennials getting cancer and other serious diseases earlier than prior generations?
The rise in early-onset cancers has drawn a growing number of scientists into a shared investigation: not into the inherited ...
GLP podcast: Spread meat allergy with gene-edited ticks? Bioethicists pose vile ‘thought experiment’
How far are we willing to go to slow climate change? The list of proposed solutions runs the gamut from ...
Can devout Muslims or Jews receive organ transplants from genetically-altered pigs?
Now biotech companies are raising genetically altered pigs to transplant their organs into patients whose own kidneys have failed. Experts in the ...
Video: Should we revamp our diet to eat mostly organic foods? Harvard gastroenterologist says fears are based on hysteria not science
Dr Trisha Pasricha, a Harvard-trained gastroenterologist and scientist, who also writes the ‘Ask a Doctor’ column for The Washington Post, ...
What is leucovorin, the drug RFK, Jr. and Dr. Oz claim could arrest autism?
In a Sept. 22 press conference, the Trump Administration introduced what it says is an “exciting treatment” for autism: leucovorin, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘batshit crazy health conspiracy theories’
[The] Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released their second report: The MAHA Strategy. It aims to focus the United States ...
Chemophobic misinformation: 40% of Europeans say they ‘want to live in a world where chemicals don’t exist’
Chemophobia—an excessive fear of chemicals—is everywhere today, particularly for food. It manifests itself in fads like “clean” eating, avoiding ingredients ...
