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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Breakthrough diabetes therapy uses CRISPR to help body make insulin again
People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis ...
The contagion of Florida’s vaccine policy: What states will be next to end school vaccine mandates?
As health department directors in Dallas, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, we have seen firsthand in our communities that viruses do ...
CRISPR brain ‘gene editing’ could open the door to cure neurological diseases
[A] recent "spate of technological advances" could see something like brain editing become a reality. Recent breakthroughs in CRISPR-derived gene-editing ...
The Science vs. MAHA battle that’s now unfolding at the CDC
Public health and access to lifesaving vaccines are on the line in a high-stakes leadership battle at the Centers for ...
At Beijing ‘Axis Summit’, Putin and Xi spout misinformation about organ transplants and immortality
“These days at 70 years old you are still a child,” China’s Xi Jinping, 72, was translated as saying, according ...
GLP podcast: ‘Fight fire with fire.’ How one science advocate converts vaccine skeptics
Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...
Viewpoint: Life and death decisions: RFK, Jr.’s shady FDA “expert panels” operate in secret with no transcripts or conflict of interest reviews
Americans trust the Food and Drug Administration to make life-and-death decisions in the open. Yet in recent months, the agency ...
From plastic coasters to human hearts: Inside the race to print the human body
Fifteen years ago, 3‑D printing was heralded as the technology that would revolutionize manufacturing, democratizing production and allowing anyone with ...
‘SuperAgers’: Why some people have the brains and memory capacity of people decades younger
At 85, [Sel] Yackley is a “SuperAger.” That is, someone who is 80 or older and retains the memory capacity ...
A single high dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months
A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study ...
California, Washington, Oregon forge immunization alliance to safeguard vaccine access against federal undermining
The Democratic governors of Washington state, Oregon and California announced ... that they have created an alliance to establish their ...
Viewpoint — Fact checking MAHA mythmakers: How wellness influencers undermine American science and health
After RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA vaccine technology research programs last week, I had big plans of multiple articles I ...
‘You have to treat the brain first’: Rethinking chronic pain with Sanjay Gupta
In his book, “It Doesn’t Have to Hurt,” [Sanjay] Gupta explores what the latest science tells us on how to ...
Trust issues: What happens when therapists use ChatGPT?
Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The ...
The microbiome–mind connection: Can faecal transplants treat depression?
Andrew Moseson experienced severe depression for many years. ... He struggled to find relief, nothing worked. ... Then, in the ...
Florida Surgeon General Ladapo calls vaccine mandates “slavery,” as Florida poised to become first state to end childhood vaccine mandates
Florida’s surgeon general ... announced plans to end all state vaccine mandates, including for children to attend schools, which would ...
‘It’s like a throbbing pain that becomes quite unbearable’: What happens in the brain when a limb is amputated
Like many people who've had an amputation, [Emily] Wheldon often feels pain in her phantom arm and hand. "It's like ...
Ultra-processed foods found to harm male fertility and metabolism, study shows
A small but rigorous new study found that eating ultra-processed foods caused otherwise healthy men to quickly gain body fat and led ...
The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID
COVID-19 has not disappeared. According to the most recent weekly update from the CDC, wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?
The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...
Historians view Trump’s assault on science as page pulled from the autocrats’ playbook to secure more power
The war on science began four centuries ago when the Roman Catholic Church outlawed books that reimagined the heavens. Subsequent ...
‘Go wild’: Don’t expect a disengaged and science-ignorant president to contain RFK’ Jr.’s assault on science
Trump pledged that he’d empower Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “go wild" on health care. The president has kept his ...
Algorithms and addiction, teens sue Instagram over mental health harm
After they took too many pills, after their mother found them unconscious on their bedroom floor, after paramedics couldn't get ...
Why do some people gain weight more easily or develop liver problems while others don’t, even when they eat similar diets?
Our bodies follow a natural 24-hour cycle known as the circadian rhythm that influences everything from sleep to metabolism. While ...
Common wisdom: Westerners are overweight because they are not active enough. Study finds that’s not true
For decades, common wisdom and public health messaging have assumed that people in highly developed nations, like the United States, ...
‘A historic failure’: MIT management professor who falsely claimed Covid shots were ineffective and deadly appointed head of CDC vaccine oversight
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory group has long had a work group in place to ...
Viewpoint: Profiling Dr. David Geier, the anti-vax quack who is guiding RFK, Jr.’s vaccine policy
By Jessica SteierGraphics by Sara Chodosh and Taylor Maggiacomo Dr. Steier is a public health scientist who specializes in science ...
