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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‘Heโs weaponizing public healthโ: RFK, Jr.โs hand picked CDC in disarray as three members resign and Trump fires the director
The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she ...
RFK, Jr. says โlet measles run its courseโ. Thatโs what some said in 1990, and we had an urban health crisis
Few expected a major return of measles to the United States this year, a quarter-century after it wasย declared eliminatedย here. Butย return ...
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection
If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...
New moms suffering from postpartum depression turn to psychedelics for relief
ย 84 women across the country [participated] in a clinical trial that hopes to produce the first federally approved psychedelic treatment ...
Mixed results: Lung from a genetically modified pig transplanted into a human
[I]n the first procedure of its kind, Chinese scientists on Monday reportedย transplanting a lung from a pig into a brain-dead ...
Mazzengaโs 20-year old muscles: How a still-going-strong 92-year old sprinter wins every race she enters
By some measures, [Emma Maria Mazzenga] appears to have the cardiorespiratory fitness of someone in their 50s and her muscleโs ...
GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote ‘fat phobia’ as some fat activists claim?
Obesity may have finally found its match in Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are helping many millions of people ...
Unlike GMO food, insulin developed with the identical transgenic process is universally embraced. Hereโs a primer on the drug
Most of the insulin used by people today is made by bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce insulin ...
Viewpoint: Appeal to Nature Fallacy: How MAHA is stoking chemophobia
Chemophobia was born from the โappeal to nature fallacy,โ said [Andrea] Love, which is โthe false belief that natural substances ...
Can AI speed up the grindingly slow process of drug development?
Sooner or later,ย in some form, AI tools will be standard in drug discovery, suspects Derek Lowe, the medicinal chemist and ...
MAHA โMomโs Militiaโ is weaponizing its โChildrenโs Firstโ disinformation campaign to transform the federal health system
It is unspoken but widely accepted that this moment wonโt last. The time will come when the noble knight will ...
Viewpoint: Make America Great Again โ For lethal pathogens
The year is 2035 and the world is dealing with another pandemic, only this time itโs even worse. A bird ...
Viewpoint: At Marty Makaryโs FDA, therapy approvals for rare diseases are hitting a wallย
The FDAโs approval of new drugs has notably slowed this year. Annual novel drug approvals averaged 52 in the first ...
Viewpoint: Science is now hopelessly tribal, and the Trump administration is making it worse
Public health in America has always been divisive because it sits at the intersection of science, government authority, personal freedom ...
Bottling stress does long term damage to memory
Keeping quiet about nagging worries often feels like the polite thing to do. However, new evidence shows that this habit ...
Marrying your cousin: Might it provide some evolutionary benefits?
The taboo against cousin marriages may be overblown--and there may even be an evolutionary argument in support of it in ...
GLP podcast: ‘Hyperreality.’ How the digital world severs our connection to truth
Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...
Viewpoint: Hollywoodโs latest bizarre (un)health fetish: โI have Lyme disease!!โ
Last week, media outlets were awash with headlines about another celebrity revealing a years-long battle with Lyme disease. Justin Timberlake ...
Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent
Vaccinations not only safeguard individual health but also preserve the collective health of our communities, ensuring that preventable infectious diseases ...
GLP spaces on X: ‘Designer baby’ revolution is coming. Are we ready?
The day is rapidly approaching when many people will reproduce in the lab instead of the bedroom. Rather than pairing ...
The โMind Dietโ: How our diet shapes cognitive health and dementia
Thereโs long been evidence thatย what we eatย can affect our risk of dementia, Alzheimerโs disease and cognitive decline as we age ...
Is sunscreen bad for your health? MAHA and social media disinformation threatens a resurgence in skin cancer
Sunscreen protects the skin by either absorbing or reflecting ultraviolet rays that can cause sunburn, premature aging and skin cancer ...
Viewpoint: Heavy metal contamination of our food supply is a growing threat. MAHA needs to act
As the next phase of the Make America Health Again plan is developed, it must include a significant effort to ...
ย โScared โฆlessโ: Chemophobic โprecautionary principleโ undermines science of food and health, and MAHA makes it worse
These days, the average American consumer โฆ is scared $#!+less. Just about everywhere you turn thereโs a health guru or ...
GLP podcast: Deadly mistake? RFK, Jr. guts mRNA vaccine research
Iconoclastic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again roiled the science community, cancelling $500 million ...
RFK, Jr.โs checkered crusade targeting food safety rules he considers too lax could upend the supplement industry that he vigorously embraces
In his first weeks as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared war on an obscure regulatory process that many ...
Why women are more prone to Alzheimerโs than men
More women get diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease than men. In developed countries,ย studiesย suggestย about two-thirds of people with Alzheimer's are women. It's ...
