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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
‘He’s weaponizing public health’: RFK, Jr.’s 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 ‘let measles run its course’. That’s 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 was declared eliminated here. But return ...
New moms suffering from postpartum depression turn to psychedelics for relief
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 reported transplanting a lung from a pig into a brain-dead ...
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 ...
Mazzenga’s 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 muscle’s ...
Unlike GMO food, insulin developed with the identical transgenic process is universally embraced. Here’s 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 “appeal to nature fallacy,” said [Andrea] Love, which is “the false belief that natural substances ...
Can AI speed up the grindingly slow process of drug development?
Sooner or later, in some form, AI tools will be standard in drug discovery, suspects Derek Lowe, the medicinal chemist and ...
MAHA ‘Mom’s Militia’ is weaponizing its ‘Children’s First’ disinformation campaign to transform the federal health system
It is unspoken but widely accepted that this moment won’t last. The time will come when the noble knight will ...
Viewpoint: Make America Great Again — For lethal pathogens
The year is 2035 and the world is dealing with another pandemic, only this time it’s even worse. A bird ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: At Marty Makary’s FDA, therapy approvals for rare diseases are hitting a wall
The FDA’s approval of new drugs has notably slowed this year. Annual novel drug approvals averaged 52 in the first ...
