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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SCOTUS refuses to back Catholic mother’s appeal for a childhood vaccine religious exemption
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to intervene for a Catholic mother seeking a religious exemption from New York's school ...
Did COVID vaccines kill 2,500 service members? RFK Jr. hires an investigator who compares vaccine promoters to Nazi doctors
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has hired Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army doctor with no vaccine or virology ...
Leucovorin for autism: Prescriptions surged 700% after Trump endorsed “a random drug that probably doesn’t work”
Following a White House press conference suggesting leucovorin as a treatment for autism in September 2025, and despite a lack ...
It’s not 2020, but COVID is still a health threat
A mom in my local parent group posted last week asking whether anyone else had recently had COVID. She’d just ...
Facing ridicule, Hegseth rescinds Pentagon’s new testosterone mandates
The Pentagon abruptly yanked its new testosterone-screening rules just a day after posting them, as ABC News' Luis Martinez reports. Defense ...
Chemophobia trap: How the ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy makes ‘clean’ and organic products seem safer—even when they’re not
Fear of “chemicals” is spreading well beyond the wellness aisle — and now it’s driving political messaging as much as ...
Con game: What happens when people are overly concerned they may be suckered
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Which would make you feel worse — losing $100 to a pickpocket ...
Allergic to dogs? A CRISPR solution may be in the works
For people who love dogs but can’t escape the sneezes, hives, and watery eyes around man’s best friend, scientists may ...
Viewpoint: Cocky but wrong—feeling superior feeds medical and health conspiracy theories
Feeling smarter than everyone else might be exactly what makes people fall for medical misinformation, as Glendale Star columnist Mia ...
Social media still eclipses AI as the driving force of medical misinformation
Physicians say medical misinformation is getting worse — but they’re not blaming AI chatbots for it. That’s the takeaway from ...
Public is skeptical about claims of vaccine danger, but a poll shows troubling doubts
Vaccine myths are not new. They have circulated for decades, surviving retracted studies and countless public health campaigns. Now, a ...
The promise and peril of gene editing
Gene-editing therapies are delivering real breakthroughs — and real tragedies. As bioethicists Emily Packard Dawson and Lainie Friedman Ross write ...
Viewpoint: How to challenge the lucrative health fear-mongering business
Statins are among medicine's cheapest, best-studied and most effective drugs, yet they've become a prime target of online health fear-mongering, ...
Perimenopause crisis: What works, what doesn’t—and how the hype machine turns anxiety into a $200-a-month payday
Lisa Schrenk, a federal IT specialist, was contemplating suicide before fellow hikers on Virginia's Old Rag Mountain casually mentioned hormone ...
Still believe vaccines cause autism? Here’s the overwhelming evidence that you are being misled
Vaccines don't cause autism — and the evidence proving it has existed for decades, as STAT's Matthew Herper lays out ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s obsession with eugenics-themed language is fueling a surge in racism
The pseudoscience of eugenics, the discredited idea that selective breeding can improve humanity, is resurging in American political rhetoric, as Nautilus's ...
‘Stateless babies’: Mexico’s unregulated surrogacy industry fuels a global ethical debate
Mexico has become the go-to destination for intended parents shut out by surrogacy bans elsewhere, but a patchwork of state ...
How climate change could impact food safety
Climate change isn't just fueling stronger storms and longer droughts — it's also making the food on your plate riskier, ...
Do-it-yourself, anti-aging wonder drug deception: No evidence yet metformin works
Biohackers have long touted metformin, a cheap diabetes drug, as a secret weapon against aging. But a new review finds ...
Viewpoint: If Trump has his way, nitrogen oxide-polluting AI data centers will be exempt from air pollution rules
The Trump administration is moving to end public notification of air pollution from AI data centers, as Guardian reporter Tom ...
Death of a Chinese girl in a gene-editing trial raises concerns about China’s rush to become a biomedical superpower
Six-year-old "Mei" had Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome, a disorder diagnosed in just 237 people worldwide, marked by developmental delays and simple ...
Zero: That is the official American measles death toll for 2026. Here is what RFK Jr.’s CDC leaves out.
The Centers for Disease Control’s weekly measles report is supposed to be a scientific record, not an opportunity to score ...
Deadly ‘faith healing’ exemption: Idaho remains the only state shielding parents from prosecution for replacing medical care with prayer or spirits—even if their child dies
This story was originally published by ProPublica. In Idaho, parents who say their faith prohibits lifesaving medical care for their children ...
Viewpoint: With Trump’s declining mental health and an incapacitated Mitch McConnell unlikely to return to the Senate, America’s gerontocracy needs a Public Physician
Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, hasn't spoken publicly since an ambulance took him from his Washington home on June 14th, 2026 ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr. and other vaccine denialists blame vaccines for a surge in severe autism. The surge is a myth—and here’s why
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. keep pointing to what they call an explosion of severe autism cases as ...
Innovation vs. regulation? AI is revolutionizing biotechnology—but raising unintended risks and ethical concerns
The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the ...
Politicizing science: Trump’s pick to head the FDA—Heidi Overton— promotes an ‘alternative system’ of ‘conservative-based science’
President Trump's nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration once called for conservatives to build their own scientific journals ...
