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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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 ...
GLP podcast: ‘Hyperreality.’ How the digital world severs our connection to truth
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Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent
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Viewpoint: Hollywood’s latest bizarre (un)health fetish: ‘I have Lyme disease!!’
Last week, media outlets were awash with headlines about another celebrity revealing a years-long battle with Lyme disease. Justin Timberlake ...
The ‘Mind Diet’: How our diet shapes cognitive health and dementia
There’s long been evidence that what we eat can affect our risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline as we age ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘Scared …less’: Chemophobic ‘precautionary principle’ undermines science of food and health, and MAHA makes it worse
These days, the average American consumer … is scared $#!+less. Just about everywhere you turn there’s a health guru or ...
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 ...
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.’s 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 Alzheimer’s than men
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Viewpoint—Science arsonist: NIH director is like the firefighter who sets a house ablaze so he can put it out and claim he’s a hero
On August 12, Jay Bhattacharya wrote an op-ed defending Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services’ decision ...
Genetics of stuttering: Early interventions could help as many as 400 million people worldwide
A global study has identified the DNA markers for stuttering, providing a genetic link that will pave the way for ...
Cracking the brain’s code: Breakthrough tools could transform treatment for Parkinson’s, ALS, and Huntington’s
The brain isn’t a uniform slab of gray matter — it’s a remarkably intricate landscape made up of thousands of ...
Viewpoint: Everything is a carcinogen! Here’s why there are so many lawsuits claiming safe chemicals cause cancer
Somewhere in Berkeley, California, Ramazzini fellow, Martyn T Smith, is looking out of his window dreaming of methods to find ...
Tripping your way to better mental health?
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Viewpoint: Failing RFK, Jr.’s science undermines U.S. innovation and opens the door to Chinese dominance
Since Dr. Vinay Prasad’s appointment as a key political voice within FDA, the tone of U.S. biotech policy has shifted from enabling ...
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Early life trauma can ‘program’ children’s brains for a life of aggression
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‘Feel Free’: People getting addicted to this addictive ‘botanical’ supplement drink with kava root and kratom, and regulators are doing nothing
Feel Free’s most well-known variant — the “Classic” tonic made by the company Botanic Tonics, which also makes a “Kava ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s FDA fake review of fluoride supplements with already announced plan to ban them is terrible science
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From reassurance to rollbacks, RFK Jr.’s first months on vaccine policy
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised before his confirmation that he would not take away Americans’ vaccines. But ...
Viewpoint: California’s science-challenged Proposition 65 toxic chemical regulation are at center of ‘tort shakedown’ racket
Not to0 many years ago, my wife and I once elebrated our anniversary in South Lake Tahoe, situated on the ...
CRISPR takes on the challenge of rare genetic diseases
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Kennedy poised to dismantle U.S.-supported system of evidence-based medicine and mental health wellness
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent takeover of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee was alarming enough. Now ...
