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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Western diet, loss of gut microbial diversity may lead to chronic diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists suspect our intestinal ...
Uterus transplants expected to soon become possible in US
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Six doctors swarmed around ...
Why blacks sleep less: Race or racism?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. African Americans sleep on ...
Risk song: Many things can harm you (but glyphosate is not one of them)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What have we learned from ...
Genetic tests makes prenatal health screenings safer, more reliable
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As one of the ...
Can GMOs cure cancer? Genetically engineered algae found to kill cancer cells
Scientists have genetically engineered algae, transforming them into targeted drug delivery systems to target cancer. It's worked in the lab ...
International effort needed to contain growing antibiotic resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since their discovery, antimicrobial ...
European Food Safety Authority rejects WHO’s IARC conclusion that glyphosate is carcinogenic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EFSA and the EU ...
Can ‘poop in a pill’ bank help fight bacterial infection?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Two years ago, Catherine ...
How will mainstream medicine balance lifesaving potential, cost of gene therapy?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. First tested in patients ...
Down syndrome tests don’t account for father’s contribution to risk
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The standard first-trimester screen ...
Gene therapy, not editing, saved baby Layla
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I had planned to ...
Clarifying ionophores: NRDC muddies science by suggesting all animal antibiotics lead to resistance crisis
The Natural Resources Defense Council is the latest advocacy group to call for a broad based ban on antibiotics in ...
Leading Alzheimer’s theory challenged by mounting research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Drugs that target beta-amyloid, ...
Antibiotic medications can have long-lasting effects on gut microbiome
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For 70 years, antimicrobial ...
Notorious cancer researcher faked multiple studies, according to government report
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nearly a decade after ...
3200 genes essential to all humans
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Fiddle just a little ...
Chipotle cautious with GMOs but appears cavalier about food safety measures
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Following its most recent E. coli outbreak, Chipotle ...
Why Europe, US went different ways on GMO regulation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why have EU and ...
Russia faces ban from 2016 Olympic Games over doping scandal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Members of Russia’s secret ...
‘Homeopaths without Borders’ wreaking pseudo-medical havoc abroad
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is an American ...
Tumors defy Darwinian selection, new research shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. New answers may have ...
Doctors enter patient’s brain, deliver cancer treatment in world first
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the first time, ...
Big Organic Strikes Again: How to spot the dreaded GMO apple
And now you know. And on this Veteran's Day 2015, we say it like GI Joe... "Knowing is half the ...
With CRISPR, genetic engineering drugs easier than ever
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic engineering has wrought ...
Homeopathic remedies containing deadly wolfsbane available at CVS
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Homeopathic drugs contain some ...
