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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Epigenetic inheritance: Holocaust survivors passed genetic marks of trauma to children
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetic changes stemming from ...
Are laws pertaining to Down syndrome genetic counseling cause for concern?
A spate of state laws passed in the last few years mandates what information health care providers must give to ...
Dietary supplements filled with dangerous ingredients but “natural” industry blocks labeling, transparency
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Pieter Cohen, an internist in ...
“Female viagra” flibanserin pushed through FDA under false cover of feminism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As I’ve written here, ...
Philadelphia Inquirer joins long list of prominent newspapers opposing GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. America's foremost nutritional problem ...
Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. New data collected by Stericycle, ...
Non GMO salt? Water? Food companies exploit GMO free labels, misleading customers, promoting misinformation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Last year, Evolution Salt ...
App store for your DNA could make personal genomics mainstream
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The CEO of the ...
Could 3-D printing technology transform drug industry?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past decade, ...
Gut microbes may be to blame for autoimmune eye disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Gut bacteria may provide ...
Societal challenges in the coming age of gene editing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Because it is so ...
Did pharmaceutical company exploit feminism to get ‘female Viagra’ government approval?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Addyi, a drug that ...
Robot exoskeletons: Medical applications far ahead of military use
Otherwise non-ambulatory people are learning to use robot exoskeletons to get up from their wheelchairs. Military applications portrayed in science ...
In ‘NeuroTribes’, full autism spectrum considered in historical terms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Within two generations, the ...
Environmental activists claim “misguided war” on invasive plants is big business for Monsanto, glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Nowadays, the notion that ...
Promising future of delayed fertility? Don’t count your (frozen) chickens
Affluent women or those willing to take on sizable debt and want to delay having babies can freeze their eggs ...
FDA approves ‘Viagra for women’ amid questions over safety, efficacy of drug
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug ...
Slate guts scare-mongering doc ‘That Sugar Film’ featured uncritically by NY Times
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
‘NeuroTribes’ explores autism’s history, tumultuous beginnings
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Autism, as the science ...
Fertility clinics give human embryos over to research too, so where’s the outrage?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, my husband and ...
New genetic risk factors for blood cancer identified as powerful diagnostic tool
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Testing for genetic risk ...
Full genome sequencing can reveal secrets in your genes, but do you want to know?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Genetics has advanced to ...
Vision gene therapy helps blind mice see again
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the owl swooped, ...
Do we have an intrinsic, evolutionary disgust of cockroaches?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cockroaches have been smeared ...
GMOs changed how pesticides used, cutting overall usage but raising health questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs have been changing ...
