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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โScreen addictionโ and suicidal behavior in children and adolescents
The amount of time kids spent on social media, mobile phones and video games wasnโt associated with more internalizing symptoms ...
Measles outbreak: Republicans more likely than Democrats to believe vaccines more dangerous than the disease itself
As the U.S. grapples with rising measles cases across multiple states and the highest number of cases since 2019, about ...
Viewpoint: Brace yourselfโHere is how some universities prepare students to become sex therapists
What began as a simple accommodation request in a required course called Human Sexuality turned into a case study in ...
Viewpoint: mRNA-based vaccines for humans and livestock are under attack, with HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. leading the charge. Their rejectionism is dangerous
The rapid development of safe and effective vaccines against SARS-CoV2 demonstrated the agility and efficacy of mRNA vaccines. The knowledge ...
TikTok skin care advice for kids and teens isnโt just mostly wrong, it could damage your skin
A recent trend in video-based online content features girls as young as 7 years demonstrating multistep skin care regimens, which ...
Meet Elsa: FDA embraces controversial AI bot to help evaluate drugs, medical devices and chemicals in food
FDA leaders say artificial intelligence has the potential to โradically increase efficiencyโ when analysing the vast volumes of dataโoften more ...
Viewpoint: How to stop RFK, Jr.โs decimation of vaccination programs
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of Health and Human Services, some hoped that the responsibility of public ...
GLP podcast: Science of reproductionโwhat does evolution tell us about the ‘sex spectrum’?
Over the last decade, a growing chorus of scientists has declared that biological sex is not binary. Properly assessing human ...
What is the impact of the SCOTUS decision to uphold the Tennessee law banning gender affirming care?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6-3) inย United States v. Skrmetti, upholding the lower courtโs ruling that a Tennessee law (SB1) ...
Swallowing risk: The hidden dangers 7 of Americaโs most popular supplements
Three in four Americans take at least one dietary supplement,ย according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Many people take ...
MAHA proposed state-level restrictions on food additives gaining traction on the granola left and MAHA right
In a first-of-its-kind effort, the Texas legislature has passed a bill to require warning labels on foods such as Mountain ...
Viewpoint: Challenging food myths: What would it be like if we continue to demonize modern, high tech agriculture?
The current wave of food anxiety stems, in large part, from a misunderstanding of hazard versus risk. A substance can ...
A promising annual shot might provide long term protection against HIV
Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies ...
Processed human sewage waste is sometimes used as cheap fertilizers. Itโs potentially dangerous
About 3.5 million tonnes of sludge โ the solid waste produced from human sewage at treatment plants - is put ...
What is โtherapy speakโ and why is its proliferation so dangerous?
Psychiatric diagnosis has taken on a new role in public life. Turbocharged by social media, โtherapy speakโ has permeated every ...
What causes โmind blankingโ?
Researchers think thatย our minds are blankย somewhere between 5 and 20 percent of the time ... Athena Demertzi, a cognitive neuroscientist ...
Viewpoint: Wellness influencers (and current federal health officials) fabricate fake โroot causesโ to sell wellness woo
Another day, another cadre of chiropractors, naturopaths, and wellness influencers undermining scientific research and science-based medicine. But now, it is ...
โMutational discriminationโ: Gene editing medical innovations are leaving out people with rare diseases
Stunning advances in genetic science have revealed the subtle, insidious culprits behind these brutal [rare genetic] diseases and have started ...
Viewpoint: With science and medicine under assault, more people turn to search and social media for guidance. Thatโs scary
[T]he authority of medical experts has crumbled under the combined weight of disillusionment and the flood of information now available ...
The never-ending GMO debate: Pros and cons
According to theย Genetic Literacy Project, โThe most recent data from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) ...
Viewpoint: Toxic chemicals in tampons? Unpacking the latest environmental activist group hysteria claim
The chatter about chemicals in tampons isnโt exactly a new thing; itโs more like a rerun of a series that ...
Food-borne illnesses are a growing problem. CRISPR-based biosensing may be key to food safety
The availability of safe food is crucial for maintaining both nutritional well-being and overall health security. Estimatesย indicateย thatย 1 in 10 people ...
GLP spaces on X: Ice cream sales boost drowning risk? Confusing correlation and causation yields strange โ and often harmful โ results
Ice cream sales and drownings increase significantly during summer. Although these two outcomes are closely connected, they probably occur in ...
Viewpoint: Controversy heats up over โinformed consentโ for trans-identifying teenagers seeking a sex change operation
In the U.S., the mainstream medical (and legal) community strongly supports gender-affirming care for young people. Most American doctors โmaintainโฆ ...
Viewpoint: High IQ vs. Low IQโAmericaโs legacy of eugenics
[T]he morning after a tragic midair collision in Washington, DC, between a military helicopter and an American Airlines plane, President ...
Profiling the people now guiding America’s health policy
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, he didnโt just bring with him an unconventional and controversial approach to ...
Viewpoint: The health and environmental impacts of glyphosate
A federal reckoning over glyphosate is imminent as the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement gains a foothold with Secretary ...
