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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Genetic tests can now predict childhood obesity, especially in whites—and could be employed to sharply curtail it
What if we could prevent people from developing obesity? The World Obesity Federation expects more than half the global population ...
GLP podcast: Questionable COVID response fueled the MAHA movement. How should scientists respond?
One of the many troubling consequences of the COVID pandemic has been a resurgent anti-vaccine movement, brought to unprecedented prominence ...
‘No,’ the patient said as he pulled his knees to his chest. Breaking federal law, some hospitals retrieve organs from still-alive potential donors
The head of an organ procurement group told a House panel ... he would be "disturbed” if he had witnessed ...
Viewpoint: RFK.Jr’s embrace of fear-mongering about food dyes mimics Europe’s precautionary regulations
Red 40, Yellow 5, and Blue 1 may soon be history. Not because science says they're dangerous, but because the ...
4 million deaths, 10 million cases anticipated: Trump administration has dismantled decades of progress in reducing AIDS infections and deaths
On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid. He went on ...
Full-scale body scans of organs, vessels and bones could revolutionize disease detection
Scientists expect to gain unprecedented insights into human ageing and the earliest signs of disease after scanning 100,000 people from ...
Is RFK. Jr. protecting or endangering pregnant women by blocking the CDC from recommending COVID vaccines?
You're pregnant, healthy, and hearing mixed messages: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a ...
GLP Spaces on X: Misinfo from the mainstream. Hypocritical pediatricians blast RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx stance while flouting consensus on GMOs
You can't be a stalwart defender of scientific consensus, expertise and evidence-based medicine while taking contrarian positions on critical public ...
Viewpoint: MAHA supporters and anti-vaxxers are spreading chemophobia through the mainstream
A broad spectrum of “sunscreen truthers” on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook have peddled the trope that sunscreen causes ...
National Cancer Institute—world’s premier cancer research center—victim of RFK’s cuts and chaos agenda
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government ...
Will AI and organoids end the need for animal testing for drug development?
Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they are creating a new office, the Office of Research Innovation, ...
‘Wellness’ grifters’ pseudoscience imperils public health
In recent years, the $6.3 trillion global “wellness” industry has marketed itself as a liberating alternative to conventional medicine, promising ...
Challenging RFK. Jr.’s misstatements on aluminum in vaccines: ‘No, the microscopic amounts play no role in autism’
Cumulative aluminum exposure from vaccination during the first 2 years of life did not raise the risk of autism, asthma, ...
Viewpoint: Physician challenges RFK, Jr.— ‘Here’s why you’re wrong in scaring people about the hepatitis B vaccine’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt ...
Will deadly measles outbreaks become the new normal?
There have now been more measles cases in 2025 than in any other year since the contagious virus was declared ...
Republicans in Congress and RFK, Jr. find common ground in using psychedelics to treat traumatized veterans
Driven by a desire to help ex-servicemembers with mental illness, GOP lawmakers led a failed campaign last year to persuade the Biden ...
More evidence that autism is genetic and potentially treatable
Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a ...
UK commits within 10 years to screening all newborn babies for genetic diseases
Every baby in England is to have a DNA screening to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised healthcare as part of the ...
GLP spaces on X: The ‘Dirty Dozen,’ dissected
Each year the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) "Dirty Dozen" list ranks fruits and vegetables with the supposedly highest pesticide residues, ...
Myths and facts about using cannabis to treat health problems
There’s ... substantial evidence that [cannabis] may ease nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and may help control muscle spasms ...
Viewpoint: Radioactive drips, urine and snake venom — MAHA-inspired huckster biohackers endorse bizarre (and expensive) life-extension experiments
Welcome to Dave Asprey’s 2025 Biohacking Conference: a symposium of tech bros, wellness influencers, psychonauts, and scientists, all hoping to thwart the ravages ...
Unpacking RFK, Jr.’s claims: Are canola, soy bean and safflower oil feeding the obesity epidemic and poisoning America?
[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] has said...vegetable oils — extracted from the seeds of plants, like canola, soybean and safflower — are ...
Is the American Academy of Pediatrics a stalwart defender of science and vaccines or a biotechnology science rejectionist? Sadly, it’s both
In a rare but pointed rebuke of federal health policy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) filed a federal lawsuit ...
Viewpoint: How well-intended mask mandates and lockdowns fueled the establishment science-skeptical MAHA movement
Every time I post about vaccine science, the responses are swift and predictable: "Where was the evidence for the lockdowns ...
The antivax Amish are RFK, Jr. supporters’ latest poster child for science rejectionism
Unfortunately, the Amish have become the poster child for the anti-vax movement...The implication is that vaccines are not needed, since ...
RFK, Jr., other vaccine skeptics claim children get too many shots too soon. Here are the facts
In 1986, a typical child was recommended to receive 11 vaccine doses — seven injections and four oral. Today, that ...
Viewpoint: Is it possible to reconcile RFK, Jr.’s wacky health conspiracy theories with his genuine commitment to improve public health?
The most powerful public health official in the US has made it his mission to tackle what he describes as ...
