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: Natural ≠ better—RFK, Jr.’s recommended ban on artificial dyes provides the ‘illusion of meaningful action’ but no health benefits
Health Secretary RFK Jr. recently announced that eight artificial food dyes will be eliminated from the US food supply by ...
GLP podcast: Activist—tort lawyer—media coalition targets medical equipment devices made with safe PFAS, risking millions of lives
There's a growing panic over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most recently targeting fluoropolymers used in medical devices. The issue ...
CRISPR wonder: First gene-edited spider spins red fluorescent silk
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have recently successfully bred the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9-modified spider to produce red fluorescent silk ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s impossible to separate MAHA from MAGA: Why the promised health revolution will mostly serve the privileged
[H]ow is a movement that’s simultaneously about individual responsibility and corporate oversight going to accomplish anything in the most deregulatory ...
Vaccines are under fire, accused of not being tested against a placebo. That’s wrong. Here’s how they are tested for safety
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to require all new vaccines be tested against a placebo ...
Viewpoint: ‘Could’, ‘hazardous’ and ‘linked’—Bad science reporting uses RFK, Jr.’s favorite words
From Wi-Fi causing "leaky brain" to the herbicide atrazine turning male frogs female, the myriad of crackpot concepts Kennedy spews ...
Kennedy claims the 1960s were a golden era of health, with far less disease. What’s the reality?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his uncle was president in the early 1960s, Americans ...
When profit-driven AI algorithms make medical decisions, vulnerable populations may suffer disproportionately
Automation promises speed, consistency and financial efficiency, but when it comes to healthcare, the increasing role of AI in such ...
How biotech shapes climate-smart agriculture in Asia and Australasia
“We’re in a race against time.” This is the alarming call of Silvia Restrepo, President of the Boyce Thompson Institute ...
GLP Spaces on X: Prescribing with precision—antidepressants without overmedicalization?
There's a ditch on both sides of the road, as the old saying goes, when it comes to antidepressants. While ...
Viewpoint: ‘We are witnessing a full-scale assault on science in the U.S’. That will be RFK, Jr.’s legacy
Back in January, during the second day of confirmation hearings for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy ...
Looming disease crisis? With vaccination rates falling, measles and polio rates could soar
Measles, rubella, polio and diphtheria—once ubiquitous, devastating and deeply feared—have been virtually eliminated from the U.S. for decades. Entire generations have ...
Longevity drug haven: Montana is now the U.S. epicenter for the use of unapproved drugs and experimental therapies
A bill that allows medical clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana...doctors can apply for a license ...
Heartbreaking: Yes, you can die from a broken heart—especially men
A patient comes crashing into the emergency room with severe chest pain.... So the patient is rushed to the cath ...
Viewpoint: What the MAHA report gets wrong about crop chemicals
Crop organizations say President Donald Trump’s administration is raising baseless questions about pesticide safety in the first report from the ...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Report on Pediatric Gender Dysphoria and Gender Conversion Efforts
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and ...
Why RFK, Jr.’s placebo testing requirement for vaccine approval will cost lives
The health and human services secretary claimed that no vaccines other than the coronavirus shots had been tested against a ...
More than 300 people in the U.S. are still dying every week from COVID
More than five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States, hundreds of people are ...
Viewpoint: Ethical questions about embryo screening and eugenics
Orchid and other start-ups like it take embryos produced by IVF and subject those embryos to polygenic screening. This process ...
Plant biotechnology is an indispensable tool for enhancing crop resilience to droughts and floods
As climate change intensifies extreme weather events, the agriculture sector is faced with the arduous task of finding ways to ...
GLP podcast: ‘It wasn’t a total train wreck.’ Breaking down the MAHA Commission Report
It wasn't a total train wreck. That's the best way to summarize the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission's May ...
AI and terrorism: How bioterrorists could easily fake an attack
While I am deeply concerned about the long-term existential threat of AI and synthetic biology to create new or modified ...
India approves its first gene edited crop—rice that uses less water, reduces carbon emissions and increases yields
India has made a historic leap in Sustainable Farming by unveiling the world’s first Genome-Edited Rice varieties. “Pusa DST Rice ...
Viewpoint: Following no medical guidance, RFK, Jr. recklessly removes COVID vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant women
Yesterday, in a move that stunned the public health community, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced via Twitter/X that COVID-19 ...
‘They’re all corrupt’: In latest conspiracy claim, RFK, Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading science journals
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said [May 27] that he may bar government scientists from publishing ...
Why has there been a surge in adult autism diagnoses?
More U.S. adults than ever before have autism, and many are being diagnosed not as children, but in later years ...
Viewpoint: ‘Get toxins out of our environment’—Despite pledges, Trump’s MAHA policies are making some Americans more vulnerable
In his March address to Congress, President Donald Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid bipartisan applause, ...
