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: 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. It’s potentially dangerous
About 3.5 million tonnes of sludge – the solid waste produced from human sewage at treatment plants - is put ...
What is ‘therapy speak’ and why is its proliferation so dangerous?
Psychiatric diagnosis has taken on a new role in public life. Turbocharged by social media, “therapy speak” has permeated every ...
What causes ‘mind blanking’?
Researchers think that our minds are blank somewhere between 5 and 20 percent of the time ... Athena Demertzi, a cognitive neuroscientist ...
Viewpoint: Wellness influencers (and current federal health officials) fabricate fake ‘root causes’ 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 ...
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 ...
‘Mutational discrimination’: 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. That’s 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 the Genetic Literacy Project, “The 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 isn’t exactly a new thing; it’s 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. Estimates indicate that 1 in 10 people ...
GLP spaces on X: Ice cream sales boost drowning risk? Confusing correlation and causation yields strange – and often harmful – 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 ‘informed consent’ 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 “maintain… ...
Viewpoint: High IQ vs. Low IQ—America’s 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 didn’t 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 ...
Chemicals in food packaging is an increasing health threat
A research study, published in the Nature Medicine journal, explores the health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food. The scientists identify ...
The disabled, the elderly and the poor: Trump administration flirts with eugenics
Trump has deployed in his administration and in his relationships with billionaires a group of the old and new eugenicists ...
Biotech companies are pioneering research to use electricity to cure diseases. Here’s how
Electricity is gaining newfound traction as a potential treatment for diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis to hard-to-treat cancers including glioblastoma and ...
Viewpoint: Are you a ‘culinary criminal’ for eating a hot dog?
Nothing says spring as much as cherry blossoms or opening day in Major League Baseball. For many fans, attending a ...
RFK Jr. stacks purged vaccine committee with ‘covid contrarians’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight people to the influential federal panel that recommends vaccines ...
GLP podcast: Marijuana legalization—smart policy or risk to public health?
With a growing number of US states legalizing marijuana use, scientists and policymakers are once again engaged in a pitched ...
Sperm donor with cancer-prone mutation conceived at least 67 children across Europe
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the FDA to closely regulate unreviewed chemicals in our food
Although a comprehensive fix to the “Generally Recognized” standard will require legislation from Congress, there are significant steps the FDA ...
When European politicians and ‘experts’ debate the future of farming, they listen to everyone but farmers
Georges Clemenceau once said war was too important to be left to the generals. Today, in Brussels, agriculture is too ...
Electric respiration: Bacteria that ‘breathe’ electricity could revolutionize wastewater treatment and biomanufacturing
A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural ...
