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: ‘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, ...
Viewpoint: Vitamin-rich Golden Rice mired in the ideological infighting
White rice is the staple crop in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It must be polished for storage and ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr is peddling disinformation about autism—but it’s made him and his fellow tort lawyers a boatload of money
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views on autism are clearly offensive. What’s less obvious is that they are also self-serving: He ...
Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology
Early last year, the Environmental Working Group and the Green Science Policy Institute launched an attack on a family of ...
Could residues of growth promoters used in meat production result in Olympic athletes testing positive for drug use?
Scientists at UCLA's Olympic Analytical Laboratory turned their sophisticated analytical capabilities for testing athlete samples for performance-enhancing drugs to research ...
What will happen with 23andMe’s personal genetic data now that it’s been bought in a bankruptcy auction
[R]egeneron Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding for $256m through a bankruptcy auction, the companies announced [last ...
The science of sitting—and why walking may be better for our bodies than running
In today’s world, exercise is often elevated to near-religious status. It’s hard to go a day without encountering the latest ...
On chronic disease, the Make America Healthy Commission misfires, but there are solutions: Rethinking fruits and vegetables
If there is a positive aspect of the Make American Healthy Again movement it is that it brings to the ...
Here’s how Oxitec’s GMO mosquitoes might help limit the scourge of malaria
Last year, Oxitec released tens of thousands of GM mosquitoes in Djibouti, where there has been a resurgence of malaria caused ...
RFK, Jr.’s MAHA Health Commission attacks vaccines, ultra-processed food for chronic health problems, tiptoes around criticizing crop chemicals
President Trump's Make America Healthy Again Commission blamed factors including bad diets, chemical exposure and unnecessary medication for causing childhood ...
Unraveling the genetic mystery of autism
Until the 1970s, the prevailing belief in psychiatry was that autism was a consequence of bad parenting. In the 1940s, ...
