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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Death of a Chinese girl in a gene-editing trial raises concerns about China’s rush to become a biomedical superpower
Six-year-old "Mei" had Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome, a disorder diagnosed in just 237 people worldwide, marked by developmental delays and simple ...
Deadly ‘faith healing’ exemption: Idaho remains the only state shielding parents from prosecution for replacing medical care with prayer or spirits—even if their child dies
This story was originally published by ProPublica. In Idaho, parents who say their faith prohibits lifesaving medical care for their children ...
Viewpoint: With Trump’s declining mental health and an incapacitated Mitch McConnell unlikely to return to the Senate, America’s gerontocracy needs a Public Physician
Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, hasn't spoken publicly since an ambulance took him from his Washington home on June 14th, 2026 ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr. and other vaccine denialists blame vaccines for a surge in severe autism. The surge is a myth—and here’s why
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. keep pointing to what they call an explosion of severe autism cases as ...
Innovation vs. regulation? AI is revolutionizing biotechnology—but raising unintended risks and ethical concerns
The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the ...
Politicizing science: Trump’s pick to head the FDA—Heidi Overton— promotes an ‘alternative system’ of ‘conservative-based science’
President Trump's nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration once called for conservatives to build their own scientific journals ...
‘Right-to-try’: Montana’s new law allows licensed center for therapies not yet approved by FDA
Montana has become the first state to license clinics that can sell access to experimental treatments still working through the ...
Viewpoint— ‘Only when it agrees with him’: How RFK Jr. bullies journals that run research that contradicts his anti-vaccine ideology
The U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services is once again questioning a publisher on an editorial action regarding a ...
Kennedy’s HHS set to define ultra-processed foods—but will the slippery designation make scientific sense?
The federal government is about to attempt what nutrition scientists haven't managed: a workable definition of "ultra-processed food." HHS Secretary ...
Who’s getting vaccinated? Scientific American ranks states by kindergarten vaccination rates
America's kindergartners are heading back to school less vaccinated than ever. New CDC data analyzed by Scientific American's Jackie Flynn Mogensen and Sanidhya ...
For millions with peanut allergies, Nurtured Nuts’ CRISPR gene-edited peanuts could ease the fear of accidental exposure
A Minneapolis food-tech startup is commercializing CRISPR-edited strip peanuts tos strip it of the proteins that trigger allergic reactions, aiming ...
Viewpoint: Rebranding questionable ‘anti-aging’ claims as ‘longevity’ treatments is a fashionable new online wellness con
The global wellness industry has swapped “anti-aging” for “longevity” — same unproven promises, shinier vocabulary — as Cheek Media’s Varsha Yajman ...
Viewpoint: Assessing and dissecting digital disinformation
Recent reports have highlighted AI-generated “doctors” spreading dubious health advice to millions of social media users. Fabricated wellness trends can ...
‘Glyphosate-free oats’ claim is fearmongering: Every risk agency in the world has assessed it as safe, and it isn’t even sprayed on oat plants
Slap "glyphosate-free" on a bag of oats and watch it fly off the shelf, even though the herbicide is barely ...
RFK Jr. faces Senate fire over lucrative ties to Scientology-linked law firm spearheading Gardasil lawsuits (which he profited from)
Four Senate Democrats are pressing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to explain his financial ties to Wisner Baum, the Scientology-linked law ...
What can we learn from the latest deaths of children whose parents declined to vaccinate them
Pennsylvania officials reported two deaths of unvaccinated individuals from measles Tuesday [August 25, 2026], the first two in the state in over three decades ...
Viewpoint: Kennedy moves to close Big Food’s GRAS loophole—but will politically-protected Prevagen and Big Supplement slip through another?
With great fanfare, Secretary Kennedy announced the closing of the GRAS (“Generally Recognized As Safe”) loophole. But separating the rhetoric ...
Viewpoint: Will Trump’s politicization of science undermine U.S. Nobel-level research?
This story was originally published by ProPublica. For decades, physicists wrestled with a fundamental mystery of the universe. They wanted ...
The inside story of how Moderna and Merck teamed to develop the world’s first cancer vaccine
Moderna's experimental cancer vaccine cleared a hurdle no cancer vaccine has cleared before. As STAT's Matthew Herper, Jason Mast, and ...
U.S. badly trails China in lowering barriers to biotech innovation
America's lead in biotechnology is eroding, and one Florida company's three-year wait for a routine government stamp shows why, as ...
Recent birth vitamin K rejectionism soaring in Canada
Canadian doctors are raising alarms over a growing number of parents refusing the routine vitamin K shot for newborns, as ...
The politics driving Trump’s medically baseless order to break up combination childhood vaccines
President Donald Trump has ordered a reduction in childhood vaccines — publicly faulting the shots for an increase in autism ...
Hispanics are more likely than whites to seek out health information from social media, but most remain skeptical
Nearly half of U.S. Latino adults now get health information from social media at least occasionally, according to a 2026 ...
The story behind Moderna’s cancer vaccine miracle
A personalized mRNA shot for melanoma just did something no cancer vaccine has done before. As The Wall Street Journal's Alex Janin ...
‘On the brink’: RFK Jr.’s HHS guts agency built to help fix America’s broken healthcare system
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has quietly gutted the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), ...
What’s the political and health battle over GRAS–ingredients ‘Generally Recognized as Safe’
Behind every significant advance in US food safety lies a public health disaster that forced Congress to act. A regulatory ...
FDA drafts roadmap for regulating generative AI medical devices
The FDA is drafting a first-ever policy roadmap for regulating medical devices powered by generative AI, according to STAT News reporter Mario ...
