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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Humans are in the crosshairs of a potential bird flu pandemic. In the age of RFK, Jr., are we prepared?
Scientists are increasingly concerned about a potential bird flu pandemic. The question is, given all the enduring uncertainty around the ...
Viewpoint: Saving the world by having more babies? Time to shut down Peter Thiel’s delusionary wealthy couple
On Tuesday, the Washington Post’s Style section published a profile of Simone and Malcolm Collins, a Pennsylvanian couple who’ve been ...
Turning back the aging clock: Billions of dollars are probably being wasted on genetic manipulation techniques that likely won’t work
A new study from a team of biologists and epidemiologists at UC San Diego is calling into question [the] core ...
Viewpoint: Cod liver oil and vitamin A—RFK. Jr.’s dangerous alternative recommendations to a vaccine to prevent and treat measles could cause brain damage
As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert ...
GLP podcast: Tort lawyers are destroying US science and medicine
In a nation once heralded as the crucible of scientific breakthroughs and medical marvels, US tort lawyers are now wielding ...
7 widely-embraced science “facts” that are dead wrong and threaten our health and prosperity
1.) If something wasn’t established in a peer reviewed, double-blind study, it hasn’t been robustly established. ... 2.) Fluoridated drinking ...
Viewpoint: Litigation industry intensifies its lobbying in Iowa to stoke fear about the alleged dangers of glyphosate
I want to refute some dangerous misinformation being propagated around a bill in the Iowa Legislature. There is a concerted ...
Turmoil at RFK, Jrs.’ HHS. Two weeks into the job, top spokesperson resigns claiming the recent appointee is bungling the measles outbreak response
[HHS chief spokesperson Thomas Corry's] sudden departure was prompted by growing disagreement with Kennedy and his principal deputy chief of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Only in California could coffee both cause and prevent cancer’
Welcome to California, the Wild West - geographically and otherwise. Especially when it comes to science ...
Don’t waste your money on Vitamin C, D, zinc, elderberry and echinacea supplements—they are a $70 billion-a-year lie
[A] new study was published last week in JAMA Network Open and included more than 15,000 participants. It found that ...
Viewpoint: Anatomy of junk science—Dissecting yet another attempt by activist scientists to ‘link’ vaccines to autism
A newly published study is being widely circulated, purportedly showing a link between vaccines and autism. A closer look at ...
Love, sex and Ozempic: Will GLP-1 drugs give you a lift?
Millions of Americans are now taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound—a class of drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists—to treat ...
‘Not unusual’: RFK, Jr. defends taking no action to curb surge in measles cases. Here’s why he is dangerously wrong
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said that immunizations against measles and some other infectious diseases are unnecessary and risky. ...
Promises or threats: Dairy industry on tenterhooks about Robert F Kennedy, Jrs. views on milk and other foods
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services has some farmers wondering—will he be a champion ...
RFK, Jr. cancels third vaccine planning and scheduling meeting, furthering endangering roll out of annual protective shots
The Food and Drug Administration ... canceled a planned March 13 committee meeting to update next winter's flu shot. ...
Viewpoint: In his latest dangerous health action, RFK. Jr. blocks CDC from informing patients about the health benefits of vaccines and instead hyping rare side-effects
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt ...
Why do we remember some dreams and not others?
Humans sleep for approximately 230,000 hours over the course of their lives – that’s 26 years spent asleep. We primarily ...
Viewpoint: Health disaster ahead—Here is RFK, Jrs.’ 6-point plan to undermine the U.S. vaccination protection network that took decades to construct
[L]wyers, like RFK Jr., tend to approach data and studies very differently than scientists. While scientists test a hypothesis by ...
Can eating too much protein hurt us?
Today’s high-protein diet takes many forms. From the Atkins diet to the paleo diet and even some versions of the keto diet, protein is ...
The anti-vaccination movement claims its first measles victim since 2015—A Texas school child whose parents refused to get vaccinated
An unvaccinated school-aged child has died after testing positive for measles amid an outbreak in west Texas, health officials confirmed ...
‘Your spatula will kill you’: How a junk academic journal and a credulous media touched off yet another chemophobia scare
For months, the media indulged in a frenzy of fearmongering, plastering headlines about toxic flame retardants supposedly hiding in your ...
In the fight against opioid addiction, a new fentanyl vaccine could be an effective weapon
Can a vaccine be used to treat addiction? It sounds perplexing, but this is exactly the question the National Institutes of ...
Some abortion servicing doctors blocked in their states to spply their service go on the road
Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages high-risk ...
CRISPR treatments offer hope for children with rare genetic disorders
Lucy Landman was born with a very rare genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability, weak muscles, and seizures, among ...
Race and evolution: How our political beliefs about human differences endanger health care
W[/drocap]hen it comes to race and ethnicity, we’ve long been juggling sociocultural constructs like they’re scientific gospel. A new study ...
Video: BBC uncovers massive fraud by Britain’s ‘social egg freezing’ clinics
Video: Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby ...
Top 10 anti-biotech organizations: Meet the most notorious groups pushing anti-science propaganda
What can explain the recent meteoric rise in anti-science beliefs? Under the guise of advocating for consumer transparency or protecting ...
