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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‘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 ...
FDA-approved mRNA flu vaccine signals future for RNA therapeutics
Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was ...
Trump administration has deleted or altered nearly 400 federal datasets on public health, education and safety standards
America's official data trove is quietly shrinking, and nobody in charge is explaining why. A Guardian investigation by reporters Amy Qin and ...
The CDC’s ‘zombie programs’ have funding, but almost no one left to run them
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars earmarked for public health work, but ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s hand-picked FDA panel of physician grifters legitimizes the ‘cure-all’ peptides craze
A booming wellness market has formed around peptides—mini-proteins that affect various processes inside the body. They help regulate hunger, blood ...
Viewpoint: Social media is fueling reproductive health myths and ‘hormonophobia’
Scroll through TikTok's sexual-health corner long enough, and the birth control pill starts to look like public enemy number one ...
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions hit record high as Trump’s order squeezes school mandates
American kindergartners are skipping their shots at a record pace, CNN reporter Deidre McPhillips found, and the White House just ...
Three weird ‘gut hacks’ currently coursing through social media that don’t work–and could be dangerous
Scroll through gut-health content on TikTok and you'll find parasite cleanses, colon flushes, and a ritual glass of hot water ...
Elderly are increasingly befuddled by mass-produced AI health videos
A 68-year-old man in Gumi, South Korea, took a YouTube "doctor" at his word: "200g of blueberries has the same ...
Fact check: COVID vaccines are not linked to miscarriages
A viral claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause an 82 percent miscarriage rate exploded across social media and Congress this month, ...
Viewpoint: Will RFK, Jr.-led MAHA voters swing the midterm elections toward like-minded Republicans?
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Make America Healthy Again movement will be a decisive ...
PTSD cure? U.S. military is testing treatments for soldiers so they can fight longer
The U.S. Department of Defense is funding two studies testing whether MDMA-assisted therapy can treat PTSD in active-duty soldiers so ...
Creepy and cool ways cloning may be used on animals and humans
Cloning is having a moment, and not for the reason you'd guess. A new piece from MIT Technology Review, by senior ...
Fake AI celebrity endorsements of quack wellness cures are surging among the elderly
Paris Hilton’s mother Kathy recently tried the “Jell-O diet” to lose weight. She believed other celebrities – Oprah Winfrey, Doctor ...
‘The cure for measles is chicken soup and vitamin A’: Kennedy’s dangerous history of mocking vaccines
In 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood on a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm and told 1,500 Amish attendees that health ...
Testosterone therapy is having a moment. The science hasn’t caught up.
The Pentagon is preparing to screen service members for low testosterone. The Trump administration wants the FDA to loosen who ...
Viewpoint: CDC website is wrong. Yet another study shows MMR vaccines do not cause autism
A new study of more than 2.5 million children has delivered the same verdict researchers have reached for over two ...
Viewpoint: Organic food costs more—but is it healthier, safer, and more nutritious? The latest science findings may surprise you.
Few symbols on food labels evoke such an immediate sense of health as the “organic seal.” Its promise of "natural" ...
Viewpoint: The global implications of Trump’s misguided vaccine policy
President Trump signed an executive order on August 10, 2026, that could turn getting your kid vaccinated into a multi-visit ...
Ivermectin, mebendazole and fenbendazole join a long historical list of pseudoscientific cancer cures
... If you search “cancer treatments” on Facebook (one of the first prompts that appear if you type “cancer” into ...
Debunking another RFK Jr. autism myth: No, circumcision cannot cause autism
A study of U.S. children found no evidence linking neonatal male circumcision with autism spectrum disorder, prospective data from the ...
‘No causal link between COVID vaccines and excess deaths’: Study at the heart of anti-vaccine hysteria retracted
A high-profile study claiming COVID-19 vaccines contributed to excess deaths across dozens of countries has been retracted by BMJ Public ...
When anecdotes become medical advice: No, ADHD cannot be managed with supplements
If social media is to be believed, ADHD can be managed with supplements, breathing exercises, herbal remedies, and just about ...
Disinformation tracker maps declining confidence in science and public health
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, false claims about “US-run biolabs” began circulating almost immediately through Russian state ...
‘Dangerous’: As measles cases reach a 30-year high, American Academy of Pediatrics blasts Trump/RFK Jr. vaccine order
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics blasted President Trump’s ... executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines. “As measles cases reach a ...
