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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8 breakthroughs in science during 2024
Scientists are making new discoveries every day. Although some may fly under the radar, many of these findings are groundbreaking ...
How GMO tobacco can improve infant formula and dairy-free plant-based milk
In an eclectic application of transgenic technology, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis describe retooling cells ...
Viewpoint: The downsides of the ‘clean eating’ fad
“Clean eating” is a dietary trend focused on consuming whole foods while avoiding processed and packaged foods with refined sugars, ...
Childhood vaccines are under fire. Here’s what you need to know
Vaccines are objectively one of the most impactful scientific interventions in human history. Today, we have vaccines that protect against ...
5 medical breakthroughs over the past year
From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s health and science cabinet nominees: What a disaster
Evidence-based government policymaking should not be politicized but should strive to promote progress and benefit all Americans. Unfortunately, the expertise ...
Ignore the click bait. Despite the headlines, seed oils do not cause colorectal cancer
The fear-baiting is truly out of control these days. I can’t open a web browser or social media app without ...
An alliance between Democrat Cory Booker and RFK, Jr.?
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker could potentially have a new and unexpected partner to push his objectives on improving ...
Republican Congress planning to target transgender rights to promote what they call ‘common sense guardrails’
Republicans’ first response to Sarah McBride’s election to Congress was to ban her from using women’s restrooms throughout the Capitol ...
U.S. Surgeon General wants to put cancer warning labels on alcohol: Here’s why
Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States behind tobacco use and obesity. Alcohol consumption ...
COVID is 5 years old, and still causing havoc. What does the future hold?
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 are not going away. The disease now is endemic. When we consider viruses that cause potentially acute ...
Growing concern as man-made ‘mirror life’ has the potential to wreak havoc on the immune system
Scientists are sounding new alarms about man-made organisms whose constituent molecules are mirror images of what's found in nature and ...
Ultra-processed foods are confirmed to be linked with cancer in a ‘powerful way’
Science has already linked ultra-processed foods to heart disease, inflammation, diabetes, and cancer. But new research out of the University of South Florida ...
Hype or helpful: What does ‘clean eating’ really mean?
Eating clean sounds smart—in theory. Generally, the idea focuses on eating more whole foods and less ultra-processed foods. (Great!) But in practice, ...
Genetically modified pig organ transplants may soon save thousands every year
Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU ...
GLP-1 Friendly: How Big Food is trying to leverage the GLP-1 weight loss drug fad
Packaged-food giant Conagra Foods is hoping to appeal to people taking weight-loss drugs with frozen entrees like chicken fettuccini alfredo ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why gene drives are crucial to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes
Mosquitoes carry some of the world’s deadliest diseases ... but challenging geography, conflict, budgets, and insecticide resistance are among the ...
Breast cancer requires surgery, right? Not so fast
When a woman learns she has breast cancer, her reaction is often: take it out. Now doctors say that might ...
Lawyer set to become advisor to RFK Jr. if he’s approved as HHS director on record asking the FDA to revoke polio vaccine approval
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government ...
GLP podcast: ‘You were going to watch 2-3 people die every day.’ ICU doctor recounts his harrowing pandemic experience
In December 2019 US doctors began to hear anecdotes coming out of China about a novel respiratory virus that caused ...
If you develop health problems from eating ultra-processed food, who’s responsible—you or the companies that make it?
Coca-Cola and 10 other major food companies are accused in a lawsuit from a Pennsylvania teenager of "engineering" ultra-processed products to ...
Teen and tween rush: Now you and your kids can both get a sugar fix at Starbucks
Starbucks said it doesn’t share what percentage of its sales are attributable to customers under 18, but the menu is ...
Can a transplanted organ bring with it a memory from a donor?
The question of whether transplanted organs can transfer memory has cropped up for many ... organs, but according to a ...
Are ultra-processed foods ‘addictive’? It depends
Are some foods actually addictive? The answer is straightforward and, you might think, inconsequential: It depends entirely on your definition ...
Memory of obesity: Fat cells are at war with your diet
Even after drastic weight loss, the body’s fat cells carry the ‘memory’ of obesity, research shows — a finding that ...
Podcast: ‘Shot In The Arm’—documentary exposes anti-vaccine movement’s underhanded tactics during COVID pandemic
When SARS-CoV-2 swept across the world in late 2019, nobody was prepared for the disaster that unfolded. Physicians tried to ...
Space sends brain cells haywire. How will that affect human space travel?
Space is not a very hospitable place.... Even when provided with oxygen and a stable temperature by their spacecraft, astronauts ...
