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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From edible microrobot teeth cleaners to regenerating your teeth with a drug, the future of dentistry is poised to change
Imagine a world where you could regenerate a missing tooth with a single drug, and microrobots clean your teeth every ...
Video: What is the science behind aphrodisiacs?
Aphrodisiacs are substances like foods or supplements believed to increase sexual desire and pleasure. While many believe in their effects, ...
Miracle therapy or courting danger? Weight-loss drugs are being touted as a potential cure of dozens of disorders
Animal studies and analyses of electronic health records suggest that the latest wave of weight-loss drugs — known as glucagon-like ...
How do we know when we need to pee? It’s surprisingly complex — and can go awry as we age
You’re driving somewhere, eyes on the road, when you start to feel a tingling sensation in your lower abdomen. That ...
Why bottled water is a bad choice for your health and the environment
When it comes to getting your daily fill of water, the safest option is from a store-bought bottle, right? Well, ...
Doctor’s say a single concussion could dramatically raise a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s. Bret Favre estimates he had “thousands” of them
Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre’s announcement that he has Parkinson’s disease is bringing renewed attention to the potential links between ...
Fearful of a Republican rollback of Washington state’s reproductive rights, state stockpiles abortion pills
Washington state's first-in-the-nation stockpile of abortion drugs will serve as insurance against future lawsuits seeking to ban the procedure nationwide ...
Viewpoint: Trump-RFK, Jr. commercial promotes bizarre, conspiracy-laden plan to ‘make America healthy’
In the first four minutes of a recent video for his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign promoting Donald Trump for ...
Are vaccines the future of cancer prevention?
Researchers are making progress toward vaccines that train healthy people’s immune systems to eliminate signs of cancer before it develops ...
With the Chevron Doctrine overturned, the new ‘judicial veto’ of regulations will be bad for science and business
A colleague and I wrote about recent Supreme Court decisions that produced sweeping changes in how government regulation works in the ...
How the brain predicts coming events
The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds ...
Disease-carrying mosquitoes are exploding in number globally and in the U.S. as the world heats up
West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), malaria and dengue are gaining new ground in the US. The mosquitoes that ...
Should we edit our genes to make space travel safer?
Long-distance space travel can wreak havoc on human health. There’s radiation and microgravity to contend with, as well as the ...
5 signs of dementia besides memory loss
Memory loss is the most well-known symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. But experts say there are other warning signs ...
Trump oversaw one of the great public health accomplishments of the century in the discovery of a Covid vaccine. Now he’s leading the campaign against it
More than four years ago, former President Donald Trump’s administration accelerated the development and rollout of the covid-19 vaccine. The ...
Anti-science conspiracy theorists and alternative medicine believers are fueling medical misinformation
Just recently, in casual conversation, someone commented ... that “they” already have a cure for cancer but are hiding it ...
Astronaut Frank Rubio made 5,963 circles of the Earth in more than a year of space travel. How did it effect him?
The record for a single trip into space currently stands at 437 days, but prolonged periods in orbit can alter ...
Infections can cause cancer? Yes, and here are four of them
Most cases of stomach cancer are caused by bacteria. A majority of cervical cancers, as well as some genital and ...
A single dose of psilocybin appears more effective than drugs in treating depression
A new study compares psilocybin — the active compound in magic mushrooms, with a common antidepressant medication. During 6 months ...
Wegovy and other GLP-1 drugs lowers the risk of heart attacks and strokes by 20% and could save 34,000 lives annually in the US
Clinical trial data from drugmaker Novo Nordisk showed that people using Wegovy had a 20% lower risk of a cardiac ...
Systemic racism hurts minorities in accessing human eggs and donors
"Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them," a new book by University of Alabama ...
GLP podcast: Egg myths, debunked; You might hate veggies because of your genes; Chemicals causing early puberty? Probably not
The public believes a lot of myths about eggs. Let's debunk some of the most popular misconceptions. If you don't ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fake science’ and ‘conspiracy theories’ likely if Trump wins and appoints RFK, Jr. ‘health czar’
“I’m going to be deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run F.D.A. and N.I.H. and C.D.C.,” ...
Viewpoint: Chemophobic demonizing of DEET — Boston Museum of Science’s fact-free endorsement of ’non chemical’ insect repellent alternatives
I'm sure you know by now that I often speak about the harms of the appeal to nature fallacy and ...
Genetically modified mosquitoes could strengthen war on malaria
It’s been 127 years since British medical doctor Sir Ronald Ross discovered that mosquitoes in the Anopheles family are primarily responsible for transmitting malaria ...
Viewpoint: What do social conservatives really believe about IVF?
[S]eemingly stung by Kamala Harris’s assertion that IVF treatments have been curtailed “under Donald Trump’s abortion bans,” the former Republican ...
In the age of gene therapy, what does ‘being cured’ mean?
Gene therapy comes with the expectation that it will “cure” an expanding number of genetic disorders. If you’ve never wondered ...
