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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GLP podcast: Modern farming—’a miracle of science’; extreme weather threatens our food supply? Activists promote retracted pesticide study
Food production has absolutely exploded since the 1960s, feeding billions more people while innovative technologies reduced the environmental impact of ...
Viewpoint: Is the criticism of organic food justified?
If you spend any time on the internet in spaces where people talk about food, nutrition, and the environment, you’ve ...
Worse than Darth Vader disease: Rare genetic disorder leads to chronic insomnia and eventual death
Fatal familial insomnia, a rare genetic disease that causes sleeping difficulties, dementia, and involuntary muscle twitching, has no cure and ...
U.S. spy agencies split on whether Havana Syndrome brain-injury like symptoms caused by a foreign adversary
White House officials [said] that the truth behind the mysterious ailments known as Havana Syndrome was still unknown, contradicting a ...
Are plant-based meats healthier?
Unless you live in isolation from supermarkets, you've likely heard of plant-based meats — products made from plant-derived ingredients like ...
RFK Jr. is leading the latest attack on conventional medicine
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a wellness influencer who is also President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human ...
‘Race’ and cancer therapy: Here’s why Black people are least likely to be helped by today’s genetically-targeted treatments
Nearly half of all new cancer drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the past quarter-century ...
Should agriculture get the blame for antibiotic resistance?
Journalists are an easily spooked bunch. Where scientists see a problem in need of a solution, the press often sees ...
Poop is helping to feed the world. Really
A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal ...
The controversy over ultra-processed foods: Some are healthy, some are not
[One] study is helping to answer a pressing nutrition question: Which ultra-processed foods are harming our health—and which might not ...
The science is overwhelming that vaccines are not linked to autism. So why are rates rising?
When President-elect Donald J. Trump mused in [a] television interview about whether vaccines cause autism — a theory that has been ...
Viewpoint: What is ‘Spatula-Gate’? Or how reckless, chemophobic media and environmentalists bungled the science of plastics yet again
For months, the media indulged in a frenzy of fearmongering, plastering headlines about toxic flame retardants supposedly hiding in your ...
35 years after Alar hysteria devastated the apple industry, there are more varieties than ever before. What happened?
[I]n 1989 the apple industry was hit with the notorious “Alar Scare” when the environmental group NRDC asserted that a ...
The science behind water fluoridation: What is hysteria, what fears are justified?
Water fluoridation is supported by a robust body of evidence. Numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated significant reductions in cavities in ...
How close are we to the avian flu outbreak escalating into a pandemic?
After at least documented 66 cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount -- the ...
GLP podcast: ‘Spatula Gate’—The black plastic chemical scare collapses
In early October a small study published in an obscure science journal went viral for alleging that cookware and children's ...
It’s been 25 years since the first draft of the human genome. What’s next?
As 2025 approaches, we can expect the silver anniversary announcements on the completion of a draft of the human genome to ...
Viewpoint: NGO claim that crop pesticides has led to hundreds of thousands of poisoning deaths has proven false but activists don’t retract it
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” The sentence in the ...
How ‘clean food’ ingredients are opening a new frontier in skin care
The promise to support skin health, the immune system and the microbiome, among other benefits, is driving parts of the ...
Viewpoint: A physician who peddles pseudoscience and profits off health disinformation. Perfect Trump pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid
Mehmet Oz has a net worth of over $100 million because of his career-long grift. Mehmet Oz is the OG ...
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 ...
