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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Viewpoint: When food myths go viral, farmers pay the price
The media capitalises on “emotional content” and, when “clicks” are profit, the more outrageous the title, the bigger the margin ...
Would you go to a holistic dentist? It’s either a scam or a dentist trying to sell you unnecessary supplements.
In the controversial 2019 documentary Root Cause, the filmmaker claimed certain chronic illnesses are due to root canal treatment. Although these ...
RFK, Jr.’s delusion: Anti-depressants are not harder to quit than heroin—but that does not mean tapering off is easy
There is a legitimate clinical problem at the center of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s initiative to help Americans ...
Viewpoint: Is Trump ‘vice-signaling’ to gain the support of vape users?
In December of 2019, Mitch Zeller, who at the time ran the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, got an urgent phone call from ...
Psychological inoculation: With a vaccine to prevent HIV on the horizon, misinformation is soaring. What can be done.
In a paper we published in BMJ Global Health earlier this year, we mapped the landscape of emerging concerns and ...
Viewpoint: There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee—including many substances that can cause cancer. Why isn’t it banned?
We live in a complex chemical landscape in which risks are notoriously difficult to evaluate. It can be pretty hairy ...
Can ‘Social Stress Indicators’ help contain social media misfluencers?
Misleading information online is often treated as a technical glitch, something that better algorithms or stricter moderation can fix. But research points ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s FDA is on a screaming downward path—and why it may never recover
Whether you liked [Marty] Makary or not ..., the purge or whatever this was is not somehow going to miraculously ...
Relying on your doctor or AI miracle cure, death and debilitation? Neurologist makes the wrong choice
... Ben knew that his 75-year-old father had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of white blood cell cancer that is ...
Nurses are the front line in challenging social media health myths
Nurses' morale is being significantly impacted by the need to "constantly" correct misinformation, according to their union. Members of the ...
31 states have passed a confusing collection of regulations for cell-based meat and plant and insect alternative proteins
Over the past several years, the regulation of alternative proteins has received a lot of attention at the state level ...
Viewpoint: Why the EPA mismeasures cancer risk of chemicals and what should be done to fix it
Every administration says it prioritizes getting the science right, and our current Administration has emphasized using “gold-standard science” as the ...
MAGA’s latest ‘health obsession’? Nicotine patches promoted by ‘Zynfluencers’—including some in the Trump administration
Nicotine pouches have become a phenomenon in the past several years, gaining popularity among social-media influencers (aka, self-styled “Zynfluencers”), gamers and middle-aged ...
Viewpoint: ‘Monsanto’ blues—Planned Netflix movie promises yet another round of anti-glyphosate disinformation
By now, many people have heard about a new propaganda movie … er, “drama film” … coming out about Monsanto, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘sadistic’ solution to autism, depression, and other ills looks a lot like prison camp
... [Robert F. Kennedy] has a long history of talking about people on SSRIs in dehumanizing, often racist language that ...
Vagus nerve wellness grift: How to build a billion dollar business. Are you listening, Kelly Ripa?
“There are billions of web impressions and social media posts on the vagus nerve,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon ...
Hantavirus revives COVID-era conspiracies and distrust in public health
Since the first cases of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Seed oil panic: RFK Jr. and influencers made linoleic acid a dietary villain and heart risk. Evidence points the other way — replacing them with animal fat is.
The seed oil panic has achieved full institutional legitimacy. ... The January 2026 dietary guidelines — which discarded 421 pages of scientific ...
‘Turbo cancer’ or mRNA cancer cure? Strategies to counter misinformation
Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential ...
Gutting the National Science Board: How the Trump-RFK, Jr. crusade is erasing the separation of science and state
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump,” read 22 emails sent from the White House Presidential Personnel Office on Friday afternoon, April ...
Here come the biohackers’ Enhanced Games—The Olympics for athletes doping up on steroids, hormones and peptides. What’s wrong with that?
This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine ...
Fake Ebola cure promoters already cashing in as disinformation videos flood social media
The WHO’s emergency declaration cited eight confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases, and 80 suspected deaths from the rare Bundibugyo strain, ...
‘Realistic and durable’: EPA proposes loosening restrictions on some PFAS ‘forever chemicals.’
The Trump administration ... moved to partially roll back drinking water protections from toxic “forever chemicals.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
Chiropractors may no longer be modern-day snake oil salesmen, but the benefits of their therapy are limited–at best
Roughly 11 percent of American adults saw a chiropractor in 2022, mainly for pain management. Chiropractic care is offered by ...
Meat sits atop the U.S.-RFK, Jr. food pyramid. How healthy is the carnivore diet?
Meat is king, according to the U.S. government. The new dietary guidelines encourage people to consume red meat regularly, and ...
Viewpoint: NAD is the wellness grifters latest evidence-lite longevity fad. At least the mice are impressed.
NAD has been discussed in the wellness world for years. In 2019, Jennifer Aniston mentioned it in an interview with ...
Sharp rise in number of parents refusing newborn vitamin K shots, putting babies at 81-fold higher risk of severe bleeding
In the hours after birth, newborns are typically given a shot of vitamin K, which they are naturally deficient of ...
