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: Do doctors rely on BMI too much? Undue focus on weight can lead to patient distrust and delayed care
BMI surveillance is ubiquitous in medical settings and medically focused technologies. BMI is assessed at nearly every touchpoint in primary ...
10,200 nerve endings on the clitoris? More exact nerve count could make sexual wellness surgery safer
There are, in fact, an average of 10,280 nerve fibers according to a histomorphometric evaluation of the dorsal nerve of ...
Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’
Air pollution harms our health in many ways; does it also encourage obesity? Farmers in India have access to two ...
Cancer rates continue 30+ year downward trend
The American Cancer Society’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer showed a decline in every major ...
HeridiGene: How the world’s largest DNA-mapping study is saving lives
The world’s largest initiative to map the DNA of an entire population will benefit patients for years to come, but ...
The Song of the Cell: Oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book explains the mystery of how the body’s smallest unit affects everything from IVF to COVID
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s ...
Allergy epidemic: Up to 10% of children have food intolerances. Where did they come from?
Food allergies are becoming increasingly common, in children and in adults. Yet it’s surprisingly difficult to get a handle on ...
High blood pressure medication only works for 1 in 4 people. Genetics may help explain why
Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent ...
IVF-born Black babies are four times more likely to die than White babies. Why?
It has been well-known in research that Black babies are about twice as likely to die as White babies before ...
First large-scale long COVID study finds nearly half of survivors experience lingering symptoms
Ask anyone who has experienced the lingering maladies of the pandemic, and they’ll tell you long covid is no figment ...
Why did so many girls experience early puberty during the pandemic? (The virus might not be to blame)
Among the laundry list of health problems COVID has inflicted on the world's population, one of the more perplexing could ...
Hair-straightening products connected to uterine cancer, especially in Black women
Scientists are uncovering new details in the connection between using certain hair straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing ...
‘Obesity is way more complex than we thought’: Risk of being overweight likely influenced by what happened in the womb
Obesity can seriously compromise a person’s physical and mental health. It is definedTrusted Source as “abnormal or excessive fat accumulation ...
Drilling down on the roots of chronic fatigue syndrome? 200 genetic variants now linked to the disorder
Scientists have discovered possible genetic risk factors involved in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). ME/CFS ...
Are you a mosquito magnet? It’s in the genes
As part of their three-year study, the scientists carried out more than 2,330 tests over 174 days using samples of ...
Air pollution linked to greater risk of obesity in women
Obesity has been a major global health issue in recent decades as more people eat unhealthy diets and fail to ...
Viewpoint: Our personalities are genetically shaped but not hardwired
Everything about us is partly genetic, but this doesn’t mean genes determine our traits. Our genes assemble every aspect of ...
Biofortification of staple crops: How the mundane pearl millet grain was transformed into a ‘hunger fighting’ gladiator
Pearl millet has long made up the bulk of diets of rural communities in drought-prone regions of India and Africa ...
Genetic basis of mental illness: Individual genetics and ‘racial’ ancestry impact mental illness, but most studies have focused only on white people
Mental illness is a growing public health problem. In 2019, an estimated 1 in 8 people around the world were affected ...
Does Hollywood’s new favorite viral weight loss drug Wegovy (Ozempic) work — or is it just another fad pill?
Ozempic, or Wegovy, is a new class of medication that belongs to GLP-1 agonists. It was first developed as a ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable nonsense’ — Why embracing a ‘sex spectrum’ is at odds with scientific data
The scientific community is increasingly embracing sociopolitical ideologies and philosophies that are blatantly at odds with scientific data. The highest ...
‘Omicron has started to splinter’: Winter COVID wave may come with a ‘dizzying barrage’ of new variants
The last big variant of concern — the hypertransmissible Omicron offshoot known as BA.5 — peaked in July. Since then, ...
‘Healthy fat is not about the amount of fat’: Exercising improves the health of fat cells, helping them clean debris from your bloodstream
Many of us may not realize that body fat can be metabolically healthy — or the reverse — no matter ...
‘If you want to stop the condition, you need to regrow brain cells’: Inside the ‘hugely complex’ fight against Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s was first described in medical texts more than 200 years ago, yet there is still no cure. It’s a ...
Long COVID can strip away a decade’s worth of exercise gains, study suggests
Long covid can rob people of health, energy, employment and joy. It may also strip away the equivalent of a ...
Immunity boost: Some people with ‘lucky genes’ may get an extra strong protection from COVID shots
Researchers analysed blood samples from people who took part in five different trials, including 1,600 adults who had either the ...
Male birth control update: After decades of development, what’s standing in the way of products that actually work?
There has been a strong interest in new contraceptives for men over the past decade, but little progress has been ...
