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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‘Olfactory training’: 5% of COVID survivors have long-lasting smell and taste problems. Here’s what can help recover their senses
Without smell, you may not recognize the telltale signs of fires, natural gas leaks, poisonous chemicals or spoiled food and ...
Viewpoint: Toxicologist explains why we should be grateful for chemicals — and the safety labels that come with them
Everyone needs to drink dihydrogen monoxide (yep that’s water) or at least drink other fluids that contain a lot of ...
Viewpoint: Splenda scare? Should we be concerned about reports linking artificial sweeteners to strokes?
I’ve learned to allow my patients to have strange tastes in beverages. Should I be tolerant towards their drive to ...
Fertility clinic is unavailable or too expensive? One woman’s experience using a ‘global fertility courier’ to find affordable, quality reproductive care
Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. We—my dog Stewie and I—were in seat 8D, while 12 of my ...
Viewpoint: Blind optimism — Cynicism plays an important role in science but it won’t help us solve the world’s most crushing problems
Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. It’s no wonder, then, that pessimistic messages hit the headlines, and optimistic ones hardly ...
Can you damage your body by regularly donating blood?
One question has plagued the field of blood donation for as long as there have been transfusions: Are we harming ...
Find it hard to control your appetite and keep your weight in check? Bigger breakfasts maximize metabolism, research suggests
Eating a big breakfast and a smaller dinner could aid weight loss by making you feel less hungry, say researchers ...
Can ginger, chili peppers or green tea keep you full for longer? Scientist fact-checks common diet claims
It's likely that your weekly shop is packed with packaging promising that the food inside will taste great, stay fresh ...
Seeking a fertility treatment? With eggs and sperm now storable for half a century, here’s what you should know.
The UK government has just extended the period that gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be stored from ten ...
How Africa’s genetic diversity can be harnessed to close the continent’s ‘drug and treatment gap’
“I have begged to just die.” Those were the words of Sadeh Sophia, a sickle cell disease patient. Although living ...
When will we see a combined annual shot for flu and COVID? Moderna CEO talks about dual shot timeline and research on personalized cancer vaccine
Moderna Inc. didn’t have an approved product before the pandemic hit. Now it is a household name, as the maker of ...
Does your sweat reek? It could be protecting you from serious illnesses
Back in 2020, [microbiologist Gavin] Thomas and his colleagues found that one critter on the skin, called Staphylococcus hominis, produces an especially pungent ...
TikTok fact check: No, malaria-fighting GMO mosquitoes released in Florida are not a vector for ‘Bill Gates’ next planned pandemic’
Claims that the Bill Gates-funded company Oxitec is responsible for a paralyzing mosquito-borne virus spreading through Florida have recently circulated ...
4 in ten Americans are obese. Producers need to harness biotechnology to make spinach as tasty as popcorn
Nutritionists are trying to get us to eat healthier, particularly to lose weight or maintain it after having lost it ...
Do you take creatine as a workout supplement? It could soon be used to treat depression
A bounty of evidence shows that taking creatine supplements raises the threshold of fatigue, which particularly comes in handy for ...
We’re often too nervous to offer acts of kindness. Why?
In August of last year, BBC Radio 4 teamed up with psychologists at the University of Sussex to launch the ...
Circadian rhythm: How do our sleeping cycles affect how we experience pain?
In a recently published study, scientists led by Claude Gronfier at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre in France have finally shed ...
Physician responsibility: Why are many terminal cancer patients not told they are dying?
Unrealistic expectations fueled by direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising depicting happy cancer survivors and the pharma industry’s influence on oncologists hang over ...
Differentiating between COVID misinformation and evolving science
With the announcement by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, that “The CDC has to ...
Are you a mosquito magnet? Science explains why
Mosquitoes are very sensitive to CO2 and can sense a CO2 source that is many meters away. Receptor cells on ...
Could there ever be a vaccine for breast cancer?
Triple-negative breast cancer, about 10% of all breast cancers, is one of the most aggressive and deadliest forms of this ...
CRISPR is 10: A decade of gene editing refinements presents new ways to address agricultural diseases thought to be incurable
Because CRISPR applications promise so many benefits, we are impatient to see them realized. Indeed, we may complain that the ...
The tipping point for millions of heart attacks is one single gram of salt per day
Looking at health data on adults in China, the study authors estimate that a reduction of just 1 gram in ...
Can exercise reduce dementia risk?
Experts had long believed that exercise could help protect against developing dementia. However, though they had observed a general pattern ...
‘You have to prove the dose’: Why courts are rejecting payouts for exposure to alleged carcinogens like talc or actual ones like asbestos
Personal injury lawyers are either revered or reviled. Sometimes purveyors of junk science, they often prey on a vulnerable and ...
Our microbiomes respond positively to exercise, giving us a digestive boost
There is certainly no shortage of studies in humans that show doing moderate to vigorous exercise such as running, cycling and resistance ...
Have you been getting ‘winter viruses’ more often this summer? Here’s why
Across the UK, GP surgeries and hospitals are seeing an influx of patients with typical winter ailments, including coughs, colds, ...
