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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Obesity, stress and chemicals: Do these factors explain why girls are reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages?
Although it is difficult to tease apart cause and effect, earlier puberty may have harmful impacts, especially for girls. Girls ...
These 8 risk factors can cause Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Here’s how you can minimize them
Eight modifiable risk factors were linked to more than one in three cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in ...
A new European-based organic grocery store came to town. Why does it misrepresent the advantages of organic and the disadvantages of GMO foods?
There’s a new grocery store opening up in my hometown, McLean, VA. It’s called Lidl (pronounced Lee-dul), and it’s headquartered ...
Orgasm gap: Why do women have fewer orgasms than men?
There exists a significant “orgasm gap” between heterosexual women and heterosexual men. A 2005 study found that 39% of women ...
Infographic: Trump-voting Republican counties suffered more than twice the death rate from COVID than Democratic ones
Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the ...
‘No association between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma’: Independent scientific panel review challenges activist cancer claims
In an independent critical scientific review of the existing meta-analyses of studies on the potential health hazards of exposure to ...
Viewpoint: Challenging scaremongering about alleged dangers of eating too much yogurt, cheese and other dairy products
In 2016, a study looked into whether dietary dairy would increase the circulating levels of oestrogen in mice – the researchers ...
Tirzepatide: Drug in trials that can help you shed 50 pounds or more is as effective as bariatric surgery
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly [recently] disclosed the latest data from a phase III trial of its experimental type 2 diabetes ...
Viewpoint: ‘Higher yields and sustainable intensification’ — Russian aggression resets perceptions and policy of global agriculture
When Russia brutally invaded the Ukraine in February 2022, war in the world’s breadbasket could only forebode greater tragedies to ...
Medical advice switch: Daily aspirin to prevent heart disease offers no benefits — and could be harmful
Taking low-dose aspirin every day to prevent a heart attack or stroke provides little to no benefit to people without ...
Epidemic of loneliness: Post-COVID update on how emotional isolation damages our health
For two years you didn’t see friends like you used to. You missed your colleagues from work, even the barista ...
How plant breeding innovations are helping feed a hungry world
As of 2019, nearly 26% of the globe’s population “experienced hunger or did not have regular” access to safe and ...
Most humans eat three meals a day. Is that what’s best for our health?
Intermittent fasting, where you restrict your food intake to an eight-hour window, is becoming a huge area of research. Giving our ...
Viewpoint: Before we ban all PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ — found in products from non-stick frying pans to medical equipment — let’s require ideologically-neutral cost-benefit analysis
Recently, calls for a complete ban of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever-chemicals”, have intensified in the ...
Viewpoint: George Washington University School of Public Health and anti-pesticide economist Charles Benbrook caught in ethics breach
A recent public release from a graduate student at George Washington University claimed insights from old data answers new questions in newly published research. These ...
Oxitec expanding GMO mosquito trials in bid to control the spread of malaria
Oxitec Ltd. will soon begin field tests of its genetically modified self-limiting mosquitoes in Mesoamerica and the Horn of Africa in an ...
Nutrigenomics: Can what you eat reprogram your genes?
People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to ...
Why are middle-aged women 2 ½ times more likely to take antidepressants than men?
About one in five women ages 40 to 59 and nearly one in four women ages 60 and over used ...
Farm student addresses concerns raised about GMO crops and food
As the population continues to grow, more and more people are living in urban areas that lack, or do not ...
One year along, long COVID still plagues victims and confounds scientists
The core experience of long Covid revolves around the unholy trinity of fatigue, brain fog and muscle pain. But there is ...
Part I: The Clean 18 — Challenging Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen scare survey of pesticide residues on conventional fruits and vegetables
The recent release of the “Dirty Dozen List” by the organic-industry-funded Environmental Working Group has stirred up its annual hornets’ ...
How nutrients in food impact genes and influence your health
People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to ...
Viewpoint: ‘There are more dangerous chemicals under your kitchen sink than the ‘demon’ glyphosate’ — Here’s why the world’s most popular herbicide is safe
Glyphosate, which is sold as Roundup, often makes the headlines as being the demon pesticide and the cause of all ...
Fall asleep with the TV on? Just one night of sleep with moderate light can can hurt your cardiovascular and metabolic health
New research suggests that one night of sleep with just a moderate amount of light may have adverse effects on ...
Video: Here’s the story of the pioneering purple nutrition-enhanced genetically modified tomato—and why GMOs are the future of food
Plant geneticist Cathie Martin spent years working with snapdragon genes to create a purple tomato that produces more antioxidant compounds ...
A glass of wine is good for you? Genetic study debunks popular wisdom, linking even modest drinking to cardiovascular disease risk
For decades, scientists have been studying how alcohol affects our bodies. Some studies have suggested modest amounts, such as a ...
Viewpoint: How Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen undermines healthy food consumption
To be able to “vote with your fork” is a privilege that not everyone has, and the “Dirty Dozen” list ...
