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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A transgender woman says she’s breastfeeding her daughter during the formula shortage. Is that possible?
As America's baby formula shortage continues to inspire scammers and politicians alike, parents have become desperate for solutions. Sometimes they get so creative ...
Can foods boost your immune system?
It’s easy to fall prey to marketing gimmicks deployed by food brands. After all, it’s comforting to think that there ...
GLP Podcast: Will we ever solve the obesity crisis? Science writer Mark Schatzker
Americans are getting heavier and experts aren't sure what to do about it. Cutting fat and carbs out of our ...
Viewpoint: Here is why Canada is deregulating gene edited foods — and why consumers will benefit
The importance of, and reliance upon, evidence-based regulations was reaffirmed [recently] in Canada! It was very welcomed news when Health ...
Video: Viewpoint — Why GMOs are good for us
Activists have convinced Americans that "organic" food is better—healthier, better-tasting, life-extending. As a result, poor parents feel guilty if they ...
Vitamin-A enhanced Golden Rice saga illustrates destructive legacy of anti-GMO hysteria
Even though 5.2 million children suffer with vision impairment and a potential death sentence, Golden Rice, a contributory answer to ...
Vagal hype: What’s behind the ‘natural health’ community’s focus on healing effects of ‘resetting’ vagus nerve?
The vagus nerve is a darling of the all-natural healing crowd. Its complex arborescence makes it the ideal nerve on ...
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 ...
