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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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 ...
Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?
“Could THIS twice-daily probiotic supplement filled with gut friendly bacteria help beat Long Covid?” That’s the headline in the Daily ...
Successful couples therapy depends in part on your genetics
If the pandemic has put a strain on your relationship, you might be thinking about going to couples therapy or ...
‘Now they’re here’: Genetically engineered mosquitoes could help control dangerous spread of disease-carrying Aedes aegypti
Anthony James, who researches disease-spreading insects, never encountered the aggressive mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, when he grew up in Southern California ...
Turning lettuce into a bone-strengthening food? How scientists are using genetic modification to create foods of the future
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have genetically engineered lettuce to produce a drug based on a human hormone ...
Parents in the US spend $1 billion a year on melatonin gummies as a childhood sleep aid — but are they safe?
Throughout history, parents have searched for the secret to a smoother bedtime: sleeping together, sleeping apart, the “Ferber method” war ...
Is a new COVID surge cycle beginning?
At this very moment, the United States, as a whole, remains in its legit pandemic lull. Coronavirus case counts and ...
How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy
Misinformation is rampant on social media. The science community has spent most of the last two years trying to slow ...
Do artificial sweeteners fuel cancer? New data reignite the debate
A new study has reawakened a decades-old debate over the safety of artificial sweeteners, suggesting a small association can be ...
Seeking out the genetic roots of migraine
Research suggests that genes account for up to 60% of a person’s risk of having the condition. Almost one-third of ...
Is artificial intelligence the future of healthy eating?
DayTwo is just one of a host of apps claiming to offer A.I. eating solutions. Instead of a traditional diet, ...
Globalization of disease: COVID has sparked bioarchaeological investigations of epidemics in prior centuries. What have we learned?
The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian ...
Is high cholesterol a red alarm? It’s time to reassess the meaning of blood lipid levels
We’ve all been born under the stigma of cholesterol. From the day you were born, the cholesterol in your food ...
Viewpoint: No, coffee is not ‘steeped in pesticides’ or filled with bugs and mold
Myth #1: Conventional coffee is steeped in synthetic fertilizers and pesticides Truth: First off, this is something that is being ...
Coping with loss: Should grieving for a loved one longer than a year be considered a mental illness?
After more than a decade of argument, psychiatry’s most powerful body in the United States added a new disorder this ...
Is there a male-female ‘orgasm gap’? Unlocking the mystery of female sexual selection
Every second of every day, across the face of planet Earth, there are 18,000 ejaculations of sperm, and 4.4 births ...
‘We’re in a race for solutions’: Why do these two Amazon tribes have such low dementia rates?
Two groups of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon have some of the world's lowest dementia rates, and that may ...
COVID immunity — for both those who got shots or contracted the virus — is waning. What dangers does that pose?
As the U.S. experiences a dip in COVID-19 cases and mask mandates are being lifted, some have voiced concerns about ...
18.2 million deaths globally: World COVID death toll likely three times higher than current data claim
The global COVID-19 death toll may be three times higher than official tallies suggest, according to a systematic analysis of ...
6 best foods to improve brain functioning? Here’s one Harvard scientist’s list
Based on my work with hundreds of patients, below are the best brain-boosting foods that people aren’t eating enough of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bobby’s lies and fear-mongering were sickening and repulsive’ — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s emergence as feckless anti-vaccine conspiracist rattles family and friends
Once a top environmental lawyer who led the charge to clean up the Hudson River in New York, the third ...
