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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98.6°F: American body temperatures have been dropping for 200 years. Why?
Early last year, researchers in the United States combed Civil War veteran records and national health surveys and found temperatures ...
What’s it like living with high-functioning autism?
I knew I wasn’t like other people. But I had also internalized the idea that this was “fixable,” that I ...
With COVID vaccine hesitancy raging, CDC abandons long-sought herd immunity goal
Since the earliest days of the pandemic, there has been one collective goal for bringing it to an end: achieving ...
Could donated blood be transformed into lab-made replacement eggs for infertile couples? Silicon Valley is trying
Conception is the largest commercial venture pursuing what’s called in vitro gametogenesis, which refers to turning adult cells into gametes—sperm ...
How does chronic noise exposure impact our health?
A noisy environment has many underrecognized negative impacts that have little to do with hearing per se. Chronic noise exposure, ...
Why is it so hard to keep the pounds off after losing a lot of weight?
According to the University of Michigan, about 90% of people who lose significant amounts of weight, whether through diets, structured ...
Disentangling horniness from hype: Do women’s libido drugs work?
In the fall of 2016, sex therapist and researcher Leonore Tiefer shuttered the New View Campaign, an organization she had founded ...
Breastfed babies at lower risk of contracting antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’
Breastfeeding has been associated with many health benefits for mothers and their babies, including stronger immune systems for the children. ...
US COVID deaths are increasingly concentrated in Republican-voting regions
There simply was not a strong partisan pattern to Covid during the first year that it was circulating in the ...
How should schools accommodate students with long COVID?
As the delta variant continues to run rampant, officials are managing contact tracing, quarantines and mask policies, sometimes while facing ...
Genetically modified mosquito suppression system to fight Yellow and Dengue Fever released for home use in Brazil
[November 3, Oxitec announced] the landmark commercial launch of its Friendly™ Aedes aegypti solution designed specifically for use by homeowners, ...
From ‘anti-cancer’ bread to vitamin-infused veggies, health-boosting gene-edited foods are on the way
While the UK is still very much in the experimental stage of creating gene-edited foods, elsewhere in the world they ...
Infographic: What are medical abortions — and how accessible are they?
Medication abortion, also known as medical abortion or abortion with pills, is an FDA approved pregnancy termination protocol that involves ...
Vaccine opinion roundup: How are shot mandates impacting employment? Here’s why some parents are reluctant to get their kids vaccinated
With the Biden administration moving to require large employers to require COVID-19 vaccinations and require weekly testing for unvaccinated workers, ...
Viewpoint: One year ago, the UK moved from treating transgender adolescents with psychological counseling to drug-based interventions
Around a year ago, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) announced that Dr. Hilary Cass, former President of the Royal ...
Why ‘junk DNA’ is critical for our survival
Nearly half of our DNA has been written off as junk, the discards of evolution: sidelined or broken genes, viruses ...
What’s the most vaccinated place in America? The answer might surprise you
The Caribbean island [of Puerto Rico] — in recent years pummeled by deadly hurricanes, rocked by earthquakes, beset by political ...
Chronic pain relief: Insights into how the brain works fuels dramatic treatment improvements
The view that chronic pain originates in the brain — that it’s fundamentally a psychological phenomenon, and can be eliminated ...
Living longer: Genes set limits, but diet and exercise can extend lifespans
Death comes for us all. But recent research points to interventions in diet, exercise and mental outlook that could slow ...
Viewpoint: ‘Breakthrough’ malaria vaccine garners mixed reviews
The announcement by the WHO that a vaccine against malaria, more than thirty years in the making, could finally be ...
Pesticide residues ‘do not pose a concern for public health’ — FDA reaffirms safety of conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables
[On October 20,] the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Report. According to FDA, ...
The gut microbiome charges a ‘processing fee’ — and this impacts how the body modulates weight
Whether the source is carbohydrates, protein, or fat, a calorie is a calorie. New dietary math based on the microbiome ...
Since the start of the pandemic, COVID has killed 5 times as many police officers as gun violence
The coronavirus has become the leading cause of death for officers despite law enforcement being among the first groups eligible ...
‘Farmers face anxiety, depression and grief’: How climate change is roiling American farmers’ lives
As climate change-fueled extreme weather events such as storms and droughts become more frequent and intense, farmers and others in ...
14 genes that cause obesity identified, opening the door to targeted, personalized treatments
Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that ...
Are you risking your health to fly on planes with COVID still raging? Here’s what the science says
The chances of viral spread aboard planes remain very low. But papers published in medical journals suggest they may not ...
How the brain drives food addictions
From the earliest days of their evolution, guts and brains have been the best of friends. It’s a mutually beneficial ...
