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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Peptides, patient autonomy, and the limits of medical freedom
John Stossel’s case for medical freedom is emotionally and philosophically powerful: if we own our bodies, why should the government ...
Poll: Younger people more open to using genetics to increase fertility and reduce chances of inherited diseases
Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, genome editing, donor conception, surrogacy and ...
Trump-RFK, Jr. National Science Board firings: Accountability vs. partisan meddling
In late April, President Trump fired the National Science Board (NSB), yanking a federal science institution that had operated largely out of ...
Strawberries are berries—and 35 other surprising food and drink myths
Some ideas are repeated so often, we start believing they’re true – particularly when it comes to food. But there’s ...
We are entering a new era of personalized medicine—if you’re white
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of ...
Viewpoint—The Strategic Litigation boom: Understanding the tightening coalition among NGOs, foundations, journalists, and tort lawyers
Ten years ago, when I started writing SlimeGate, many in the activist NGO world felt uncomfortable about getting into bed with ...
Is the longevity obsession a new form of ageism?
It wasn’t always like this. In the 1600s and 1700s, when people aged 65-plus made up just 2% of the ...
Viewpoint: Kratom ‘supplement’ crisis: DEA sits on its hands while patient addictions to this ineffective drug rise
Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a plan to ban a class of kratom products known as 7-OH, ...
High cholesterol? FDA approves effective oral medication
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lipfendra (enlicitide), the first oral inhibitor of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), ...
Embryo gene editing is on the horizon, stirring mixed emotions
All Posts As Edward Donnell Ivy remembers it, many of the sickle cell episodes he endured in his 20s were ...
Viewpoint: A practical guide to evaluating social media wellness hype
Evaluating a health claim often comes down to a few questions that most people were never taught to ask. The ...
The Indian physician’s one-woman battle against health disinformation on Wikipedia
For over a decade, Dr. Netha Hussain has been part of the last line of defense against public health disinformation ...
Are we edging closer to precisely, and safely, editing human embryos?
On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released a preprint ...
Rapamycin: Here’s the skinny on the anti-aging pill that increases the lifespan—of mice by 10%
The PEARL trial — published in full results in 2025 — was the most rigorous human study of low-dose rapamycin ...
Dr. TikTok and male fertility: Viral claims tout GLP-1 drugs as fertility boosters. What does the science say?
The "TikTok Medical Group" has stirred the viral waters around biohacking male infertility. GLP-1 receptor agonists are proving to be ...
More and more babies are developing uncontrollable bleeding—linked directly to vaccine deniers’ rejection of vitamin K shots
Bleeding episodes among infants of 6 months of age or younger in Sweden doubled from 2003 through 2021. This concerning ...
Viewpoint: Is bagged salad a dangerous science experiment? Challenging an online misinformation campaign
A video posted on X by @WallStreetApes shows a woman o claiming that U.S. bagged lettuce is "soaked in chlorine, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. is setting up a panel to compensate people who claim they were injured by a COVID vaccine–no proof needed
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to make it easier for people to get compensated for ...
‘It’s time to have a conversation’: Once adamantly opposed to human gene editing, UK’s The Guardian acknowledges likely benefits
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have ...
Viewpoint: What’s the impact of the U.S. abandoning support for global health?
Worsening fiscal constraints and changing policy priorities have resulted in significant funding cuts to global health and development programs. While ...
40 million Americans take glucosamine. If you have memory loss, it could accelerate cognitive decline.
People with Alzheimer’s disease who took the common supplement glucosamine were 25% more likely to die within five years than ...
Viewpoint: With trust in doctors and mainstream medicine collapsing, medical professionals need a new communications strategy
Institutional trust has been in decline since the late 1950s, Stephanie Baker, PhD, professor of sociology at City St George’s, ...
Wellness grifters overwhelm information channels in the developing world, and the problem is escalating
A scroll through TikTok, Instagram or Facebook is enough to find supplements claiming to do almost everything. Lose weight. Reverse ...
Pete Hegseth’s bizarre Viagra commercial as Trump administration endorses ‘hormone replacement therapy’
Pete Hegseth announced [on July 15, 2026] that the Department of Defense will offer testosterone deficiency screening for soldiers 30 and ...
US court revives 550 lawsuits claiming Tylenol causes autism and ADHD. What does this ruling mean for science and the law?
A federal appeals court today revived more than 500 lawsuits alleging that Tylenol maker Kenvue failed to warn consumers that ...
Viewpoint: Polyphenols or NAD+ supplements to combat aging: No, Gwenyth Paltrow and followers, don’t waste your money.
“No, I don’t.” That’s my answer to the increasingly frequent questions I’ve been asked about whether I take anti-aging supplements ...
Across Eastern Europe, science disinformation has spread far beyond COVID and vaccine denialism. Here’s the grim list.
Medical misinformation in Poland has become in 2025 a much larger ecosystem than the old anti-vaccination narratives. A NASK report, ...
