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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COVID patient zero? Wuhan seafood vendor identified as earliest confirmed case, sparking debate among scientists
A new perspective on the origins of COVID has been released in a report that suggests the earliest known case ...
Brain health: How to slow down the mind’s natural aging process
I have worked in the area of brain health for almost 20 years in my role as a psychiatrist, and ...
Another long-term study challenges benefits of moderate alcohol consumption
While the evidence on alcohol consumption varies from study to study, it’s generally thought that people who drink in moderation ...
Battle royale in Europe over agricultural genetics
In an op-ed published in October, French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie said it is now necessary to launch the “third ...
How hot is too hot? Climate change likely to spark intolerable spikes in temperature and humidity
Will climate change spark increases in heat and humidity that could challenge human tolerance? As we careen toward temperatures that ...
Animal or vegetable? Stroke risk linked to type of fat in your diet
Fat in the diet has long been linked to stroke risk, but new research presented [November 8] suggests that it’s ...
Peanut allergy-curing dermal patch shows promise
Safety of a dermal patch for helping peanut-allergic children tolerate the ubiquitous legume improved over time in a 3-year, open-label ...
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 ...
