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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How important is testosterone for male success?
There’s a widespread belief that your testosterone can affect where you end up in life. At least for men, there ...
The ‘storm in their minds’: How the gap between laboratory insights and clinical analysis is narrowing
When someone close to you develops signs of mental illness, you spring into detective mode. You ask questions, but the answers ...
Suddenly, we have more antidepressant alternatives than just conventional depression-treating drugs
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How diabetes and mental health are inextricably linked
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Part I: Viewpoint — Does American medicine perpetuate a ‘racist caste system’? Critical Race Theory enters mainstream health
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New data suggest October 2019 could be SARS-CoV-2’s origin date. Here’s the timeline
A joint WHO study by Chinese and international researchers identified 174 SARS-CoV-2 infections throughout December, with the earliest going back ...
How the vaccinated have convinced their hesitant loved ones to get a COVID shot
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share how they convinced the vaccine skeptics in their life to get vaccinated for ...
10 key facts about Golden Rice, a GMO that can save the lives and sight of millions of children
"This rice could save a million kids a year," read a famous Time magazine cover from July 2000. The report ...
On average, women live 5 years longer than men. It’s mostly genetics
Around the world, women live longer, on average. So why do women tend to outlive men? Two of the main ...
Taboo: Why has Africa emerged as the global coronavirus ‘Cold Spot’ — and why are we afraid to talk about it?
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Biotechnology is key to meeting UN’s goal of zero hunger worldwide by 2030
Agricultural biotechnology is a crucial tool for transforming global food systems to meet the United Nation’s goal of ensuring zero ...
On the cusp of flu season, concerns mount that Delta variant poses unique dangers for children
The number of very sick children admitted to Children's Hospital New Orleans with Covid-19 has exploded over the past two ...
‘Inflammation clock’: There is now a tool to measure your biological age
A new type of age ‘clock’ can assess chronic inflammation to predict whether someone is at risk of developing age-related ...
Why the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to surprise us
As people in the US grapple with a return to masking to stay ahead of the delta and lambda variants ...
When might the Delta variant reach its peak?
We will soon get the first glimmers of data that show how Delta behaves when all restrictions are lifted in ...
Science is revolutionizing how elite female athletes train. What we’ve learned could benefit all women
When Dr. Kate Ackerman was in medical school 20 years ago, she'd heard of the term "female athlete triad." Coined ...
Skin cancer and screening: The good and the bad of ‘overdiagnosis’
About a decade ago, when he was a first-year dermatology resident, Adewole Adamson learned that “exploding” rates of melanoma were ...
Obesity genes? Scientists isolating mutations that promote weight gain, spurring hopes gene editing could dramatically curtail the disease
Over the last twenty years, genetics have been increasingly implicated in the incidence of obesity. The MC4R gene in particular ...
Metabolically tweaked CBD shows signs of curbing severe pain and chronic neuropathy associated with cancer treatments
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Hulu’s Rosemary’s Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity
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Pseudoscience takes hold with athletes at the Olympics
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Is science really about evidence? How convention trumps new findings on obesity and health
In 2005, Katherine Flegal, a senior scientist studying obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published a counterintuitive ...
Like almost everything with COVID, the scientific debate over the virus’s origins has become politically toxic
Scientists often disagree with each other - that is part of the scientific process... But the "lab leak v natural spillover" ...
What age did you have sex for the first time? What age did you have kids? Genetics plays a surprisingly influential role
An Oxford-led team, working with Cambridge and international scholars, has discovered hundreds of genetic markers driving two of life's most ...
Mark Twain’s misguided obsession with alternative medicine
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As parents debate whether to have their children vaccinated, specter of juvenile long COVID looms
Most people who survive COVID-19 recover completely. But for some, the poorly understood condition that’s become known as long COVID ...
