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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GE probiotic? CRISPR-edited yeast produce vitamin A precursor beta-carotene
Researchers have genetically engineered a probiotic yeast to produce beta-carotene in the guts of laboratory mice. The advance demonstrates the ...
The incredible shrinking heart: Astronaut Scott Kelly’s heart shrunk by ¼ during his year in space, raising concerns about Mars travel
In a study published on [March 29] in the journal Circulation, scientists reported that the largest chamber of the heart ...
Weary of pandemic restrictions? History repeats itself 100 years after pushback against Spanish flu precautions
Picture the United States struggling to deal with a deadly pandemic. State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing ...
Our food has never been safer, so why are we so scared of it?
Why you shouldn't trust your brain ...
Can AI robots replace human therapists?
Websites, smartphone apps and social-media sites are dispensing mental-health advice, often using artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, clinicians and researchers are looking ...
‘Cancer has never been part of your story’: Cautionary tale of a misdiagnosis that wreaked havoc on a patient and his family for 35 years
Ten days [after my brain cancer surgery as a teenager,] they had removed the staples from the left side of ...
Does estrogen deficiency really exist?
The big problem with estrogen deficiency as a symptom or diagnosis is that it is a catchall term that plays ...
Viewpoint: MAGA right targets Dr. Fauci to promote alternative reality about COVID dangers
American citizens have witnessed one of the most dramatic vindications of scientific expertise in our history. We have been healthier ...
50% of COVID sufferers report damaged sense of smell 5 months after recovery
More than 50% of healthcare workers infected with SARS-CoV-2 report that their sense of smell has not returned to normal ...
You’ve survived mild COVID? For many, debilitating symptoms kick in weeks or months later
[A] study that analyzed electronic medical records in California found that nearly a third of the people struggling with long ...
‘Broken heart syndrome’: High stress, emotional situations can kill you
[Takotsubo syndrome, or TTS,] is characterised by a sudden temporary weakening of the heart muscles that causes the left ventricle ...
Drugs on the shelf: Repurposing existing therapies to treat COVID
"The advantage of drug repurposing is that that drug is already approved. It's already gone through the regulatory process to ...
Workout junkie? Daily high-intensity workouts might be problematic to your health
Consisting of repeated, brief spurts of hard exercise interspersed with a few minutes of rest, [high-intensity interval training, or] HIIT ...
Opening the door to understanding infertility: Skin cells reprogrammed into a model human embryo
[Scientists have made a] significant breakthrough for the future study of early human development and infertility. To date, the only ...
Do omega-3 fatty acid fish oil supplements lower heart disease risk? Only for people with specific genes, researchers find
[N]ew research from a team led by a University of Georgia scientist indicates that taking fish oil only provides health ...
‘Their lungs are full of bees’: Largely hidden from the public, the last days of a dying COVID patient are excruciating
“Most of what I’m seeing is behind closed curtains, and the general public isn’t seeing this side of it,” says ...
Long haulers face debilitating months of recovery — but chronic symptoms are not unique to COVID
The dominant narrative about long Covid has been that it’s a uniquely perplexing feature of Covid-19. Reports of “Covid brain ...
What’s your biological age? There’s a genetic clock that could tell you
Biological age isn’t as simple as counting the number of birthday candles you’ve blown out like your chronological age. Rather, ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson on our distrust of scientists: Why do we love our smartphones but reject science when it comes to COVID?
We have apparently passed through a portal where pseudoscience, anti-science, fear-of-science and science-denial all thrive in our culture. Where systems ...
Podcast: This GMO ‘almost’ wiped out all life; Here comes AquaBounty salmon; Pregnancy, chemicals and junk science
Did you hear about the genetically engineered microbe that almost wiped out all life? It got widespread attention in the ...
Viewpoint: Will 5G harm you? Activist groups succeed in stirring conspiracy health risk phobias, as New York State legislature prepares to debate ‘growing evidence’ of harm
Two bills were recently introduced in the New York State legislature (in the Assembly and in the Senate) to establish ...
76% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients have at least one symptom six months after infection
One recent analysis from China found that 76% of hospitalized patients had at least one symptom six months after they ...
Why some diseases confer lifelong immunity and others do not
Some diseases, like the measles, infect us once and usually grant us immunity for life. For others, like the flu, ...
Twin peak: Global twin rates at historic highs, and here’s why
Researchers analysed records from more than 100 countries and found a substantial rise in twin birthrates since the 1980s, with ...
Long COVID: This woman’s symptoms started the day COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. A year later, she is still struggling
The same day a global pandemic was declared, [Rachel Van Lear] developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she's still ...
How COVID-19 deranges our immune systems
Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage ...
Viewpoint: Heard reports that dozens of environmental chemicals found in pregnant women pose health dangers? It’s junk science, and here’s why
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco, frequent collaborator of anti-vaccine activist and organic industry trade ...
