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2,300 endangered species: Controversial de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences joins U.S. effort to preserve their DNA
The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on ...
Signal or noise? Study links GLP-1 drugs to slowing the aging process
A theory that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic or Zepbound might help people live longer has been bandied about by biohackers ...
Kennedy blocks preventive health care panel that reviews treatments for HIV, diabetes, and cancer from meeting — for fourth time
For the fourth time, the Trump administration has prevented an important public health panel from meeting as planned. The panel, ...
Viewpoint: As MAHA blows up over Supreme Court ruling limiting glyphosate litigation, Trump offers toothless plan to reduce pesticides in food
President Trump, facing a backlash from supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allying himself with the chemical ...
How the dubious, Trump-backed, addictive drug kratom could enrich cabinet secretary Markwayne Mullin
Sold in gas stations across America, kratom has been linked to liver toxicity, seizures and thousands of deaths. Powerful figures ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. ignores oversight of vast HHS programs to focus on his pet obsessions—and gets much of the science wrong
Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, ...
Six key health insights from taking weight-loss drugs
Tens of millions of people around the world are now taking drugs like Ozempic — a kind of real-time experiment ...
Viewpoint—N.A.D.+: Why Gwenyth Paltrow’s heralded anti-aging supplement doesn’t work
Gwyneth Paltrow has tried it. So have Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber. ... Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or N.A.D.+, has been ...
Viewpoint: Who is RFK, Jr.’s newly-appointed CDC senior counselor, Sara Brenner — Vaccine skeptic and self-proclaimed “MAHA mom”
When President Trump named a new leadership team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two weeks ago, public ...
Relying on your doctor or AI miracle cure, death and debilitation? Neurologist makes the wrong choice
... Ben knew that his 75-year-old father had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of white blood cell cancer that is ...
Vagus nerve wellness grift: How to build a billion dollar business. Are you listening, Kelly Ripa?
“There are billions of web impressions and social media posts on the vagus nerve,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon ...
Chiropractors may no longer be modern-day snake oil salesmen, but the benefits of their therapy are limited–at best
Roughly 11 percent of American adults saw a chiropractor in 2022, mainly for pain management. Chiropractic care is offered by ...
Facebook swamped by hundreds of thousands of scam ads for illegal or dangerous medical products
Two months ago, a sponsored post for a supplement popped up on Facebook with a miraculous claim: “The doctors have ...
Longevity: Is cellular rejuvenation even possible?
Many scientists now believe that mastering cellular rejuvenation may be the key to transforming how long and how well we ...
Viewpoint: ‘Measles is a canary in the healthcare coal mine’: Challenging RFK, Jr.’s scare campaign
The rise of measles may also be a harbinger of something even worse, public officials say. “Measles is basically a ...
Vaccine shootout at the CDC
When President Trump named a new leadership team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention two weeks ago, public ...
The tech billionaires behind the immortality movement
Among the most potent archetypes of our time is the elite who seeks eternal youth, whose power is drawn from ...
How pediatricians are navigating America’s surge of health misinformation
Across the country, clinicians ... are contending with a sharp rise in vaccine hesitancy. They are trying to do what ...
Viewpoint: ‘Make America Pregnant Again’ — Trump guts support for birth control to placate the right’s birth obsession
Decreasing the unintended pregnancy rate was a bipartisan wish. In 1969, President Richard Nixon recognized that “unwanted or untimely childbearing ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR and mRNA — under attack by technology skeptics — poised to save millions of children with rare diseases
We call them rare diseases, but there is nothing rare about the suffering they cause. Some 25 million Americans, nearly ...
Trump science funding cuts sending scientists abroad
[T]he Partnership for Public Service, [a] nonpartisan organization in Washington, estimated that 95,000 employees had departed federal science agencies from September 2024 ...
With the Strait of Hormuz mostly shut-down, the last oil shipments of oil going to Europe and Asia will land in mid-April. They are turning to coal.
[Soon], the final deliveries of oil and liquefied natural gas to Asia that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before ...
PTSD is almost incurable. Psychedelics can help — but only in three U.S. states and Australia
Over the past two years, Australia, a country long known for its strict drug laws, has been allowing psychiatrists to ...
Viewpoint: Has the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. MAHA and anti-vaccine agenda hit a science and political wall?
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crusade to scale back Americans’ reliance on vaccines has collided with political and legal ...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel member quits in anger after judge says he’s not qualified
Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the federal committee that recommends vaccines to Americans, angrily resigned his position on Tuesday ...
As vaccine disinformation sweeps the country, pediatricians struggle to respond
Across the country, clinicians like Dr. [Alissa] Parker, who also holds a doctorate in nursing practice, are contending with a ...
RFK, Jr. vaccine rebuke: Judge reverses Trump administration childhood and Covid vaccine policies
In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts [on March 16, 2026] blocked the ...
Iran creates an alternate war reality: Social networks awash with AI-generated videos showing its fake destructive power
A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of ...
