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AI tool can assess a person’s health by analyzing a photograph
Scientists have developed an A.I. tool that they say can help assess a patient’s health — and potentially guide their ...
“Total crackpot” and “talks to trees”: Trump picks ‘functional medicine’ advocate for Surgeon General
President Trump’s selection of Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-educated wellness specialist and book author, as his next surgeon general [has] ...
Viewpoint: The science of reversing aging remains little more than a dream. Here’s why
The dream of reversing aging has captivated humans for centuries, and today science is closer than it ever has been ...
Symbol of Injustice and the culture wars: Volleyball trans athlete and her teammates are caught in the middle
Blaire Fleming, a senior, was a starter for the San Jose State University Spartans. For most of her college career, ...
(Positive) eugenics is increasingly fashionable — The movement for gene manipulation is soaring among those who can afford it
In the United States, despite more than $1 billion invested in fertility-focused start-ups in the past decade, there is remarkably ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s going to get worse’: More than 12.6 million infants and children are highly susceptible to getting measles
The current measles outbreak, with more than 480 cases, largely in unvaccinated children, is gearing up to be the worst ...
Tariff chaos threatens to ignite agricultural trade war with China that could roil US farmers and send food prices soaring
China ... is the third-largest importer of American farm goods, behind Mexico and Canada. ... [It's] retaliatory tariffs, which are supposed ...
Global support for vaccines for poor countries and thousands of other global health initiatives poised for extinction as Trump escalates random cuts
The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical ...
Viewpoint: Could Trump’s rhetoric and DOGE’s indiscriminate budget axing setback American science for the next generation?
The fusillade against higher education led by [President] Trump and Vice President JD Vance — men with Ivy League degrees ...
Trump, RFK, Jr. abruptly cancel $12 billion targeting measles clinics, mental health services and addiction treatments
The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that ...
Viewpoint: How could DOGE and RFK, Jr.-ordered FDA cuts impact food safety?
At the Food and Drug Administration, freezes on government credit card spending ordered by the Trump administration have impeded staff ...
Viewpoint: Here’s a reminder of what life was like in RFK Jr’s.’ ‘good ol’ pre-vaccine days
In the early 1800s, some people rejected the smallpox vaccine because they didn’t trust the doctors and scientists promoting them, ...
Sociogenomics—How our environment molds genes and shapes our
The new field is called sociogenomics, a fusion of behavioral science and genetics that I have been closely involved with ...
Viewpoint: Health officials and the media largely got it wrong—Once widely derided Covid lab leak theory now seems the likeliest explanation for the orgins of the pandemic
Five years after the onset of the Covid pandemic, it’s tempting to think of [the debate between lab leak versus ...
Guided by RFK Jr.’s scientifically illiterate advice, many Texas families with measles-infected children avoid going to the doctor, sometimes until it’s too late
Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on ...
Viewpoint: Fact checking controversial eight claims by Dr. Oz — Health science often left behind
Over 13 seasons of “The Dr. Oz Show,” from 2009 to 2022, [Mehmet Oz] told viewers what to eat, how ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. peddles fringe theories to explain away measles outbreak and, again, falsely links vaccines to autism
[Robert F. Kennedy [Jr.] offered conflicting public health messages as he tried to reconcile the government’s longstanding endorsement of vaccines ...
No, more and more people are not living past 100
The allure of extreme longevity has beckoned for centuries. Research careers and marketing campaigns have been built on the idea ...
Women really do live longer — here’s why
Women outlive men, by something of a long shot: In the United States, women have a life expectancy of about 80, compared ...
Viewpoint: Facing a mega-threat from China, America’s approach to regulating AI is ‘mostly nonsense’
China’s tech industry recently gave the U.S. tech industry — and along with it, the stock market — a rude ...
Don’t waste your money on Vitamin C, D, zinc, elderberry and echinacea supplements—they are a $70 billion-a-year lie
[A] new study was published last week in JAMA Network Open and included more than 15,000 participants. It found that ...
Iowa becomes first state to remove explicit civil rights protection fot transgender people
[P]otesters and Democrats tried without success this week to persuade Republican lawmakers to reconsider, reflected how much the discourse over ...
‘Not unusual’: RFK, Jr. defends taking no action to curb surge in measles cases. Here’s why he is dangerously wrong
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said that immunizations against measles and some other infectious diseases are unnecessary and risky. ...
GLP-1 miracle elixirs? Add reducing cravings for drugs and alcohol to the already long list of health benefits linked to weight loss drugs
Some people who take drugs like Ozempic have noticed a surprising but welcome side effect: They drink less. A paper ...
Claims of living well past 100 turn out to be mostly bogus
The allure of extreme longevity has beckoned for centuries. Research careers and marketing campaigns have been built on the idea ...
Five quick and lasting ways to overcome unhealthy and often deadly eating habits
The Well Challenge Day 1: How often do you buy ultraprocessed foods? Let’s find out. [W]e’ll help you understand how ...
Is the Alzheimer’s research community rife with fraud?
Over the past 25 years, Alzheimer’s research has suffered a litany of ostensible fraud and other misconduct by world-famous researchers ...
A guide for pediatricians talking to skeptical parents about vaccines
The New York Times spoke to pediatricians across the country who said they were looking for better ways to address ...
