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Bird flu outbreak edging towards becoming a full-fledged pandemic
When bird flu [H5N1] first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few ...
Aluminum microtrace hysteria: RFK. Jr. and his followers demonize vaccines … but one slice of American cheese contains 10x more than 6 months of childhood shots
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often trained his criticisms of vaccines on a common ingredient: aluminum, which he has suggested is ...
Political opportunism and campaign donations: Trump pardons Silk Road drug kingpin convicted of selling heroin and meth on the Dark Web
Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road ...
U.S. spy agencies split on whether Havana Syndrome brain-injury like symptoms caused by a foreign adversary
White House officials [said] that the truth behind the mysterious ailments known as Havana Syndrome was still unknown, contradicting a ...
The science is overwhelming that vaccines are not linked to autism. So why are rates rising?
When President-elect Donald J. Trump mused in [a] television interview about whether vaccines cause autism — a theory that has been ...
Functional ‘medicine’ guru Mark Hyman inspired by RFK, Jr. in developing his kooky ‘wellness’ empire
[Dr. Mark Hyman], 65, has amassed millions of followers interested in his booming wellness empire, which includes a supplement company, ...
Here are some animal stars who brought us wonder and joy in 2024
Every year has its breakout stars, and 2024 yielded a bumper crop: Glen Powell, Chappell Roan, Pommel Horse Guy. But only one had ...
Lawyer set to become advisor to RFK Jr. if he’s approved as HHS director on record asking the FDA to revoke polio vaccine approval
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government ...
Is the Chinese Communist Party targeting our burgers? Here’s why Republicans in Congress are worried China is poised to “dominate global food supply chains’
In late September, 11 Republican members of Congress wrote to the directors of national intelligence and the Department of Agriculture’s ...
Viewpoint—Podcast: ‘Trans people are the perfect targets’: The Supreme Court leaning toward upholding Tennessee’s ban on sex change operations for minors
Trump and the G.O.P. will have a governing trifecta in the new year, and amid the many policies that ...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ‘would put the public’s health in jeopardy: 75+ Nobel laureates urge Senate to reject HHS nominee
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...
‘It’s a crime not to increase the population’: Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri’s unprecedented rationale for banning women from seeking an abortion
The attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri, seeking to establish the states’ standing to challenge the federal government’s liberalized ...
Addiction: Yet another health problem Ozempic and other weight loss drugs might help address
[Dr. Steven Klein is an] addiction medicine fellow at the nonprofit Caron Treatment Centers’ residential treatment facility in Pennsylvania. He ...
Viewpoint: Who are the moms falling for the Donald Trump — RFK, Jr. conspiratorial Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) anti-vaccine partnership
When I first started writing, pre-Covid, about the anti-vaccine crowd I didn’t find them to be especially associated with either ...
Americans’ average lifespan now sits at 78 years. Will we continue to live longer?
The oldest human on record, Jeanne Calment of France, lived to the age of 122. What are the odds that ...
Asteroids could make a ‘tasty treat’ in space
Astronauts embarking on long-haul journeys in deep space can’t pack all the calories they will need in the form of ...
5 signs of dementia besides memory loss
Memory loss is the most well-known symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. But experts say there are other warning signs ...
Will lab-based meat upend the trillion dollar global meat industry? Would it be any better for our health?
Worldwide, 80 billion animals are slaughtered every year for meat. Raising all those animals has already claimed most of the ...
Infections can cause cancer? Yes, and here are four of them
Most cases of stomach cancer are caused by bacteria. A majority of cervical cancers, as well as some genital and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fake science’ and ‘conspiracy theories’ likely if Trump wins and appoints RFK, Jr. ‘health czar’
“I’m going to be deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run F.D.A. and N.I.H. and C.D.C.,” ...
New York City’s ‘wet markets’ are posing a serious risk to public health
This is a live animal market in Queens. There are about 70 such establishments in New York City’s bustling neighborhoods, ...
What are apes trying to communicate when they use gestures. Is there an evolutionary link to humans?
Apes, [...] do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate ...
‘Men could become genetic mothers, women could be fathers’: The next technology after IVF could change the way we view parenthood gender
Consider in vitro gametogenesis, or I.V.G., a technology under development that would allow the creation of eggs or sperm from ...
AI-guided personalized brain stimulators in development to pinpoint control depression and chronic pain from Parkinson’s
Recent experiments have begun individualizing brain stimulation for depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and chronic pain. While much more research is ...
5% of the population claim near-death experiences: Psychedelics may be a way to understand what happens in our brain
One person felt a sensation of “slowly floating into the air” as images flashed around. Another recalled “the most profound ...
Free will and the brain: Challenges to long-standing belief that that addiction is a disease
For decades, medical science has classified addiction as a chronic brain disease, but the concept has always been something of ...
Progeria solution: Gene editing takes us one step closer to curing the disease that makes children rapidly age
A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, a disease that speeds up aging in children, could be on the horizon ...
Singapore becomes first country to sell lab-grown meat directly to the general public
It was a remarkable moment in the annals of food, perhaps even humanity: A store in Singapore started selling lab-grown ...
