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Viewpoint: Antidepressants and obesity medications work — but we don’t know why. Here’s why that’s a problem
We like to think we understand the drugs we take, especially after rigorous trials have proved their efficacy and safety ...
Menstruation and evolution: The history of humanity has side-lined the role of women
A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary ...
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic are changing how we think about health — but we still don’t know how they work
Although the drugs seem safe, obesity medicine specialists call for caution because the obesity drugs must be taken indefinitely or ...
Suffering from postpartum depression? Newly-approved drug works in as few as three days
Because the pill works faster than other antidepressants and is taken for only two weeks, it may encourage more treatment ...
American Academy of Pediatrics says it will review evidence on safety of gender care and surgery for children, but keeps current treatment recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics backed gender-related treatments for children on Thursday, reaffirming its position from 2018 on a medical ...
Genetically-modified pig kidney transplants into live patients may be next in wake of successful transplants into brain-dead patients
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a peer-reviewed study showing that modified pig kidneys performed complex life-sustaining ...
Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches undisclosed settlement with ThermoFisher, ending 70-year long battle for compensation after using her cancer cells without permission
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks announced a lawsuit in October 2021 accusing Thermo Fisher Scientific of profiting from cancer cells that ...
‘Effectively banned’: Florida’s GOP-lead legislature battles with College Board after voting to strip sections on gender fluidity and sexual orientation from AP Psychology curriculum
The nonprofit said it would not remove a section on gender and sexual orientation, as Florida had requested, and advised ...
Viewpoint: We still don’t know where COVID truly came from. Should we be concerned?
Ongoing mystery: We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters ...
Are eating disorders hereditary?
Today scientists believe that mental illnesses are highly complex and may be associated with hundreds or possibly thousands of genes ...
Viewpoint: 5 lies Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spread about vaccines, healthcare and more
A longtime vaccine skeptic, Mr. Kennedy is leaning heavily on misinformation as he mounts a long-shot 2024 campaign ...
Self-managed abortion: How well does misoprostol alone work to end pregnancies even at later gestation periods?
Most women who took abortion drugs were successful even at later gestation periods, researchers reported ...
Craving food from morning til bedtime: Anecdotal stories reveal how weight-loss drug Ozempic quells ‘food noise’
Until she started taking the weight loss drug Wegovy, Staci Klemmer’s days revolved around food. When she woke up, she plotted ...
‘The horizon of new possibility is blindingly bright’: Boom in genetic medical breakthroughs could extend for years, says CRISPR co-creator Jennifer Doudna
We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear ...
The ‘natural wine’ craze: Can naturally-fermented alcohol help you avoid headaches and hangovers?
Fewer headaches. Less severe hangovers. Better gut health. How do these health claims stack up against the science? ...
Is late-stage cancer incurable? Drug developments turns some cancers from a death-sentence into a manageable chronic disease
Cures or long-term survival for certain types of the disease—are still stubbornly out of reach ...
Dramatic visual evidence shows how COVID decimates the lungs and causes long-term damage
To better understand the long-term impact of Covid’s assault on the lungs, The New York Times spoke with three patients ...
‘I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases’: Lawyer who used AI to write a legal complaint says he wishes he researched the tool before using it
In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law ...
What is the Shoggoth? Here’s what this meme symbolizes for AI researchers
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment ...
Forgotten by science: Four decades ago, medical researchers launched studies on rural Colombian families with fatal Huntington’s disease. They are just now following up
Huntington’s is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease caused by excess repetitions of three building blocks of DNA ...
Battle between Meta’s open-source AI and proprietary ChatGPT and Google systems heats up
As a race to lead A.I. heats up across Silicon Valley, Meta is standing out from its rivals by taking a different ...
550 children and counting: Danish sperm donor who lied to fertility clinics is banned for creating an ‘unwanted kinship network’
A court in the Netherlands ruled that a man who fathered at least 550 children in the past 16 years ...
Microsoft claims that its AI has achieved human reasoning skills. Critics say those scientists are kidding themselves
A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do ...
Viewpoint: Less stress, more energy, better digestion? Why expensive ‘superfood powders’ aren’t better than eating your veggies
You’ve probably noticed ads for these “superfood powders” scattered across social media or on your favorite podcast ...
Viewpoint: ‘AI could upend war, cyber conflicts — and in the most extreme case — the use of nuclear weapons.’ What might happen if the military embraces artificial intelligence tools?
U.S. national security officials are warning about the potential for the new technology to upend war, cyber conflict ...
Viewpoint: Pandemic tribalism — Why shreds of COVID origin evidence are hailed by some as incontrovertible proof
Over the past year, we’ve been treated to a series of lab-leak news cycles prompted by vague intelligence reports and ...
‘Enforcers and regulators must be vigilant’: Federal Trade Commission Chair outlines strong AI regulations
The full extent of generative A.I.’s potential is still up for debate, but there’s little doubt it will be highly ...
Longer chromosome telomeres mean longer life? The truth may be just the opposite
The longer a person’s telomeres, researchers found, the greater the risk of cancer and other disorders, challenging a popular hypothesis ...
