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Congressional Republicans pushing false claims that over-the-counter birth control pills are unsafe
Imagine that you're pregnant, a few weeks in, and you decide you want an abortion. You walk into a retail ...
Selling human eggs: The black market is booming in India
Women selling their eggs illegally is an open secret in the Indian fertility industry. Even though the for-profit industry relies ...
‘Goes against decades of evidence’: RFK, Jr.’s new food pyramid draws backlash from heart health and nutrition groups
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new dietary guidelines for Americans focused on promoting whole foods, proteins and ...
Alert to Donald Trump: Tanning bed users at higher risk for skin cancer
Hop onto TikTok and you'll find lots of videos of young people — mostly women — fake baking under the ...
The public health establishment takes on the insurrectionist MAHA movement and searches for common ground
Dr. Georges Benjamin has seen many infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats in the near-25 years he's led the American ...
Rewriting nature: The promise and peril of gene editing wildlife to save it
[One] of the world's largest conservation groups will weigh in on how ... gene-editing tools should be used to aid ...
Vaccine rejectionism spurring continued surge in U.S. measles cases
Nearly two months after a deadly, massive measles outbreak in Texas was declared over, the highly contagious disease continues to spread across ...
RFK, Jr’s child health plan promises big with 128 ideas, with little-to-no actionable solutions or details
The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Kennedy, identified four potential drivers behind rising rates of chronic disease among ...
A single high dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months
A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study ...
‘It’s like a throbbing pain that becomes quite unbearable’: What happens in the brain when a limb is amputated
Like many people who've had an amputation, [Emily] Wheldon often feels pain in her phantom arm and hand. "It's like ...
Vindication for He Jiankui? Seven years after the Chinese scientist’s pioneering work landed him in jail, scientists and ethicists are exploring the inevitably of gene edited babies
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's ...
‘Cheap, convenient and tasty’ — over half of Americans’ calories come from ultra-processed foods
The consumption of ultra-processed foods is on a slow decline, though most Americans — and especially children — are getting ...
Tripping your way to better mental health?
AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: [I]t seemed like there might finally be an opening for psychedelics to become a part of the ...
Keeping your brain young and slowing cognitive decline as you age
Scientists have unveiled the strongest evidence yet that a combination of diet, exercise and brain training can improve thinking and ...
How to stop malaria-spreading mosquitoes? If approved, gene editing could do it
Each year, 263 million people get malaria. But from the parasite's perspective, infecting humans is harder than you might think, ...
Food security: US Ag Department blocks support of many foreign nationals
The Agriculture Department is applying more scrutiny to research done by its employees alongside noncitizens. The directives, laid out in ...
‘Three parent baby’ medical first: Male sperm and eggs from two women combined to create an embryo free from inherited mitochondrial disease
Mitochondrial disorders can cause serious health problems, including paralysis, heart failure, brain damage, strokes and blindness. ... The disorders are ...
Unpacking RFK, Jr.’s claims: Are canola, soy bean and safflower oil feeding the obesity epidemic and poisoning America?
[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] has said...vegetable oils — extracted from the seeds of plants, like canola, soybean and safflower — are ...
$500 million universal flu vaccine: Moonshot-like project proposes to use 50-year old technology that likely won’t work
Dubbed Generation Gold Standard, the project is aimed at creating a flu shot that doesn't have to be updated every ...
In a courtroom first, AI brings a road rage victim back to life to confront his murderer. What happened?
For two years, Stacey Wales kept a running list of everything she would say at the sentencing hearing for the ...
Convergent evolution: How complex brains developed independently in humans, birds and reptiles
Fernando García-Moreno is an evolutionary and developmental neurobiologist. He says for a long time there's been a debate about how ...
99.7% sure says one scientist but others hedge: A distant watery planet possibly brimming with life
"These are the first hints we are seeing of an alien world that is possibly inhabited," [Nikku Madhusudhan of the ...
Infant amnesia: Brain scans provide clues about why we can’t recall our earliest years
"[W]e have memories from what happened earlier today and memories from what happened earlier last week and even from a ...
RFK, Jr. calls the HPV vaccine ‘dangerous and defective’. He’s made millions of dollars litigating this falsehood
HPV is a virus that can live and replicate in certain cells on the surface of the skin and mucous ...
RFK, Jr.’s NIH blocks funding of all research into vaccine hesitancy and is poised to withdraw support of mRNA vaccines
The Trump administration is slashing long-standing areas of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, claiming they no longer ...
CRISPR treatments offer hope for children with rare genetic disorders
Lucy Landman was born with a very rare genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability, weak muscles, and seizures, among ...
Genetically modified pig organ transplants may soon save thousands every year
Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU ...
A scientist’s brainy trip: How psilocybin creates an extraordinary new sense of space, time and self
In the name of science, Dr. Nico Dosenbach had scanned his own brain dozens of times. But this was the first time ...
