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Viewpoint: A plastic surgeon on why banning gender-transition surgery without further research is wrong and harmful
In [February, 2026], [The American Society of Plastic Surgeons] ASPS, a society for which I previously served on the Board ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate may be hazardous, but it is not dangerous as used by farmers. Critics of the Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling garble hazard with risk
... In epidemiology, causation is usually a population-level inference. Researchers ask whether an exposure reliably changes disease risk across groups of ...
‘Nicotine-free generation’: Should the U.S. emulate Britain and ban all nicotine products, from cigarettes to vapes?
The United Kingdom just adopted a tobacco-free generation law. Retailers can still sell tobacco to existing customers, but they will never ...
Viewpoint—The end of ‘ivory tower science’: What does that even mean, and what comes next
We built American science like a skyscraper — centralized, concentrated, dependent on a single foundation. More than half of university research budgets ...
Viewpoint: Many vaccine-suspicious conservatives and MAHA reject shots for their children by invoking ‘patient autonomy’. That’s ridiculous.
In January, Department of Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump’s slashed the number of routinely recommended ...
RFK, Jr.’s delusion: Anti-depressants are not harder to quit than heroin—but that does not mean tapering off is easy
There is a legitimate clinical problem at the center of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s initiative to help Americans ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s FDA is on a screaming downward path—and why it may never recover
Whether you liked [Marty] Makary or not ..., the purge or whatever this was is not somehow going to miraculously ...
Seed oil panic: RFK Jr. and influencers made linoleic acid a dietary villain and heart risk. Evidence points the other way — replacing them with animal fat is.
The seed oil panic has achieved full institutional legitimacy. ... The January 2026 dietary guidelines — which discarded 421 pages of scientific ...
Nanoplastics in drinking water: MAHA activists forge science-based bipartisan coalition
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that would, for the first time, formally flag microplastics and pharmaceuticals in drinking water as ...
Gurus of woo: 9 health influencer superstars
Some work full time as scientists and physicians .... Others have no relevant credentials to speak of, and frequently disseminate ...
Viewpoint: Why over-eating processed foods is not the main driver of obesity
Typical binge foods share a common feature: They are composed mainly of fast-digesting carbohydrates that rapidly raise blood sugar ...
Under pressure from the Trump administration, medical schools are dropping health inequity education
The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it ...
U.S. is becoming a vaccination backwater: Even Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Greece all recommend more shots
The U.S. childhood vaccination schedule has been dramatically reduced, purportedly because, as federal health officials argued, the now-discarded schedule recommended ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s next attack in his war against science—Restricting antidepressants
While his war on vaccines may be getting more attention, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is coming for another ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. and the vaccine denial movement is undermining trust between doctors and patients
Over the past few years, the rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and ...
Viewpoint: Sobering and scary—An inside report on the growing size and influence of the anti-vaccine movement
From wellness influencers worried about Wi-Fi to crypto enthusiasts trading peer-to-peer coins, the CHD [Children's Health Defense] conference offered something ...
Viewpoint: No, we should not follow RFK, Jr.’s recommendation and quickly phase out biomedical research animal testing
In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal ...
With gene editing revolutionizing health care, parents of children with orphan diseases ask: ‘What about our kids?’
For families of the pediatric rare disease community, headlines drive elevated hope and excitement. But they also lead to heightened ...
The contagion of Florida’s vaccine policy: What states will be next to end school vaccine mandates?
As health department directors in Dallas, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, we have seen firsthand in our communities that viruses do ...
Viewpoint: Life and death decisions: RFK, Jr.’s shady FDA “expert panels” operate in secret with no transcripts or conflict of interest reviews
Americans trust the Food and Drug Administration to make life-and-death decisions in the open. Yet in recent months, the agency ...
Viewpoint: Hostile takeover—Here’s the damage we can expect to America’s health if Dr. Oz is confirmed as the next head of the $1.5 trillion medicare and medicaid agency
[Dr. Mehmet] Oz garnered a number of critics over the years for his statements on [his] show. Most notably, 10 ...
RFK, Jr. invested in CRISPR gene editing company while his Children’s Health Defense nonprofit vilifies the technology
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disclosure ... that he invested in a gene-editing biotech belies a yearslong track record of voicing concerns ...
Viewpoint: How progressives have undermined their stated agenda and slowed the introduction of new drugs
With the rallying cry of corporate greed, each year of the Biden-Harris administration has brought successive government interventions in the ...
Live, transparent mice? Pioneering technique could soon open the door to viewing how human organs work
When a dye called tartrazine is added to food, it creates a bright yellow hue often associated with lemon-flavored candy ...
‘You learn a lot when you include individuals of non-European populations’: Genetic study analyzes genes of 636,000 diverse veterans
An expansive new study offers clear evidence that sequencing the genomes of diverse populations can yield fresh insights into how ...
Did fentanyl ‘over-prescription’ drive the opioid epidemic? Here’s why that’s a false narrative
The federal government’s narrative about the epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths in the U.S. has been that it is ...
Saving human lives: Using gene therapy and fetal surgery to cure diseases in the womb
The convergence of these technologies into a whole new field of medicine dedicated to curing diseases before birth: fetal genome ...
Viewpoint: Seen headlines saying intermittent fasting diets can boost heart disease risks or even kill you? Here’s why you should be skeptical
Science as a process where studies help to make us a little less wrong, and a little more certain about ...
