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What would our diet consist of if we restricted our eating to American-produced food
The notion that the country could produce all of its food domestically is nice—even admirable. An America First food system ...
Some abortion servicing doctors blocked in their states to spply their service go on the road
Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages high-risk ...
Viewpoint: Trump is pushing ‘America FIrst’ across policy sectors including food and farming. Why that’s not a great idea
An America First food system would promote eating seasonally and locally, supporting more small farmers in the process. But that ...
RFK Jr. is leading the latest attack on conventional medicine
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a wellness influencer who is also President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human ...
Obesity rates in America are plateauing but skepticism remains that it is a sustainable trend
According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for ...
Why tuition-free medical schools are failing their lofty commitments — and exacerbating health-care disparities
[In 2018], the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, in Manhattan, announced that it would become tuition-free for all ...
Psychedelics are touted as a mental health cure. We should be wary
No psychiatric treatment has attracted quite as much cash and hype as psychedelics have in the past decade. Articles about ...
Viewpoint: Conspiracy thinking undergirds ‘woo woo’ alternative health advocates – and they could be in the next Trump administration
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were president, this is the kind of Cabinet he might appoint: Vani Hari, a.k.a. the ...
Viewpoint: Avian flu is ‘wreaking havoc on poultry farms and spreading among cattle herds.’ Could it become a full-blown pandemic in humans?
The current strain of bird flu, known as “highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1" is like a “super virus” in its ...
More fertile years ahead: Are women on an evolutionary path toward delaying menopause well into their 50s?
In recent decades, people around the world, especially in wealthy, developed countries, have been starting their families later and later ...
Decline of dairy? Bird flu found in milk another factor in plummeting milk popularity
Milk is defined by its percentages: nonfat, 2 percent, whole. Now there is a different kind of milk percentage to ...
Viewpoint: ‘For most young people, a medical pathway is not the best way to manage gender-related distress’ — English rethink puberty blockers for youth in wake of controversial ‘Cass Report’
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates ...
How common is incest? Rise of genetic testing reveals disturbing evidence
Across human cultures, incest between close family members is one of the most universal and most deeply held taboos ...
Viewpoint: Brain theory—We thought weight loss drug Ozempic worked in the gut. We were wrong
Scientists zero in on the likely mechanisms of weight-loss drugs, but they are encountering new and baffling questions ...
Scientists losing uphill battle to prevent measles spread
Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in ...
Whether you use Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound, you’re going to hit a weight-loss plateau. Then what?
Everyone hits a weight-loss plateau, but the race is on for next-generation drugs that can help patients lose even more ...
Weight-loss drugs, malaria vaccines and more: CRISPR innovations headline the science breakthroughs of 2023
CRISPR is the year’s top breakthrough not only because of heroic work done in the past 12 months, but also ...
‘Crime of insincerity’: What happens when researchers publish scientific results they don’t believe in?
Scientific publication can be a constraining, flattening, and maddening process—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing ...
Viewpoint: Young far-right activists embrace ‘scientific racism’
Viewpoint: The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against ...
Viewpoint: With climate change boosting temperatures, we should get used to sweating
Perspiration is vital to life. It cools our bodies and hydrates our skin; it manages our microbiome and emits chemical ...
Viewpoint: Nuclear codes — ‘The temptation to automate nuclear weapons with AI will be great. The danger is greater’
The world’s major military powers have begun a race to wire AI into warfare. For the moment, that mostly means ...
Could ice cream be good for your health?
Back in 2018, a Harvard doctoral student named Andres Ardisson Korat was presenting his research on the relationship between dairy ...
Might weight-loss drugs like Ozempic encourage people to stop exercising?
In the age of Ozempic, what’s the point of working out? The idea that we exercise to get thin may ...
Living through a time of pestilence
If the pandemic ought to have given us anything, it should have been a more universal empathy toward the condition ...
Lab leak or animal source? Strong evidence that COVID traces to raccoon dogs in China
The strongest evidence yet that an animal started the pandemic: A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to ...
‘Sleep is a need, but it’s also a ritual’: Exploring the scientific mystery of snoozing
Why do living things sleep? “Ask researchers this question, and listen as, like clockwork, a sense of awe and frustration ...
Perspectives on cultured meat: Differences driven by ethics, education, ethics and views on how to address climate change
Last week I asked, “What do you think about meat grown in a lab? Would you eat it? Will your ...
‘Are we dreaming big enough’? CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna challenges governments, universities and investors to seize the moment and radically expand gene editing revolution
In a life-changing collaboration with the French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, we figured out how the chemistry of this process could ...
