Washington Post
A businessman’s daughter has an ‘ultra-rare’ disease, so he immersed himself in science to find a gene therapy cure
Simon and Nina Frost had spared no expense, taking Annabel to all the best neurologists around the country. Finally a ...
Can DNA from Loch Ness help solve 86-year old monster mystery?
It was a science story made for the headlines: a monster, more than a thousand years of mystery and maybe, ...
Viewpoint: If you want your children to have healthier brains, don’t let them play tackle football
If U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams asked for our advice (he hasn’t), we’d recommend that he issue the following statement: ...
Meat wars: Cattle industry fears dwindling sales as Impossible, Beyond burger popularity grows
For decades, veggie burgers were the token offering to vegans at the backyard barbecue, and Tofurky was the Thanksgiving benediction ...
‘Unconventional’ Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, known for revolutionizing DNA research, has died
Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, and ...
Unproven stem cell treatments gain popularity boost from Max Scherzer, Tiger Woods, other pro athletes
Stem cells and related therapies, such as platelet injections, have been used for the past decade by top athletes: golfer ...
Application for pricey gene therapy Zolgensma contained manipulated data, but drug will remain on market, FDA says
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday [August 7] that Novartis submitted manipulated data as part of its application for ...
Dementia symptoms linked to class of drugs used for wide range of conditions in the elderly, including insomnia, asthma
An estimated 1 in 4 older adults take anticholinergic drugs — a wide-ranging class of medications used to treat allergies, ...
Once-a-year drug implant could solve one of the biggest obstacles for effective HIV treatments
An early test of a new drug and method of blocking HIV infection suggests they could overcome one of the ...
Dementia warning signs: Unpaid bills, inappropriate comments, weight changes, reminders for simple tasks
What is attributable to normal aging as opposed to cognitive decline associated with dementia? It is common to misplace keys ...
Battling anti-vaccine fears, myths as US measles outbreak rages on
[Blima] Marcus, part of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, helped form a volunteer group of health-care professionals this year ...
Bayer trial: Judge may cut $2 billion glyphosate-cancer damages to $250 million
A California judge will slash a $2 billion judgment against Bayer AG, which had been awarded to a couple who ...
CRISPR used to cure HIV in mice. Will it lead to new treatments for humans?
Researchers say they have removed HIV from the DNA of mice, an achievement the scientists say could be an early ...
‘I’m not me’: Rare depersonalization disorder leaves patients feeling disconnected from their bodies
I would stare at my hands and think, “I’m not me.” No matter where I was, in the middle of ...
US Stem Cell Clinic ordered to halt controversial treatment that blinded 4 patients
A federal judge issued an order [June 25] barring a Florida-based stem-cell company from performing an unapproved procedure that blinded ...
There’s little evidence showing diet soda is harmful—so why do experts recommend we avoid it?
Low-calorie sweeteners represent just about everything that’s wrong with our diet. They’re mostly synthetic. They play to the human preference ...
Cell phones may be causing horns to grow on our skulls
Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already ...
GPS keeps you from getting lost. It also may be ruining your brain.
When people are told which way to turn, it relieves them of the need to create their own routes and ...
Video: Year-long experiment of eating expired food raises doubts about ‘sell by’ dates
Last year, Mom’s Organic Market founder and chief executive Scott Nash did something many of us are afraid to do: ...
‘Zombie deer disease’ could make leap to humans, researchers say
Jeannine Fleegle [wildlife biologist] reached into a black garbage bag, pulled out a severed deer head, and placed it on ...
Why an FDA legal victory won’t stop controversial stem cell clinics
When the Food and Drug Administration won a landmark lawsuit [June 3] against a stem cell company, health officials hailed ...
How do we stem climate change? Suck a trillion tons of CO2 underground
[In May], carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpassed 415 parts per million, the highest in human history. Environmental experts ...
Guatemalan coffee growers battling deadly plant fungus, stiff competition abandon farms for US
Guatemala’s coffee farmers are at the mercy of one of the world’s most volatile commodity markets. Over the past two ...
Dinosaur hike: How a Montana family found a ‘nearly complete’ T. rex
“It was right over there, just a bit of it sticking from the earth that caught my eye,” [Kathy] Wankel ...
Trump administration halts US funding for fetal tissue research, threatening work on AIDS, cancer and other diseases
The Trump administration on Wednesday [June 5] ended funding of medical research by government scientists using fetal tissue and canceled ...
Cancer patients should get quicker access to unapproved drugs through FDA ‘concierge service’
The Food and Drug Administration plans to provide “concierge service” to doctors seeking access to unapproved drugs for cancer patients ...
A ‘wake-up call for women’: Low-fat diet rich in fruit and vegetables reduces breast cancer risk, study says
Women who followed a lower-fat diet rich in fruits, vegetables and grains had a lower risk of dying of breast ...
Washington Post editorial: We have an ‘urgent need’ for international rules on gene-edited babies
WHEN CHINESE scientist He Jiankui announced last November his experiments making heritable genetic changes in human embryos followed by live ...
