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DNA tests can guide breast cancer treatment, while also raising questions we can’t yet answer
In a new era of precision medicine, the role of genetics is becoming increasingly critical to determine who might benefit ...
Aging America: In 30 years, 13.8 million people in the US may have Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common dementia among older adults, now affects about 5.8 million U.S. residents 65 and older — ...
The coronavirus isn’t mutating quickly. That could mean a one-time vaccination against it
The coronavirus is not mutating significantly as it circulates through the human population, according to scientists who are closely studying ...
Promising coronavirus treatment effort blocked by fetal tissue research ban
A senior scientist at a government biomedical research laboratory has been thwarted in his efforts to conduct experiments on possible ...
‘A new thing to worry about’: Coronavirus adds stress for people with anxiety disorders
For some of the millions of Americans with post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other forms of debilitating anxiety, coronavirus ...
We still have time to slow the spread: 4 things to know about the coronavirus
The experts are telling us that here in the United States, we can avoid hitting that threshold where sizable regions ...
If naps don’t work for you, it could be genetics
Naturally, I’ve always been a little jealous of the people who take naps and wake up feeling like a million ...
‘Illusion of causality’ and why we trust our own experiences more than science
Did you cut out sugar and feel more energetic, take vitamin C and stop getting colds, switch to eating only ...
Why this woman played the violin during her brain surgery
Eyes closed, Dagmar Turner ran through scales as doctors huddled behind her to peer into her open brain. A violinist ...
How beer brewers and marijuana growers are teaming up to help address the climate crisis
The state of Colorado and three small businesses are trying a novel approach to reduce carbon emissions that sounds like ...
Viewpoint: How the ‘green lobby’ has partnered with the fishing industry to keep sustainable GMO salmon off our plates for 25 years
What should one make of the following set of facts? A federal government, urged on by self-designated advocates for the ...
Humans are ‘biologically built’ to seek out friends
We humans are biologically built to seek friends, and we can see suggestions of our evolutionary past in the social ...
US life expectancy edges upward as cancer death rate drops
The number of fatal drug overdoses declined for the first time in 28 years, and U.S. life expectancy at birth ticked upward for the ...
Hand sanitizers can’t ‘work miracles’: Purell warned by FDA to cut back on marketing claims
The makers of Purell are pruning their marketing strategy after the Food and Drug Administration slapped the company with a ...
Why the US is ‘not nearly as prepared as we need to be’ to deal with China’s coronavirus
Now, with word of the first U.S. patient to contract the new virus that has killed 17 people in China comes the ...
Kellogg’s to cut wheat, oats treated with Bayer’s Roundup herbicide from supply chain by 2025
Kellogg’s, the multinational food manufacturer based in Battle Creek, Mich., is taking a stand. But very quietly. At the end ...
Chronic inflammation a silent threat that can ‘damage DNA and lead to heart disease, cancer’
Chronic inflammation begins without an apparent cause — and doesn’t stop. The immune system becomes activated, but the inflammatory response ...
We’ve been dealing with measles for at least 2,000 years, genetic analysis suggests
In the 10th century, Persian physician Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi wrote about patients with fever, anxiety and full-body rashes — ...
Fetal tissue research restrictions disrupting studies into major diseases, including AIDS, Down syndrome, diabetes
A recent Trump administration decision to limit funding of research that uses fetal tissue is already disrupting research into major ...
Underdiagnosed mutation in African American populations increases risk of heart failure
An underdiagnosed genetic mutation in people of African descent carries an increased risk for heart failure, according to a study ...
5 common myths about testosterone debunked
Many of the claims go well beyond or even directly against the scientific evidence about what scientists call “T.” Myth ...
Can deep brain stimulation treat opioid addiction?
A surgeon has implanted electrodes in the brain of a patient suffering from severe opioid use disorder, hoping to cure ...
Two new drug-resistant superbugs added to CDC’s list of ‘most urgent threats’
Drug-resistant germs and related infections sicken about 3 million people and kill about 48,000 every year in the United States, ...
Bangladesh could approve GMO Golden Rice in November 2019—after 10-year delay caused by regulation, activism
By [November 15], Bangladesh’s agriculture minister is expected to announce the approval of “golden rice" for sale and use, making ...
Meet the ‘flavorists’: Food chemists who make plant-based Beyond, Impossible burgers taste like ‘meat’
Marie Wright dips four long strips of paper, the kind you’d sniff a perfume sample from in Sephora, into bottles ...
Infographic: No country is prepared for a pandemic, report says
After an Ebola epidemic devastated West Africa in 2014, many countries took steps to boost their preparedness. But even as the risk ...
‘Unlearning fear’: Why women are twice as likely to experience PTSD
[W]omen — both civilians and women from the military — are more than twice as likely as men to suffer ...
Conquering a fear of flying by ‘retuning’ the brain’s ability to calm itself
Fear of flying, or aviophobia, is an anxiety disorder. About 40 percent of the general population reports some fear of ...
