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Viewpoint: Blame Big Tobacco for helping create junk food industry
For decades, tobacco companies hooked people on cigarettes by making their products more addictive. Now, a new study suggests that tobacco ...
Viewpoint: US museums, universities and federal agencies still possess the remains of over 100,000 Indigenous Americans. It’s time to give them back
Museums, universities and federal agencies still possess the remains of 110,000 Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives ...
Nocturnal farming: How climate change might force farmers to rethink their early-to-rise schedule
Rising temperatures in key agricultural regions across the United States are leading more farmers to harvest in the middle of ...
Viewpoint: Medicinal doses of psychedelics can treat PTSD, depression and other disorders. Should we legalize recreational use?
Early studies into the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics have been so promising that the Food and Drug Administration has designated ...
Pakistan case study: Illness and famine follow in wake of climate-induced weather disasters
To document one of the most widespread threats — extreme heat — The Post and CarbonPlan, a nonprofit that develops publicly ...
Viewpoint: History of eugenics — Smithsonian Museum has a troubling collection of brains from different ‘races’
On the day Mary Sara died of tuberculosis in a Seattle sanitarium, the doctor caring for the 18-year-old offered her ...
Why has there been a surge in number of young women with breast cancer?
A study published last week in JAMA Network Open showed cancers are on the rise for younger Americans under 50, ...
Viewpoint: In COVID early days, Chinese doctors in Wuhan denied widespread viral spread. That was a lie
In the first weeks of 2020, a radiologist at Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, China, saw looming signs of trouble. He ...
While overall rate of cancer is going down, it’s on the rise in young Americans. Why?
Some of the biggest increases were seen in women and in younger people diagnosed with gastrointestinal and breast cancers ...
BA.2.86: Current vaccines do not offer protection against new globally-spreading COVID variant
A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body’s ...
Viewpoint: ‘My body went haywire’ — One woman’s debilitating experience with long COVID
Despite the crystal-clear science on the damage covid-19 does to our bodies, medical settings have dropped mask requirements, so patients ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why newborn genetic screening is so crucial
Taken as a whole, rare diseases are common, afflicting more than 30 million people in the United States and more ...
Viewpoint: How ‘predictive AI’ is changing healthcare for the better
The quality of predictive AI can be measured, generative AI models produce different answers ...
Viewpoint: With meat alternatives flourishing, ‘people might eventually look back on meat-eating much the way we view cannibalism and human sacrifice’
Guilt over eating animals amid our inability to give it up is powering the birth of a new industry: [Recently], ...
Viewpoint: Should there be a ban on glyphosate and other pesticides in US parks? Here’s why environmentalists and the Park Service say that would be a disaster
When last I wrote about my battle of the brush, I was losing, badly, to the invasive vines and noxious weeds ...
Allie the chatbot lover: Open-source AI programmed for innumerable constructive applications — and sex talk
From X-rated chats to cancer research, “open-source” models are challenging tech giants’ control over the AI revolution — to the ...
‘Nature’s Ozempic’? How does berberine supplement compare to weight-loss drug Wegovy?
“After seeing how cheap berberine was, I figured I didn’t have anything to lose,” said 34-year-old Savannah Crosby, who has ...
How does social media affect kids’ developing brains? US Surgeon General releases mental health advisory
Today, 95 percent of teenagers use social media, and two-thirds daily. One in 7 kids spends more than seven hours ...
Viewpoint: After years of yo-yo dieting, Ozempic helped me lose 40 pounds. I’m still debating if it was worth it
Opinion: I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions ...
Anti-vax conspiracy-promoting Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr shows early strength against Joe Biden in polls
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for president supported by 1 in 5 Democratic voters in some recent polls, campaigns ...
‘Awakenings’ for real: Trapped in her brain for 20 years, a catatonic woman awakes. Her story may spark a revolution in the treatment of severe schizophrenia
New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that ...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant approved for human trials by the FDA
Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink said May 25 that it got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ...
Race for a cure: ‘After decades of neglect, stigma and underfunding, sickle cell is getting the red carpet treatment in science.’ Here’s what that means
The first gene therapies for sickle cell, including one based on the buzzy, Nobel Prize-winning technique called CRISPR ...
Blood dinner: Why are you targeted by mosquitoes but some lucky few are spared?
Researchers built the ‘world’s largest perfumery for mosquitoes’ to test why some people get eaten alive while others do not ...
Viewpoint: Trump of the left? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. traffics in vaccine misinformation, much like the hard right
It doesn’t surprise me at all that a Trumpian candidate would emerge inside the Democratic Party, someone trying to run ...
Is ADHD a genetic condition, illness, natural neurodiversity of humanity, or ‘super power’? People with ADHD weigh in
ADHD is highly hereditary and scientists are examining other risk factors, including brain injuries and exposure to toxins such as ...
Viewpoint: ‘This advance will increase productivity but also supercharge dislocation’ — How AI could destabilize democracy
The field of technology is convulsed by a debate about whether we have reached the Age of AGI...in which technology ...
Can Hindus, Jews and Muslims eat cell-cultivated meat? Religions search for guidance as lab-grown food beckons
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate — a bellwether rabbinical council for religious certifications in Judaism — declared that an Israeli company’s lab-grown ...
