Health
Through the study and use of genetics, we can identify measures that could lead to the improvement of human health and wellness. These methods and procedures aim to prevent years of chronic disease and thousands of dollars in health care costs, and provide families and communities with knowledge of how to live healthier.
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Viewpoint: ‘The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Longevity evangelists argue that it doesn’t have to be this way’
Many of us have come to expect that our bodies and minds will deteriorate in our final years—that we may ...
X, Y, sex and gender: When genetics pulls a fast one
The spectrum of information that can be obtained by prenatal testing is wide and rapidly increasing. Many mutations, or "abnormalities," ...
Viewpoint: With weight loss drug prices plummeting, ‘it’s possible to imagine a future in which almost everyone is taking some variety of GLP-1 drug’
Last year was called the year of Ozempic, though it was also a year of Ozempic backlash and Ozempic shortages, which could persist for years ...
TVA explained: How fatty acids in meat and dairy can help ward off cancer
Dietary nutrients play a crucial role in providing your body with energy, building blocks, and regulatory molecules. How all these ...
Is aging a ‘treatable disease’? Harvard geneticist faces accusations of ‘snake oil salesman’ as expert scientists refute claims
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair, who has said his “biological age” is roughly a decade younger than his actual one, has ...
Deep water living: Top-secret story of how British researchers experimented on themselves and found the key to surviving underwater — helping make D-Day a success
Geneticists John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and Helen Spurway’s goal was to see how long she could breathe the oxygen before ...
Podcast: Is ‘runner’s high’ real? Here’s the science
You’ve probably heard people talking about “runner’s high”: a sense of euphoria and relaxation runners feel when they’ve been running ...
Weight loss and fertility: Ozempic users report unexpected side effect — surprise pregnancies
Across social media, women who have used Ozempic or similar medications for diabetes or weight loss are reporting an unexpected ...
Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares
During the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemiology ha assumed an outsized role in the public consciousness. It was pervasive ...
How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems
Can GLP-1 drugs for obesity and diabetes, like Ozempic and Wegovy, help change the food industry? Consumers on these drugs ...
Want to improve cholesterol and blood pressure? Swapping out meat for plant-based alternatives may not provide heart health benefits, study suggests
In new research, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, scientists looked at how diets containing real meat compare to ...
Nutritional breakthrough: Genetically modified vitamin B1-fortified rice could help us overcome some health deficiencies
Vitamin B1 is an essential micronutrient for human beings. Its deficiency is the cause of numerous diseases of the nervous ...
Avian flu virus detected in raw milk from infected dairy cows. Are we in danger of it spreading to our food supply?
It was three months ago when we wrote about the surge of the H5N1 bird flu strain that had by then already ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: ‘If we follow science, organic food loses its apparent advantages’ — Harvard professor debunks organic produce myths
Organic foods, valued at over $75 billion, have long been touted as superior to conventionally grown foods, with some studies ...
Microplastics found clogging human arteries and lungs. What are the long-term health consequences?
Raising risk of heart attacks in humans: microplastics have been found in the blood and in organs such as the ...
Eat what you want while staying healthy? Here’s how scientists are working to transform the sugar that you eat into fiber
We all know that too much sugar is bad for us. It can lead to weight gain, obesity, type 2 ...
Viewpoint: Ready to abandon milk and meat to improve health and save the environment? Not so fast.
Substituting meat and dairy with more plant-based foods in our diets can achieve benefits for human and environmental health: this is ...
Could swimming ‘microbots’ smaller than a grain of sand one day deliver drugs and destroy pathogens in the bloodstream? We’re one step closer
Tiny robots that swim through our blood to deliver drugs or hunt down pathogens that can think for themselves ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group up to its old trick of misrepresenting science to scare us about chemical traces in its attack on oat products containing micro-levels of chlormequat
So, here we go. Something else to worry about. At least according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit ...
Viewpoint: ‘Enemy of Science’ — Friends of the Earth renews its organic industry-funded campaign against GM crops
In 1969, a fellow who felt that the eugenicist founders of Sierra Club were not militant enough in their war ...
Person in Texas contracts virulent strain of bird flu after contact with cattle, in second known US case
A person in Texas has been diagnosed with a highly virulent strain of bird flu, the first such case since ...
Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin
I wish that I could stop reposting this essay – I do so whenever limitations on women’s reproductive rights become ...
Kate Middleton’s cancer disclosure underscores troubling rise of disease in younger adults
Cancer is mostly diagnosed in those over 65 and in the U.S., only about 12% of cancers are diagnosed among ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO arguments seem silly after 28 years of false narratives about health harms and and genetic contamination
Since the first genetically engineered or modified crops or organisms (GMO) were approved for commercial production in 1995, no new ...
Viewpoint: Food Network experts blast organic-funded ‘Dirty Dozen’ list for misleading consumers about trace pesticides on crops
Every year the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases its list of the Dirty Dozen, a group of 12 fruits and vegetables ...
Power of placebo: Here is how the ‘belief effect’ influences our views on nutrition, pain and mental health
There is a fascinating interplay between the power of belief and its profound impact on our corporeal health and nutrition ...
