James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died
James Dewey Watson, who helped reveal DNA’s double-helix structure, kicked off the Human Genome Project, and…
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Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions
“They’re very blatant,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law San Francisco who studies vaccine…
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Calley Means is out of the White House; Casey Means misses Senate hearing
In a statement Thursday, government watchdog Public Citizen cheered the news of his departure. “The Trump…
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FDA slows down on drug reviews, approvals amid Trump admin chaos
Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s haphazard job cuts and a mass exodus of leadership,…
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RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again
A prominent voice in the Make America Healthy Again movement is pushing for health secretary and…
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Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize
Today, finding a mutation on the X chromosome would be relatively easy. But in the 1990s,…
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Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.
For these people, regardless of what state they are in, getting the vaccine would mean a…
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CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez “values…
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Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance
“It’s clear that we’re in a different place in the pandemic than we were four or…
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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
After seeking advice on health topics from ChatGPT, a 60-year-old man who had a “history of…
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In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food
In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was…
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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs
For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for…
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RFK Jr. wants to change program that stopped vaccine makers from leaving US market
Dr. Paul Offit, a co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and director of the Vaccine Education Center…
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RFK Jr.‘s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion
In all, the increased decay and boosted dental costs would disproportionately affect children who are in…
