Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially altered products – like soda, snacks and processed meats – packed with additives and stripped of nutrients. Hundreds of new ingredients, previously unknown to the human body, now make up nearly 60% of…
Category: 5. Health
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Could your smartphone detect mental health risks before you notice them?
Data passively collected from cell phone sensors can identify behaviors associated with a host of mental health disorders, from agoraphobia to generalized anxiety disorder to narcissistic personality disorder. New findings show that the same data…
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Scientists uncover how to block pain without side effects
Scientists at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified which receptor in prostaglandins — the hormone-like substance targeted by common painkillers — causes pain but not inflammation. The findings, published in the journal Nature…
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Reclaiming America’s Drug Innovation Edge
Innovation and medicine
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We are on a bureaucratic trajectory where American leadership in approving innovative medicines may not be sustainable and our most experienced pharmaceutical leaders are concerned. Former FDA commissioner Scott…
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Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions
At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a big assertion.
They claimed that the study, soon to be featured in a highly publicized film called “An Inconvenient…
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Pasteurization destroys H5N1 bird flu in milk
Pasteurization completely inactivates the H5N1 bird flu virus in milk — even if viral proteins linger.
Drinking properly pasteurized milk contaminated with avian influenza remnants won’t increase vulnerability to the infection,…
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In a first, Huntington’s disease is slowed by an experimental treatment
Even hearing the phrase “Huntington’s disease” will make a room suddenly somber. So the joy that accompanied a recent announcement of results of an experimental gene therapy for the deadly diseases signaled an unfamiliar sense of…
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RFK Jr. Is Targeting Vaccines And Tylenol. Are Prozac And Ozempic Next?
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Tylenol maker Kenvue is reeling after unsupported claims that its popular drug causes autism. Kennedy is unlikely to stop there.
Tylenol may be only the…
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FDA Approves Injectable Immunotherapy Drug
Cancer immunotherapies, anti-cancer treatments that target a patient’s own immune system, working to make it more effective, have revolutionized the field of oncology research over the past decade. …
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Cambridge scientists created a gel that could end arthritis pain
Researchers have developed a material that can sense tiny changes within the body, such as during an arthritis flare-up, and release drugs exactly where and when they are needed.
The squishy material can be loaded with anti-inflammatory drugs…
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