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Oct 8, 2025
A new study claims that “ultra-processed food addiction” affects one in eight older adults. But how solid is the science behind that headline? Beneath the striking numbers lies a...
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Oct 1, 2025
America’s largest anti-hunger program, SNAP, is preparing for a significant update. USDA’s updated SNAP stocking rules aim to replace the “one rice, one bean, one chicken”...
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Sep 26, 2025
COVID vaccination is no longer one-size-fits-all: US health officials now leave booster decisions to individuals, and the WHO urges “focused protection” for those at highest...
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Sep 24, 2025
For decades, expectant mothers have turned to acetaminophen as the go-to remedy for pain and fever, reassured by its reputation for safety. But science rarely deals in absolutes. A...
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Sep 22, 2025
Direct-to-consumer drug ads have long blurred the line between patient empowerment and corporate persuasion, but the FDA is now moving to rein in misleading tactics on TV and social...
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Sep 17, 2025
Anonymity and amplification have transformed hateful whispers into viral shouts. Social media platforms claim that their algorithms can filter out harmful speech, yet studies reveal...
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Aug 28, 2025
We spend so much time talking about intelligence, pondering what makes someone smart. But what about the other side of that coin? Especially in an Internet-driven world, it is worth...
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Aug 27, 2025
We spend so much time talking about intelligence, pondering what makes someone smart. But what about the other side of that coin? Especially in an Internet-driven world, it is worth...
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Aug 23, 2025
Seventeen experts out, a “clean slate” in. Secretary Kennedy sold the purge of ACIP as a “clean sweep” of conflicted interests. But the data suggest the real conflicts of...
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Aug 22, 2025
Seventeen experts out, a “clean slate” in. Secretary Kennedy sold the purge of ACIP as a “clean sweep” of conflicted interests. But the data suggest the real conflicts of...
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Aug 21, 2025
Seventeen experts out, a “clean slate” in. Secretary Kennedy sold the purge of ACIP as a “clean sweep” of conflicted interests. But the data suggest the real conflicts of...
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Aug 18, 2025
American health policy has long grappled with the same question: do we change behavior by changing individuals, or by modifying the environments in which they live? From tobacco...
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Aug 11, 2025
We admire scientists as the stewards of truth, exploring the unknown with curiosity, discipline, and integrity. However, when the pursuit of knowledge becomes a competitive sport for...
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Aug 7, 2025
If the MAHA crowd is serious about “food is medicine,” it’s time to get specific. A 15-year Swedish study tracking nearly 2,500 older adults found that certain dietary patterns...
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Aug 2, 2025
The loudest debates over healthcare today center on Medicaid expansion or cuts. A quieter crisis, however, afflicts individuals squeezed between poverty and subsistence, earning too...
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Jul 28, 2025
The loudest debates over healthcare today center on Medicaid expansion or cuts. A quieter crisis, however, afflicts individuals squeezed between poverty and subsistence, earning too...
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Jul 24, 2025
Private equity firms are turning health systems into their ATMs, raking in profits while care crumbles and often collapses completely. A cynical playbook of debt-loading,...
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Jul 21, 2025
The numbers upend a familiar narrative. While stronger gun laws are linked to fewer firearm deaths overall, the real story lies in the details: suicide rates drop far more sharply...
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Jul 11, 2025
We’ve spent decades tweaking food pyramids into plates, slapping labels on packages, and taxing sodas—yet most Americans still flunk the government's own nutrition test. With...
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Jul 7, 2025
Your doctor insists exercise is key to longevity. However, is your workout truly lengthening your lifespan or just reflecting your good genes and healthy habits? A study of Finnish...
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Jul 1, 2025
Your doctor insists exercise is key to longevity. However, is your workout truly lengthening your lifespan or just reflecting your good genes and healthy habits? A study of Finnish...
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Jun 13, 2025
When two of medicine’s most outspoken reformers publish a roadmap for the FDA, you expect at least coherence. Instead, we get a curious blend of tech evangelism, selective...
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Jun 13, 2025
A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels—and that the interplay...
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Jun 12, 2025
A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels—and that the interplay...
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Jun 10, 2025
What do French fries, fluoride, and 5G towers have in common? According to Toxic Nation, the MAHA community’s first film, they’re all part of a toxic tapestry unraveling public...
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Jun 9, 2025
What do French fries, fluoride, and 5G towers have in common? According to Toxic Nation, the MAHA community’s first film, they’re all part of a toxic tapestry unraveling public...
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May 29, 2025
In the stillness of a Japanese observation garden, your eyes slow their darting dance, your heart softens its beat, and your body begins to whisper “I am safe.” A new study finds...
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May 27, 2025
The White House’s MAHA Commission has finally unveiled its analysis of America’s childhood-disease crisis. The report is equal parts revelation, contradiction, and...
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May 24, 2025
Are the additives in our food quietly conspiring against our health? A new French study dives into the tangled web of food additives, not as individual villains, but at their gang...
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May 21, 2025
Are the additives in our food quietly conspiring against our health? A new French study dives into the tangled web of food additives, not as individual villains, but at their gang...
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May 20, 2025
Are the additives in our food quietly conspiring against our health? A new French study dives into the tangled web of food additives, not as individual villains, but at their gang...
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May 8, 2025
Real science doesn’t settle debates with a show of hands. It builds momentum across studies, disciplines, and data until the picture gets too clear to ignore. H. Holden Thorp...
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Apr 25, 2025
We’re often told to “follow the science”—a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has...
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Apr 18, 2025
Nothing says spring as much as cherry blossoms or opening day in Major League Baseball. For many fans, attending a game in person to see that ceremonial first pitch is often followed...
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Apr 14, 2025
Nothing says spring as much as cherry blossoms or opening day in Major League Baseball. For many fans, attending a game in person to see that ceremonial first pitch is often followed...
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Apr 11, 2025
Is everyone’s favorite physician, Dr. Google, about to be replaced by a smarter algorithm? In a new study of virtual urgent care, AI played the role of digital triage nurse,...
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Apr 2, 2025
As AI quietly takes the wheel in medicine and other fields, once-sharp skills might quietly rust in the background. If AI is doing the thinking, are we still thinking at all?
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Mar 31, 2025
Everyone wants to live longer—and better. As advocates like the MAHA moms push for a shift from simply avoiding disease to preserving strength, sharpness, and emotional well-being,...
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Mar 28, 2025
Is sugar the new nicotine … or maybe just the current scapegoat for our collective confusion over what’s “healthy?” Science can’t decide if sugar is a genuine addiction or...
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Mar 5, 2025
Welcome to Medicare Part D, where your prescription drugs come with co-pays and co-insurance. If you thought co-pays and co-insurance were mundane payment terms, think again —...
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Feb 26, 2025
Race and ethnicity remain sociocultural constructs fabricated by our beliefs rather than clear scientific information. Despite that, as I have written,...
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Feb 20, 2025
When COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, public health officials largely followed a simple logic: protect the most vulnerable first.
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Feb 18, 2025
While our ancestors wagered on chariot races and bloodsport outcomes, today's high-tech hustlers are busy cashing in on online odds. As billions are wagered on sporting events and...
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Jan 24, 2025
Welcome to the digital age, where we’re all curators of content we never read, proudly trading informed discussion for virtual fist bumps over articles we've never opened, while...
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Jan 23, 2025
The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking heated debates in science, media, and beyond....
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Jan 22, 2025
The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking heated debates in science, media, and beyond....
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Jan 15, 2025
Sugar-sweetened beverages, the liquid delight promising a moment of joy and delivering a lifetime (?) of regret. Position as a public health disaster by some, how much of the blame...
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Jan 8, 2025
Everyday choices — from lighting a cigarette to grabbing a quick snack — can, in our data-driven world, carry a measurable cost in minutes, shaved off or added to our health and...
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Jan 3, 2025
We’ve all been there: your perfectly buttered toast hits the floor, and you’re left debating whether to risk it all for breakfast or let it go to the crumbs of history. Enter the...
Oct 8, 2025A new study claims that “ultra-processed food addiction” affects one in eight older adults. But how solid is the science behind that headline? Beneath the striking numbers lies a...
Oct 1, 2025America’s largest anti-hunger program, SNAP, is preparing for a significant update. USDA’s updated SNAP stocking rules aim to replace the “one rice, one bean, one chicken”...
Sep 26, 2025COVID vaccination is no longer one-size-fits-all: US health officials now leave booster decisions to individuals, and the WHO urges “focused protection” for those at highest...
Sep 24, 2025For decades, expectant mothers have turned to acetaminophen as the go-to remedy for pain and fever, reassured by its reputation for safety. But science rarely deals in absolutes. A...
Sep 22, 2025Direct-to-consumer drug ads have long blurred the line between patient empowerment and corporate persuasion, but the FDA is now moving to rein in misleading tactics on TV and social...
Sep 17, 2025Anonymity and amplification have transformed hateful whispers into viral shouts. Social media platforms claim that their algorithms can filter out harmful speech, yet studies reveal...
Aug 28, 2025We spend so much time talking about intelligence, pondering what makes someone smart. But what about the other side of that coin? Especially in an Internet-driven world, it is worth...
Aug 23, 2025Seventeen experts out, a “clean slate” in. Secretary Kennedy sold the purge of ACIP as a “clean sweep” of conflicted interests. But the data suggest the real conflicts of...
Aug 18, 2025American health policy has long grappled with the same question: do we change behavior by changing individuals, or by modifying the environments in which they live? From tobacco...
Aug 11, 2025We admire scientists as the stewards of truth, exploring the unknown with curiosity, discipline, and integrity. However, when the pursuit of knowledge becomes a competitive sport for...
Aug 7, 2025If the MAHA crowd is serious about “food is medicine,” it’s time to get specific. A 15-year Swedish study tracking nearly 2,500 older adults found that certain dietary patterns...
Aug 2, 2025The loudest debates over healthcare today center on Medicaid expansion or cuts. A quieter crisis, however, afflicts individuals squeezed between poverty and subsistence, earning too...
Jul 24, 2025Private equity firms are turning health systems into their ATMs, raking in profits while care crumbles and often collapses completely. A cynical playbook of debt-loading,...
Jul 21, 2025The numbers upend a familiar narrative. While stronger gun laws are linked to fewer firearm deaths overall, the real story lies in the details: suicide rates drop far more sharply...
Jul 11, 2025We’ve spent decades tweaking food pyramids into plates, slapping labels on packages, and taxing sodas—yet most Americans still flunk the government's own nutrition test. With...
Jul 7, 2025Your doctor insists exercise is key to longevity. However, is your workout truly lengthening your lifespan or just reflecting your good genes and healthy habits? A study of Finnish...
Jun 13, 2025When two of medicine’s most outspoken reformers publish a roadmap for the FDA, you expect at least coherence. Instead, we get a curious blend of tech evangelism, selective...
Jun 13, 2025A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels—and that the interplay...
Jun 10, 2025What do French fries, fluoride, and 5G towers have in common? According to Toxic Nation, the MAHA community’s first film, they’re all part of a toxic tapestry unraveling public...
May 29, 2025In the stillness of a Japanese observation garden, your eyes slow their darting dance, your heart softens its beat, and your body begins to whisper “I am safe.” A new study finds...
May 27, 2025The White House’s MAHA Commission has finally unveiled its analysis of America’s childhood-disease crisis. The report is equal parts revelation, contradiction, and...
May 24, 2025Are the additives in our food quietly conspiring against our health? A new French study dives into the tangled web of food additives, not as individual villains, but at their gang...
May 8, 2025Real science doesn’t settle debates with a show of hands. It builds momentum across studies, disciplines, and data until the picture gets too clear to ignore. H. Holden Thorp...
Apr 25, 2025We’re often told to “follow the science”—a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has...
Apr 18, 2025Nothing says spring as much as cherry blossoms or opening day in Major League Baseball. For many fans, attending a game in person to see that ceremonial first pitch is often followed...
Apr 11, 2025Is everyone’s favorite physician, Dr. Google, about to be replaced by a smarter algorithm? In a new study of virtual urgent care, AI played the role of digital triage nurse,...
Apr 2, 2025As AI quietly takes the wheel in medicine and other fields, once-sharp skills might quietly rust in the background. If AI is doing the thinking, are we still thinking at all?
Mar 28, 2025Is sugar the new nicotine … or maybe just the current scapegoat for our collective confusion over what’s “healthy?” Science can’t decide if sugar is a genuine addiction or...
Mar 5, 2025Welcome to Medicare Part D, where your prescription drugs come with co-pays and co-insurance. If you thought co-pays and co-insurance were mundane payment terms, think again —...
Feb 26, 2025Race and ethnicity remain sociocultural constructs fabricated by our beliefs rather than clear scientific information. Despite that, as I have written,...
Feb 20, 2025When COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, public health officials largely followed a simple logic: protect the most vulnerable first. 
Feb 18, 2025While our ancestors wagered on chariot races and bloodsport outcomes, today's high-tech hustlers are busy cashing in on online odds. As billions are wagered on sporting events and...
Jan 23, 2025The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking heated debates in science, media, and beyond....
Jan 15, 2025Sugar-sweetened beverages, the liquid delight promising a moment of joy and delivering a lifetime (?) of regret. Position as a public health disaster by some, how much of the blame...
Jan 8, 2025Everyday choices — from lighting a cigarette to grabbing a quick snack — can, in our data-driven world, carry a measurable cost in minutes, shaved off or added to our health and...