Category: Science
Planned NIH Cuts Threaten Americans’ Health, Senators Charge in Tense Hearing
June 11, 2025 4 min read Senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya the day after more than 300 NIH staff…
A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health
WHEN NON-INVASIVE prenatal testing (NIPT) arrived in 2011, it transformed pregnancy. With a simple blood test, scientists could now sweep…
NIH chief stands by funding cuts to ‘politicized science’ at tense hearing
Jayanta Bhattacharya, head of the US National Institutes of Health, testified about proposed budget cuts to his agency at a…
People’s mental health often improves after weight-loss surgery. A study pinpoints the real reason why.
Even before kindergarten, Autumn Huett feared other kids wouldn’t like her because she was twice their size. In high school,…
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the Centers…
Fighting ‘The New Polio’ In An Era Of Defunded Science
Since 2014, a virus related to polio has paralyzed hundreds of children. Amid government cuts, what happens if the outbreaks…
It’s official: Your diet is making you depressed, according to science
Skipping dessert really can leave you down in the dumps. No one who’s been on a diet has ever said…
UChicago receives $21 million to establish visionary center in quantum engineering and health
A $21 million gift from philanthropist Thea Berggren to the University of Chicago will establish the Berggren Center for Quantum…
New Study Challenges Homemade Meals Health Halo
In the war against ultra-processed foods, homemade meals have long enjoyed the moral and nutritional high ground. But a new…
Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences graduate fulfills a dream
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