Category: 4. Health

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 beginning.

For years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has railed against a number of medications and therapeutics claiming without scientific consensus or evidence that they cause some kind of harm — autism (Tylenol), suicidal thoughts (Ozempic). Now, as President…

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.  Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), one class of immunotherapies, work by “blocking” interactions between two proteins (a checkpoint and a ligand).  When a checkpoint protein binds its ligand, the body signals to the immune system, instructing a…

The squishy material can be loaded with anti-inflammatory drugs that are released in response to small changes in pH in the body. During an arthritis flare-up, a joint becomes inflamed and slightly more acidic than the surrounding tissue.

The material, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, has…

Claims from the Trump White House about links between use of the painkiller acetaminophen – often sold under the brand name Tylenol in the U.S. – during pregnancy and development of autism have set off a deluge of responses across the medical, scientific and public health communities.

As a father of a child with level 2 autism – meaning autism that requires substantial support – and a statistician who works with such tools as those used in the association studies cited by the…

The American Medical Association and more than 50 other medical societies Thursday asked the Trump administration to exempt physicians from the new $100,000 H-1B visa application fee.

The White House this week announced that all new H-1B visa petitions would now carry a $100,000 supplemental fee, which the nation’s largest physician group and 53 other medical…

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that switching to permanent standard time could save millions of Americans from serious health risks such as strokes and obesity. Switching clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms and may have serious health consequences for Americans.

The study modelled the health impact of three different potential time policies on Americans: permanent standard time,…

Although pediatric cancer is rare, it is the leading cause of death by disease in children, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Over 16,000 children in the United States are currently diagnosed with cancer. Among the types of cancers diagnosed, most are leukemias, brain tumors, lymphomas, and central nervous system (CNS) tumors. However, 3% of all childhood cancers under 15 years old include pediatric germ cell tumors (GCTs). Adolescents…

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer in adults. There are about 12,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States. There are many different risk factors that could lead to glioblastoma. Age is a large risk factor as well as family history and environmental exposure. Symptoms include headaches, seizures, confusion/memory loss, difficulty speaking or understanding speech, vision problems, nausea, vomiting, and…

When the White House announced that all new H-1B visa petitions would now carry a $100,000 supplemental fee, headlines quickly focused on tech. Silicon Valley has long relied on H-1B visas to recruit engineers from abroad. Yet the bigger impact may not fall on code-writers in California, but on deepening the doctor shortage in communities already struggling.

With hospitals struggling to find enough staff, this…