Long haulers face debilitating months of recovery — but chronic symptoms are not unique to COVID

Long haulers face debilitating months of recovery — but chronic symptoms are not unique to COVID

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The dominant narrative about long Covid has been that it’s a uniquely perplexing feature of Covid-19. Reports of “Covid brain ...
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Is China’s mysterious virus a ‘global health emergency’? 6 things to know about the outbreak

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Just three weeks ago, China announced the outbreak of a mysterious new virus in the city of Wuhan involving a ...
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Sperm counts are falling. Here are 5 ways to boost male fertility

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The concentration of sperm in semen, also known as sperm count, has halved in the West since the 1970s. The ...
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How much did the Chinese government know about controversial CRISPR babies research?

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When scientist He Jiankui announced he’d conducted an experiment that led to the birth of twin girls with CRISPR-edited genomes in November, ...
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Fasting diets are soaring in popularity. Are they backed by science?

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Over the past couple of decades, as dozens of diets and weight management schemes have come in and out of ...
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Will we see illegal CRISPR IVF clinics in the US? Experts weigh in

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The possibility of “CRISPR babies” became real [November 25], when a Chinese scientist stunned the world by announcing he’d used the gene-editing ...
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What is CRISPR? And why should you care?

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If you haven’t heard of CRISPR yet, the short explanation goes like this: In the past six years, scientists have ...
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Male birth control? Here are 3 methods headed our way

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While a pill for men certainly isn’t coming to the pharmacy anytime soon, unfortunately, there is reason for (muted) hope ...
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Safer CRISPR? Cas13 version edits RNA, not DNA

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CRISPR, while a major leap forward in gene editing, can still be a blunt instrument. There have been problems with ...
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Vaccines do not cause autism. Here’s what science says does

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It doesn’t help that doctors have long struggled to explain what exactly causes autism if vaccines don’t — many medical ...
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Cancer scientists fail to replicate key study results – for good reasons

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The general principle [of replicating studies] is that if the results repeat, then the original results were correct and reliable ...

What factors drive Europe’s superior tasting vegetables?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . Why ...
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Why can’t the U.S. have clear, sensible food guidelines?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why doesn't the United ...
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There’s a good chance your nutritional supplements are laced with deadly substances

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Americans spend more than ...

Why have mammograms failed to reduce breast cancer?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The whole idea behind ...
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23andMe relaunching health tests with nod from FDA

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The genetic testing company 23andMe has ...
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Can Dr. Oz rehabilitate image as haven for pseudoscience?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The Federal Trade Commission had ...
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Latest blow for Oz: Oprah dumps his radio show, replaces him with Sanjay Gupta

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The Dr. Oz media empire just took a blow from the woman who helped make him famous: Oprah Winfrey. According ...

Oz bungled attempt to shift focus to his critics

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Dr. Oz is finally responding to his critics. But rather than address their complaints head on, he mostly wants to ...

More trouble in Oz: Wikileaks reveal beleaguered doc promotes products based on ‘business synergy’

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Last week, WikiLeaks released a series of emails sent between Dr. Oz, his staff, and executives at Sony (one of ...
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Fall of Dr. Oz: Tour of the world of a celebrity medical quack

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Dr. Oz is arguably the most influential health professional in America. The Dr. Oz Show, which started in 2009, has an average ...

Overhyping research on ‘cures’ harms patients and medical community

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In 2003, researchers writing in the American Journal of Medicine discovered something that should change how you think about medical ...

Why we should be concerned about antibiotic-resistant superbugs

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Scientists and public-health officials are a careful bunch who don't often paint doomsday scenarios. That is, unless they're talking about ...
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Personal genetics consumers risk uncovering uncertain paternity

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Personal genomics products continue to have unintended consequences that end either in joyous occasion, but often times also come with ...
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Should TV ‘quack docs’ like Dr. Oz be regulated?

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Dr. Mehmet Oz is a television personality with his own show, The Dr. Oz Show, focusing on medical issues and personal ...
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