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AI regularly passes on misinformation because it relies more on the source than the science
Artificial intelligence tools are more likely to provide incorrect medical advice when the misinformation comes from what the software considers ...
RFK, Jr. poised to marginalize effective RSV therapies after vaccine opponents question efficacy of safety data based on no new data
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca ... that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants ...
‘Ruining the magic of breeding’? Cloning’s okay but gene-edited horses threaten to upend the pedigreed world of Polo
While Argentina, regarded as the global capital of polo, has long welcomed reproductive technologies – including cloning – to breed ...
Low testosterone? GLP-1 weight loss drugs boost male hormone levels by almost 50% even without weight loss
GLP-1 anti-obesity medications are linked with improvements in testosterone levels and health outcomes for men with obesity or type 2 ...
Bioterrorism experts not buying Trump’s FBI administration claims that Chinese students smuggled in fungus for a bioweapon
Fungus already widespread in U.S., poses little food safety risk, experts say Experts say it would be ineffective as agricultural ...
Vaccines are under fire, accused of not being tested against a placebo. That’s wrong. Here’s how they are tested for safety
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to require all new vaccines be tested against a placebo ...
Off-patent chemistry: Financially strapped American farmers switching to generic crop chemicals
U.S. farmers struggling with slumping incomes and depressed grain prices have been switching to cheaper generic pesticides and fungicides as ...
Girl Scout 25-cookie “study” by crack science organization Moms Across America alleging ‘dangerous’ level of pesticide residues sparks class action tort case
The Girl Scouts have been sued by consumers over the alleged presence of "heavy metals" and pesticides in its popular ...
Constitutional ban: Mexican president Sheinbaum poised to sign formal ban on growing genetically modified (GMO) corn
Mexico bans planting of GM corn, sparking potential U.S. tensions President Sheinbaum's reform brands native corn as national identity Mexico's ...
Church of Scientology and RFK, Jr.: Reuters investigation highlights HHS secretary’s problematic ties to Scientologist tort law firm Wisner Baum
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would retain legal fees earned from litigation against drugmaker Merck if he is confirmed as President ...
Smart agriculture: African farmers urged to gradually reduce use of pesticides and fertilizers rather than abandon them to reduce risk of significant crop and economic losses
After decades of mono-cropping and overgrazing, around 65% of Africa’s farmland is now considered unproductive or degraded, leaving more than 270 million people ...
Will Trump move to end safe routine childhood vaccines at the urging of RFK, Jr.?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview ... said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee ...
Fearful of a Republican rollback of Washington state’s reproductive rights, state stockpiles abortion pills
Washington state's first-in-the-nation stockpile of abortion drugs will serve as insurance against future lawsuits seeking to ban the procedure nationwide ...
AI is helping farmers sequester more carbon in soil, improving agriculture’s sustainability profile
Our soil ... holds about double the amount of carbon that’s in the atmosphere, and almost three times the volume ...
Mail order and foreign buyers beware: Criminal organizations are circulating potentially lethal fake Ozempic
In December [2023], Drew, a 36-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas, drove more than 250 miles to Mexico to buy ...
Drought tolerant genetically modified wheat is okayed for import in the United States
A type of genetically modified wheat developed by Argentina's Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX.O), may be safely grown in the United ...
J&J nears $6.48 billion settlement with most plaintiffs claiming talc caused their cancers
Johnson & Johnson is preparing to unveil widespread support in coming days for a $6.48 billion offer to settle tens ...
Will AI conquer herbicide resistance? Ultra-precise targeting removes weeds with next to no impact on anything else
Weeds are growing resistant to the herbicides already on the market, and agribusiness companies like Bayer are in a desperate search ...
Acorns, pine nuts, pistachios, oats: Here’s what people ate 15,000 years ago, before the dawn of agriculture
The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet ...
Out of Africa revisited: Where did humans migrate after leaving the continent?
A new study offers that bands of hunter-gatherers appear to have lingered for thousands of years as a homogeneous population ...
‘Science proves GM corn and the herbicide glyphosate are harmful to human health and native crop varieties’: US claims Mexico ignores ‘decades’ worth of evidence demonstrating their safety
In a written submission to a panel of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Mexico, the top buyer of U.S. corn, argued ...
Roundup weedkiller cancer trials now trending Bayer’s way
Bayer on March 5 said it won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a retired postal service worker in ...
Australian glyphosate cancer litigation: Judge poised to rule on the country’s first weedkiller case
An Australian court on January 29 heard closing arguments in a class action lawsuit alleging that a weedkiller produced by ...
Bayer to appeal $2.25 billion judgment that its glyphosate weedkiller caused worker’s cancer
Bayer was ordered on January 26 to pay $2.25 billion to a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from ...
Midwest farmers feel pinch from tighter regulations restricting development of next-generation weedkillers
Reuters interviewed two dozen farmers, scientists, weed specialists and company executives and reviewed eight academic papers published since 2021 which ...
Far-right election successes across the EU may disrupt European Commission’s goals to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050
The growing electoral success of nationalist parties across the [European] continent risks undermining pro-environment forces in the next European Parliament ...
‘Glyphosate does not cause cancer and is not responsible for the plaintiff’s illness’: Bayer snaps Roundup liability losing streak
Bayer has won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure ...
Better than Ozempic? Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro helps patients shed more pounds faster than rival weight loss drug, data show
Overweight or obese adults lost more weight and shed pounds faster using Mounjaro than those taking Ozempic ...
