Wall Street Journal
Viewpoint — ‘Completely unethical’: RFK, Jr.’s medical ignorance deprives melanoma cancer-sufferers of a life-saving therapy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t like our criticism of the Food and Drug Administration’s rejection of Replimune’s life-saving drug for metastatic melanoma ...
Viewpoint — Digital freedom: How AI could undermine Chinese communism
... Even China’s heavily censored chatbots have proved difficult to contain within the party’s ideological boundaries. American frontier models, running ...
Swim club: Expensive male fertility supplements are all the rage
SwimClub, a new male fertility-supplement company, markets to both men and women. “You can’t out-ovulate bad sperm,” reads one ad ...
The Trump administration pledged to speed approval of rare disease drugs. The reality is the opposite
Rare disease breaks the traditional math of drug development. Companies can’t run a 10,000-patient trial when only a few thousand ...
White House clamps down on RFK, Jr.’s vaccine rejectionism but he reportedly retains Trump’s support
The White House is more tightly controlling the messaging and policies—including around vaccines—coming from the Department of Health and Human ...
Teaching AI to have a soul
As the resident philosopher of the tech company Anthropic, [Amanda] Askell spends her days learning Claude’s reasoning patterns and talking to the ...
Operation Stork Speed: RFK, Jr. targets baby formulas
When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. summoned infant-formula executives to Washington last spring, he arrived with ...
RFK, Jr. quietly undermining science consensus that cellphones are safe
The Food and Drug Administration quietly removed webpages saying cellphones aren’t dangerous as the Department of Health and Human Services ...
How MAHA policies are fast-changing the ingredients in popular foods
Make America Healthy Again. Ozempic. Fibermaxxing. Powerful forces are pushing the U.S. food industry to make what could be the ...
Viewpoint: Do transgirls have a legal right to compete in school athletic competitions?
Does a biological boy who transitions to become a girl have a constitutional right to compete in girls’ sports? Twenty-seven ...
We are on the verge of engineering embryos immune from hereditary diseases—and a couple has already volunteered to provide their fertilized egg for a test run
Herasight, which formally launched this summer with backing from influential Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Draper Associates, is charging $50,000 for ...
Citing no evidence, RFK, Jr.’s newly-appointed FDA vaccine advisor spreads false information about risks of immunizations, setting the stage for lax policies and a surge in preventable diseases
The Food and Drug Administration will upend its approach to immunizations for respiratory illnesses, including flu vaccines, according to an ...
Viewpoint: Wall Street Journal calls out Trump’s FDA for foot-dragging on approvals for breakthrough drugs
Our editorials criticizing the Food and Drug Administration for torpedoing promising treatments must be hitting an intracranial nerve. Proof of ...
With Republican popularity sagging, RFK, Jr.’s MAHA movement may provide a boost for Trump
MAHA leaders are set to use their agenda to shore up support for the GOP among independent voters who might ...
As Trump’s tariff war with China oscillates, America’s soybean farmers are trapped in a vise
Just days after the Trump administration pledged a $20 billion loan to backstop the finances of Argentina under libertarian President ...
Losing jobs, increasing efficiency and profitability: Amazon jumps rivals in embracing warehouse robots
Artificial intelligence that makes humans more efficient and robots that make them less necessary: That’s the future Amazon is building in its ...
Viewpoint: So-called green energy policy that rejects carbon-free nuclear power leads to rising electricity rates
Electricity prices are rising, and Democrats are making it a campaign issue. They blame the price hike on President Trump ...
‘Blood bath’: American soybean farmers are panicking as trade war with China escalates
China hasn’t booked any U.S. soybean purchases in months, making the oilseed a potent weapon in Beijing’s trade fight with ...
Robot wars: Here’s why the simmering feud between Musk and Zuckerberg could move from orange to red
When Mark Zuckerberg walked on stage ... with those chunky black AI glasses, some viewed a possible future rival for the Apple iPhone. Others, however, ...
Walmart redundancy: As the world’s largest private retailer embraces AI to stay competitive, its workforce will stop growing for the first time in its history
“It’s very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,” Chief Executive Doug McMillon said this week in one of ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s big bet: Vaccine skepticism and Tylenol scare will cast as a defender of MAGA parents
The vaccine skepticism espoused by Trump and Kennedy is out of step with the views of many Americans and carries political risks, ...
Viewpoint: Johnson and Johnson’s Tylenol crisis #2: How RFK, Jr. deceived the company and health experts
Tylenol set the gold standard for corporate crisis management in 1982 after people died from taking its pain medication that ...
How the agriculture and food industries challenged MAHA heavyweights and reshaped RFK, Jr.’s ‘reform’ agenda
In meeting after meeting at the White House this summer, administration officials held talks with scores of leaders from the ...
DNA screening start-up claims it can screen embryos for the likelihood of age-related diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s
Prospective parents using IVF will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending ...
Bill Ackman’s Alpha School: No to DEI, yes to AI
Billionaire Bill Ackman has a new fascination: a fast-growing private school that eschews lessons on diversity, equity and inclusion and ...
Viewpoint: At Marty Makary’s FDA, therapy approvals for rare diseases are hitting a wall
The FDA’s approval of new drugs has notably slowed this year. Annual novel drug approvals averaged 52 in the first ...
Genius children: Silicon Valley billionaires are throwing money at strategies to engineer brilliant children
This isn’t science fiction. It is Silicon Valley, where interest in breeding smarter babies is peaking. Parents here are paying ...
Viewpoint: Cheryl Hine’s journey from Hollywood to MAHA: Former B-list actress provides an affable front for philandering, former drug addict husband, RFK, Jr.
As an actress, the public figure Cheryl Hines was just another Hollywood liberal. But as Mrs. Bobby Kennedy, she’s a ...
