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The CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism
Rob Stein, NPR
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific research that supports the finding.
Nov 20, 2025, 5:25 PM
A New Kind of Vaccine Offers Hope for Surviving Pancreatic Cancer
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rowan Moore Gerety, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio, Scientific American
From COVID shots to cancer therapy, mRNA is changing medicine.
Nov 14, 2025, 11:00 AM
Science Keeps Dismantling Trump’s Tylenol-Autism Scare
Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com
A new review shows a "lack of robust evidence" linking the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to either autism or ADHD.
Nov 10, 2025, 5:15 PM
A pill is raising hope for one of the deadliest cancers. The question is how fast patients should get it.
Daniel Gilbert, (c) 2025 , The Washington Post, The Washington Post
At 69 years old, Debby Orcutt was diagnosed last year with pancreatic cancer, a condition so dire that her doctor refused to tell her how long she had to...
Nov 5, 2025, 1:53 PM
The 6 Worst Health Scandals of the Past 25 Years
Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com
From tainted baby powder to sketchy blood testing devices, medical scandals are alive and well this century.
Nov 5, 2025, 12:00 PM
Scientists just shattered a major exercise myth
Science Daily
New research from Australia overturns the old idea that exercise “uses up” heartbeats. It shows that fitter people actually use fewer total heartbeats each day thanks to their lower resting heart rates, even when accounting for workouts. Athletes’ hearts beat…
Nov 1, 2025, 12:22 PM
FDA autism drug move sparks frenzy, but data lags behind
By Julie Steenhuysen, Yahoo Entertainment
President Donald Trump's embrace of an old generic drug called leucovorin for use against a rare disorder that causes autism-like symptoms has triggered a...
Oct 31, 2025, 6:48 PM
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature.com
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
Oct 29, 2025, 12:00 AM
How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get
Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor, Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/, Forbes
The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.
Oct 26, 2025, 4:35 PM
The Dangerous Data Gap in Pregnancy Drug Research
Rachel Feltman, Tanya Lewis, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Scientific American
Despite the widespread use of medication during pregnancy, a lack of clinical research leaves patients and doctors navigating treatment with dangerously few data.
Oct 24, 2025, 10:00 AM
What Medications Are Safe to Take While Pregnant? Studies Are Lacking
Tanya Lewis, Scientific American
Less than 1 percent of clinical trials include pregnant or breastfeeding people. Experts say that needs to change
Oct 23, 2025, 4:00 PM
WATCH: Parkinson's disease patient plays clarinet during brain surgery
ABC News
A patient undergoing brain surgery plays the clarinet, allowing surgeons to instantly hear the impacts of the treatment.
Oct 22, 2025, 9:09 AM
Fact-checking RFK Jr’s false claim linking autism to circumcision
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
The US health secretary’s claims are false, as research finds no clear connection between circumcision and autism.
Oct 21, 2025, 1:36 PM
Why Trump is seeking to remove aluminium from vaccines?
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Aluminium has been proven to be safe, removing it could reduce immunity and increase disease risk, experts say.
Oct 20, 2025, 1:50 PM
6 Supplements RFK Jr. Loves, But Science Says Are Mostly Useless
Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com
From raw milk to cod liver oil, few of Kennedy's professed alternatives to mainstream medicine pass scientific muster.
Oct 15, 2025, 10:00 AM
RFK Jr. Is Doubling Down On Multiple Unproven Links To Autism
Joshua P. Cohen, Senior Contributor, Joshua P. Cohen, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/, Forbes
Kennedy’s doubling down on disputed links isn't a one-off. He has often done this regarding exposure to substances like acetaminophen that he thinks are linked to autism.
Oct 12, 2025, 5:58 PM
I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc…
Cathy Gellis, Techdirt
My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it recur at some point. For me it was sooner than expected, and disheartening because, even if I beat it back …
Oct 11, 2025, 2:39 AM
RFK’s New CDC Chief Wants to Break Up the MMR Vaccine. Here’s Why That’s Such an Awful Idea
Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com
U.S. President Donald Trump has also called for the shot to be broken up into three separate jabs, echoing a major goal of the antivax movement.
Oct 7, 2025, 5:41 PM
Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to immune system researchers
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
The international team discovered how the immune system is kept in check to prevent it attacking the body.
Oct 6, 2025, 9:37 AM
NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding
Max Kozlov, Nature.com
Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disperse all of the reseach funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.
Sep 29, 2025, 12:00 AM
Leucovorin for autism? Many scientists — and parents — are skeptical
Jon Hamilton, NPR
President Trump says an old drug that acts like a vitamin can reduce autism symptoms in many children. The science doesn't support that claim.
Sep 25, 2025, 1:02 PM
Trump Admin Tells Expecting Mothers To Avoid Tylenol Due To Unproven Link To Autism
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Back in April, RFK Jr. committed publicly to firmly knowing the cause of autism by September of this year. In May, Donald Trump himself weighed in with the already baked conclusion that autism doesn’t “occur naturally” and therefore must have some environment…
Sep 23, 2025, 10:43 PM
'Highly concerning': Major medical groups react to Trump's Tylenol, autism claim
Mary Kekatos, Liz Neporent, ABC News
Major medical groups stated acetaminophen is safe for pregnant women to take and that no studies have found a direct cause and effect between use in pregnancy and autism.
Sep 23, 2025, 10:14 PM
What we know, and don't, about the link between painkillers and autism
Grace Wade, New Scientist
Scientific evidence is lacking to support the US government’s decisions to caution against using a common painkiller in pregnancy and fast-track the approval of an experimental medication for autism
Sep 23, 2025, 8:30 PM