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Posted on June 4, 2025

How One Keto Trial Set Off a New War in the Nutrition World

A study claimed that people who eat high-fat, low-carb diets weren’t seeing their arteries fill up with plaque, despite having high levels of blood cholesterol. Critics disagreed—and all hell broke loose.
Posted on May 28, 2025

Mushroom Supplements Are the Biohackers’ Latest Fix (2025)

Curious about mushroom supplements? Here's what they do, what the science says, and how to know if they're right for you—according to the experts.
Posted on May 26, 2025

Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men

Researchers are trying to understand more about the biological and social differences that contribute to later diabetes diagnoses and worse outcomes in women.
Posted on May 15, 2025

Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug

As the FDA halts the sale of Ozempic and Zepbound copycats, online clinics have begun offering liraglutide, an older GLP-1 medication injected daily instead of weekly.
Posted on May 10, 2025

Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?

Growing rates of type 2 diabetes across the African content offer scientists hope of creating new, more inclusive treatments.
Posted on May 9, 2025

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart

Casey Means isn’t currently licensed as a doctor. But that’s not why anti-vaxxers and conspiracists think she’s unsuited to be surgeon general—to them, her anti-vaccine opinions aren't extreme enough.
Posted on May 8, 2025

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
Posted on May 1, 2025

The Dangerous Decline in Vaccination Rates

With measles on the rise, this episode of Uncanny Valley looks at RFK's role in the revival of the once-eliminated deadly illness.
Posted on April 30, 2025

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by RFK Jr.'s department.
Posted on April 29, 2025

As Measles Cases Surge, Mexico Issues a US Travel Alert

The border state of Chihuahua has recorded 713 confirmed cases, with its outbreak linked to the ongoing cluster of cases north of the border in Texas.

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