DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest

When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about…

What to know about weight loss surgery and other options – Mission Health Blog

In the United States, nearly 1 in 3 adults is overweight, and more than 2 in 5 are obese. For some, weight loss can be a lifelong challenge. If you…

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Debunking 8 colorectal cancer myths – Mission Health Blog

Colorectal cancer is a combined term for colon and rectal cancers. According to the National Cancer Institute, 153,020 new cases of colorectal cancer were estimated for 2023. In light of…

The Ozempic Revolution Is Stuck

Millions more Americans are now eligible for obesity drugs. But the injections remain maddeningly hard to find. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. March 12, 2024, 6:17 PM ET The…

Allergies and immune system function: Are they connected? – Mission Health Blog

Ever wonder why colds and allergies present many of the same symptoms, such as runny nose and sneezing? Allergic reactions begin in the immune system, which triggers your body’s response…

The Return of Measles – The Atlantic

Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten sick with the disease. A sick kid…

Everything Can Be Meat – The Atlantic

Recently, a photo of rice left me confused. The rice itself looked tasty enough—fluffy, well formed—but its oddly fleshy hue gave me the creeps. According to the scientists who’d developed…

The Cystic Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything

They call it the Purge. You have experienced, in a modest way, something like it in the waning days of a bad cold, when your lungs finally expel their accumulated…

Pfizer Couldn’t Pay for Marketing This Good

On June 3, 2021, a roughly 60-year-old man in the riverside city of Magdeburg, Germany, received his first COVID vaccine. He opted for Johnson & Johnson’s shot, popular at that…

Ozempic Is a Brain Drug

Listen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. When scientists first created the class of drugs that includes Ozempic, they told a tidy…