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World Herb Library Offers a Bounty of Botanical Knowledge

By Janet Gulland, Contributing Writer

What happens when three of the world’s most renowned herbal medicine experts combine their rare botanical book collections and make them available to the public, free of charge? The World Herb Library, that’s what! A vast archive of over 3,000 volumes, some dating back to the 1500s, and covering everything from plant pharmacology to cultivation […]

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Are Power Grids & Mobile Phones Raising Diabetes Risk?

By Magda Havas, BSc, PhD, Contributing Writer

The enormous networks of electricity and wireless radiation surrounding our modern lives may be quietly rewiring the way our cells make energy. In doing so, they could be contributing to the surging incidence of type 2 diabetes. That’s the main conclusion of a new scientific analysis by McGill University biophysicist, Paul Héroux, PhD.  Published as […]

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New Lyme Diagnostics on Near Horizon

By Erik Goldman

Diagnostic tests for Lyme disease may soon get a major upgrade, as seven innovative research and development teams ready their novel methods for review by the Food & Drug Administration. If the FDA deems them market-ready, these new tests could dramatically improve physicians’ abilities to detect early-stage, as well as latent and chronic Borrelia burgdorferi […]

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ICE Has Chilling Effect on Minnesota’s Medical Clinics

By Erik Goldman

Hundreds of Minnesota physicians are speaking out about the detrimental impact the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions have had on the state’s medical clinics. “We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community,” writes internist Bernard E. Trappey, MD, on behalf of Minnesota Physicians Voices, in a […]

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Makary “Seals” the Deal on FDA’s New Look

By Janet Gulland, Contributing Writer

After 120 years, the Food and Drug Administration finally has an official seal. FDA’s Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, revealed the agency’s new visual signifier in a press release on January 28th, noting that the aim of the design is to “help the public better understand who we are and the many functions we fulfull.” […]

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Pharma Pushes Back on State PFAS Regulations

By Claudia López Lloreda

In January 2025, Minnesota’s law regulating PFAS, a class of synthetic chemicals used to make products resistant to heat, grease, oil, and water, came into effect. The statute, one of the strongest of its kind in the United States, banned the chemicals across 11 categories, from cookware to textile furnishings. Beginning in July 2026, the […]

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Can Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Affect Gender Identity?

By Charles Schmidt

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination when he sat for an interview with Jordan B. Peterson, a controversial Canadian psychologist, during his eponymous podcast. About an hour into the conversation, which published in June 2023, Kennedy pivoted from answering a question about climate change to bringing up a very […]

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The Ever-Shrinking Eldercare Workforce

By Cynthia Lien, MD

Javier Erazo remembers lying beside his 93-year-old mother, her small frame helpless as she fell into the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. He was exhausted from struggling daily to piece together a rotation of paid workers and family caregivers as his mother’s illness spiraled in unexpected ways. “She became more challenging, more confused,” he recalled. […]

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As Guidelines Shift, a Curious Debate Over Seed Oils Persists

By Claudia López Lloreda

Before beginning his tenure as secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted an old picture of his father, Bobby Kennedy, and another man at a drive-in fast food restaurant on the social media platform X. RFK Jr. took the family photograph as an opportunity to rail […]

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