Analysis of data from nearly 300,000 UK citizens tracked over a 20-year period shows a decline of up to 25% in grip strength, and a 73% drop in appendicular lean mass (ALM), among continuous statin users compared with people who’d never taken statins. Grip strength diminished by a mean of 0.315 kg per year from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
If the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) 2025-2030 report has taught us anything so far, it’s that people love to argue about food as much as they love to argue about politics. And given that the Guidelines–jointly issued on January 7, by the Department of Health & Human Services and the Department of Agriculture—is […]
GLP-1–based therapies, including glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (e.g., semaglutide), dual incretin agonists (e.g. tirzepatide), and forthcoming GLP-1–modulating drugs like retatrutide, have rapidly reshaped the clinical management of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiometabolic disease. In less than a decade, these drugs have moved from the weight management and endocrinology niches to much wider use in […]
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