Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already given Americans a preview of the Trump administration’s health policy priorities. But how much of his distrust of the scientific and medical establishment is backed up by solid data and real-deal experts, and how much of it is half-baked bro science…Read More
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of the drugs designed to combat them, we risk losing the ability to treat even common infections effectively. While the urgency of this issue is clear, addressing it requires innovative and targeted approaches…Read More
There is a cognitive bias called “the curse of knowledge” (sometimes also called “the curse of expertise”). It happens when you incorrectly assume that everyone knows as much as you do on a given topic. As a clinical microbiologist, I assumed everyone knew that it was a terrible idea to kiss a newborn baby anywhere […]
Washington University in St. Louis researchers have found that adolescents who use cannabis report more psychosis spectrum symptoms and greater distress from these symptoms, suggesting that shared vulnerability and self-medication contribute to the association between cannabis use and psychosis risk…Read More
Infections in the lower urinary tract rarely migrate to the kidneys, but the precise mechanism that the human body employs to keep the twin organs disease-free has remained a medical mystery—until now…Read More