Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn

The industrial economy has created more than 100 million "novel entities", or chemicals not found in nature, with somewhere between 40,000 and 350,000 in commercial use and production, the report says. But the environmental and human health effects of this widespread contamination of the biosphere are not widely appreciated, in spite of a growing body of evidence linking chemical toxicity with effects ranging from ADHD to infertility to cancer...

The report found there were correlational or causal data linking widely used chemicals with threats to human reproductive, immune, neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, liver, kidney and metabolic systems…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/06/chemical-pollution-threat-comparable-climate-change-scientists-warn-novel-entities?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

COVID keeps evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems : Shots - Health News : NPR

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year...

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5312100/covid-virus-mutation-evolution 

RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’

Kennedy's hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US's leading health official…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/rfk-jr-hearing-black-people-immune-systems

Drug Turns Cancer Gene Into ‘Eat Me’ Flag for Immune System | UC San Francisco

Tumor cells are notoriously good at evading the human immune system; they put up physical walls, wear disguises and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks. Now, UC San Francisco researchers have developed a drug that overcomes some of these barriers, marking cancer cells for destruction by the immune system…

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/09/423661/drug-turns-cancer-gene-eat-me-flag-immune-system

This is the 'worst food ingredient for your immune system,' says immunologist and health expert

…When you have high blood sugar — which is caused by many factors, but the biggest is consuming too much of it in your diet — it starts a vicious cycle of insulin resistance and obesity that drives up inflammatory cytokines, damages blood vessels, and activates the immune system to repair those areas…

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/15/this-is-the-worst-ingredient-for-your-immune-system-says-immunologist-and-health-expert.html

Eating Sugar Can Weaken Your Immune System. Here's What To Know. | HuffPost Life

A certain amount of sugar can lower your immunity for several hours, which is not ideal for staying healthy during the coronavirus outbreak.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sugar-weaken-immune-system_l_5e74ca2cc5b6f5b7c542a3be

Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer' - BBC News

The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested in patients, but the researchers say they have "enormous potential". Experts said that although the work was still at an early stage, it was very exciting. ....
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51182451

Century-old Parkinson's question answered

Scientists say they have found the first direct evidence that the immune system does attack the brain in Parkinson's disease. The discovery, in the journal Nature, suggests that drugs to calm the immune system could help manage the disease.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40353798