STAT is co-publishing this investigation by Undark. In the spring of 2024, Flynn McGuire started to notice glowing references online to an unapproved drug that proponents claimed could help the body ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a frigid December afternoon, I took an elevator up to the sixth floor of a midtown office building on a busy ...

To grow the thickest, healthiest and most luxurious hair possible, many people head straight to the supplement aisle. Choices abound, but two of the most common (and most talked about) are biotin and ...

The recent surge in peptide injections is a textbook example of a modern health craze. Crazes differ from fads in that the latter involve an intense but short-term interest in a trivial object or idea ...

When Hailey Bieber launched Rhode Skin in 2022 with its now signature products — the Peptide Lip Treatments — one thought instantly popped into my head: I wish they were tinted. As much as I loved the ...

Biohacking: On the fringes of the tech industry, the use of peptides has expanded far beyond the GLP-1 agonists that have transformed the science of weight loss. A diverse array of compounds is now in ...

I apologize in advance for invoking Voltaire in an article about peptides, but in Chapter 22 of Candide there’s this part where Candide comes to Paris, and, since that’s where Voltaire ...

Peptides have become the beauty world's latest buzzword and one of the biggest skincare trends, with dermatologists and skincare gurus highlighting their anti-aging benefits across social media. And ...