Rep. Chris Smith

WHO Pandemic Treaty Sparks Urgent Concern

Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights & International Organizat...

What to Know Now About COPD

It claims a life every three to four minutes, making it one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The culprit: COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nationwide, more than 16 ...

New Guidelines for Losing Weight, Cut the Calories

For years, the general wisdom was that the only scientifically proven way to shed pounds and inches was to consume fewer calories than one burned each day. Unfortunately, that formula doesn’t work fo...

Tired T Cells

In a bid to better understand the gene expression patterns that control T cell activity, researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology mapped genome-wide changes in chromatin acces...