The Carnivore Diet—where fruits and vegetables are banished, and butter is a snack—may seem like satire, but it’s a growing ...

The execs at Haleon, a huge multinational consumer products company, ought to take a good look in the mirror. That is, unless ...

The fluoride controversy, where advocates and opponents argue in the media, is a distraction because the views of real and ...

Water fluoridation transformed dental care, saved billions of dollars, and inspired an iconic scene in a Hollywood satire ...

We've slapped a tax on sugary drinks, watched prices rise, and people bought less soda—but their waistlines didn’t seem to ...

The journey of pasteurization is one of science's most significant public health triumphs. However, a nostalgia for the "not ...

Lithium batteries are in the news constantly. But lithium has plenty of other uses. It's a drug for bipolar disorder. It used ...

The medical journal The Lancet recently published a detailed consensus statement classifying obesity as a disease. The ...

Pseudoscience has recently been reemerging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: HIV is neither the cause nor the sole cause of AIDS. This nonsense has ...

We are well into the flu season, and people have different strategies for preventing or treating viral infections. Of course, ...

Americans venerate the four ethical principles as articulated by Beauchamps and Childress: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. However, in the current controversy pitting “medical ...

There were unforgiveable shortcomings in management, which included critical information not reaching senior officials as ...