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

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

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

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

Pseudoscience has recently been reemerging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the ...

The execs at Haleon, a huge multinational consumer products company, ought to take a good look in the mirror. That is, unless misleading, sleazy marketing is in the mission statement. In that case, ...

After 20 years of hemming, hawing, and “evaluating the science,” the FDA is finally muscling its way onto the most coveted ...

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

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

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

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

John Batchelor and I dive into the accelerating outbreak of avian flu across the U.S. and the hazard of raw milk.