The surge in the “medical freedom” movement has thrust the tension between individual liberty and public health into the ...

The Lancet Commission has declared obesity a disease. With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is ...

Chocolate is proof that life’s sweetest indulgences come with strings attached. Just when you thought you could justify a ...

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

Gatorade is selling "electrolyte-infused" alkaline water. Save your money and your groin. It's a stupid ripoff with implied ...

Most of you are familiar with lithium batteries and the drug for bipolar disorder. But did you know it used to be put in soda for hangovers, and it saved the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts? You don ...

By now, you have surely seen many images of planes dropping a red liquid on the Los Angeles fires. It's not just water. A ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...

The First Amendment's guarantees are not absolute. A person cannot “shout 'fire!' in a crowded theater,” and put the lives of ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...

Michael Pollan offered us Food Rules; today, researchers armed with machine learning and 50,000 grocery items are trying to ...