Thousands of people who die by suicide experience chronic pain before they end their lives. It's a tragedy I've seen up close, a stark reminder that suicide prevention must include patients living ...

Promoted as high-tech nutrient delivery, over-the-counter vitamin patches are rapidly gaining popularity among consumers ...

From cancer and cannabis to perverse research incentives, we’ve been busy confronting nonsense. Here’s a roundup of recent ...

Few things are more comforting than a hot cup of coffee or tea on a cold day. But what if the heat that makes the drink so enjoyable also increases your risk of cancer?

Eighteen months ago, I asked whether anti-vaccine rhetoric and a retreat from infectious-disease preparedness might open the ...

Shaken Baby Syndrome has increasingly been branded “junk science,” not because the medical consensus has disappeared, but ...

Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.

As measles cases surged across the country, federal health officials repeatedly stopped short of offering an unequivocal ...

Suicide awareness campaigns can start conversations—but do they actually save lives? Looking beyond visibility and good ...

Allulose looks like sugar to a chemist but behaves rather differently inside the body. The FDA recognized that distinction ...

"Carbon monoxide" and "brain health" aren't terms normally found in the same sentence, at least not in a good way. But a ...

It's the beginning of October, which means it's time to write about a birthstone. But there's a problem: October has two, which is too much work. Fortunately, my horoscope told me to pick opals rather ...