Why Coca-Cola's assertion that "all calories count" is inappropriately misleading
An online game elucidates the ways we calculate risk.
The medical spending pie is growing; but the consumer slice is, unexpectedly, getting smaller.
A stabbing, a shooting, and an uneasy relationship with the mentally ill haunts a city.
Unrestrained online behavior leads to real world risks.
Predicting a 2013 filled with soda bans and genetically modified salmon
Sensors installed in nursing homes and even individual residences are helping nurses monitor seniors' health, but questions remain about cost, and privacy.
The new only-child generation grew up to be less trusting, more risk-averse, less competitive, more pessimistic, less conscientious, and it appears, more neurotic.
Will seeing just how far we've fallen behind other countries, across almost all measures of health, finally motivate change?
Soldiers' concerns about retribution make many reluctant to see military psychologists, and their health insurance does not pay for them see civilian doctors.
How bad is it that celebrities tell us to drink soda? And why is Beyoncé taking all the heat?
Another way we're making sure people have end-of-life care directives
The German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine condemned circumcision, and some say political movements simply reflect a culture traditionally inclined to tell people how to behave. But some Jewish Germans are less sure of the underpinnings.
Prenatal ultrasounds in social settings were named a "trend" in "oversharing" this week. And yeah, it's easy to laugh at, but making health social is actually wonderful.
A once-modern facility after 27 years of nuclear contamination and neglect
Yes, to some degree, having a higher BMI has been associated with a lower risk of death. But interpreting a new study to mean anything more than that, and precisely that, is dangerous.
Role-playing video games can foster social behavior, too.
The need for child-specific treatments is largely ignored by funding incentives; so kids pay.
January 1 is unique among major holidays as a suicide flashpoint.
Yesterday evening the U.S. Secretary of State was hospitalized in New York City for treatment and monitoring of a thrombosis in a cerebral vein. What that means