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Shocker: Americans Are Still Confused About Health-Care Reform
In one of the first polls to be released after the Supreme Court's health-care ruling, Americans remain divided on the matter -- perhaps because we still don't understand it.
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Cigarette Taxes Make Us Drink
Twenty-somethings are more likely to binge drink when cigarette prices are higher. The unintended consequences of state taxation policies may warrant more consideration.
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The Evolving State of Physician-Assisted Suicide
Massachusetts voters soon will decide whether to become the third state to legalize the contentious end-of-life care option for the terminally ill.
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Preserving American (Medical) Exceptionalism
America must recommit to U.S. medical culture's first principles.
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Sexual Liberation in Fish Is Nothing to Celebrate
BPA exposure breaks down boundaries, causes interspecies experimentation in fish.
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The World's Impending $1.2 Trillion Drug Bill, in Two Charts
As drug patents expire, expanding access to generic drugs will mean an explosion in spending on treatments in the developing world.
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Study of the Day: 6 Million U.S. Teens Live With Uncontrollable Anger
New research estimates that one in 12 adolescents have persistent bouts of rage that involve property damage and violence toward others.
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This Film Is Rated 'R' For Smoking
If smoking in a movie meant an R rating, it could reduce adolescent tobacco use by almost twenty percent.
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When Public Beats Private: Community Clinics That Keep Costs Down and Do a Better Job, Too
When it comes to primary care, both the privately insured and those covered by Medicaid can be well-served by community health centers.
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Better Regulations, Not Fancy Kitchen Tools, Are the Key to Food Safety
It's all well and good to check your food with a thermometer, but meat and poultry ought to be clean before you even leave the supermarket.
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Letting Big Pharma Review Its Own Drugs — What Could Go Wrong?
We can't trust drug companies to disclose product safety hazards when they stand to gain so much from fudging the facts
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Thought the Senate's Food Stamp Cuts Were Bad? The House Version Is Worse
The House version of the farm bill would slash $16 billion from SNAP -- more than 3.5 times the amount proposed in the Senate
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This at-Home HIV Test Looks Simple, but Is It Accurate?
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved over-the-counter HIV tests for consumer use. How effective are they, really?
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2 New Reports on Pesticides in Foods, From Different Perspectives
It's hard to know if the small doses of pesticides we receive from fruits and vegetables are harmful.
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A Future We Make for Ourselves: Should We Expand Imperfect Treatments, or Create New Ones?
The Supreme Court's recent decision on health care exposes an age-old debate: focus resources on the treatments we have, or set our sights on pricey research for future cures?
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The World's Drug Habits, in One Interactive Graphic
From opiates to amphetamines, the United Nations' latest watchdog report covers global consumption of illegal narcotics. The data reveal some surprises -- and one big puzzle.
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Why the 'Consumer Choice' Argument Is an Automatic Win for Big Soda
Left to their own devices, people have little hope of resisting the daily bombardment of soda advertising on television, billboards, and the Internet.
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Who's to Blame for Our Soda Problem—You, or Beverage Companies?
Corporate social responsibility campaigns subtly shift "responsibility" for healthfulness onto the consumer and away from companies' fattening products.
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What the Obamacare Ruling Means for Food Politics
The Affordable Care Act promises to bring better nutritional labeling to restaurant menus.
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Study of the Day: An Incredible New Way to Breathe During an Emergency
A single intravenous injection of a lipid-based gas-filled solution brought 15 minutes worth of life-saving oxygen to rabbits with completely blocked airways.
