Medical misinformation has a peculiar advantage: it can outlive the evidence that disproves it, especially when yesterday’s ...

From an old pesticide scare getting an official platform to a trendy sleep supplement that fails basic chemistry, ACSH staff ...

Walk into the supplement aisle and you’ll find plenty of products promising better health. But sometimes, basic chemistry and biology tell us those claims simply don’t add up. Before spending money on ...

As the use of high-potency marijuana expands with America's liberalized drug laws, researchers are again asking whether ...

What came after fire as humanity’s earliest chemical technology? Fermentation—an ancient bit of biotechnology that gave us ...

A reader writes, “I'm curious about the whole-body health effects of a long-term keto diet -- cholesterol, heart disease, etc ...

A new study links sugar-sweetened beverages to stomach cancer. It's all over the news, with reports that they more than ...

Protein has become nutrition’s magic word, stamped on everything from pasta to Pop-Tarts as shorthand for “healthy.” But most ...

As more EVs are used, there will certainly be more EV battery fires. A friend who has been a volunteer firefighter forever ...

Nicotine isn’t harmless—but treating every nicotine product as equally dangerous obscures an important public-health ...

Project Remission promises to rethink chronic disease as potentially reversible through lifestyle changes. But its emphasis ...