he number of Americans dying from accidental overdoses of narcotic painkillers jumped significantly from 1999 to 2011, federal health officials reported Tuesday. Deaths from overdoses of drugs such as hydrocodone...

We've watched this happen over and over again.  The twisting of data to suit whomever or whichever corporation is funding the study.  The blatantly false information that the media will...

Medications are the leading cause of allergy-related sudden deaths in the U.S., according to an analysis of death certificates from 1999 to 2010. The study also found that the risk...

For six days in January 1998, freezing rain coated Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick with 7-11 cm (3-4 in) of ice. Trees and hydro wires fell and utility poles and...

My name is Jack, I’m 12 years old, and I suffer from a tree nut allergy. Since my diagnosis a little over a year ago, I have been very frustrated...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves about 400 implanted medical devices each year through an abbreviated process called the 510(k) process, which only rarely requires clinical trials (studies...

These are hard times for Congress. Its approval ratings have seen a bump from their historic lows of a few months ago, but it’s a small one. Our representative democracy’s...

The anti-vaccination movement (or vaccine hysteria) is an irrational trend of mistrust of vaccination that is almost as old as the technique itself. The movement (more mockingly referred to as...

WhiteWave Foods announced that it has agreed to purchase So Delicious Dairy Free from its existing shareholders, led by Wasserstein & Co., for $195 million in cash. WhiteWave is the...

Leading endocrinologist Professor John Wass tells the fascinating story of hormones – the well-known but little-understood chemicals that govern our bodies and shape who we are. From our weight and...