Scromiting” is a grim slang term for the severe nausea and vomiting that can come with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' move away from recommending routine hepatitis B vaccination at birth is being treated as either a triumph of “medical freedom” or a looming ...

This essay examines how recent political intervention has reshaped the CDC’s public messaging on vaccines and autism. In Part ...

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House on fire? No worry. Sabre-toothed tiger chasing you? Big deal. Major surgery scheduled? Yawn. Fortunately for mankind ...

The past twenty years have seen gluten sensitivity transformed from a fringe concern into a mainstream cultural identity, ...

America’s overdose crisis isn’t the simple story we’ve been told for years. A new investigation reveals how two key graphs — one famous, one ignored — shift entirely the way we understand what ...

While dogs have long been celebrated for easing stress and boosting companionship, science is beginning to explore a more ...

Across four very different stories runs a common thread: our deepening struggle to preserve authentic human connection in a ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

Social media is awash in testimonials from anonymous men who claim that testosterone-replacement therapy (TRT) helped them ...