The best surgeons I trained with and worked alongside were not necessarily the most daring or dazzling; they understood that ...

Long before antibiotic resistance became a mainstream public health concern, a quiet conversation between Senator Ted Kennedy ...

A combination of human and artificial intelligence has paved the way for a GLP-1 agonist that is effective when taken by mouth. Not only does it have a tongue-twisting name, “orforglipron” has a ...

Modern pain medicine often treats addiction and pain by entirely different standards. While addiction is accepted as a ...

Here’s a rare treat. It’s one thing to read about Taxol, one of the most important breakthroughs in modern cancer treatment.

Fiercely self-assured, scientifically relentless, and unwilling to accept the limits imposed on women of her era, Rosalyn ...

Turmeric supplements have become a booming “natural” health product, promoted for everything from inflammation and joint pain to general disease prevention, while regulatory agencies are increasingly ...

At the time of this writing, residents of Garden Grove, California, are watching nervously as crews struggle to prevent a tank containing 7,000 gallons of overheated methyl methacrylate from exploding ...

ACSH Executive Vice President Cameron English opens up about how vaping helped him quit tobacco (and eventually nicotine), why the narrative on harm reduction is finally changing, and the advice he ...

For the first time in my adult life, I'm nicotine free. Here's my story, and the science that explains how I got here. Happy World No Tobacco Day. My tobacco addiction grabbed hold of me quietly and ...