Harm Reduction

As exciting as the latest scientific research can seem, it can be hard to discern its true relevance. This context and significance often gets lost in translation when in transit from lab bench to journal article to the public domain.

As part of a plan announced last July, FDA has gone after 40 retailers who have violated rules on sales of vaping products to kids.

Through education and taxation, the struggle to end tobacco smoking has made tremendous gains over the last fifty years; some believe that we are entering the final phase of stopping the plague.

President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, General H.R.

Fractures due to the declining health of our bones places a substantial burden on patients, at one year 60% require assistance with daily living, 40% are unable to walk independently, and 20-30% are dead.

It's one thing to be on the wrong side of a health issue as important as concussion-caused brain damage.

Has an aspirin replaced the apple? Is it true that an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away? The short answer is perhaps; the long answer is complicated.

It should come as no surprise that drug traffickers are quite creative about distributing their du jour illicit product.

In a rapid series of progressively escalating press releases by the Illinois Department of Public Health, it appears that a da

Climate change has been with us forever. Leave aside the current rancorous “debate” about the causes of our current climate, is there anything history can teach us about how human society copes when the weather around them change?