epidemiology

Almost without exception, when a new drug is approved and subsequently widely used, adverse effects that went undetected during clinical trials will begin to emerge. Math and clinical trial design explain why.

Sometimes science produces strange results—really strange, in fact. This is one of those times.

Here's a strange one.

In Czechoslovakia, there was a time when parents had to decide whether to tell a child that Russia was not your friend and that communism was a failed system. The parents had to judge when the child was ready. 

I recently wrote about a nonsensical study claiming that artificially sweetened drinks contribute to cognitive decline. It was nonsense.

Wanna know what annoys me? (Perhaps a better question is what doesn't annoy me.) Near the top of this very long list is the constant and mostly nonsensical war on all things sweet.

The recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Monsanto v.

A new study in the journal Aging found that people, especially men, who have higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine tended to have slightly shorter lifespans.

Join Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Josh Bloom on Episode 129 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss: