If ever there was a need for an effective new drug, it would be something to treat obesity. Yet, following the Fen-Phen debacle in 1997, when Wyeth was forced to withdraw their highly effective appetite suppressant (also called Redux) due to heart valve toxicity and rare cases of often fatal primary pulmonary hypertension, drug companies and the FDA were scared off to the point that 13 years would pass before another appetite suppressant would be approved.

Because of its importance, experts have recommended that vitamin D supplements might be useful for improving bone density and perhaps preventing osteoporosis. But recent research, as we have noted, has not documented a bone benefit from vitamin D supplementation.

An ad hoc organization Allow Golden Rice Now will continue its quest to end fear and agenda-driven opposition to Golden Rice with a weekend protest in Vancouver.

Dr. Gilbert Ross in Forbes, October 11, 2013

In the past, studies have highlighted the link between living near an airport and interference with sleep, sleep-disordered breathing

Foster Farms owns three poultry-processing plants in California that are now being targeted as the sources of Salmonella-contaminated poultry that have sickened 278 people in 17 states, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee.

In a surprisingly pro-public-health move, the EU Parliament voted down attempts to restrict or even ban e-cigarettes. Now we hope the FDA follows their lead.

A new test for fetal chromosomal abnormalities seems promising, and only requires a blood test rather than a needle amniocentesis.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) continues to be the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Although in most cases, the infection is successfully eradicated by our normal immune

As noted in The New York Times, Hawaii has become a center for developing genetically engineered (GMO) corn and other crops.