According to an analysis done by researchers affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health, average daily sodium intake among Americans is 3950 mg. This number is almost twice what the World Health Organization recommends, and about three-fold what our American Heart Association posits as ideal for health.

Cancer clusters the very idea sounds scary. But writing in Slate, science journalist George Johnson writes that there s very little evidence that they exist at all. Time after time, the clusters have turned out to be statistical illusions artifacts of chance.

Ever had surgery for a tear in your medial meniscus, the hard rubber-like cartilage in your knee? No less than three ACSH staffers have. But maybe it wasn t necessary, a new study suggests.

CVS is now asking its employees to have a doctor measure their height, weight, body fat, blood pressure and other health indicators and have those numbers submitted to the insurance provider. And, if employees refuse to permit that information to be submitted, they may be subject to a fee of $600.

We re sure you ve all been to restaurants where the calorie counts are listed on the menus. Researchers are now looking into the effects of a new kind of label on menus physical activity- based labels.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released a study estimating that 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren have autism, surpassing another estimate that 1 in 88 kids do.

ACSH advisor, Dr. David Shlaes has written a very frightening blog post discussing bacterial resistance in Asia. Here are some excerpts:

Counterfeit medicine isn t just a problem in America. In Nigeria, two medical practitioners are asking a regulatory agency to check on the importation of fake anti-malaria drugs into the country. They say that more than two-thirds of malaria drugs in the country are fake or substandard.

Pharmaceutical research firm IMS Health began tracking drug sales in 1957, and in 2012, for the first time, they recorded a drop in spending on prescription drugs. This drop is largely due to the widespread use of generics.

For those with severe peanut or tree nut allergies, flying may provoke anxiety. Given that Air Canada is the only airline with any sort of formal policy on peanut and tree nut allergies, a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology-In Practice may give those with these allergies some relief.