According to an analysis conducted last year, the New York state Health Department found that hydrofracking could be conducted safely in New York. This much-debated procedure, formally known as high volume hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting sand, water and chemicals underground at high pressure to extract natural gas from rock formations.

ACSH trustee Dr. James Enstrom is getting some support in his legal battle against the University of California at Los Angeles, which last year fired the epidemiologist from his post at the UCLA School of Public Health, a position he had held since 1976.

H.I.V. positive patients who smoke lose more years to smoking than to the virus itself, a new Danish study suggests.

Generic drugs, which account for more than 70 percent of prescriptions, provide the same health benefits as brand-name drugs but often vary in color and shape. Now, a new study suggests that generic medications that differ in color from their brand-name counterpart may make people less likely to continue taking them.

At a time when many individuals are making new year s resolutions to lose weight, a new report suggests that thinner may not always be better.

Depression during pregnancy is not an uncommon affliction, affecting between 1 in 5 and 1 in 14 women throughout the developed world. A new study suggests pregnant women suffering from depression should be able to take a certain class of antidepressants without worrying about harming their baby.

Now that a full year has passed since the abortive attempt by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration s Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, to make the morning-after pill available to anyone over-the-counter (OTC), what is the status of this plan?

While drug shortages are nothing new, shortages of certain key generic cancer drugs seem to be getting worse. The risk of running out of drugs long-used against many types of cancer is quite real and disturbing. Even worse is the danger these drug shortages present for children and teenagers undergoing chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin s lymphoma.

MRI testing may provide an accurate noninvasive surrogate for invasive tests to discriminate Alzheimer s disease from frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), new research suggests.

It s been a year since Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius squashing the Food and Drug Administration s plan to make the morning after pill available over-the-counter, and ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross still isn t happy about it.