A decade after a huge federal study called the Women s Health Initiative (WHI) linked hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with higher rates of breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, new data are accumulating to suggest that the treatment actually

ACSH has long maintained that mandatory flu vaccines for health care workers is one of the best ways to reduce the toll of seasonal influenza, which kills between 3,000 and 50,000 Ame

California s Proposition 65, which since 1986 has mandated this may cause cancer warnings on a multitude of everyday products, has provided nothing in the way of consumer protection but heaps in the way of consumer anxiety.

Harder exercise is better than longer exercise when it comes to preventing metabolic syndrome, Danish researchers reported in a new study published in BMJ Open.

Perhaps New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof should stick to live-tweeting brothel raids and parachuting into war zones because when it comes to covering science, he s way out of his depth.

Though there is no debate about the importance of getting a flu vaccine the CDC reports that influenza-associated deaths range from 3,000 to nearly 50,000 each year traditionally, individuals with egg allergies have concerns about the safety of the shot because the vaccine is made using chicken eggs.

Last week, we covered a provocative new study on the use of beta blockers a class of drugs long used to treat hypertension, heart failure, angina, and abnormal heart rhythms.

It is very unusual when an old, well-established class of drugs is suddenly shown to be less effective than previous thought. Or even useless. But according to a large study in the October 3 JAMA, this may very well be the case with beta-blockers, a staple of heart and blood pressure treatment since the 1970s. The implications are huge--almost 200 million prescriptions were written for these drugs in the U.S. in 2010 alone.

Last month, the United States Preventive Services Task Force an group of 16 independent experts who are charged with objectively evaluating evidence regarding medical tests and procedures issued its recommendation against screening healthy women of any age for ovarian cancer.

When it comes to perishable food items, consumers often rely on expiration dates to determine when a product will spoil. But does the same rule of thumb hold for labeled expiration dates on medications?