Statistics show that on Halloween, pedestrian deaths increase among kids. However, a few accidents per year, as compared to walking on other dark evenings, is no reason to spoil the holiday. The takeaway: exercise more caution with pre-schoolers and use some common sense.

Since everything in California needs a cancer warning label, we need to ask: Where are the bodies?

Sometimes, a cute stray animal at your doorstep is carrying something you don't want to cuddle up to.

The Sierra Club's adventure and lifestyle editor wrote about toxic chemicals in food (which aren't even toxic). And she had help. From a bug expert and shampoo salesman.

Americans benefit from the terrific advancements science and health have brought. That's, ironically, how NGOs and alternative hucksters have gained ground. If you don't know anyone with polio you can be convinced it was never real, or that acupuncture can fix it. That said, take a good look at the results of this national survey.

California has a ballot proposal to cap profits by dialysis companies. And by the state's own economic analysis, the effect is unknown. Will it help patients, lower costs; or will it harm patients and return money to insurance companies to use as they wish? No one knows but of the 155 ballot measures nationwide, this one has garnered over 14% of all lobbying spending close to $130 million.

The EPA is evaluating 10 chemicals under the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act. To guide its decision-making, we've created explanations for each, with recommendations when the science is clear. Here is the science story on perchloroethylene.

As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." We know that's true because statisticians themselves just said so. A jaw-dropping study reveals that nearly 1 in 4 of them report being asked to remove or alter data to better support a hypothesis. That is called scientific fraud.

Trump officials made a big splash with proposals to curb drug costs. But the benefits may not match the rhetoric from either the administration or Big Pharma. As is often the case, it's a bit more complicated than what we're getting as a first impression.

What if malaria, which affects hundreds of millions worldwide annually, could be sniffed out before it began delivering its debilitating, flu-like effects? Well, that is what's literally happening, with researchers utilizing dogs' keen sense of smell in a recent study to determine malaria's presence in humans.