After two decades of very tough research, Big Bad Pharma finally came up with a cure for hepatitis C – a viral liver infection that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer. So, are liver cancer rates dropping? No. That's because young Americans are drinking so much that they are destroying their livers. 

Given that insurers use backdoor access to your data (and the law has been unable to keep up, to prevent it), you may want to pay cash before you purchase your next bag of chips or condoms. And you ought to think twice when completing forms seeking demographic data on your race, or when you make a formal name change.

Despite staggering temperatures mostly in the Southwestern U.S., we're doing a relatively good job of guarding our safety, which includes using air-conditioning whenever possible. And while AC is more accessible in this country because energy is relatively cheap and affordable, it appears a connection can be made linking this safety to low-cost natural gas.

Europeans, who overwhelmingly claim to accept the science consensus on climate change, deny a far stronger consensus on biotechnology and believe GMOs are a crime against nature because a gene has been precisely modified by scientists.

Funding science through the National Institute of Health is a highly competitive process. It is also highly skewed towards those who have been "successful" in the past. But does past performance predict future performance?

Monitors that continuously measure glucose levels have been recently approved for clinical use by the FDA. They are making patients' lives better, and they may provide us with a new way to better understand the dysregulation of glucose metabolism.

From the supposed need to take more time off, to accusations of being less productive on the job, there are plenty of falsehoods surrounding workers over the age of 50. Let's take a look at these dubious claims – and put them to bed once and for all.

Plants, marine organisms and bacteria have the capacity to biosynthesize extraordinarily complex organic molecules. Those are the ones that drive chemists nuts when they try to make them synthetically. Here's the story of monensin, an antibiotic used in livestock. While it's a monumental effort to make it in the lab, bacteria can make it in their sleep. 

Physicians, on average, interrupt their patients within the first 11 seconds of their visit. They do so when patients are discussing their "agendas." Is this bad manners or bad medicine?

The U.S. Court of Appeals just delivered another blow to a rather-clever-but-cunning play by Allergan, the pharmaceutical giant, to game the patent system.