Wouldn't it be nice to stroll along your favorite beach and not see the litter of plastic trash all around. In fact, there is a place where you can stroll and not see plastic at all – since the trash consists of millions of seaside gems. All you have to do is go to Siberia. 

If you have high cholesterol, you may be taking some medications called statins, which are the most effective medicines for lowering "bad" cholesterol. But some people are turning to over-the-counter alternatives like red yeast rice, a nutritional supplement with cholesterol-lowering action. However, they come with safety concerns.

The FDA is warning us that some natural remedies contain poison. Meanwhile, partisan rhetoric poisons the body politic. Discover the antidote to this partisan venom. 

Biopharmaceutical drugs are revolutionizing medicine, but at a cost. Almost without exception, they're more expensive than small-molecule drugs, but they also are playing an increasing role in patient care. Pfizer's Dr. Robert Popovian informs us about the need to consider the value of these drugs – not just their price.  

A study can be fair and balanced. But often once it's in the hands of the media, it's repackaged to capture eyeballs. It is not fake news – it's just misleading, designed to attract attention rather than to educate. 

A new, disturbing report, based on data collected from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, shows an increase in the death rates for young Americans over a 15-year period. This has been driven substantially by a shocking increase in the mortality of white women aged 25 to 35.

If someone's lifestyle was represented by the totality of the products advertised during the Super Bowl, the composite picture would be of a sedentary individual with an unhealthy diet, who consumes excessive alcohol and drives everywhere. Do people really live that way? Probably not, but the ads reveal something interesting. 

Two psychologists are the subject of Michael Lewis’s latest book, The Undoing Project. Their collaboration was the nursery that has given us the field of behavioral economics, and the story of an intellectual marriage.

The relative size of the human male's penis and testes can be reduced to our species' mating strategies, and can provide some surprising insights into early human culture.

Will a new dietary supplement turn you into a porn star? The company that markets Red Fortera wants you to think just that – and backs it up with "clinical data." Good luck finding it. You will come up short.