British scientists came up with a plan to decrease the incidence of the dangerous drug resistant Clostridium difficile: Limit the use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, such as Cipro, in hospitals. 

It's a testament to modern medicine that just two days after undergoing cervical cancer surgery, a patient as driven as NFL sideline reporter Erin Andrews can even have the option to jet back to her job. And just three days after that, to be healthy enough to stand before millions of viewers on live national television.

It seems every time I've got a handle on the latest food craze (and believe me, I know my stuff), another super food takes center stage.
Enter Teff: the staple grain of Ethiopia. And according to the Internet, this one blows Quinoa out of the boiling water. Which is especially frustrating, since it took me 6 months to teach ACSH President Hank Campbell how to pronounce Quinoa, and now he doesn't have to anymore. 
The good news is Teff is much easier to pronounce, although its nutritional benefits may be a bit confusing. Watch our video to see why!
 

The wording of information was a more significant factor in patient decision making than age, gender, medical history and for most patients, the level of education. 

Even birds know when they're paired up with a mate that's "out of their league." New research from the journal Biology Letters demonstrates that unattractive, male, red-backed fairy-wrens spend more time guarding their female mates – while their sexy competitors spend more time seeking "extramarital" affairs.

Here we go again. Given that there are literally thousands of chemicals to pick on, we can only wonder why scaremongers keep returning again and again to the old ones, like acrylamide. This time, if you can believe it, British consumers were recently warned to avoid browning their toast or other starchy foods.

The fight against cancer has been one tough war. Perhaps the most difficult battle has been finding drugs that selectively kill cancer cells while sparing the rest. A research group at Washington University Medical School has come up with a very clever approach — starving the cancer cells. 

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton collapsed Monday night in front of legislators while giving the State of the State address. Though he rebounded well, he just disclosed a recent prostate cancer diagnosis. Learn about the proper medical care that's needed when someone faints, and why it happens in the first place. 

Officials in the Colorado Basin area, who allocate mountain water runoff to 33 million residents downstream, were perplexed by recurring blankets of dust, which accelerated the snow-melting process. So these hydrologists turned to NASA and its satellites to help them solve the mystery and improve the accuracy of their water supply forecasts.

It is impossible to estimate how much suffering that the CDC has caused with its asinine "guidance" on opioid prescribing for doctors. So, let's just listen to one voice. It says plenty. And she could be you some day.