Congress has decided to boost funding for the National Institutes of Health by $9.3 billion over five years, and that is welcome news to researchers. But there are two ways we could have prevented life sciences researchers from feeling like they were being disrespected by the current White House administration.

Jerry Seinfeld has a very funny bit about what happens when couples that have broken up try to get back together again. Partly paraphrasing: "Do you ever take milk out of the refrigerator, sniff it and it's starting to smell sour? So you put it back and think 'Hmm. Maybe this will smell better tomorrow?'"

E-cigarettes are a method to inhale nicotine-laced vapor, with the idea being that, much as with nicotine gums or patches, people trying to quit smoking will gradually reduce the nicotine that makes them crave cigarettes.

Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (or DCIS) is a cancer we have spoken a lot about here at the American Council on Science and Health, particularly in recent weekPink Breast Cancer Ribbons in regards to Food Network star Sandra Lee.

At New American, journalist Raven Clabough notes that the pharmaceutical companies behind the lucrative gum and patch nicotine replacement tools used for smoking cessation have been lobbying heavily against competitors such as e-cigarettes.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed new rules on e-cigarettes, including reviewing new e-cigarette products before they are sold and outlawing sales of the vapor devices to minors, because they have not been properly studied, leaving consumers unaware of potential health effects that could be related to their usage.

Flibanserin was originally developed by Boehringer-Ingleheim as an antidepressant. It failed in the clinic, however, there were some signs of increased female libido in the women who had been enrolled in the trial.

A bizarre, rambling diatribe against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A large meta-analysis by researchers working in the United Kingdom found what we already knew: stress might be bad for your health.

Mainstream media have been stressing the term "accident" when it comes to the EPA violating the Clean Water Act and being incompetent about the toxic wastewater gushing out of a 19th century abandoned mine, something media never rationalize about corporations.

Humans have used some form of condom as a prevention against pregnancy and infection for centuries, and maybe longer. Humans have made condoms out of cloths, animal intestines, oiled silk paper, tortoise shells or animal horn.