Here s a hard truth: We don t know enough about human nutrition. With all the discrepancies that have been reported lately in collecting data for nutrition studies we should probably throw out everything we ve learned about nutrition over the past century.

It has been well established that bariatric surgery is perhaps the most effective means of reducing both body weight and comorbid conditions associated with obesity.

Your Daily Brain: 24 Hours in the Life of Your Brain is the new book from Marbles: the Brain Store and Garth Sundem, a regular Science 2.0 writer. The book provides insight to what exactly is going on in your brain throughout the day starting from the moment your alarm clock goes off to falling asleep at night, and everything in between, from losing your car keys, going to the gym, and interacting with your family.

A new study of combination intra-abdominal and intravenous chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer confirmed its significant benefits in terms of survival. So why aren t more Stage III and IV cancer patients getting this effective therapy? A combination of ignorance and greed seems likely.

With Pepsi capitalizing on public confusion about the difference between a "good" and "bad" sweetener in order to gain some market share by selling competing versions of their diet soda, it's important that consumers have a trusted resource that can separate fact from fallacy. The American Council on Science and Health has once again stepped in to be a trusted guide. Is sugar for you? Do diet drinks cause obesity?

Even in the archives of successful vaccine campaigns, this one really stands out.
In only one year, a vaccine that is astoundingly effective against Ebola, the highly contagious and often lethal virus that has gripped much of the world in fear, was miraculously discovered by an multinational group that consisted of scientists from 12 research centers, as well as the World Health Organization (WHO). The vaccine is manufactured by Merck.

Vaccine preventable diseases have made a recent comeback thanks to the anti-vax movement. However, recent data show that views among parents are changing and one new study points out the best way to convince them of the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

This seems like an opportune time to take stock of how we re doing as an antidote to all that junk science so pervasive in the new media. So this article is entitled ¦..Junk Science Report Card

What s a person to do, when on the one hand it s clear that many Americans are being under-treated for a dangerous condition, while on the other, too many of us are getting way too much care. The lesson: especially when it comes to our health, too much is as bad as too little.

A recent article published online in JAMA Oncology focuses on the increased recent attention in medicine, the media, and by the general public that has generated the perception that rates of breast cancer among young women have been increasing. (An