Along with BPA, DDT, and PCBs, Aspartame has been the focus of fear-mongers for decades. Anything that can go wrong with the human body from cancer to lupus to brain tumors and multiple sclerosis has been blamed on this innocuous artificial sweetener.

If you are suffering from moderate-to-severe pain, you can add one more worry to your list the real possibility is that you will not be able to get effective pain-relieving drugs without considerable effort. And maybe not at all.

Neurology group issues new guidelines on stroke prevention among people with irregular heartbeats atrial fibrillation, mainly. In summary: be more aggressive with blood thinners (anticoagulants).

Dr. Josh Bloom on Science 2.0, February 27, 2014.
On face value, if you read Anita Clayton'sHuffington Post piece entitled The FDA, Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Inequality, you could not come to any conclusion other that the FDA is overtly sexist...[Read more].

Michael Shaw on HealthNewsDigest.com, February 24, 2014.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus calls his disciples "the salt of the earth." While the meaning of this expression is clear, its derivation may not be. Roman scholar Pliny the Elder would...[Read more].

It has long been known that there is a well-established connection between the age of mothers and complications both for the fetus and the mother.
The question of paternal age is less clear. Assumptions that there is no change in sperm quality and birth outcomes have been challenged with mixed results. Some studies have shown little or no correlation between paternal age and birth defects, while others have concluded the opposite.

EU passes stringent e-cigarette regulations. While obvious age limits on sales and marketing and appropriate consumer product safeguards are included, other sections will do great harm to public health but could have been even worse.

Nutrition labels on food may soon be getting a makeover for the first time in nearly two decades. The FDA is now proposing a new design based on the current reality of the American diet, taking

New study may convince women with one of the BRCA mutations to have their ovaries removed: cancer risk is substantial. Why worry? Save your eggs and lose the ovaries!

The CDC recommends that children receive the DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hemophilus influenza type b) at 3, 5, and 12 months and the MMR vaccine