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Wheat is the second most important food crop in the developing world. It's not just in pasta, either. Wheat is found in more food than you can imagine (1). Like corn and soy, we need it, and lots of it. 

Pollsters have taken a beating the last few years. Getting Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election wrong were spectacular failures that shook the public's faith in prediction models.

You may remember a mystery that had health officials and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) perplexed a few summers back.

Medical noncompliance and appointment no-shows substantially contribute to increasing health care costs - on top of resultant treatment complications and disease decline (especially in the chronically ill) due to such deferral.

An article reviewing the CDC’s database on causes of death in the U.S. due to animals was recently published in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine.

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is taking the label "human genome project" to the next level by undertaking a project known as the Dubai 10X initiative.

Dr. Oz's show aired it's 1500th episode earlier this month. We didn't notice. We're guessing you didn't either.  That's because his landmark 1500th show was really a non-event. 

Quitting smoking is really hard. So hard, in fact, that the vast majority of people who quit smoking make multiple attempts before achieving success. 

I have had the flu for two weeks. Well, to be honest, I never did get the test to confirm that it was, indeed, the flu. But, I am ok self-diagnosing this one based on the high fever, aches, chills, headache, sore throat, and barking cough.