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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released their hospital rankings, and New York isn't happy about being last among 50 states.

Medical practitioners and patients live in “a sea of uncertainty, where the stressful unknown drives us “to seek more information through testing” to increase our certainty. But more data is not necessarily helpful, according to an online report in JAMA Oncology examining the impact of evidence-based recommendations on physician behavior.

A group of activists at the Democratic National Convention are going to make themselves be heard. And smelled. Chemistry call explain the latter.

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With rising costs, an inundated healthcare system, and limited resources, physicians have been known to ration medical services. According to a recent study, over half of the physicians surveyed reported withholding beneficial clinical services to patients over the past six months, with prescription drugs and MRIs at the top of the restricted list.

Amidst the talks at the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics annual conference this December will be a session on "vaccines and autism." Chiropractors performing spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) on children and babies is bad enough - by including the session on vaccines and autism at the conference, they are offering children a one - two punch. Now babies that are getting their backs cracked will have whooping cough, too.

Yet another cancer has been found in yet another ancient fossil, further relegating claims that 'modern food and trace chemicals cause more cancer' to the dustbin of history.

The presence of a molecule that strongly enhances the flavor of other molecules may explain why garlic powder is such a commonly used ingredient in cooked foods.

A blood test for dementia would be great but there are limitations as to what they can tell us about our brains.

The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) believes Sex Ed should extend beyond the classroom; in fact, the Academy's latest clinical report urges pediatricians to provide sex health information to both patients and parents or guardians.

The USPSTF reports that the evidence for screening for skin cancer is weak. Some dermatologists are concerned, saying that lack of evidence of benefit doesn't mean there is no benefit. What should a patient think or do?

How does the architecture of our brain and neurons allow each of us to make individual behavioral choices? Now government is in our metaphors too!

Statins, those drugs widely used to lower blood cholesterol levels may have an added benefit for pregnant women. In a small study, researchers have found that women with an increased risk of preeclampsia, and their babies, can benefit from timely treatment with statins.

FDA has issued new warnings about mercury in illegally imported "anti-aging" products.

Got a growling stomach? You probably have a snarly attitude, too.

The "science" surrounding endocrine disruptors is so crazy that, as stores that sell anything that contains a paraben preservative (a so-called estrogen that has probably never harmed anyone) are running like mad to get away from it, a TV supplement huckster is selling a "miracle fat burner" that looks more than a little like ethyl paraben. Welcome to a chemical madhouse.

Using statistics, you can show almost anything is correlated.

If you are educated by Google, you see Deniers for Hire have called us a "pro-industry front group" - Greenpeace, Mother Jones, NRDC, U.S. Right to Know, and SourceWatch, the whole cabal. The problem with their argument (other than the fact it is ad hominem) is that, if it really was true that ACSH is a corporate shill, we would have to be really, really bad at it, given our content.

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In the fight against Alzheimer's, memory loss has kept its place as the frontrunner of early warning signs, but that may no longer hold true.

New survey data analysis finds that people who report even moderate pain are 41 percent more likely to develop an opioid addiction.

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Unwanted microorganisms are a fact of life. Bugs grow everywhere we don't want them, from our showers and sinks to our toilets and toothbrushes. The scummy layers they form, called biofilms, are ugly and disgusting but mostly harmless in these settings. However, when they form on medical devices, such as catheters and implants, they can be life-threatening. A clever new material may prevent that.

The black and orange patches that define the coloring of a calico cat beautifully illustrate the genetic mechanism known as "dosage compensation" through X chromosome inactivation.

Much of what we know about early man comes from Gary Larson, the genius behind The Far Side cartoon. For instance, because of him, we have anthropological insights on everything from caveman fashion to the invention of the wheel. He also depicted how, in his mind, caveman researchers discovered fire. But how and when did early man really discover fire?