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A recent study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, claims the cost-effectiveness of providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to individuals who engage in injected drug use. Outside of a controlled clinical setting, however, this would not be a wise public health choice.

Calls to poison control centers have increased along with popularity of e-cigarettes. Is that alarming? It is to the New York Times but kids 2 and under account for 53 percent of medicine-related calls to poison centers, which are far more dangerous.

ACSH advisers Greg Conko and Henry Miller have sage wisdom for how to reform regulations so they help in the modern era.

Chipotle says it will “actually misinform the public” to warn the public about getting ill in their stores. The CDC disagrees.

Prince's death has served to further highlight this country's enormous narcotic addiction problem. But, there's another message — the singer fell victim to very flawed pain control drugs. It's been more than 100 years since heroin and aspirin were invented, and there has been little progress in pain control since then.

It is no wonder that the "war on drugs" has been an abject failure. There are multiple reasons. Here's a new one—using sophisticated pharmacology to make the anti-diarrheal drug Imodium into a substitute for heroin. Very clever, but deadly.

Why is it that even in a noisy environment such as a pub or a party, you can still communicate with another person? Chances are, you're already a trained lip-reader, whether you know it or not.

Chemistry — love it or hate it — usually has one thing going for it: It's never icky. But every rule has an exception. This is WAY beyond icky. Check this out.

Why do we bust a move every time we hear a good jingle? Science says it's kind of in our brains to do so— the power of the rhythm gets us every time.

In a record-breaking experiment, researchers from University of Oxford have been able to allow an embryo to develop up to 13 days, beating the previous record of nine days. Knowledge of the biochemical processes taking place will prove invaluable for developmental biologists and people struggling with infertility.

Maintaining freshness of fragile fruits, such as berries, is a daunting issue since they rapidly lose water and quickly become unappealing. But some new technology using the silk protein fibroin may soon help tackle this source of food waste. 

P.T. Barnum was mostly correct, but he underestimated both the number of suckers, and how often they are born. Proof of this exists in the form of a company that is probably going to make a ton of money by marketing water that contains an imaginary molecule, which is supposed to turn you into Superman. It won't.

The type of cognitive strategy chosen could help protect an individual from the negative sequelae of traumatic events. A new study reveals that a technique called "concrete information processing" could be used to prevent intrusive thoughts (a hallmark of PTSD), and blunt emotional responses to subsequent distressing situations.

Big Pharma gets a bad rap today, but that was not always the case. Edward Robinson Squibb once created a new technology used by every hospital in America, and then gave it away for free.

A new robotic surgical technique has been developed by scientists and surgeons at the Sheikh Zayed Institute of Pediatric Surgical Innovation in Washington, DC that removes the need for a surgeon's hands. It also outperforms manual surgery as well as existing robot-assisted surgery.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued its ruling on regulation of tobacco products, which now include e-cigarettes. Here's what that means for the marketplace, and for public health.

For someone with celiac disease, sticking to a gluten-free regimen away from home is, at best, stressful -- and it can be potentially dangerous, because it’s impossible to tell if food contains gluten. As May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month, we spotlight a cool innovation that takes the guesswork out of eating gluten free.

A recent paper in Nature Climate Change affirms what you may have learned in an early biology class: Since carbon dioxide, or CO2, is necessary for plants to engage in photosynthesis, a boost will rev up the engines a little.

The EPA maintains a cozy relationship with environmental groups. That's not really a surprise since the agency is stuffed with former activists. Yet those clearly-conflicted EPA officials have never recused themselves from decisions, even when being lobbied by their friends from activist organizations.

Young babies can't get flu shots, since their immune systems aren't mature yet. But pregnant mothers can get protected, and then pass their immunity to their babies. A new report shows that infants whose moms had been vaccinated had a 70 percent reduction in flu infection. There's really no reason not to do it. 

Mexico slapped a tax on soda as a way of helping control obesity and diabetes, officials there said. But now that soda sales have risen and the additional tax money is rolling in, what will they do?

What if someone offered to sell you water that promised to contain extra oxygen? And what if they promised it would hydrate you three times more than ordinary tap water consumed by peasants that didn't have your wealth? Wouldn't that make you a better parent? Shouldn't you buy it? Of course not, since it's all nonsense.

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One might say that the current conflict between tobacco cigarettes and e-cigarettes seems to hinge, for the most part, on two factors: health and price. And while there are those who insist on challenging the health safety of e-cigarettes, many worldwide may turn to them because they simply cost less. Yet the findings of a new study may throw that belief out the window.

Even after being handed greater legislative authority, the Food and Drug Administration has been unable to quell the rising tide of shortages involving acute-care drugs. According to a new report, despite early evidence of progress there still remains shortfalls in many drugs needed for acute and emergent situations.