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Attorney Bill Marler has collected $600 million suing and settling foodborne-illness cases. Right now, he's zeroing in on Chipotle over its E. coli and norovirus outbreaks. If your company does not want to be sued for poisoning customers, don't sell these six things.

The American Council on Science and Health is pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees appointed eight new members to our renowned Board of Scientific Advisors yesterday afternoon.

Researchers at Notre Dame University have been able to engineer a switch on immune T cell receptors, enhancing their capacity to recognize foreign proteins on cancer cells, which allows for precision targeting and killing.

Can calorie labeling really help people eat less? And if so, what type of label works best? A new study indicates that labels do help — and it may not make much difference for many people what type of label is presented.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer says it doesn't know if coffee causes cancer, which is a switch from 1991 when the agency, an arm of the World Health Organization, said it did. That's bad news for those who want to trust IARC's recommendations, because its reasons to reverse course on coffee are no more valid than its reason to have declared it possibly carcinogenic to humans in the first place.

Five different drugs, or drug combinations, are now available to help with weight loss. But which would be best for particular individuals? A new study provides some answers to this important question.

Often, experienced chemists can look at the structure of a chemical and make good guess about whether it will be toxic. But "eyeball toxicology" is not foolproof. Many of us got it wrong with sucralose. We were suspicious that it might be toxic. But it isn't, and here's why.

A recent meta-analysis published in BMJ Open journal suggests that LDL, which is commonly known as 'bad' cholesterol, does not increase the rate of death from heart disease. But before dumping your statins, it's important to review key flaws in the data.

When the sun is out, the boats are charged up and in the water: but swimmers nearby could be in trouble. Often undetected, electric shock drowning (ESD) is the cause of several fatalities each year, and it's entirely preventable.

Researchers have developed a new method of predicting disease progression in gliobastoma patients who have undergone standard treatment.

Have you ever met someone and, right off the bat, had the feeling that you could trust them? Next question: Was that person good looking? It turns out that if they were, your decision to trust them may have been out of your control. A new study shows that the same is true with "tweens." It's something to consider as our children venture out into the world on their own.

It is hard to believe that some cancers miraculously go away for good, but it does happen. Over 1,000 case studies document cancer sufferers who experienced spontaneous regression of their tumor. So why does this happen, and is it possible to exploit it to benefit cancer patients?

For parents, it's axiomatic that steering young children into sports is good for their overall health. But just like almost everything else, too much of a good thing can also backfire. Playing a sport too rigorously can produce devastating injuries for teens who are still developing, as can playing one sport exclusively year-round.

We've all stayed up too late to finish a project or study for an exam, depending on caffeine to keep us going. But according to a new study, that chemical assist won't work for more than a couple of days.

Patients who are too ill to eat have been fed by temporary tubes for many years. But, large numbers of nursing homes are now rejecting these tubes in favor of tubes that are implanted into the stomach, often leaving patients with no choice but to undergo surgery that they may not want, or need.

New sleeping recommendations have been released, and just in time to confirm what millions of Americans already knew: We are so sleep deprived. Yawn.

Nearly half of all Americans will receive a diagnosis of a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Yet at the same time the media continues to disproportionally associate mental illness with violent crime, despite that less then five percent of violence in the United States is attributable to mental illness.

With individuals afflicted with Kennedy's disease, muscle cells and motor neurons die over the years because they accumulate a protein that is mutated. Researchers have discovered that this protein has a self-protective mechanism through which the effects of the mutation are delayed.

The aftermath of the heparin crisis should put to rest any notions that there's a conspiracy to suppress a cure for cancer; to control your mind with fluoride; to hide a link between vaccines and autism; or to treat Americans as guinea pigs for GMOs. If there was any truth to those beliefs, somebody would have uncovered it by now.

One "chemical" that fear mongers take potshots at is antifreeze. Except, there are really two antifreeze chemicals. One is toxic, and to get harmed by the other you'd have to drink enough to kill a horse. Literally. Chemical haters use this to trick you. To learn how ...

Pregnant women are advised to avoid cat litter boxes — so they don't get infected with Toxoplasmosis gondii, which can cause birth defects. Recent research also suggests that this parasite may also be linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Teen cigarette smoking has continued to decline, perhaps due in part to the fact that e-cigarette use has increased. But some public health officials continue to lump e-cigs with more dangerous types of tobacco use, such as hookahs. More discrimination would be good if we want to help teens protect their health.

1. Hillary or Donald? Who will be best for science? Science is a $120 billion a year constituency and health is even bigger. Despite that, it doesn't get a lot of notice in elections. Still, we care about what the future might bring because America leads the world in science output, we practically run the table in Nobel prizes, and we lead the world in adult science literacy. The next President could have a huge impact on that, especially given the funding stagnation of the recent administration.

We know what you're thinking: Another video of Ana Dolaskie chowing down a bag of potato chips— What's new? But she's doing it for the sake of science! And hearing the crunch of the chips could make you hungry too!

The term epigenetics is being thrown around by many who incorrectly believe "genes are our destiny" by deliberately misinterpreting data. What is epigenetics, really? And how much stock should we place on its importance?