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Guys, want to lower high blood pressure? Sauna often, or nearly every day for the best results. That's the primary finding of a recent study which found that frequent sauna bathing cuts the risk of elevated blood pressure nearly 50 percent, as compared to those who went just once a week.

Here's some of what we've been up to over the last seven days, trying to change hearts and minds.

Zika virus has been around since at least 1947, causing mild symptoms. All of a sudden it went full-beast mode and started producing shrinking heads in babies, and other terrible neurological outcomes. Scientists may have figured out that one little amino acid could responsible for flipping the script.

Here's great news for diabetics who need to check their blood-glucose levels frequently: the FDA just approved a non-invasive monitor. It's a major mile-marker on the road to facilitating optimal management of a very high maintenance disease.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best known for her comedic work on VEEP and Seinfeld, announced Thursday on Twitter that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Here's what the Emmy-Award winning actress may be facing.

As the final weeks of her pregnancy approach, ACSH's Ana Dolaskie shares why the last month is the hardest, and perhaps the most rewarding.

Most of us know a bit about rabies. But do you know which animals are most likely to carry the infection? Or did you that you might have been bitten by a bat? Recently on World Rabies Day, we tackled a few of the lesser-known aspects of rabies. 

This story should remind us how easy it is to pull off acts of terrorism. With drugs like fentanyl and carfentanyl pouring into our country, officials should treat synthetic opioids as a terrorist threat in addition to a public health threat.

Organic chemistry can do all kinds of cool things, like making drugs and also detecting them. One drug it can detect – instantly –  is methamphetamine. A bit of urine, an immediate chemical reaction, and a very clear color change. And also a change in your auto insurance rates. Behold a chemistry lesson and a cautionary tale. 

In 2012, we learned that something as basic as drinking coffee might help control movement symptoms for sufferers of Parkinson's disease. But after closer inspection and expanded study, that conclusion has been withdrawn.

Peer review has been around for quite some time. But its history features interactions with the technology and forms of sharing information, with censorship, the rise and fall of generalists as well as concerns about marketing. 

Agent Orange was used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. A recent paper indicates that the chemicals which comprise AO persist in high concentrations in some pockets of South Vietnam. In addition, they could be causing hormonal imbalances in babies born in those regions.

His family said Hefner died at home from "natural causes." This concept is routinely conflated, making people believe death was a simply a result of “old age.” These concepts often perpetuate a false perception of what actually took place.

It is Game On!  for President Trump appointee Scott Gottlieb, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Things are definitely changing there, and at this point, it's a pretty good start.

Exaggerating the extent of the challenges we face might help someone sell a product, but it provides little confidence in its reliability.

Results of a new survey found that a remarkable 88 percent of adults followed or personally witnessed the solar eclipse that passed over the continental U.S. on August 21. That's roughly 215 million American adults, or almost twice as many as the 111.3 million TV viewers who watched Super Bowl Ll in February.

As the chief junkyard dog of US Right To Know, an industry front group created to harass and intimidate scientists, Ruskin has managed to pay-to-publish a Short Article which allows him to claim he has been in a peer-reviewed journal. Authors, would you like this kind of anti-science dreck to be published alongside your work?

Tom Brady lecturing us on science is like ACSH's Ana Dolaskie trying to play football, nine months pregnant. Kinda cute, kinda dangerous.

CVS, the national pharmacy and healthcare company just instituted regulations that will give its pharmacists the ability to overrule doctors who write opioid prescriptions. What CVS just pulled off is wrong in so many ways. Who will pay? Pain patients and their doctors.

Training for my first marathon has produced a few questions, like these: What's in those little gel packs that serious runners swear by? And do we need them? Here we look into the beloved "goo" packs, and seek to understand how they're going to keep us going through five hours of running. 

During the long runs we've been doing to train for the upcoming marathon, we've had some time to think. It made us wonder: Why is a marathon the distance that it is? Here's how it happened, and why it's remained that long.

What does Germany's election mean for science? Absolutely nothing, except that the preexisting anti-nuclear, anti-GMO, and anti-technology policies that were already prevalent under Mrs. Merkel will be reinforced. And the world won't notice.

Just a year and a half after removing artificial colors from Trix cereal, consumers are asking they be put back in. Food labeling remains more legal than educational, and more marketing than health-related.

It's a tough time for those infected with genital herpes. Genocea's candidate GEN-003 crashed and burned. The company announced that it's pulling the plug on the vaccine following Phase II clinical trials. It's disheartening news for the herpes community, but folks, keep your chins up. Other, and presumably better, candidates are still out there.

A Colorado toddler required emergency medical intervention after ingesting 28 high-powered buckyball magnets that began to erode. Major surgery can often result, depending on the urgency of the clinical situation, and it can possibly lead to the removal of segments of bowel.