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In just a few days, Diet Pepsi will no longer contain the artificial sweetener aspartame. PepsiCo is replacing aspartame in Diet Pepsi, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi, and Wild

Roger Schlueter at the News-Democrat fielded a question from a concerned reader about alternatives to surgery for appendicitis. It's a bad idea to try homeopathy or alternative medicine but there are cases where surgery may not be needed.

I've been writing about artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame (NutraSweet) for years. Why?
Well, the same reason that I write anything to cut through the crap. And if you want to find more crap, you'd better get yourself tickets to a political debate.

Patrick Moore was instrumental in the founding of GreenPeace, and held high positions until he broke with the group in the 1980 s over policy decisions. Since then Moore has been an outspoken critic of the organization for losing touch with its initial science mission. This week, Moore posted a video on youtube in which he describes his reasons for leaving, and how GreenPeace is now doing more harm than good for the world.

In a number of cultures around the world, excess body fat is seen as a good thing. In traditional Chinese culture as well as in many African and Pacific Island ones, a larger body means one has enough to eat (not so common is some areas), perhaps because of more than average income.

Today, July 28th, 2015 is World Hepatitis Day. Every year 1.4 million people die from viral hepatitis and yet all of these deaths could be prevented with better awareness and understanding.
There are five hepatitis viruses, A, B, C, D and E, though most people are only familiar with the first three.
Hepatitis A is spread mainly through eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated by the feces of an infected person. It can clear itself up naturally after a few weeks and there is a vaccination that can prevent infection.

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is in the process of updating their recommendations for depression screening, now urging family physicians to regularly screen patients for depression. While the recommendation is for all

TEASER: A perspective article in the NEJM re-explores in depth the ongoing epidemic of HIV in rural southeastern Scott County, IN. The authors (from San Diego, CA and Baltimore, MD) discuss the various factors responsible for the onset and spread of HIV and HCV as well.

A team of cancer doctors have written an op-ed in Mayo Clinic Proceedings outlining their vision for how to make quality cancer drugs while keeping prices low.

While organic crops supposedly aren t treated with synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, a recent report suggests that isn t always true.

The scientific literature has established that, when possible, breast milk offers terrific advantages to children, so it was the perfect way for anti-science groups to promote fear and doubt about a commonly used pesticide called glyphosate, which has been used by home gardeners for decades under the name Roundup.
Though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has never found reason for concern, in 2014 an advocacy group called Moms Across America called into question the safety and healthfulness of breast milk. It had pesticides in it, they claimed.

It s time to face the music: the golden age of antibiotics is over.

Now, there is a new option for reducing LDL cholesterol. Regeneron/Sanofi and Amgen each received FDA approval for antibody-based drugs that work by an entirely different mechanism.

One tactic promulgated by anti-smoking advocates over the years has been lowering the nicotine content of cigarettes to less-addictive levels. A new study by one such advocate seems to show that method will not help reduce the toll of smoking.

After decades of concerns and warnings about Americans obesity and related encroaching health problems, there does seem to be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 a bill that would ban states from requiring labels for all genetically modified foods. The bill passed by a vote of 275 to 150.

There is a wealth of data that shows an increase in prevalence of autism over the past few decades. There is also a wealth of activities, such as pesticide use and vaccines, that have been blamed for this increase. However, a new study from researchers at Penn State might finally have the answer to the cause of this increase.

A protein called RaxX may help create more disease-resistant rice varieties and block microbial infections in both plants and animals.

Researchers from MIT and the University of California are arguing over who owns the patent for the genome editing technique CRISPR-Cas9. Both teams make interesting cases and whoever is awarded the patent stands to make billions from the techniques limitless potential.

To people in science, organic coffee always seemed a little silly, because you don't eat coffee beans any more than you eat the shell of a pineapple, and by the time you do get to the consumable part, whether or not the toxic pesticide on the plant was an organic one or a synthetic one has ceased to be relevant.

A ban instituted at the behest of anti-science NGOs and their donors people who had little familiarity with science or farming or farmers - in Europe should be removed.

Bad news from the CDC according to the July 23rd issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a quarter of Americans expect an antibiotic prescription when they visit the doctor for a cold. Antibiotics do not fight viral infections like the common cold which is a

The holy grail of malaria prevention, a vaccine effective in preventing this devastating mosquito-borne parasitic disease, is one step closer to reality. The new GSK vaccine, RTS/S now called Mosquirix, provided significant albeit below-ideal levels of protection for infants and toddler, which will save thousands of lives.

One of the most difficult decisions a patient with late stage cancer has to make is whether or not to continue or use additional chemotherapy.

Are you like me? Are you constantly worried about all the invisible chemicals you are exposed to in your every day? Well now there s a bracelet that will let you know what Part Per Billion you are being exposed to. It s called myexposome and you can donate to make sure this technology a reality over at kickstarter.