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When it comes to teen smoking, primary care physicians shouldn t butt out. New recommendations suggest that the dangers of smoking, when broached by the family doctor rather than friends or family, are more likely to influence teenagers to quit the habit, or better yet, to never start.

In a front-page article in the New York Times entitled Golden Rice: Lifesaver, national correspondent Amy Harmon sums up the superstition and activist-generated controversy surrounding golden rice

Health officials have suspected that poor oral hygiene may be related to the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the mouth and throat.

The number of cases has skyrocketed to nearly 300,000 recently; the disease is 10 times more common than previously thought

When dealing with ischemic stroke (the kind caused by a clot that obstructs brain blood flow), it has often been emphasized that early treatment say within a couple of hours

New information shows that melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, affects men far more than women.

CNN s Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed David Jack, an editor from Men s Health about five foods one should supposedly never eat. And the ridiculous claims made by Jack were soaked right up by Gupta. James Cooper sums up the

Yesterday we wrote about a program designed to provide guidance about when antibiotics should be used and which kind (broad or narrow spectrum) of drug should be used.

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 250 million preschool children worldwide suffer from vitamin A deficiency.

Headlines are meant to catch the attention of the audience. But we wonder, who decided that bad news is more attention grabbing than good news? Even when new information represents positive changes in the world, we ve noticed that headlines focus on the negative parts of the study.

Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, kills 9,500 Americans each year. And rates of melanoma have been on the rise since 1992, at a rate of about 3 percent each year in white women ages 15 to 39.

ACSH staffers met for 2 hours with several representatives of the NYC Council to educate the officials about harm reduction and e-cigarettes. The session went quite well, with much information being exchanged. Stay tuned for the videotape. And the current JAMA has a misleading, useless propaganda piece on e-cigarette regulation.

After having a child, Emily Oster began to to question the conventional wisdom given to her by doctors.

Today s Wall Street Journal features a very informative article entitled Antibiotics Do s and Don ts.
The article lists infections for which use of antibiotics is warranted and a longer list of those for which it is not.

Periodontitis is a serious inflammation of the gum tissue that can result in loss of teeth and bone if not treated appropriately.

In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert about products shipped from NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas because of poor sterile production practices.

Despite some good news about declining obesity rates in children, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health, 18 percent of deaths among black or white Americans

In our obesity-obsessed country, people may be forgiven for using primarily calorie content for choosing which foods to consume.

Fear of chemicals all around us, especially in our food, can be of great concern to the consumer. However, such concerns (or even fears) are unfounded based on the science.

Pharmaceuticals are prescribed for individuals with individual health problems.

According to the National Coffee Association, the majority of Americans (60 percent) drink coffee on a daily basis, consuming on average just over three cups a day. But according to a new study, those under 55

Finasteride, a drug most often used to reduce enlarged prostates and counter male-pattern baldness, was shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Childhood contagions, such as measles, polio, meningitis and pertussis (whooping cough) can threaten the lives of people from all economic backgrounds.

Previous research has found that children born to obese mothers are at higher risk of developing high blood sugar, high blood pressure and other cardiac risk factors as young adults.

Here s a headline meant to spur unnecessary fear, Sudden death during sports more common among men. This headline appeared in Reuters