Scromiting” is a grim slang term for the severe nausea and vomiting that can come with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' move away from recommending routine hepatitis B vaccination at birth is being treated as either a triumph of “medical freedom” or a looming ...

This essay examines how recent political intervention has reshaped the CDC’s public messaging on vaccines and autism. In Part ...

The CMS star ratings began as faint points of light helping patients navigate an increasingly complex galaxy of healthcare ...

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The past twenty years have seen gluten sensitivity transformed from a fringe concern into a mainstream cultural identity, ...

While dogs have long been celebrated for easing stress and boosting companionship, science is beginning to explore a more ...

America’s overdose crisis isn’t the simple story we’ve been told for years. A new investigation reveals how two key graphs — one famous, one ignored — shift entirely the way we understand what ...

Across four very different stories runs a common thread: our deepening struggle to preserve authentic human connection in a ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

Social media is awash in testimonials from anonymous men who claim that testosterone-replacement therapy (TRT) helped them ...