Is Sugar an Addictive Killer? New at Reason
Ronald Bailey reviews The Case Against Sugar.
Epidemics
Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall: Incidence Declines for Men and Remains Steady for Women
Good news: Cancer mortality rate has dropped from its peak of 215.1 (per 100,000 population) in 1991 to 166.4 in 2012.
An Epidemic of Bad Epidemiology
Getting Risk Right is a potent antidote to the toxic misinformation peddled by activist scaremongers
Calm Down About the 'Opioid Epidemic'
Prescription painkillers are not as deadly or as addictive as commonly claimed.
First U.S. Zika Virus Transmission: Not by Mosquitoes but by Sex in Dallas
It is not inevitable that there will be a major zika outbreak in the U.S.
Zika Virus Outbreak: Unleash the GMO Mosquitoes!
While we wait for a vaccine, GMO mosquitoes are here now to help control the outbreak.
How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic
The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude
Ebola: 'Dress Rehearsal' or Show Closer?
Rapid biomedical progress will soon make epidemics ancient history
