Public Health Nannies Want to Stop You From Boozing. Why? Because Cancer
On the other hand, drinking may also reduce cardiovascular risks and boost your income. It's also a pleasure.
On the other hand, drinking may also reduce cardiovascular risks and boost your income. It's also a pleasure.
The Drug Policy Alliance documents an unjust prosecution trend that makes opioid fatalities more likely.
A new study finds that the more someone smokes pot, the more sex they're likely to have.
A new critique of the surgeon general's report on e-cigarettes puts underage use in perspective.
Federal officials deny big reductions in adolescent tobacco use and obscure the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
Global study goes against the grain on fats, fruits, and dietary dogma
A new study shines a light on public health protection at America's stadiums.
The more drug warriors crack down on opioids, the more dangerous they become.
If "light" cigarettes were a scam, how can "nonaddictive" cigarettes be a boon?
Embracing harm reduction, the agency's new head tries to make e-cigarette regulations less onerous.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb extends a crucial application deadline by four years and promises "a greater awareness" of vaping's health advantages.
Quit rates rose with e-cigarette sales, and vapers are more likely to stop smoking.
So why do cops rely so much on the practice? Enforcing traffic laws is a large share of what they do.
Most gun-related deaths among minors are homicides, and four-fifths involve teenagers.
Defying its own data, the CDC continues to obscure the enormous harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
As usual, coverage of the latest scare ignores or misrepresents the relative potency of caffeinated beverages.
A new book offers a potent antidote to toxic misinformation.
Let doctors exercise their best professional judgment and prescribe opioids-free from the chilling effects created by monitoring government agencies.
The NIH's track record suggest that Trump's proposed $6 billion budget cut won't be the end of science, progress, or discoveries.
New bills in Montana and California would make it easier for small food entrepreneurs to thrive and for consumers to have more choices.
Why do U.S. officials insist on obscuring them?
Here we go again, and again, and again...
Bad news: Most of us have got to eat less to live longer
It fills a new book from the National Academy of Sciences.
According to federal regulators, companies that talk about reducing health risks by switching from smoking to vaping are breaking the law.
Kennedy once compared vaccination to the Holocaust*
Hypothesis: More sugar causes both more diabetes and more obesity
FDA decided not to decide whether snus can be marketed as the first safer-than-cigarettes product.
The latest survey results deal another blow to the hypothesis that vaping leads to smoking.
Vivek Murthy's concern about adolescent vaping is overwrought, and his propaganda is pernicious.
Who wants to live to be a 100? Someone who is 99 years old. Especially if he feels like a 25 year-old.
Treat people as individuals not just as members of an undifferentiated public health herd
Vivek Murthy does not acknowledge the possibility that nonmedical consumption of psychoactive substances could be beneficial.
Cook County, Boulder, San Francisco, Oakland, and Albany, California, join Berkeley and Philadelphia in penalizing soft drink consumers.
A new study that links e-cigarettes to smoking has things backward.
Condoms-in-porn measure pits adult-film industry and public-health groups against public hysteria and a would-be porn czar
By portraying vaping as a public health menace, the government promotes misconceptions that deter smokers from quitting.
New study by Brookings Institution scholars reports the mortality reduction benefits of higher education.
That scary 105 accidental gun death figure, more than five times the previous year? Turns out to really be 5, slightly more than a quarter of the previous year.
An analysis of data from nearly 2,000 counties finds no evidence that smoking restrictions produce short-term reductions in heart attacks.
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.