Catch the highlights on Dr. Bloom's two-part March Madness Supplement Smackdown series. Dr. Bloom breaks down eight of the worst supplements in two teams: Placebo Region, and Emergency Room visit.

AI has all but overtaken the thinking universe. Training an early version of ChatGPT consumes about 1300 megawatt-hours of electricity, roughly the amount used by 130 American homes. It takes a human ...

From tiny cells to vast cities, life persists by keeping chaos under control. The same thermodynamic forces that cause coffee ...

The story that caught my attention was that the dolls were not made by a toy company, but were produced by a Soviet gunpowder manufacturer. The Tambov Gunpowder Plant was producing more gunpowder than ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States. Now, the gas is at the center of a heated regulatory battle after the EPA ...

Regulators are moving toward policies targeting ultra-processed foods, but a fundamental issue remains unresolved: what ...

RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement hinges on the assumption that our country was once far healthier than it is today. The problem? It never was. By almost every metric, Americans ...

Public goods create a peculiar dilemma: everyone likes the benefits, but paying for them is another matter. Economists call ...

Public health has its own bracket of champions: breakthroughs that eliminated deadly diseases, revolutionized surgery, and opened entirely new doors in medicine. From vaccines to mRNA technology, ...

A class action lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare claims that an AI system was used to unfairly deny post-acute rehabilitation ...