Are you thinking rationally or emotionally when you form your political opinions? Read this, and think again.

Beyond the direct harm of overtreatment, the stress caused by a cancer diagnosis has huge health implications by itself.

A Filipino court of appeals has stopped field testing of genetically modified eggplants. As righteous as the victory may feel for environmentalists, it carries profound risks for us all.

Just how worried we are is reflected in how much government surveillance we are willing to tolerate.

We are reminded that no matter how long the odds, it really can happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone of us.

Sometimes a flipped coin comes up heads 10 times in a row. Sometimes, tragically, disease clusters are nothing more than random bad luck.