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It's not a common side effect, but it's yet another addition to a long list of reasons not to see a chiropractor: They can make your eyes bleed.

When writing about this topic three weeks ago, our focus was mostly on the failure of high schools to protect student-at

Christmas tree farms don't cause global warming - and that is the scientific basis for why Europeans have decided to meet their emissions targets by...burning wood.

As an opioid “solution” completes its trip through Congress, a new article in Science shows that the “overdose crisis” has not only been with us for nearly 40 years but that it is not as monolithic as news bites and hotly worded advocacy suggests.

Do you think video games have led to more violent attacks by young people? You are not alone. Lots of people do.

You know it is going to be a bad day when you are featured in the New York Times, well really, any national news outlet. And by that measure, Dr. Jose Baselga, the now-former chief medical officer at Sloan Kettering, had a very bad week.

"Satisficing" is a word mashup satisfactory and sufficient, describing the result of believing that perfection is the enemy of good – creating something good but not optimal.

One way to reduce health care costs is to end unnecessary testing and procedures. There are multiple national and local campaigns, targeting prescribers with guidelines for services that have no health value.

Being anti-GMO is the biotech equivalent of being anti-vaccine.

Heart failure results when the heart is overburdened, for a variety of reasons, and blood flow stagnates causing a mixture of symptoms, like swollen legs or shortness of breath.