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While politicians want compound pharmacies to put together approved drugs, the EPA didn't want two approved pesticides used together. A US Appeals Court asked why, and didn't like their answer.

A company in India began working on a vaccine for a disease that hasn't been in India for decades 9 months before it exploded in South America? It's okay to be skeptical.

Ketamine, a dangerous 1960s hallucinogenic, may have new life for treating major depression.

As far as information goes, once our wrists only carried time. Then came music, and recently, heart rates. But now a team of California researchers has developed a wearable wrist device that seeks to tell us about the body's inner workings by "drinking" sweat from our wrists and analyzing it.

The first Friday in February is national "wear red" day, a time when the American Heart Association asks that, in an effort to increase awareness around women's heart health issues, everyone wear something red.

With Florida in a state of emergency due to nine cases, officials are getting serious about science solutions to stopping the pest that transmits it.

While the U.S. population continues to struggle with a well-known obesity epidemic, according to the results of a new Gallup poll it appears that the problem is getting worse before it will get better. The nation's obesity rate has climbed to a record high, with 28 percent of all adults falling into this category.

It's easy to be led astray by trusting to logic when evaluating health advice. But sometimes logic is borne out by science, as in the case of a recent study of prevention of knee arthritis by weight loss in overweight and obese women.

There's nothing like a medical scare to bring out the kooks; Zika has done just that. And as facts pile up showing that Zika is causing microcephaly, so do the conspiracy theories. While a new CDC study gives solid evidence connecting the virus to birth defects, others think Bill Gates is a madman out to depopulate the world.

In a study of younger women with breast cancer, more and more are deciding to get tested for the BRCA mutation, which they should be getting. Some of them decided not to get tested and just opt for mastectomy, but this is unnecessary in general.

While Apple wages a legal battle with the FBI, and the debate rages on over whether the privacy of every cell user could eventually be jeopardized if Apple complies and unlocks a terrorist's phone, interestingly there may be some private information on your phone that you might voluntarily want to make available, under certain circumstances.

A federal standard would actually protect consumers from confusion, which is bad for environmental fundraising. However, it is good for the public.

A large study has shown that patients who develop a common arrhythmia post-operatively have a four-fold increased risk of ischemic stroke, the type caused by an arterial blockage. In these cases, the likely cause is a blood clot known as an embolus, which forms in the heart and moves to a cerebral artery.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health recently published its new recommendations in CMAJ, coming out against the use of colonoscopies for colorectal cancer screening in low-risk individuals.

The marketing game is big on this one. It has a lot to do with the pH in your body, and yet very little to do with sound science.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention singled out Lumber Liquidators after it found that the retailer's laminate wood flooring products from China carried a greater risk of causing cancer and other health problems than previously thought.

While smoking, other tobacco use and alcohol consumption continue to be major risk factors for oral cancers, as it turns out they are not the primary causes. Most would be surprised to learn the human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the main culprit of head, neck and throat cancers.

Don't ask us how, but we've noticed a little trend: apparently gluten-free vodka is a thing. But the thing is, gluten-free vodka has always been a thing, because according to the FDA, all distilled spirits should never have any gluten, unless it's added after distillation.

While statin drugs, which lower cholesterol production by the liver, have helped many avoid atherosclerosis not everyone can take them. A new means of dealing with artery-blocking cholesterol plaques may be on the horizon — with an old compound called cyclodextrin possibly being repurposed to do just that.

BMJ Global Health, a new publication, reports that five billion people around the world lack access to surgery, at a total cost of roughly $12.3 trillion in lost GDP by 2030. The authors call for various agencies to pull together in a concerted effort to provide access to those who need it most.

Occasionally we hear improbable stories, like one about a person who's left unscathed from a disaster that kills hundreds. In a way, we might consider this type of person to be "superhuman." Similarly, a recent study has uncovered a new subset of people who are genetically superhuman, described as otherwise healthy people who have survived despite having genes that signal fatal diseases.

Almost as if this was a sci-fi movie, virtually every time that new information about Zika surfaces it's bad. This trend continued this week as the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat, and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH held a mostly-discouraging press briefing at the White House.

Challenge. Accepted. Bring on the raging river.

Homeless people who are fed at soup kitchens typically don't get to choose their menus. But in Bologna, Italy some protested when a celebrity chef offered them vegan cuisine. Some said they'd rather return to the streets than eat his veggies.

One might say that the current conflict between tobacco cigarettes and e-cigarettes seems to hinge, for the most part, on two factors: health and price. And while there are those who insist on challenging the health safety of e-cigarettes, many worldwide may turn to them because they simply cost less. Yet the findings of a new study may throw that belief out the window.