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Should machines be allowed to make our moral judgments? They are often smarter and less emotional. But when we make a moral choice, is that what we're really looking for?

The Krebs cycle explains how the body's biochemistry produces energy. It is an intellectual rite of passage that many feel we can eliminate from physician's education. Perhaps so, but in our haste to "eliminate wasteful knowledge and compress time to "create more doctors," what kind of doctors do we create? 

U.S. public health agencies struggle to endorse an obvious solution to a true public health menace. Hopefully, the UK Parliament will provide a much-needed boost to the forces of common sense.

Armadillo reproduction can teach us a rather wise guiding principle.

With drastic shifts taking place in the medical profession, those weighing whether to enter it have had to grapple with two major issues: immense student debt and choice of career specialty. While NYU hopes that waiving tuition for its medical students will encourage them to join the thinning ranks of family-focused medicine, our veteran medical expert is skeptical.

Many public and private locations have begun carrying injectable epinephrine. But with no generic form of the easiest kind of device, there have been complaints of price gouging. No more. The FDA has approved the first generic version of epinephrine auto-injector for the emergency treatment of allergic reactions.

1. If you don't have HBO, and if you have HBO but you don't watch John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight", and if you do ordinarily watch but missed the August 13th episode...well, you didn't miss much.

Jurors in California awarded $289 million to a man who claimed that his cancer was due to Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate – even though that's biologically impossible. Even the judge acknowledged that there was no evidence of harm. Yet trial lawyers manipulated a jury’s emotions and the public’s misunderstanding of science to score another jackpot verdict.

Poorer people often live in areas with more pollution and crime, that is no surprise, but pollution is relative in 2018. American air is incredibly clean, (1) so clean epidemiologists and activists have tried to define harmful smog all the way down to 2.5 μm (microns) in diameter in hopes of showing air quality is still a worry. And they have begun to consider noise the same as smog for harm, along with lots of other things.

Quickly following on the heels of news that salt should be used in moderation, it turns out that the same is true for our latest dietary villain: carbohydrates. It also turns out that too few can be just as bad as too many.

One study tells us we can predict a three-fold risk of cancer at birth. Yet, another states that we frighten patients when the term "cancer" is used for low-risk situations. Discussing uncertainty can be a risky business. 

Oregon, the progressive state, is about to take a giant regressive step into our shameful past. Their plan to stop all opioids for chronic pain patients on Medicaid is reminiscent of the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male."

Learn how not to fracture your penis. And what you should do if it happens.

Men, if you're trying to help your partner conceive a child and also interested in tilting the odds in your favor as best you can, making an apparel switch might prove helpful. Maybe. That's because there were a few limitations to the study in this area of research, which has been going on for decades.

Air quality is very good pretty much everywhere in the United States. This fact stands in stark contrast to utterly absurd claims in the media, such as blaming air pollution for killing 155,000 Americans. Take a look at the maps provided by the World Health Organization.

A terrific story on college students and sleep deprivation was tucked inside the science section of the printed version of The New York Times. But online, it was the #1 trending story. Not just science story, but the newspaper's top story overall.

There are so many thresholds for a diagnosis of high blood pressure. And a new study complicates the matter, showing that once blood pressure crosses a specific limit it rapidly develops clinical importance. Or in metaphorical terms, there seems to be a straw that can break the camel's back. 

ACSH has made it, big time! We've been accused of supplying fake news! All because we (and other "fake newsers") have spoken out about the many faults of the dietary supplements industry. But the critic, Bill Sardi, thinks cancer can be cured and that vaccinations make kids sicker. This dude has a Home Depot full of loose screws. 

Though we're often told that with every new digital health product, medication or device, biotech firm or health-system launch how "groundbreaking," "revolutionary" or "disruptive" it is, here's an ongoing medical reality that actually is just those things.

A man stole an airplane from Seattle's airport and crash-landed it, killing himself. One local news outlet suggested that it wasn't really his fault because he had CTE from playing high school football. This is sheer nonsense.

Having cancer is bad enough, but modern medicine often converts this into more of a chronic problem. However, for some patients with the awful disease, it comes with a side dish of diabetes. Why is this the case?

Diabetes is not one monolithic disease. A new study shows that age of onset, and duration, can make a big difference in the presence and effect of diabetes' frequent companion: cardiovascular disease.

There's concern that our sources of dietary protein are not sustainable and alternatives are sought. Among them: insects. A new report looks at their benefits and risks as a dietary staple. 

Partisan political commentator John Oliver of HBO's "Last Week Tonight" took some cheap shots at us, at the behest of an anti-science activism group. Here's what happened and how you can help us respond to his efforts to manipulate science for his agenda.
 

The EPA must evaluate the risk of existing chemicals and has selected the first 10 for review. As part of our role, the American Council on Science and Health is producing risk-based evaluations of each. Up today - Cyclic aliphatic bromides used primarily as flame retardants.