#health
# tech
Would you pay $6,000 for advice from a doctor who claims he could help you live longer by making it up as he goes along?
# oddities
Australian anti-vaccine activists are joining forces with a man who thinks that shape-shifting alien reptoids secretly run the world.
# politics
The American healthcare system is best compared to a sophisticated machine with many moving parts. A badly maintained Rube Goldberg to be more exact.
# health
Cell phones might not give you cancer, but tanning beds absolutely can and we have proof.
# health
Swine flu may have disappeared from the news, but it's still out there and it's still a threat as it mutates further.
# health
Mitchell and Webb show us what a homeopathic ER would actually look like in practice.
# health
When we reject centuries of medical science and research, we're effectively going back and time to make ailments we tamed into life-threatening afflictions once again.
# health
Depression is a serious affliction, but we also need to prevent turning normal human emotions into pathologies.
# health
Woo and junk science are big business. And why wouldn't they be? They're free from the limits of what's real.
# health
Don't expect your insurance company to cover homeopathic remedies anytime soon.
# health
How far should we go to help people who refuse to help themselves? Or worse yet, whose parents refuse treatment we know will keep them alive?
# health
Anti-vaxxers are absolutely certain that vaccines are evil and they're prepared to move any goal post to justify that belief.
# health
Researchers call for a more rigorous and detailed protocol in final stage drug trials after reviewing the real world efficacy of anti-depressants.
# health
It seems bizarre, but the longer a patient using alternative medicine is sick, the more converts the alternative treatments win.
# health
Unhinged anti-vaccination activism is starting to amass a body count as children are stating to suffer and die from preventable diseases.