If you like your tea nice and hot, you may be worried about misleading popular science headlines telling you that you're doubling your risk of cancer. You're not. But you'll still want to pay attention to the research.

Perhaps the worst thing about Theranos is not the lies, the fraud, or the failure. It's that the company and its portable lab could have been salvaged and improved lives if its CEO didn't drown in her own hype.

After more than a decade, doctors think they were finally able to replicate the case of the Berlin patient, the only man known to be cured of HIV. But the London patient offers more questions than answers.

Biohacking is the next big craze for those obsessed with taking charge of their health beyond just diet and exercise. But while it sounds like science, there's no evidence it actually works.

It's one thing to speculate about how evil vaccines are and dismiss the illnesses they're meant to prevent. But after seeing the effects of measles and whooping cough up close, parents and teenagers are losing their anti-vaxx attitudes.

Today's office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop "hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you're dead" attitude. It's not just socially toxic. It's damaging to your health and psyche.

As recreational drugs show promise in medical, and possibly professional settings, research is being held back by laws crafted around vindictive politics rather than science.

Politicians and the public want short-term solutions to the opioid epidemic. But they aren't tackling its root cause: legitimate chronic pain.

MLMs prey on human vulnerabilities to hijack the health industry. And they have a lot of help in high places.

We knew people would die as climate change got progressively worse. Now we have a realistic idea of just how many, and plenty of hints that these statistics are underestimated.

Alt med cranks have been scaring millions about the supposed harm of artificial sweeteners. A systematic review of 13,000 studies shows they're either lying or ignorant.

We've all had a rough night and woke up even more tired than we went to bed. But if you're in your 60s and that's becoming a common occurrence, it may be a dangerous sign.

Modern houses tend to be clean, so clean that they may be undermining our immune systems, and alongside our addiction to antibiotics, giving us a wide variety of health problems.

According to media reports, a recent study found the recipe for a longer life: to be a little overweight and enjoy your beer and lattes. But there's a secret ingredient they're missing...

Evidence-based medicine, vaccination, and good science are out in Italy. Alt med scams, snake oil, and anti-vaccination propaganda are in.