An 80 year old method of sterilizing surfaces with radiation without harming humans or animals might be the key to controlling flu pandemics. But it using it could come with a catch...

A California law mandating disclosure of any potentially cancer-causing chemicals is starting to cross the line from useful advice into eye-rolling alarmism.

Giving terminally ill patients a chance to try experimental drugs also means protecting them from scammers.

Years of constant nagging about growing antibiotic resistance and its dire consequences, the public and industry still act as if they're blissfully unaware and are overusing antibiotics at an alarming rate.

If you didn't want the COO of one the world's top hospitals to sound like Jenny McCarthy on a rampage, unfortunately, you're out of luck.

A widely covered study alleges that humans lost the penile bone and a certain measure of endurance in mating. But that finding seems to be at odds with other studies.

Mommy blogs are filled with so much disinformation and scaremongering, they should be officially labeled an infectious disease vector.

Plague doctors have been wrongly put in the pantheon of quacks. In reality, they created the biohazard suit as we know it.

Clickbait punditry is selling a story about a study into male birth control whose participants wimped out. But that's not at all what happened...

We can't print fully functioning human organs suitable for transplantation just yet, but new experiments are getting close.

The first cancer-fighting gene therapy has been approved by the FDA, a major step towards turning cancers into manageable diseases.

Media reports about the carcinogenic properties of bacon have been greatly exaggerated thanks to the extremely confusing way IARC classifies studies.

A study tracking the benefits of standing desks shows no difference in health outcomes between sitting and standing at the office.

We finally know why elephants are more resistant to cancers than humans. Can we use the same strategy they do?

Anti-vaccine activists funded the most complete and thorough study of vaccine safety done to their exact specifications. Now they're livid because it found nothing even remotely concerning.