One of the best things you might ever do for your health is let your doctor track it with every possible device.

The artificial hearts of tomorrow might replace the familiar beat of the heart with a steady hum. And millions might live longer thanks to that innovation.

Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.

A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.

Brace yourselves. The anti-vax crusade is taking its chemophobia and love for cleansing to a whole new level.

How do we make sense of the alt med claim that Big Pharma is just trying to keep people sick for a profit?

Marc Stephens, a lawyer for the infamous Burzynski Clinic, decided that the best way to meet skeptics is with unhinged conspiracy theories and harassment.

Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.

A team of researchers drove a robot insane, literally. On purpose. And their findings can shed light on the origins of schizophrenia.

Anti-vaxers are vehemently opposed to a bill that would require doctors to explain how vaccines work on the basis that it would require them to leave their echo chambers and might sway parents on the fence to vaccinate.

Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.

Placebos are all in the mind, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely powerful.

The two rules of alt med business. One, there's no regulation strict enough for Big Pharma. Two, any regulation, no matter how token, is too onerous for snake oil manufacturers.

According to Mike Adams, homeopathy is superior to actual medicine because it actually doesn't seem to do anything.

The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.