It is easy to promise readiness for the next disaster; it is much harder to maintain the political and public will to prepare ...

You’d probably be horrified if a stranger licked your face on the subway. But if that stranger has four legs and a tail, ...

This week’s reading list is your passport to places you didn’t know mattered and policies you didn’t know would hit your ...

COVID is still lingering, the only thing spreading faster than viruses is confusion over who’s really at risk. It turns out ...

Recent reorganizations and "reductions in force" at the FDA have damaged the very backbone of our public health system.

While Secretary Kennedy frets over food dye in Froot Loops, his 2023 attack on Gardasil—a vaccine proven to prevent deadly ...

Colorectal cancer, long associated with aging, is rising alarmingly in younger adults, especially those born in the 1980s.

A biotech startup announced in February that the FDA had certified its daily pill as having a “reasonable expectation of ...

Let’s wax nostalgic. Do you recall the Ebola outbreak a few years ago that brought fear into many American’s lives and ravaged our television screens?

Nobody denies that science is plagued by an epidemic of fraudulent and politicized research, nor that it wastes billions of taxpayer dollars. But is the problem severe enough to justify completely ...

One of my roles is to separate science fact from science fiction. I have found that it often takes longer to debunk bad science than I had anticipated. As is frequently the case, I am late to the ...