Marijuana smoke contains known carcinogens, including some nasty ones that can damage DNA. So you'd think smoking pot would ...

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A recent study linking sugary drinks to stomach cancer smelled fishy. It was. More so than we thought. The bigger problem is ...

Protein has become nutrition’s magic word, stamped on everything from pasta to Pop-Tarts as shorthand for “healthy.” But most ...

Food madness continues unabated. A new study (barely) implicates nitrite and colorectal cancer. But thousands of nitrate ...

What was the first synthetic drug? Sounds like a simple question. It isn't. Depending on how you define “first,” there are several contenders, each with a legitimate claim to the title. Of course, the ...

Precision medicine promises to look beneath symptoms and conventional biomarkers to reveal what is happening inside us at the molecular level. But a new longitudinal study of thousands of genes and ...

Project Remission promises to rethink chronic disease as potentially reversible through lifestyle changes. But its emphasis ...

Medicare Advantage can look like a great deal—until you get sick. A new study of why increasingly ill patients leave MA for ...

A new study links sugar-sweetened beverages to stomach cancer. It's all over the news, with reports that they more than ...

From an old pesticide scare getting an official platform to a trendy sleep supplement that fails basic chemistry, ACSH staff ...