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

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

Protein has become nutrition’s magic word, stamped on everything from pasta to Pop-Tarts as shorthand for “healthy.” But most Americans already get plenty, and emerging research raises an intriguing ...

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

Narcan is a drug of striking contrasts: remarkably safe and capable of reversing a fatal opioid overdose within minutes, yet unable by itself to treat the addiction that put a life at risk. Its ...

Recently released diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal significant gaps between what senior scientists and officials said privately about COVID-19 origins early in the pandemic and what they told the ...

What was the first synthetic drug? Sounds like a simple question. It isn't. Depending on how you define “first,” there are ...

Nicotine isn’t harmless—but treating every nicotine product as equally dangerous obscures an important public-health distinction. From cigarettes and vaping to pouches, gum, and patches, ...