Game of Thrones Celebrates Death in a Bizarre Blood Drive PSA
Game of Thrones is, objectively speaking, a show about death and the many foolhardy ways the living find to hasten it…
EPA Wants to Remove Cancer-Linked Chemicals From Drinking Water, One Day, Maybe
A number of common items—from certain pots and pans to your fast food wrapper—get their non-stick properties from…
Can You Really Eat Moldy Food Like British Prime Minister Theresa May Reportedly Does?
Have you ever come across some particularly tasty food in the fridge, only to be bummed out that it’s all moldy? Well,…
E-Cigarettes Really Can Help You Quit Smoking, Large New Study Finds
The debate over the potential harms and benefits of vaping has raged on for years. But the results of a large trial in…
The Fathers Project Imagines a Radical World Where HIV/AIDS Never Happened
While we’re now able to look back and see, statistically, how the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the…
The E-Scooter Craze Is Sending Lots of People to the ER, Often With Head Injuries
Electric scooters have become wildly popular, thanks to single-named companies like Bird, Scoot, and Lime creating…
Ebola, HIV, Antivaxxers: The World Health Organization Names 2019's Global Health Threats
The World Health Organization has firmly set its sights on the anti-vaccination movement. In a post this week, WHO…
'Dry January' Helps People Lay Off Alcohol Even Months Later, Study Finds
There’s at least one healthy New Year’s resolution that you may actually maintain through the year, suggests a new…
Americans Have Stopped Getting Taller But Continue to Get Heavier, CDC Says
Americans have continued to get bigger but not any taller since the turn of the millennium, a new report from the…
Seattle Experiment Shows Later School Start Times Can Help Teens Get More Sleep
Here’s some refreshing good news, courtesy of a new study released last week in Science Advances. Teens in Seattle got…
Maybe Don't Eat Glitter, FDA Says
This holiday season, the Food and Drug Administration has issued an important, somehow not obvious piece of advice to…
The World Lost 153 Billion Hours of Work to Heat Waves Last Year
Because we haven’t had enough dire reports this fall, let’s throw one more log on the fire, shall we? A report released…
American Life Expectancy Continues to Drop, with Suicides and Drug Overdoses on the Rise
The health of the United States remains in decline, according to a series of new reports released Thursday by the…
FDA Official Gives Update on E. Coli Outbreak, But You Shouldn't Eat Romaine Lettuce Just Yet
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning earlier this week not to eat romaine lettuce of…
CDC Convenes Task Force to Investigate Rare Illness Paralyzing Kids Across the Country
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking things up a notch to investigate a mysterious polio-like…
Teen Vaping May Have Led to Less Teen Smoking, Study Finds
The FDA calls teen vaping an “epidemic,” but the influence of e-cigarettes on teens’ overall health might be more…
Why Cancer Is Replacing Heart Disease as the Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
Heart disease has long been the number one killer in the United States. But a new study out this week is the latest to…
Please Get Some Exercise, Any Exercise at All, New Federal Guidelines Plead
The U.S. government has released its latest recommendations on how physically active we should be to stay healthy, and…
CDC Report Offers New Insights Into Last Winter's Historically Deadly Flu
Last year’s flu season was one of the worst ones we’ve seen in decades, with nearly 80,000 flu-related deaths and the…
CDC Says It's Concerned About Polio-Like 'Mystery Illness' That's Paralyzing Kids
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a warning about a disease known as acute flaccid…