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Being anti-GMO is the biotech equivalent of being anti-vaccine.

Heart failure results when the heart is overburdened, for a variety of reasons, and blood flow stagnates causing a mixture of symptoms, like swollen legs or shortness of breath.

In the past decade, has your trust in the news media changed? If you're like most Americans, it has fallen, perhaps substantially.

The decision by the Italian Parliament to drop mandatory vaccinations for children entering school has provoked numerous commentaries.

While the exact wording remains an open debate, the phrase "youth is wasted on the young" is largely attributable to George Bernard Shaw, the prodigious Irish playwright.

Neil Sedaka once noted that breaking up is hard to do. Even harder, it seems, is doing good science. Why?

A male physician in Texas, Gary Tigges, MD, faced a rude awakening when comments he believed would remain priv

The headline read, "Dental care before cancer surgery might be good idea." 

You may have recently read about a teacher who was hospitalized and treated in Texas with four stents for an often fatal type of heart attack.

Dr. Wells, my colleague and friend, and I frequently disagree about medical privacy issues.