Sometimes there exist subregions where, for a variety of reasons, diseases just tend to lurk and persist regardless of what is occurring in...

Not tonight, cherie, may be being heard ever more often in the bedrooms of France.  But there's a switch.  If a new hard-hitting BBC sto...

Saturated fat is deadly! Epidemiologists, and nutritionists informed by epidemiologists, have been telling us for decades that animal fat c...

A story in Monday's New York Times tells of the kinds of long-term trauma that can result from the head injuries football or hockey p...

The cover story in the Sunday New York Times Magazine by Nathaniel Rich, "Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?," te...

There are some interesting recent parallels in what one may call the philosophy of science, that have to do with the issues related to deter...

The 54th Carnival of Evolution is up, at ideonexus.  Nice collection of posts.