E. coli, campylobacter, salmonella & other pathogens cause misery in their acute stages, but medical research is now linking food-borne pathogens to long-term afflictions with serious consequences that surface long after the acute stage has subsided.

Apparently, medical examiners are being given something new to put on autopsy reports to replace "death by Taser." Hopefully, this new syndrome, called "Sudden Death After Arrest," is not something only affecting minority youths and mental patients . . .

This small but vocal contingent is claiming that marijuana has no medical value, that every prosecutor in every medical marijuana state opposes its use, that you can overdose on marijuana, and more than a dozen other outrageous lies. We are fighting back

A human rights watchdog has launched a unique nationwide campaign to pressure the Bush administration to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Today the case of a Jehovah's Witness teen forced to recieve a blood transfusion has reached the Supreme Court. The court's judgment in the case "is expected to set a standard on when children are considered capable of making their own calls."

Recently, the Washington post printed an article about vaccine waivers that could jeopardise your parental rights:

CSA fails to meaningfully inform physicians of what conduct is proscribed, largely because such conduct is arbitrarily and unilaterally determined by enforcement authorities LACKING KNOWLEDGE and EXPERTISE with respect to issues of MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Red wine does indeed explain why the French get away with a relatively clean bill of heart health despite eating a diet loaded with saturated fats, concludes a new study. People living in France have a much lower incidence of coronary heart

An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in 12 states

Prion protein is the agent that causes mad cow disease in cattle, people, deer, sheep, and many other animals.