A failed private lawsuit accusing major food companies of engineering addictive food has been resurrected by San Francisco’s city attorney, recasting contested nutrition science as a public nuisance.

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At a moment when ultra-processed foods, industrial agriculture, and food subsidies are under political siege, can a New York ...

How much of our lifespan is written in our genes, and how much is sitting on our plates? A new analysis suggests that while ...

With the EPA launching a new toxicity review and the MAHA movement claiming fluoride is a hidden health menace, the battle lines are being redrawn between public health orthodoxy and rising political ...

Statins have been blamed for everything short of causing bad hair days—especially by the alternative-medicine crowd, who ...

Red light therapy has gone from dermatology clinics to the wellness world, promising everything from younger-looking skin and ...

On this episode of Science Dispatch, we dive into the latest Kīlauea eruption and the alarming chemistry behind the air ...

Two women in California are unhappy about phosphates and carrageenan in Costco’s rotisserie chicken. I’m fine with them—by ...

When health insurance becomes conditional and unaffordable, it doesn’t just disappear from balance sheets—it vanishes from ...

Recent research suggests that regular omega-3 intake from supplements is linked to a modest reduction in cardiovascular events—but the benefits are smaller than many headlines suggest, and not ...