Health

Even as the intellectual foundation for our drug-based paradigm of mental health care is collapsing, society's use of these medications is increasing.

A CBS report misled the public about Obamacare coverage. Maggie Mahar of Health Beat calls them on it and they pull the video. But by then the damage was …

More than 20 percent of civilians with traumatic injuries may develop PTSD. Surgeons and other trauma experts explain why many hospitals aren't doing anything about it.

Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are …

Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.

What is necessary is a “systematic redesign of how we get our staple food crops,” Shepard says.

Prisons across the United States are now home to thousands of senior citizens.

A new study has underscored just how little is known about the health consequences of the natural gas boom that began a decade ago, when advances in high-volume hydraulic …

Your taxpayer dollars have been used to support the undemocratic overthrow of the Venezuelan government since Hugo Chavez was elected.

The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a review of the way it ensures the safety and use of over-the-counter drugs taken by hundreds of millions of Americans, …