A 2013 This American Life episode called “Dopplegangers” introduced many Americans to the murky world of seafood fraud. Listeners tuning...

The most lethal creature on this earth is, surprisingly, the tiny mosquito — more specifically, the malarial plasmodium parasites that...

Cecile Richards is the President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Before joining...

Americans are fat, and getting fatter. According to the American Heart Association, 78 million adults and 13 million children in the...

Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food...

Zika has entered the American consciousness in much the same way Ebola did: with a melodramatic flourish and a twinge of impish paranoia....

A Danish ad encouraging couples to have more sex has recently gone viral. The ad, created for a travel agency, specifically encourages...

It has already been over seven months since the 2016 campaign trail began winding its way through Iowa and New Hampshire, but a long road...

On February 5, John Oliver opened his new season of Last Week Tonight with a 17-minute segment attacking the unsavory advertising...

While West Africa faces the ravages of Ebola, potential vaccines developed a decade ago are being exhumed from what Dr. James E. Crowe...

Imagine you’ve come down with appendicitis. Scared and in pain, you go to an “Appendix Crisis Center,” where they tell you that if you...

As the leaves change color and the temperature drops, winter and the flu season are fast approaching. With the chill also comes the...

A recent report by the Population Division of the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs has received a great deal of attention...