New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

A recent article by leading malaria scientists should set the record straight that malaria growth has not been caused by climate change.

Democrats and Republicans alike can agree on the need to modernize health care through electronic prescriptions.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.

Few controversies in modern medicine are as emotionally charged as the one over the causes of autism and its possible cures. Journalists, celebrities, and a few medical researchers have claimed that some long-used vaccines cause autism and that various substances and procedures can cure it.

Wading into this controversy is...

"We are at the cusp of a revolution in medicine and biotechnology," Sonia Arrison announces in "100+", "that will radically increase not just our life spans but also, and more importantly, our health spans." This revolution will "change everything, from careers and relationships to family and faith."

Government officials can defuse a panic by providing clear and accurate information in a timely manner.

It is the world's most successful public health insecticide, saving millions upon millions of lives from insect-borne diseases. Yet DDT remains the world's most misunderstood chemical.