Polls suggest Americans prefer personal responsibility to punitive taxes in combating the obesity problem.

The Food and Drug Administration's letter to Cheerios typifies the FDA's longstanding discomfort with health claims made on food labels, particularly those touting the medical benefits of certain diets and ingredients.

The American tort liability systemworks badly when it gets infected by junk science.

The recent verdict in a case involving the pain reliever Vioxx demonstrates how junk science can corrupt drug litigation.

Studies show that increased exercise during the holidays could begin to combat the obesity epidemic.

Harvey C. Mansfield of Harvard University and AEI delivered the third of the 2008-2009 Bradley Lectures on November 3.

Imagine that some Republican visionary reminds Americans that Democrats refused to address our nation's biggest problems, instead enacting populist junk food.

Comments this week by Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf reveal a basic if not ultimately fatal flaw of President Obama's current health care plan.