We know nicotine is what makes cigarettes so addictive, but it's all that other stuff in cigarettes that makes them so deadly, right?

Researchers who studied the effects of lower and higher nicotine cigarette smoke in mice report we might have to adjust those assumptions. Their study reveals mice exposed to lower-nicotine smoke developed smaller atherosclerotic lesions than mice exposed to higher-nicotine smoke. The finding suggests nicotine replacement products like the gum and patch...

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Ovarian cancer, the “silent killer,” may not always be so silent, experts say.

That’s why women need to get regular pelvic exams and pay attention to possible symptoms of ovarian cancer, according to a team of University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center experts who are trying to increase awareness about the disease.

Until recently, it was believed that ovarian cancer did not produce any symptoms in its earliest, most curable stages. But researchers recently...

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Oh yes sir, Fluoride is extremely hazardous to your health. Despite what the majority of toothpaste commercials want you to believe - this %*$@ actually causes the teeth to decay.

This may be a sticky subject, but let’s take a look at where fluoride comes from and what it’s been used as.

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Read Oil shock and visit World without Oil, an alternate reality event game by Corporation for Public Broadcasting and ITVS, where It invites everyone is invited to help simulate a global oil shock. People can participate by contributing original online stories, imagining that the oil shock is really happening. One can post blog posts, create videos, take photos to show how its going to be in fictional post-oil world.This initiative is thought provoking.

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Wednesday's massive earthquake near Indonesia was distressingly similar to the one that killed over 220,000 people in December of 2004. Both happened off the coast of Sumatra and put at least a dozen other countries at risk of tsunami. Yesterday's magnitude-8.4 quake was smaller than the 9.1 of 2004, but only slightly. Tall buildings swayed in Jakarta, and some high-rises were evacuated in Singapore. And less than 24 hours later, the quake was followed by a second and third temblor in the same area,...

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