Bad Medicine

Raw milk is linked to the 150 times the disease outbreaks as pasteurized milk.

Male mice lived 16 percent longer than average.

Alcohol kills more than 2.5 million people ever year, more than AIDS.

Rather than a pharmaceutical doctors may give a carrot prescription to patients.

Religiosity may be undermining sex education in some states.

Sugars are toxic and should be regulated as strictly as alcohol, they say.

Casual to moderate use of marijuana has no negative implications for lungs, according to JAMA study.

Accidental or intended, these scientific findings ended up being blunders.

A simple sugar alcohol may be just what the dentist ordered.

Don't believe it? You're in denial, says LiveScience Bad Medicine columnist.

So say the makers of oatmeal and orange juice in their marginally legitimate study.

Vitamin pills don't ward off cancer and heart disease, and in some cases they make things much worse.

Any animal that eats grass contains a healthy level of omega-3s.

If living healthier and longer is not enough of an incentive, consider better sex as one more advantage to diet and exercise.

Americans are spending $23 billion a year on them, and the National Institutes of Health thinks that might be about $22.99 billion too much.

Hayden Penn had his appendix removed because, as we all know, the appendix serves no purpose ... right?

If smart brains are biologically different from dumb brains, does that mean that genetics and therefore race determine intelligence?

Got antibacterial soap? It could be doing you more harm than good.

Two very big and very expensive health studies had a "cheesesteak does your body good" feel to them.