Scientists report that widely used chemicals — endocrine disruptors — are causing serious health problems in humans. We ask what the government is, and is not, doing about it.

Pandemic fever. Arlen Specter joins the Democrats. Chrysler in bankruptcy. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The swine flu began in Mexico, flew to New Zealand, landed in New York, Kansas, California. Now the world’s defenses are up. We’ll get the latest.

The federal government is pushing to transition our health records online. We’ll look at the benefits and challenges of such a move.

Tiny babies. Big challenges. We’ll go inside the world of neonatal medicine where miracles and tragedies happen every day.

Does the test designed to detect prostate cancer save lives? Two new studies raise big questions.

Washington, D.C. now has an HIV infection rate that rivals rates in Africa. We look at AIDS in America.

Pharmaceutical companies – and some scientists – are pushing to make drugs like Adderall and Ritalin mainstream performance enhancers.

Pass on the chicken Caesar salad, save the planet. New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman on how to change the world with your diet.

NFL wives speak out. Are their husbands suffering brain damage from playing in the National Football League?

We’ll talk with the field biologist who tracks new threats, to jungle and stream, before they become pandemic.

We’ll look at the evidence on popular treatments, from acupuncture to aromatherapy, and whether they’re effective.

Dr. Thomas Graboys talks about his own Parkinson’s disease.

Lizzie Gottlieb’s brother Nicky was never like most other kids. Very smart, but talked late, walked late, didn’t make eye contact, didn’t socially connect.
It wasn’t until he was 20 that Nicky was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a kind of high-functioning neurological cousin of autism that is being diagnosed in more and more young Americans.
They can [...]

Six weeks ago today was a big day for me. I’d had a little tightness in the chest, a little trip to the doctor. And six weeks ago they threw me on a hospital gurney, slapped on the oxygen mask, and cut my chest open for heart bypass surgery.
I was lucky. No heart attack. No [...]

Nobody’s perfect, but perfectionism is a virtue — right? Great athletes, star CEOs, and Nobel laureates embody it. But where does the perfectionist tendency lead? Great success for some — but then there are the crazy bosses, pushy parents, and high-striving students on the edge of a breakdown.
New research on perfectionism reveals that the urge [...]

It sounds like a sci-fi nightmare: scientists bring back to life ancient deadly viruses that once wiped out vast numbers of the human race for research purposes only, of course. And where do they go to find those extinct diseases? Deep within our own genome.
Long ago, some of the viruses that didn’t kill us got [...]

For decades, breast cancer was seen as an affliction of affluent women in the industrialized West. And heaven knows it is that. In the U.S., one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
But the world’s most lethal form of cancer for women is not bound by borders these days. From South America to [...]

Nobel prize-winner James Watson, of “Watson & Crick” fame, of DNA and the epic discovery of DNA’s double helix structure, carries one of the most storied names in modern science. Right up there with Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and Marie Curie.
His pioneering work broke open the great age of genetic science we live in now. He’s [...]