Epigenetic inheritance is really weird, but is it real?

We take it for granted that society gets better at tackling infectious disease over time, but when you really think about it the progress we’ve made in the last century is pretty amazing. How does that much progress happen so quickly?...

Recently, there have been big, splashy headlines about how drinking ANY alcohol increases your risk of cancer. As usual, there's more to the story than the scary headline. Aaron looks at the studies that made all the news, and talks...

Barbershops have long played a significant social, economic, and cultural role in African-American life. Barbershops foster both confidentiality and camaraderie, which seems like a good environment to talk to men about hypertension.

Cholesterol! For decades it's been demonized as the reason so many people have heart disease. We 've been watching it, and avoiding it like the plague.

One of my fist big efforts on my blog was a ten point series on health care spending in the US. It also led to John doing this video - which is the fourth most popular vlogbrothers video EVER, - which pretty much led to Healthcare...

Americans seem very afraid of cancer. Much of this fear is legitimate. Cancer is a significant cause of death. Unlike other causes, it often seems to come out of nowhere. It's the "silent killer". But evidence increasingly argues that...

One of the things that baffles me about people is how they completely misunderstand risk. Lots of my friends panic about things that have no real chance of killing them, but ignore the things that will. This can lead us to make...

What are we worried about in terms of health? What's really gonna kill us? How different is that from the past? All this and more on this week's Healthcare Triage News.

We've talked in the past about the positives of Marijuana use. What are the harms? From pregnancy effects to impaired driving to memory and concentration, Aaron will tell you how pot might hurt you.

Last week we discussed systematic reviews, and why they're better than review articles, or opinions. But they're not the only types of "studies of studies" I've presented to you. Sometimes you can go a step further. After you've...

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer in the United States. Because of that, billions of dollars are spent every year on medications that reduce your risk of disease and death. Compounding this problem, many of the risk...

In this lecture, we will look at a decision tree, how it works, its logic, and how to construct a decision tree.

A Heart Healthy Firehouse Chili

How Much Blood Does the Heart Pump?

Can You Be Fat And Fit?

Can Eggs Be Part of a Healthy Diet?

How to Keep Air Pollution from Hurting Your Heart

Are Vegetarian Diets Healthy?

Cholesterol is something everyone talks about, but how much do we really know? To find out, we visited a farmer's market to chew the fat, the good fat that is, and put shoppers to the test, Follow along and see how well you do with this...

Time for a Pop Quiz. All the following are potential signs for a heart attack, but one is more than likely to affect women. Is it....<br/>
A) Chest<br/> discomfortB) Pain in bot<br/>h arms
C) Shortness of breath
D) Cold sweat.

High blood pressure or hypertension can affect anyone...and what you don't know about it really can hurt you. Take our Everwell Challenge and see how you measure up.

Okay, let's get sta
rted:
1. True or false. The main...

Howcast - Learn how to lose weight on the Atkins Diet in this Howcast video featuring dietician Lisa Moskovitz.

Howcast - When choosing foods to add to your diet, opt for those that pack the greatest nutritional punch.