The Issue
Girls Reaching Puberty at Younger Ages

The Facts
Have you noticed? Ten-year-old girls don't look like the same care-free, hoola-hoop-playing kids from a generation ago. Rather, many of them seem to have stepped out of a VH1 video with their little waists and developing breasts.

The Issue
Daily aspirin and heart disease

The Facts
Kids are told that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but for many grownups the message is quite different. They're told that an aspirin a day keeps the heart attack away. Indeed, today some 50 million Americans...

The Issue:
Dental Sealants for kid

The Facts

Look Ma No Cavities! In an ad campaign worthy of Mad Man's Don Draper, Crest exhorted TV audiences of the 60s and 70s to use its Fluoristan-enriched toothpaste to help prevent cavities in kids. Now dentists have added a newer approach:...

The Issue
Melanoma has always been considered linked to sun exposure, and sunscreen thought to protect against it. Now some doctors raise doubts.

The Facts
When most Americans think of melanoma, they think of John McCain as a POW baking in the Vietnam sun and developing such a...

The Issue
Alcohol and the Risk of Breast Cancer

The Facts
Is drinking good for you - or not? Seems that nothing short of Prohibition can put an end to the debate. For years, kicking back some booze seemed positively virtuous: a host of studies show that moderate...

The Issue
Older Dads and their kids' IQ

The Facts
Would-be trophy wives, listen up. That rich geezer you're considering for a husband - if you actually found someone left with money these days - may not be the best choice to father your children. A recently released...

The Issue
Vitamins

The Facts
There's been such a flurry of disappointing news about vitamins you'd think Whole Foods would stop selling them. Just last week, the huge Women's' Health Initiative, a nearly decade-long study that tracks the health of 161,800 women, found that the staple of the...

The Issue
Cosmetic procedures

The Facts
Everyone's doing it (except you, of course). Having their faces cut, sewn and injected so that they, too, can look as young as Jennifer Aniston ten years ago. With all the cosmetic tinkering going on - from stalwart injectables like Botox and...

The Issue

Stomach-stapling to lose weight

The Facts

At just nine years old Ron Morelli weighed 200 pounds. By the time he was an adult, the 6-ft tall businessman from Lyon, Michigan had ballooned to nearly 500 pounds. Desperate to slim down, he had his GI tract...