The first major epidemiological study to assess the risks of bisphenol A -- a chemical found in baby bottles, canned foods, and in 90 percent of Americans -- has been completed, and the results are not good.

Exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, was linked to an increased risk...

When Thomas Cravy, a 66-year-old ophthalmologist in Santa Maria, California, underwent chemotherapy for prostate cancer, he fasted for eight hours afterward. That seemed to reduce the side-effects of the chemotherapy -- the debilitating nausea and exhaustion. So for his next round of chemo, he fasted for 64 hours beforehand and...

As I wrote three months ago, the Bush administration has lost any shame, in its lame-duck days, about relying on industry to demonstrate the safety of potential environmental toxins.

In this case, the chemical under suspicion is bisphenol A, or BPA, found in baby bottles, and in the...

The American Psychological Association should have taken a stand against torture years ago, when evidence first emerged that the Bush administration was condoning and even encouraging torture.

The organization finally took that stand today, August 16th, 2008, and we should applaud them for it, despite the delay.

Saying it...

The assumption has always been that men could father children long after women the same age have been forced to hang up their reproductive shoes.

That's because men always have a fresh supply of sperm, while a woman's eggs are as old as she is. After 35 or so,...

It's no surprise that the Bush administration relies heavily on industry for its policy making.

Most of that advice is kept rigorously secret. The pattern was set in the earliest days of the administration, when Cheney began meeting behind closed doors with oil and gas companies to draft the administration's...

Years ago, an elderly Greek woman, the widow of a Greek priest, asked me why I didn't go to church. Before I could answer, she said, "It's nice to go to church." That's the simplest and best reason I've ever heard for going to church. For some people -- it's...

As ABC News has recently observed, the presidential campaign features a pair of older dads, one on each side of the aisle.

On the left, it's Sen. Christopher Dodd, 63, who has two daughters, age 6 and 2, with his second wife Jackie Clegg Dodd. And on the right, Sen....

Two months ago, I opened the mail to find new health insurance cards for me, my wife, and my son. We were now covered, apparently, by a new insurance company. We had no warning that this change was coming. The new carrier apparently thought we already knew about this, because...

Does the market for sperm donors and egg donors tell us something about stereotypes of mothers and fathers? Rene Almeling, a Ph.D.-candidate sociologist at UCLA, thinks it does.

In a survey of staff members at sperm banks and egg donation agencies, this is what she found:

Egg donation is a...