Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Past Science's Reach
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The government has spent $2.3 million in the past 4 years to study something that critics say has nothing to do with science.
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Much of what weâre told about diet, lifestyle and disease is based on epidemiologic studies. What if it is just bad science?
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A visit to church may be good for the soul but not so good for the lungs, a new study shows. Scientists from Maastricht University found that burning candles and incense in church can release dangerous levels
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There isn't enough evidence to tell if most treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder work, says a scientific review that highlights the urgency of finding answers as thousands of suffering veterans return from Iraq.
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Scientists refute a longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body's capacity to fight infection.
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People in the U.S. know more about basic science today than they did two decades ago, good news that researchers say is tempered by an unsettling growth in the belief in pseudoscience such as astrology and visits by extraterrestrial aliens.
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A surprise finding in a major federal study calls into question a long-held tenet of diabetes care.
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There may not be a lot of agreement among the worldâs religions on exactly what constitutes humans âplaying God,â but you never hear a preacher or rabbi suggesting such behavior is wise or laudable. So you would think they might have a lot to say about nanotechnology.
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When Sister Kathleen Treanor's soul ascends to heaven, her brain will go to a less ethereal realm: a medical lab in Kentucky. Two decades ago, Sister Treanor and 677 other members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame granted a young researcher's request to test them each year in order to track the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related brain disorders.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A team of British-based researchers will spend the next three years probing why people believe in religion.
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A visit to church may be good for the  soul but not so good for the lungs, a new study shows.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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The study is unlikely to end the increasingly charged debate about vaccine safety.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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Scientific tests on a range of traditional remedies have shown they have "real benefits", researchers say.
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Exploring the reasons people swear by treatments that have no scientific evidence backing them.