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If juice cleanses don’t really work, why are we hooked?
Juice-only detoxes are a growing trend -- much to the alarm of health practitioners
How did Jenny McCarthy earn a platform at a cancer fundraiser?
The anti-vaccine crusader has just been dropped from an Ottawa fundraiser. Science-ish asks why she was there in the first place
Are antiviral tissues worth the extra cost?
Kleenex ’sneeze shield’ tissues cost 12 times as much as a regular box
Forget Weight Watchers: Twitter is a 24-7 diet support group
The social network can help you lose weight, but are you willing to be honest with your followers?
What is known—and not known—about your flu medication
Julia Belluz explains why Canada’s emergency stockpile of Tamiflu comes as no relief
Global disease: The top risk factors
High blood pressure, smoking, alcohol use, air pollution ... Amanda Shendruk on the latest from the Lancet
2012: Outrageous attacks on science
Julia Belluz on Dr. Oz and coffee-related health claims
Which vitamins and supplements actually work?
St. John’s wort makes the cut, but stop wasting your money on raspberry ketones
Canada’s first class-action lawsuit involving birth defects allegedly caused by anti-depressents gets green light
Maclean’s exclusive: Anne Kingston on today’s ruling from the B.C. Supreme Court