Outside the Beltway

The US has always outspent our G7 brethren on healthcare but the divergence has skyrocketed over the last three decades.

While health experts warn Americans to cut the amount of fat in their diet, the Federal Government helps businesses like Domino’s and Taco Bell promote high-fat products to the public.

72 percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, compared to 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans.

Perhaps the dumbest study ever published in the Lancet compares the negative effects of alcohol and illicit drugs without controlling for incidence.

Experts say 80% of all alcohol sales go to people with drinking problems. The mathematics of that are staggering.

Thirty-two years after the first “Test Tube Baby” was born, the doctor who pioneered the procedure that created her has been recognized with a Nobel Prize.

A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.

A federal appeals court has ruled that there’s no link between autism and childhood vaccines.

Yet another sign that the America of my youth is dead: whole wheat bread is outselling white bread.

Mutated bacteria spreading in India could mark the end of effective antibiotic drugs. The medical repercussions would be enormous.

Christopher Hitchens takes us through this initial weeks with cancer with brutal introspection and wry humor.

Despite new breakthroughs, an HIV vaccine is still some ways off. But, my, we’ve come a long way.

Using sexual arousal aids increases your chances of getting AIDS.

Christopher Hitchens has esophageal cancer.

The legendary food police are going after Ronald McDonald and his Happy Meals.