Science Issues

Two-thirds of Americans (67%) say there is solid evidence that the earth has been getting warmer over the last few decades. Republicans, however, face greater internal divisions over this issue than do Democrats. Just 25% of Tea Party Republicans say there is solid evidence of global warming, compared with 61% of non-Tea Party Republicans.

Nearly half of Chinese say air pollution is a "very big" problem in their country.

Susannah Fox will deliver a keynote address to a symposium hosted by the University of Maryland Health Sciences & Human Services Library in Baltimore

I began a recent speech at a medical school with a question that many busy clinicians might be asking: How do we know that social media is important to health care?

Survey Report Public trust in the government, already quite low, has edged even lower in a survey conducted just before the Oct. 16 agreement to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. Just 19% say that they trust the government in Washington to do what is right just about always or most of […]

Susannah Fox delivered a keynote address to a symposium hosted by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University.

A new study finds that mortality rates increase during upward cycles in the economy, and decrease during downward cycles.

How patients and caregivers seek health information in the digital age

Susannah Fox will speak at the Joslin Diabetes Center's annual innovation conference in Washington, DC.

This is the fourth year for the popular Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0, covering topics that aren't discussed in health care.