I’ve been concerned about the health effects of plastics since I first learned about them back in the 1990s. Since then, research has shown that those handy plastic containers you put your food in contain dubious chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) that can leach into your food.

This month the FDA approved the sale of the osteoporosis drug Prolia aimed at preventing bone fractures in post-menopausal women.

Here’s news that should make you breathe easier, even if you’re a smoker. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that higher levels of B6 in the blood cut the risk of lung cancer by half.

Dear Dr. Cutler,

A dear, dear friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with cancer and has refused the traditional treatments of radiation, chemotherapy or even surgery. I have read about a therapy that has been safely used in Europe for a variety of health problems, including cancer. Have you heard about ozone therapy? Is it truly safe, as well as effective?

If I told you that prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screenings were more about making money than your health, you might think I was crazy. After all, 30 million men can’t be wrong, can they?

With diabetes rates soaring in developed countries, it's important to be aware of every lifestyle change you can make to reduce your risk.

If you’re on a common class of blood pressure drugs known as angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), or know someone who is, you’re going to want to read this.

If there’s one issue I take with mainstream medicine’s approach to treating cancer, it’s that so much focus is spent on defeating the disease while very little attention is paid to the health and vitality of the patient.

Thanks to the mass fluoridation of our municipal water supplies and the inclusion of man-made fluoride in toothpastes and other dental and consumer products, most of us regularly consume dangerous amounts of a dangerous form of fluoride.

I've had some pretty remarkable dogs in my life. One that even understood "right" and "left"--even though I never trained him on it. But I think even he'd be impressed with this Belgian Malinois (it's a breed of German shepherd widely used in law enforcement to sniff out bombs and drugs).