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When the Supreme Court handed Monsanto a major win in Roundup litigation on Thursday, the headlines sounded like a scientific event: a case about whether Roundup causes cancer. But Monsanto v. Durnell did not settle that question. The court held that federal pesticide law preempts a state failure-to-warn claim when the Environmental Protection Agency has not required a cancer warning on the product label. (Alex Smolak, 6/27)

The real cure for bad science is better clinical trials, not lawsuits. (Megan McArdle, 6/28)

I am a plastic surgeon who rebuilds faces after car accidents, helps cancer patients breathe, and restores infants’ ability to eat and smile. Yet what draws the most notice is my work transforming masculine features into feminine ones, and vice versa. (Kavitha Ranganathan, 6/29)

Shawn Kelly is a pediatrician in Ottawa who specializes in adolescent addiction medicine. Because he’s one of the few doing this work in his part of Canada, teenagers come to him with a host of problem behaviors, from opioid abuse to compulsive video gaming. (Jessica Grose, 6/27)

The decline in obesity rates is a medical triumph. But millions remain locked out by high costs, uneven insurance coverage, and bureaucratic barriers. (Ashish K. Jha, 6/29)