The California Legislature ended its session at midnight last night — and in the end, two pernicious pieces of legislation failed. The Senate rejected a bill to ban plastic bags from grocery stores and pharmacies after opponents argued it went too far in restricting consumer choice.
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In light of the recent egg recall, people are scrambling to get free-range chickens eggs, thinking they may be safer than those laid by caged hens, but mounting evidence suggests that this may just be a myth spurred by food activists. According to a 1994 study investigating the presence of a specific type of salmonella, the strain was present in 50 percent of free-range hens but found in only 1 percent of caged hens. Additional research of U.S.
This may sound like an April Fool s joke, but a team of British researchers from Imperial College London are apparently serious when they suggest that fast food restaurants should give away statins to combat the heart disease dangers of fatty foods.
Last week we discussed how doctors have been reluctant to prescribe finasteride to men as a prophylactic treatment for prostate cancer.
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), cancer is now the most economically crippling disease in the world, costing more in lost productivity and lives than any other illness.
We’ve said it more than once, but we’ll say it again — and this time, a powerful, new study agrees with us: men with early, probably non-aggressive prostate cancer (determined by lower PSA levels and the presence of low-grade tumor pathology) can safely postpone surgery.
A large study of New York City children indicates that the incidence of childhood obesity ranges from 51 percent in Corona to 12 percent in the Upper West Side.
ACSH staffers were excited with the overwhelming response we received over the weekend via e-mail and Twitter to our question asking readers whether they or someone they know used electronic cigarettes as an effective method to successfully quit smoking.
Numerous people wrote in testimonials describing how, thanks to e-cigs, they have kicked their cigarette habits for good:
A coveted seat at the ACSH Dispatch table goes to agronomist Giorgio Fidenato for standing up to environmental groups and the Italian government.
A study of about 500 people in Charlotte, N.C., before and after the city completed a light-rail system found that those who used the system to commute were 81 percent less likely to become obese.
Even though her provision to ban bisphenol A (BPA) was removed from the Food Safety Modernization Act, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) refuses to give up and is asking California Gov.
A new University of Virginia study finds that alcohol-based hand sanitizers do not significantly reduce infection rates with flu or cold viruses. Study participants who used the sanitizer had 42 rhinovirus infections and 12 influenza infections per 100 volunteers, while 51 rhinovirus infections and 15 influenza infections occurred per 100 volunteers who did not take any special sanitary precautions.
Americans over the weekend honored the victims killed in the tragic attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
ACSH staffers would like to remind our readers that they should take the necessary precautions for terrorism preparedness by reading ACSH’s publication A Citizen's Guide to Terrorism Preparedness and Response.
“The most important thing people can do is to be educated. Knowledge will overcome fear,” ACSH's Jeff Stier reminds us.
Here’s a possible pick-up line for all you boys at the bar: Did you know moderate wine consumption is associated with better cognitive function? Female wine drinkers, and male wine and beer drinkers, score better on thinking tests than teetotalers.
From the company that brought you Dolly the cloned sheep comes another new and exciting development: the creation of red blood cells from spare IVF embryonic stem cells (ESC). British scientists from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh are using stem cell lines to create an alternative source of O-negative (universal donor) and B-positive blood types.
Statin medications such as Lipitor and Crestor are a cost-effective way of preventing heart attacks even in lower-risk populations, according to a computerized analysis published this week in Circulation.
In contrast to Wednesday’s lists of false or unprioritized cancer prevention tips, (from USA Today and the
Sunday NFL football fans may have noticed something different amongst the hordes of their favorite gridiron defensive linemen and quarterbacks — pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, chin straps, sideline caps, helmet decals, eye shield decals, captains' patches, sideline towels and quarterback towels. In honor of breast cancer awareness month, every NFL game in October will feature this distinct pink tint, reminding all of us about the devastating disease.
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to regulate perchlorate under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The chemical has long been used in testing rockets and missiles, and therefore has been notoriously dubbed as the toxic chemical used in rocket fuel.
Most people who want to scare folks for Halloween do it with a frightening costume or elaborate yard display. Not the Environmental Working Group, alas.
A third of American mothers are unlikely to get their children flu shots, according to a survey commissioned by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Another poll by the same group finds 43 percent of Americans say they won’t get vaccinated themselves.
An international team of Alzheimer’s disease experts have proposed a new framework for diagnosing the disease earlier in its course that doesn’t require the patient to suffer from full-blown dementia. Instead, the patients must suffer “episodic memory impairment” and have at least one positive biomarker — either found in the cerebrospinal fluid, or on special radiological tests — for the disease.
Pregnant women who were near the 9/11 attacks in New York don’t have to worry that they might have put their unborn child at risk from exposure to toxic dust.
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