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Chicago s City Council reverses itself, striking a blow to protect cigarettes from the nasty competition from much safer e-cigarettes, thanks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Out into the cold Chicago winter with you, vapers! To protect the children.

Every New Year, millions of Americans vow to lose weight. But it s a challenging resolution, because losing weight can be a slow process involving denying oneself the pleasures of sloth and snacking.

Friends of the Earth (FOE) is just one of the anti-science groups now claiming that bees are dying all over the world as the result of the use of pesticides in agriculture and by people protecting their gardens.

In the world of drug research, the language can be a little unusual. For example, it is fair to say that easier disease targets, such as HIV, hepatitis C, ulcers and high blood pressure, and certain cancers, have seen advances that have resulted in game changing therapies for those diseases.

The very good news is that antibiotic research by drug companies is slowly starting up again after a long sabbatical. But almost without exception, the complete story of how we got here is not told.

When you re brought into an emergency room following an auto accident and there isn t enough IV saline to go around, you re not going to care all that much why. And if you re not in too much pain (because they may be out of morphine too), perhaps you ll ponder why we should even have to worry about these things.

In his recent piece, which appeared in The New Hampshire Union Leader, Deroy Murdock hits all the right notes with a very convincing argument on why everyone regardless, or even despite their political leanings - should think very carefully about the benefits the US could derive from tapping its natural gas supplies as well as about the overstated risks.

Motor vehicle accidents are one of the leading causes of death in children in the United States. Between 2002 and 2011, about 9,000 children ages 12 and under were killed in motor vehicle

As legalization and decriminalization of marijuana sweeps across the US, many of you will be surprised to learn that there have already been unintended (and deadly) consequences.

A world without GMO crops? A sadder, hungrier, less-green place. Thankfully, only an imaginary world...so far.

The Center for Disease Control s (CDC) ongoing efforts to prevent and control the spread of antibacterial-resistant infections has yielded new areas of intervention. They report doctors in some

Steve Savage, an expert on agriculture, pesticides and GM foods has posted an intriguing piece on Science 2.0 (the same site on which ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom now regularly contributes).
Savage has a lot to say. In his piece, entitled Our Farmers Get An A+ For Low Pesticide Residues, he discusses a recent report by the USDA which examined pesticide residues on food.
From the USDA report: "The Pesticide Data Program provides reliable data through rigorous sampling that helps assure consumers that the produce they feed their families is safe."

A new study shows that high blood pressure (HBP) is being inadequately treated among those with primary care physicians, and the level of control is worst among those

The CDC recommends that children receive the DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hemophilus influenza type b) at 3, 5, and 12 months and the MMR vaccine

A new study shows that proactive tobacco cessation treatment is effective. Sure, if you consider 13.5 percent a success! And these study authors do, since it s more effective than the control s 11 percent.

For infertile couples who long to have a child of their own, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, can provide a path to fulfilling their dreams.

The United States is trailing the rest of the world in terms of HPV vaccination rates. As we have written recently, according to the CDC, vaccination rates among girls are only at 33 percent. The rate among

In November 2012 Californians went to the polls and defeated a bill (Proposition 37) that would have mandated labeling of GE food or food that contained ingredients produced using genetic engineering technology. Now, not satisfied with that rather clear outcome, a new bill SB 1381 has been introduced by state senator Noreen Evans.

Statins, drugs that lower LDL (bad) cholesterol levels, are perhaps the most widely prescribed pharmaceuticals in the United States. Currently nearly 43 million US adults 38 percent of Americans

About 7 million Americans have Alzheimer s disease today, burdening families with not only the added role of providing care

We at ACSH give a huge shoutout to Dr. Kristen Feemster, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleague of ACSH trustee Dr. Paul Offit.
In her recent op-ed in The New York Times, Dr. Feemster argues that there should be no exemptions from vaccinations for personal or religious reasons.

Norman Borlaug, known as the Father of the Green Revolution and a Founding Trustee of ACSH, was a member of the first international agricultural research and production team namely the Cooperative

We re pretty sure that by now you re at least somewhat familiar with the fraudulent (and supremely damaging) research done (made up, really) by Andrew Wakefield the former physician whose

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), a joint project of the Department for Health and Human Services and the USDA, must be re-evaluated and updated every five years. The last set of DGAs was produced in 2010, and thus the next set is due in 2015. While the DGA is simply advisory for most Americans, it sets the agenda for the military, school food programs, prisons and federal workplaces.

As a group that deals with medical misinformation virtually every day, we at ACSH (falsely) believed that we were inured from the worst scientific and medical garbage out there.
We are sorry to say that even we miscalculated the capacity of the American public to fall victim to the most idiotic conspiracy theories.