ACSH President and Founder Dr. Elizabeth Whelan was on CNN Sunday, May 9, 2010, to discuss the President's Cancer Panel report blaming cancer on environmental chemicals. Watch here.
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Reuters Health reports, “Everyday exposure to perchlorate, an industrial chemical found in drinking water and a range of foods, may not impair thyroid function in pregnant women, a new study suggests.” The CDC study found perchlorate in the urine of all 2,820 subjects tested.
Proctor & Gamble says its Dry Max Pampers, less bulky but more absorbent than the previous design, are the biggest thing in diapers in 25 years.
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco identifies what could be indicators as to whether a patient’s ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS, a non-invasive breast cancer lesion) will progress to invasive breast cancer.
According to the Associated Press, Supreme Court justices on Tuesday sharply questioned a lower court's decision that has prohibited biotech giant Monsanto Co. from selling genetically engineered alfalfa seeds ¦
Research presented at experimental biology conference this week in Anaheim, Calif., showed that people who ate cookies labeled as organic believed that their snack contained 40% fewer calories than the same cookies that had no label.
Retired military officers say school lunches have put the nation's security at risk because they've left so many young Americans too fat to join the military. We're not making this up, folks.
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered BP to use a less toxic and more effective chemical to break up the oil that leaked from their offshore drilling platform. According to The Wall Street Journal, Of all the chemicals approved by the agency for use on oil spills, Corexit 9500 is among the most toxic to certain organisms, according to EPA tests.
CBS’ 60 Minutes last night aired a report on phthalates, widely used to soften plastics, and the coverage was about what ACSH staffers expected from the news team that brought you the 1989 Alar scare.
Millions of vacationers will pack a picnic basket and head to the parks and beaches this Memorial Day weekend we hope you re among them and we here at ACSH urge everyone to eat their potato salad till to their heart s content.
A coveted seat at the ACSH Dispatch table for Cas Holloway, commissioner of the New York City s Department of Environmental Protection. His agency spent $81,000 to study the city s water supply after a scaremongering pharmawater investigation by The Associated Press in 2008 found traces of pharmaceuticals in municipal drinking water around the nation.
The conclusion of the study? It turns out New York City s water supply isn t going to cure your headaches, change your hormones or lower your cholesterol after all. (Not that we at ACSH ever thought it would.)
ACSH s Jeff Stier was so surprised to see the following advertisement on a New York City bus the other day that he ran out onto the street to snap a picture of it with his arsenic-laden iPhone 3G.
It was not until later that he realized that this was not, in fact, a campaign by the New York City Public Health Department to cleanse our food of salt, but a promotion for an upcoming movie starring Angelina Jolie.
ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan debated Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, on the CNN special "Toxic Childhood." Watch here.
Women who were light to moderate drinkers early in pregnancy were more likely to raise children with more positive behaviors, Reuters Health reports, citing a study by researchers from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in West Perth, Western Australia. The study defined light to moderate drinking as the consumption of two to six drinks per week, or one a day.
ACSH staffers cringed last night as the first hour of CNN s Toxic America report broadcast its message that trace levels of environmental chemicals are causing myriad disease in America, from cancer to diabetes and more.
It was worse than I could have imagined, says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, who was interviewed for tonight s conclusion of the two-part series. The most shocking part of it was that they recruited people from certain towns who thought that they were harmed by chemicals, and brought them all together to talk about how dangerous these substances are.
ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan is among the scientific experts who contributed to the "Second Opinion" feature on the FDA s Bad Ad program in the Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today. She wrote:
ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan appeared last night on the second installment of CNN's special about chemicals, "Toxic Childhood," countering assertions that environmental chemicals are among the main causes of disease and death in children.
Dr. Whelan said CNN placed her in a tough spot: How do you go up against parents who appeared in the previous segment who claim, emotionally, that their daughter died of cancer because of exposure to trace level environmental chemicals?
Reuters reported Wednesday on a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that asserts a causal link between the nationwide trend in the reduction of heart attack rates and bans on smoking in public places.
U.S. News & World Report s Washington Whispers blog reports that at least four groups are skeptical of the credibility of the FDA s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC).
ACSH staffers were pleasantly surprised when they discovered anti-pseudoscience blogger JunkScienceMom s reference to a Hands off my plastic stuff! Facebook site, which reveals some of the various consumer and medical products that would disappear if BPA were banned.
Next year, New York s required calorie count policy for chain restaurants is set to go into effect nationwide under the country s new healthcare legislation. The Wall Street Journal reports that while supporters believe the new policies are necessary to overcome the nation s high obesity rates, opponents question whether the government should have such regulatory power over private businesses.
A whopping $712 million settlement was approved Thursday for approximately 10,000 rescue and clean-up workers who claim their health was compromised at Ground Zero. Compensatory payments will be allotted even to plaintiffs who currently have no qualifying injuries.
The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology presented two studies that may eventually alter the treatment of women with early-stage breast cancer. In the first study conducted by investigators from the University College of London, 991 women were recruited. All of the women had a "sentinel node" removed which showed the presence of cancer cells, but only half of the women received the standard treatment since the 1990s, the removal of additional lymph nodes.
In another news story illustrating the potentially disastrous health effects that studies hyping such exaggerated risks may perpetuate, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) has demanded that the FDA immediately provide guidance and reassurance to consumers about a potential link between a common sunscreen additive and skin cancer.
Studies conducted in laboratory animals suggest a possible link between retinyl palmitate and skin cancer, but no human data was analyzed, says ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross.
The British Medical Journal reports that people who do not practice good dental hygiene are at increased risk for heart disease. Gum infections seem to add to the inflammatory burden on individuals, increasing cardiovascular risk, the researchers say, Webmd reports.
This BMJ study is now part of a growing body of evidence linking poor dental hygiene with increased risk of systemic disease, says Dr. Whelan.
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