After putting off the decision during his self-imposed four-year moratorium, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that New York will ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking). New York is now the first state with significant natural gas resources to ban fracking.
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New study shows significant benefits for patients with severe stroke from rapid arterial intervention to remove or dissolve occlusive clots. Should this now become the new standard treatment for those with severe stroke?
ACSH friend Dr. David Seres, the director of nutritional medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, wrote a thought-provoking piece in The Hill about rampant Ebola paranoia the US, entitled What we learned from Ebolanoia .
Dr. Josh Bloom on Science 2.0, December 19, 2014.
In case you are fooled by the title, and are expecting to learn about a retro-metal group with a really terrible name, I apologize in advance. That's not what this is about.
Dr. Josh Bloom and Dr. Henry I. Miller in Forbes.com, January 14, 2015
The development of pharmaceuticals is among the riskiest of businesses. It now takes 10-15 years for a pharmaceutical company to get a new drug approved, and on average the cost exceeds $2.5 billion. To establish its safety and effectiveness, a candidate drug or vaccine undergoes a lengthy process of laboratory,...[Read more].
In his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Henry Miller reminisces, sardonically, about the vast potential wasted of biopharming: genetically modifying plants to make pharmaceuticals. The regulators choked it to death.
A substantial minority of teens believe that occasional cigarette smoking is not so bad; worse still, a majority think that light smoking is OK. Well, it s not, and since smokers begin as teens nine times out of ten, that s the time to correct these myths.
It should come as no surprise to our Dispatch readers that we have a real problem with the ever-changing, bogus world of dietary supplements. Although these allegedly non-medicines make cleverly disguised non-claims about utility for just about every human malady real or imagined the most popular of these useless
In the neverending world of alternative medicine, it s always something. The non-medical roulette wheel from hell has a far greater number of wrong choices (37 on a standard roulette wheel ) than you ll find in a casino. And the wheel keeps spinning.
It just landed on 16 (the atomic weight of oxygen), and it is unlikely that there were any winners.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) consists of five appointees charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of types of consumer products under the agency s jurisdiction ¦such
We at ACSH have been screaming into the wind about the folly of the supplements industry for years. Supplements are nothing but unregulated drugs, and ending this illogical divide between them and prescription drugs is long overdue.
A new CDC report castigates the ten states which continue to allow youngsters to purchase e-cigarettes legally. The CDC neglects to report that several big public health nonprofits, especially the American Cancer Society, are responsible.
Dr. Gilbert Ross in Syracuse.com, January 26, 2015.
After putting off the decision during his self-imposed four-year "moratorium," Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last month that New York State will ban hydraulic fracturing
New study shows addictive power of e-cigarettes far less than that of the real ones. No surprise: cigarettes have hundreds of psychoactive chemicals in addition to nicotine. And more discussion about the recent phony formaldehyde scare.
The latest health news: Some STD rates down, but many still go unreported, a shout out to a cogent Forbes article on fracking, and remember Dr. Oz's advice? Forget it.
Dr. Gilbert Ross in The Daily Caller, January 19, 2015.
Just when I thought the state of America s public health regarding smoking could not get any worse, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) showed me how wrong I was. Their new leaflet: Protect Your
In the Winston-Salem Journal, Paul Mulshine lauds American Council on Science and Health Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Dr. Josh Bloom for taking the New York Times to task for sloppiness when saying "chemicals" are harmful, without noting that everything on the planet is made out of chemicals.
Pick up any newspaper today, and it will be on page 1: A potentially game changing advance in inhibiting HIV replication discovered at Scripps Institute.
Rather than regurgitate the story, which is tough reading, we thought we'd try to explain the concept in a more understandable way.
We have taken Vani Hari The Food Babe to task multiple times for her charade posing as a credible science-based resource on nutrition, acting in the best interests of her followers, when she really is a metaphor for anti-science hype and fear, according to
Another renowned expert in smoking, nicotine and health expounds clearly and firmly on the potential of e-cigarettes to reduce smokings devastation IF the powers-that-be will allow it.
This week the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) released its report on how Americans should eat something that such
Teaser: A group of lawyers warn e-cigarette/vaping businesses in California that they are subject to legal action and fines for not labelling their products as carcinogens or reproductive toxicants, as required under Prop. 65, because of the nicotine they contain.
Yesterday, Womenshealth.gov, the official website of the Office on Women s Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services published the story of Michelle Whitlock, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer a month
Following the release of a preliminary plan by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last November, the agency has officially finalized their decision to cover annual low-dose CT screening for lung cancer.
Diabetic retinopathy a complication of diabetes caused by degeneration of the blood vessels in the retina is the most common diabetic eye disease, and a leading cause of blindness in American adults (after age-related macular degeneration). According to the
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