In the past few years much attention has been paid to the toxicity of acetaminophen, (the generic name for Tylenol). And with good reason.
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How many times in the last week have you seen headlines such as Coffee as a memory booster, or How Diet Soda Makes You Fat? Well, according to a study conducted by researchers in
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects about one out of every fifty school children. However, according to the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5)
Melinda Wenner Moyer, a science writer and mother, curious about whether it was really necessary to feed her son organic instead of conventional produce took matters into her own hands and did research
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a leading cause of cervical cancer in women and genital warts in both sexes. Fortunately, these ills can now be prevented by a series of vaccinations that are typically given before a boy or girl becomes sexually active.
It s hard to imagine lung tumors to be non-lethal but according to a new study, one in five detected on a CT scan are so slow-growing, they would not affect a person during his or her lifetime, contrary to the general scientific (and popular) consensus previously thought.
This should come as no surprise, but according to a new study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, a public health journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six people who
Think all those natural remedies will help keep you and your family healthy this winter? Maybe you should read the opinion piece by Dr. Paul A. Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia (and ACSH Trustee), and Dr. Sarah Erush, the clinical manager in the pharmacy department.
The anti-GMO activists are up in arms (when aren t they?) over the petition by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) to the FDA to allow foods containing GMO ingredients to be labeled as natural. As noted in The New York Times last week, some companies are being sued over their use of the word natural on processed foods that contain chemicals or artificial ingredients.
In the one more thing to worry about category comes a surprise from a multi-center study just published in JAMA, which postulates that the use of sildenafil (Viagra) may increase the risk of malignant melanoma.
A new review shows a link between consumption of an NSAID pain reliever and the arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation. Is it real, that is, causal? Stay tuned, it s not impossible.
People at risk for type 2 diabetes are often overweight or obese, and are counseled to lose weight to help prevent the disease. But a new study just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that weight loss isn t the only means of prevention diet might work too.
Following the 1994 enactment of the Vaccines for Children program which was aimed to provide vaccinations for children whose parents
Readers of various health news articles could be forgiven if they rush out to buy their young daughters peanuts and peanut butter.
Although the actual impact of Ebola on the world so far is minuscule, it has been the top news story much of the time over the past few weeks.
We at ACSH are no strangers to media scares and frenzies, and it is clear that this is one of the main drivers here. But it is not the only one.
Think newborns should be slim and trim? Think again. A very large study evaluating children s health and intellectual status as a function of birth weight found that heavier babies do better in school, with 10 lbs. being optimal.
An op-ed in Forbes.com wonders why clean, safe, zero-carbon-footprint nuclear energy has so few friends in high places these days. ACSH advisor and co-author of our publication on nuclear energy has some thoughts, but no answers.
The New York Times editorial board tried no, they really did to adopt a science-based position on sugary beverages. But, alas, their belief in Big Corporate Conspiracy theories held sway at last. Big Soda cannot win with the Times.
Even if your blood glucose levels don t indicate diabetes, that s no reason to ignore the possibility of developing this increasingly common disease.
The Lancet just had to get its word in on the e-cigarette controversy. Its editorial written we re sure by editor-in-chief Richard Horton toes the W.H.O. line of alarmism and hyper-precaution about this ground-breaking technology. No surprise, given his history.
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in both American men and women, causing more deaths than colon, breast, and pancreatic cancers combined. According to the American Lung Association, almost 160,000 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer in 2014.
The question of whether or not to label foods containing GMO ingredients has been a topic of debate for the past few years. The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board recently took on this question, asking why GMO-containing
DDT research is biased and erroneous. If you re gonna screw up, you might as well do it really well.
If there is a more obvious case of bad science, and its impact on human health, we d like to see it. Because it turns out that DDT, the evil chemical blamed by Rachel Carson in her 1962 book Silent Spring for thinning of bird eggs, does no such thing. And the consequences of this error are tragic one million deaths per year, mostly in Africa. This abomination was not helped by the publication of a 2013 paper by Hindrik Bouwman and colleagues in which they once again claimed that DDT causes thinning egg shells.
2014 Will be remembered for a number of things: The Seahawks destroying the Broncos in the Super Bowl, Derek
There are now multiple ongoing discussions about Sovaldi, Gilead s revolutionary drug for treating hepatitis C. The arguments are more or less
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