Scary Health Stories (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, February 6, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  If you are a parent (or grandparent) of a young child, you are a target for manipulation by activists (some with scientific degrees)...  Read Full >>

Doc Frieden's Fried Voodoo (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, January 23, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The city Health Department yesterday passed new regulations forcing some restaurants to post calorie content for all the food on the menu board...  Read Full >>

Scary Year (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, December 27, 2007
By Elizabeth M. Whelan. Does everything around us — food, air, water, consumer products — cause cancer or some other dread disease? You would think so, if you believed the cascade of health scares we witnessed during 2007.  Read Full >>

Mother Nature's Chemical Bounty (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, November 22, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan.  It may come as a shock to you that even an all-natural holiday feast comes replete with chemicals...  Read Full >>

Big Bucks (Yours) Fighting Bogus Health Risks (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, November 7, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. EPA is funding a handful of researchers to investigate the role of "environmental chemicals" in putting children at risk...  Read Full >>

A Steak in Causing Cancer? (from the Washington Times, Segye.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, November 7, 2007
By Elizabeth M. Whelan. A recent report has a lot of red-meat-loving Americans worried...  Read Full >>

Why Don't Scientists Speak Up When Science Is Distorted? (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, October 24, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. For years, friends and colleagues have asked me: why don't scientists speak up...  Read Full >>

Does Alcohol Cause Breast Cancer? (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, October 8, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. What is a woman to do...  Read Full >>

Booze & Breast Cancer (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, October 1, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. The news Friday suggesting that even a glass or two of wine a day will leave women at risk of breast cancer is, well, sobering...  Read Full >>

Shots Now Fight Future Flu (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Friday, September 28, 2007
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. It's flu-shot season again. The good news is that we've got plenty of vaccine this year; the bad news is that far too many Americans will skip their shots. One health problem is that even high-risk people have been skipping in recent years. Another is that shots that go to waste endanger the nation's future supply of vaccine...  Read Full >>