Support, Disdain for Flu Shots (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Monday, October 6, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The 1980s Japanese experience -- wherein a requirement that Japanese schoolchildren get vaccinated against the flu led to a dramatic reduction in the death toll among seniors -- should have led our own CDC to...  Read Full >>

Smokeless Tobacco for Cigarette Cessation? (from The Lancet)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Saturday, October 4, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Epidemiological data indicate the heightened efficacy of smokeless tobacco in helping nicotine addicts to switch from their dangerous addiction to smoking...  Read Full >>

Chemicals Contained in Cosmetics Are Safe (from USA Today)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Tuesday, September 30, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. USA Today's article "Consumer groups fret over chemicals in teen cosmetics" called undue attention to yet another study by an activist group devoted to finding hazards...  Read Full >>

Lethal FDA Warning (from Washington Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Sunday, September 14, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The willful blindness of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- its overcautious reluctance to approve new drugs -- has led to historic declines in new drug approvals, which will cost lives in years to come.  A more immediate tragedy, though, is FDA's refusal to withdraw its off-putting "black-box" warning label on antidepressants for teens...  Read Full >>

Worried About Vaccine Fears (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Monday, August 18, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  It would be impossible to get unanimity on any medical topic. But all pediatric and vaccine experts, as well as all federal health officials, advocate vaccination of preteen and young teen girls against human papilloma virus...  Read Full >>

No Quick Fast-Food Fixes (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Monday, July 28, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Banning so-called fast-food restaurants from specific zones will not ameliorate the problem of obesity...  Read Full >>

Fighting a Virus Carrier (from the New York Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Tuesday, May 20, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Since DDT "fell out of favor" forty years ago, millions of impoverished Africans and Asians have died needlessly...  Read Full >>

Plastic Hysteria Strikes Again (from the Washington Times) UPDATED
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, April 24, 2008
By Gilbert Ross, M.D. A new health scare -- over the safe and useful plastic component, bisphenol-A (BPA) -- has taken wing...  Read Full >>

Response to an Attack on "Conflicts of Interest" (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Saturday, April 12, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Dr. Kassirer persistently targets financial conflicts while ignoring the many other potential sources of lack of scientific objectivity...  Read Full >>

Jumping Ship from the Rats (from the American Spectator blog)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Wednesday, March 19, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  We won! That is, the forces of science-based public health policy seem to have won...  Read Full >>