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November 20, 2009

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Breast Exams, Vaccines, Red Meat, Kellogg's, More

By Curtis Porter

ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross and ACSH Trustee Dr. Henry Miller of Stanford's Hoover Institution have an article on Investor's Business Daily's Investors.com about the EPA under Lisa Jackson...

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November 20, 2009

Nature Makes Chemicals, Too: Eat Them for the Holidays

Each year, the American Council on Science and Health likes to remind you that your holiday meal is absolutely filled with "carcinogenic" chemicals -- whether you're eating organic food, conventional food, meat, vegetables, or anything else...

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November 20, 2009

Breast Exam Advice Depends on the Patient

By Gilbert Ross, M.D.

American women, and their doctors, have been thrown into a state of confusion by the release of a new study

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November 18, 2009 - The Great American Smokescreen
November 11, 2009 - Adult Vaccines: Raising Awareness, Improving Access (new ACSH reports)
November 10, 2009 - Waiting in Vain for Flu Vaccine
November 2, 2009 - Nocebo Effect: Think Sick and You’ll Be Sick
November 2, 2009 - Green Day: American Ideologues
October 29, 2009 - Banning BPA Devalues Science
October 22, 2009 - ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Dioxin, HPV, Froot Loops, and More
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