Scary Year (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
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 >>

Evista for Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer: Better Late Than Never, FDA (from MedicalProgressToday.com)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Friday, September 28, 2007
By Gilbert L. Ross.  An aphorism never truer: when discussing breast cancer, an ounce of prevention is better for public health than the cures currently available, and much cheaper. So, after a long–and–winding eight–year period of data accumulation, we should applaud the FDA for finally approving Lilly's "designer estrogen," Evista (raloxifene), for use in postmenopausal high–risk women to lower their risk of invasive breast cancer. But we should question why the FDA took this long in the first place...  Read Full >>

Shots Now Fight Future Flu (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
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 >>

Drug Side Effects Up, But Benefits Up More (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Wednesday, September 12, 2007
By Jeff Stier. The news of a marked increase in adverse drug events reported to the FDA is sure to be one more arrow for those taking aim at "big pharma" and the FDA. The criticism is off target, however, because it fails to take into account the new ways drugs are being used...  Read Full >>

Hormones and Menopause (from the New York Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Tuesday, September 4, 2007
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Women seeking relief from menopausal symptoms should be strongly discouraged from resorting to "bioidenticals." Contrary to their misleading name, these compounds are not identical to anything in nature...  Read Full >>