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Priorities Magazine Spring 2018
The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It
Priorities Magazine Winter 2018
Priorities Magazine Fall 2017
Little Black Book of Junk Science
Priorities Magazine Winter 2017
Should You Worry About Artificial Flavors Or Colors?
Should You Worry About Artificial Sweeteners?
Summer Health and Safety Tips
How Toxic Terrorists Scare You With Science Terms
Adult Immunization: The Need for Enhanced Utilization
Should You Worry About Salt?
Priorities Magazine Spring 2016
IARC Diesel Exhaust & Lung Cancer: An Analysis
Teflon and Human Health: Do the Charges Stick?
Helping Smokers Quit: The Science Behind Tobacco Harm Reduction
Irradiated Foods
Foods Are Not Cigarettes: Why Tobacco Lawsuits Are Not a Model for Obesity Lawsuits
The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Review
Are "Low Dose" Health Effects of Chemicals Real?
The Effects of Nicotine on Human Health
Traditional Holiday Dinner Replete with Natural Carcinogens - Even Organic Thanksgiving Dinners
A Primer On Dental Care: Quality and Quackery
Nuclear Energy and Health And the Benefits of Low-Dose Radiation Hormesis
Priorities in Caring for Your Children: A Primer for Parents
Endocrine Disrupters: A Scientific Perspective
Good Stories, Bad Science: A Guide for Journalists to the Health Claims of "Consumer Activist" Groups
A Comparison of the Health Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Tobacco Use in America
Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Health
Irradiated Foods Fifth Edition
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The Flu Is a Killer. Get Vaccinated
Defending the Value Proposition of Teaching Hospitals
What I'm Reading (Oct. 18)
When Crazy Meets Crazier: California Wants to Label Tylenol a...
U.S. Navy Files Patent for Nuclear Fusion. How Realistic Is It?
Surgeons, Opioids & Patient Satisfaction
Leptospirosis in Dogs: We Can't Blame Anti-Vaxxers for This One
The Press: Incorrect Medical Information, Dire Consequences!
Married with Children: Does it Impact Surgical Competence?
Whole Foods Sells Both 'Nitrate-Free Meat' and Nitrate...
Beer Flavor, Not Alcohol, May Be What Makes Drinkers Happy
Medicare's Trick or Treat Is Here
Chemicals & Chemistry
Can Silver Chloride Possibly Be Interesting? You Bet.
Tincture of Elderberry: How a Professor Poisoned Herself with Cyanide
What's Killing Vapers? A Conversation with Steve 'The Mad Chemist'
Alkalizing the Body?
Can Chemistry Explain 'Vaping Lung?'
What Is the Safe Dose of Perfluorooctanaote (PFOA)?
App Converts a Smart Phone Into a Norovirus Detector; Very Clever Analytical Chemistry
Do Homeopathic Cows Exist?
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Food & Nutrition
Whole Foods Sells Both 'Nitrate-Free Meat' and Nitrate Supplements. Yup.
Beer Flavor, Not Alcohol, May Be What Makes Drinkers Happy
Acai Bowl? You Might as Well Just Eat Froot Loops
The Red Meat Controversy: Where's the Beef?
No Need to Fear Fructose!
17 Years of Nutritional Advice
Do Discolored Nails Mean Something?
Vegan Diet, Gut Microbes and Body Weight/Diabetes: How Are They Linked?
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Biomedicine & Biotech
Much of the Buzz About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Is Wrong
NYT's Eric Lipton Defends Anti-Vaxxers as Measles Ravages Europe
Electrocardiograms Can Predict Our Gender And Maybe Our Age - Can It Tell Our Future?
Can We Blame Our Behavior On Our Genes? Bad Genes!
Immunotherapy for Migraines: Attack of the Antibodies
Genetically Modified People: Gene Editing Arrives in the Clinic
Top 10 Pro-GMO (Or Anti Anti-GMO) Memes on the Internet
Anti-5G Activists Are Also Real-Life Ghostbusters
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Medicare's Trick or Treat Is Here
Starving Cancer by Cutting Off Its Favorite Foods, Glucose and Glutamine
Worried About Your Elderly Mother's Pain? You Should Be
Stuart Levy, Giant in the Fight Against Resistance, is Gone
Why Americans Hate Big Pharma More Than Ever
Incentives from Medicare?
Bizarro World: Parents Terrified Of Chemicals Feed Toxic Supplements To Their Kids
Data Manipulation Scandal Rocks the World’s Most Expensive Drug
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Policy & Ethics
When Crazy Meets Crazier: California Wants to Label Tylenol a Carcinogen
The Press: Incorrect Medical Information, Dire Consequences!
Why Politicians Aren't Incentivized to Fix Big Problems Like Homelessness
After Marijuana Was Legalized, Teenager Use Decreased
In Healthcare, One Man's Waste Is Another Man's Income
Analyzing the Opioid Crisis: 65 Articles by Dr. Josh Bloom
Nuclear Power is the Only Realistic Option, So We Need a Good Waste Plan
A Few Facts About Medicare to Consider
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Harm Reduction
Defending the Value Proposition of Teaching Hospitals
Surgeons, Opioids & Patient Satisfaction
Married with Children: Does it Impact Surgical Competence?
Cancer Causes: Should We Fear Alcohol, Diet, Pollution, or Something Else?
Teen Vaping Doubles Since 2017, But There's a Silver Lining
Pez - The World's First Smoking Cessation Product
Not a Gambling Casino: A New Calculator of Surgical Risk
How Physicians Learn
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Disease
The Flu Is a Killer. Get Vaccinated
Leptospirosis in Dogs: We Can't Blame Anti-Vaxxers for This One
The Human Cost of Frailty
Norovirus Vaccine 'Meets All Endpoints in 1b Study.' What Does This Mean?
It's the Resistance, Stupid!
U Penn's Herpes Vaccine Looks Great in Animals. Will it Hold Up in Humans?
Population Health vs. Personalized Medicine: Lost in Translation?
NBC News' Ridiculous Flu Scare
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Mental Health & Society
Conspiracy Theories Aren't on the Rise
Suicides Surge by 12% in UK, But They Can Be Prevented
4 Myths About Mass Shootings
Guns, Vaccines, and Rekindling Our American Sense of Duty
Nothing Grimes Said About Eyeballs or Depression Makes Any Sense
Modern Parenting: Is 'Bringing Up Bébé' Still Relevant?
Earth to Paul Ehrlich: UN Revises Population Projection Downward
Supplements for Brain Health Show No Benefit
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Other Science News
What I'm Reading (Oct. 18)
U.S. Navy Files Patent for Nuclear Fusion. How Realistic Is It?
Who Do You Trust?
When Experts Make Mistakes: 3 Ways to Spot Junk in Science Journals
What I'm Reading (Oct. 11)
Measuring the Reliability of Self-Reported Behavior
Can Nuclear Waste Be Safely Transported?
ACSH in the Media: Pumpkin Spice Latte Edition
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Parents & Kids
Are Immunization Schedules Evidence-Based?
Bedtime Stories in the Digital Age
Are Home Births Safe? Canadian Midwives Say Yes
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Language is an Evolutionary Force
Do 3D Scans Show More Trauma To Baby's Head At Birth Than We Knew?
U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number in 32 Years
OshKosh B’gosh! 'Green America' Wants Your Kids To Go Naked
Debunking Due Date Myths: Harry Says Royal Baby 'A Little Bit Overdue'
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