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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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Healthcare's Rent is Too Damn High
Andrew Wakefield Helps Elect Anti-Vaccine Politicians in Texas
Is Pinterest A Doctor's Best Friend?
With Legalization Come Marketing, Marijuana's New 'Terroir...
Compostable Forks Don't Work and Paper Straws Are Nasty. Thanks...
Heroin Pills Are Now A Reality - Is Andrew Kolodny Finally Happy?
Why Is Hospice Care For Patients On Dialysis Inadequate?
Blame Academia for Junk Science and Media Hype?
Acquiring Keytruda, Another Source of Expensive Pharmaceuticals
Save The Planet *And* Your Anus Too! Bamboo Toilet Paper And Other...
Artificially Sweetened Beverages - A New Health Hazard? Not so fast
Consent at Core of How Teen Defied Parents, Got Vaccinated
Chemicals & Chemistry
The Science Behind PFOA Safe Concentrations
Some Bacteria Can Eat Cleaning Products
AAAS Runs Dishonest Glyphosate Story, Then Deletes It. Is Politics to Blame?
What Is a Safe Level of PFOA?
Sham 'Study' on Organic Food and Pesticides in Urine Published by Friends of the Earth
Rust Doesn't Give You Tetanus
Prevagen For Mental Clarity?
Better Recycling Through Chemistry, a Super-Camera & Pretty Colors.
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Food & Nutrition
Algorithms to Personalize the 'Best Diet' Are Not Yet Ready for Prime Time
How Did Salmonella Bacteria Get Their Name? (The Name Has Nothing To Do With Fish)
Saturated Fats In Dairy Products May Be Good For Your Heart Health
Ridiculous Study Claims Brexit Will Kill 12,000 Brits
The New Science of Winemaking
The Lancet Proposes To Ban Food Experts from Food Discussions
Fiber Provides Carbohydrate's 'Slow and Low'
Bloomberg Scares Parents with 'Big Dairy' Conspiracy
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Biomedicine & Biotech
Mice Deprived of 'Love Hormone' Sit Alone in the Cold
Platelet-Rich Plasma is Profitable, But How Well Does It Work?
GMO Cassava Can Provide Iron, Zinc to Malnourished African Children
Phage Therapy: Killing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria with Viruses
Stem Cell Treatments for Arthritic Knees Are Unproven, Expensive, and Potentially Dangerous
Will Jeff Bezos Force Whole Foods to Stop Lying? Apparently Not
How Telemedicine Can Revolutionize the Healthcare Market
Company Claims ‘Complete Cure For Cancer’ In A Year - Cue The Headlines
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
With Legalization Come Marketing, Marijuana's New 'Terroir'
Heroin Pills Are Now A Reality - Is Andrew Kolodny Finally Happy?
Acquiring Keytruda, Another Source of Expensive Pharmaceuticals
Antibiotics: Play or Pay?
Woeful In Wisconsin - WISN's Opioid Story Is Jawbreakingly Idiotic
The UK Plan: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance
It Is As Important To Step Down Medications As It Is To Step Them Up
The Lessons of Insulin
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Policy & Ethics
Healthcare's Rent is Too Damn High
Andrew Wakefield Helps Elect Anti-Vaccine Politicians in Texas
Compostable Forks Don't Work and Paper Straws Are Nasty. Thanks, Seattle!
Physicians in the Lab, as the Rat! (B.F. Skinner Would be Proud)
New York Times Editorial on Cosmetic Safety Misses the Mark
A Tale of Two Treatments
Green New Deal: It's the Dr. Oz of Environmental Policy
Do Physicians Have a 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
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Harm Reduction
How to Spot a Fake Doctor
CDC Misleads by Calling E-Cigarettes a 'Tobacco Product'
When it Comes to Our Odds of Dying, Are We Our Worst Enemy?
Health Literacy: Understanding the Physician's Explanations Are a Big Problem
'Code Blue' Urgency Not Just For Hospitals
Cold Truths About Winter Myths
The Hidden Harms of Crying Wolf
Why Are We ‘Bad’ Patients?
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Disease
Why Is Hospice Care For Patients On Dialysis Inadequate?
Why It's So Difficult for Scientists to Predict the Next Outbreak of a Dangerous Disease
Artificially Sweetened Beverages - A New Health Hazard? Not so fast
Is New Age Alternative Medicine Becoming More Scientific?
Where Are We This World Cancer Day?
What Is A 'Good Outcome' After Surgery? Fixing The Problem May Not Fix The Patient
The Lancet Slanders Surgeons Globally
I'm Reading As Fast As I Can: Radiologists and the UK's Bottleneck in Reporting Chest X-Rays
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Mental Health & Society
Is Pinterest A Doctor's Best Friend?
Japanese Official Apologizes for Telling Truth About Shrinking Population
What Is Addiction? And What Are Its True Causes?
Mental Health: The Dangers of the Social Media Diagnosis
Squeezing Science out of Squishies
Study Reveals 5 Insomnia Subtypes
Dr. Oz Preys on Gullible Americans in His Modern-Day Medicine Show
The Funny Thing About Memory Is The Gift Of Forgetting
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Other Science News
Blame Academia for Junk Science and Media Hype?
How Lincoln's Embrace of Embalming Birthed the American Funeral Industry
Save The Planet *And* Your Anus Too! Bamboo Toilet Paper And Other Atrocities
How Organic Consumers Association Colludes with Russian Trolls
ACSH in the Media: From Sea to Shining Sea and Beyond!
President Trump Has Annual Physical; 'In Very Good Health'
Calling it a ‘War on Science’ has Consequences
Are Trainers Right - For Muscle, Is It Use It Or Lose It?
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Parents & Kids
Consent at Core of How Teen Defied Parents, Got Vaccinated
Want People to Get Vaccinated? Stop Shaming Them
Birth Is Not Like What We See In The Movies
Baby Dies After Group Pushes Overdue Birth - True Story Or Urban Legend?
Are 'Free Birth' And 'Unhindered Birth' A Thing?
Dad Takes Away Teen's Cell Phone. She Calls 911 For Theft - Police Video Goes Viral.
After Swallowing Magnets, Boy Loses Parts Of Colon, Intestines
What Is The Real Deal With The Size Of Babies - Is Bigger Better?
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