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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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Do You See A Baby Bottle As Half Full Or Half Empty?
Osmium - The World's Rarest And Densest Metal
Science and Environmental Litigation
Opioid Epidemic's Global Spread Explained
Time To Embrace Genetically Modified Mosquitoes To End Their Disease...
John Oliver Exposes Himself, CNN Uses Us To Debunk EWG, Newsweek And...
Some Things We Cannot Rush - Like Training Physicians
Shades of Tuskegee - Oregon's Monstrous Experiments On Poor Pain...
Should Alzheimer's Patients Have The Right To Choose Physician-...
UK Parliament Endorses E-Cigarettes to Help Smokers. Will U.S. Follow?
What Humans Can Learn From The Mating Habits Of Armadillos
NYU Med's Mega Tuition Gift May Not Alter Career Choice, ACSH...
Chemicals & Environment
Osmium - The World's Rarest And Densest Metal
Science and Environmental Litigation
A $289M Hit Job on Science in Jackpot Verdict on Monsanto's Glyphosate
Urban Exposome: Defining Deviant Air Quality Down For Pregnant Women
American Air Is Clean and Getting Cleaner
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Cyclic Aliphatic Bromides Cluster (HBCD)?
The New York Times And Chemicals - Amateur Hour Once Again
Increase in Childhood Cancer Is Not Due to Pesticide
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Food & Nutrition
Carbohydrates Join Salt, Moderation Turns Out To Be Best Yet Again
Is a McCricket the Breakfast of Our Future?
A Spoonful of Salt Makes The Blood Pressure Go Down
Ketogenic Diet Linked To Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Upside To Tariffs: Fewer Supplements in the U.S.
Smokers Likely To Have Worse Diets Too
Your July 4th Cookout Will Be Cheaper This Year - Thanks Farmers!
Genetics or Lifestyle - Where Is The Cause of Disease?
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Biology & Biotech
Time To Embrace Genetically Modified Mosquitoes To End Their Disease Transmission
Sugarcane Genome Finally Gets Sequenced - 80 Percent Of The Sugar Market Rejoices
Could 'Smoking Gun' DNA Sequence Lead Detectives to Biological Terrorist?
Genome-Wide Association Studies - ACSH Explains
In Making Some Antibiotics, Bacteria Put Organic Chemists To Shame
'Kill and Release' Antibacterial Surface
Darkness May Cause Spinal Abnormalities in Cave Fish
Modern Scientific Advance Best Shot At Success For Boys Trapped In Thai Cave
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Health & Medicine
Opioid Epidemic's Global Spread Explained
NYU Med's Mega Tuition Gift May Not Alter Career Choice, ACSH Veteran Physician Says
Free Market Win: FDA Approves Competition In The Allergy EpiPen Space
Yes, You Can ‘Break’ Your Penis
'ACSH is Fake News!' So Says Anti-Vax, Conspiracy-Loving Screwball
Woman Donates Her Heart And Lives To Tell About It! Now, THAT Is Innovation.
How To Prevent Increased Lung Cancer Risk For Young Breast Cancer Survivors
Allergic To Vitamin B12? It's The Cobalt
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Policy & Ethics
Shades of Tuskegee - Oregon's Monstrous Experiments On Poor Pain Patients
Should Alzheimer's Patients Have The Right To Choose Physician-Assisted Suicide?
UK Parliament Endorses E-Cigarettes to Help Smokers. Will U.S. Follow?
The Grande Armee Of Big Organic May Be Marching Toward Its Waterloo
Then They Came For My Xanax - Opioid Madness Metastasizes
Medicare for All: The Devilish Details of Higher Costs, More Access & Possible Savings
Another Year, Another Failed Breastfeeding Policy Push By WHO, UNICEF
Lawsuit Against Anthem Aims To Protect Patients From Insurer’s Bad Policy
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Harm Reduction
Is It Cancer or Is It Abnormal Cells? Explaining Risk
Condom Re-Use is a Thing. It Shouldn't Be.
Kicking Butts in New England; MA to Raise Smoking Age to 21
Does Case Volume Promote Safety While Reducing Access? CMS and Physicians Wrestle With The Trade-Off
'Seasoning' a Frying Pan Leads to New Approach for Food Safety
Cancer Patients Who Use Complementary Medicine (Refuse Conventional) Twice As Likely To Die, Says Study
That's Disgusting
Sunscreen Alone Not Enough for the Fair-Skinned, Study Finds
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Disease
The Natural History of High Blood Pressure
The Toll of Diabetes
Another Untrue Study of Gender Disparity In Caring for Patients
Do Artificial Sweeteners Prevent Cancer?
Stem Cell Transplants For Treating Crohn’s Disease Goes Into Clinical Trial
McDonald's Outbreak: What Is Cyclospora?
Big Pharma Tames Liver Cancer And Drunks Set It Loose Again
Continuous Glucose Monitoring Changes Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes
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Neuroscience & Social Sciences
No, CTE Didn't Make a Man Steal an Airplane from Seattle's Airport
Most Dangerous Drivers Ranked by State, Age, Race, and Sex
Women Fear Afterlife More than Men
Phobias Predict Mental Health Problems
The Most Common Methods of Murder
Killings of Unarmed Black Americans And Increased Poor Mental Health: An Epidemiological Look
The Problem With P-Values
World Cup Goalies, Don't Dive During Penalty Kicks. Just Stand There.
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News & Views
Some Things We Cannot Rush - Like Training Physicians
College Students' Sleep Article Proves Much More Popular Online
If John Oliver Wants To Be Funny About Science Non-Profits, I Can Help Write Better Material
Can (And Should We Try To) Quantify The Complexity That Is Gender Inequality In Medicine?
2.6 Million Studies On Exercise And Mental Health Weren't Enough, So Government Did One More.
As Russians Target Our Electrical Grid, Here's What's Needed To Protect It
Too Much Information - TMI Comes To Health Care
The Boondoggle Money Grab That Is ICD-11 Will Not Help Patients (Or Healthcare)
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Parents & Kids
Do You See A Baby Bottle As Half Full Or Half Empty?
What Humans Can Learn From The Mating Habits Of Armadillos
Neighbors Calling Cops On Kid Selling Cookies Speaks To Bigger Societal Ail
Anti-Anxiety Meds Given to Boys For Rescue Mission From Thai Cave - An Important Lesson On Risk
Targeted, Regional Approach Likely Best To Improve Vaccine Rates
Teen Pregnancy Rate Falls to All-Time Low in Minnesota
A Shifting Parenting Paradigm?
Thank You, FDA! This Action Against OTC Anesthetics For Babies Is Overdue
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