Harm Reduction

The past year has seen the publication of many studies alleging that e-cigarette use (vaping) carries very serious health consequences, everything from depression to erectile dysfunction and higher stroke risk.

The study itself was straightforward. How well did disclosure by physician authors in these journals match up with their disclosures in the physician Open Payment database?

As I wrote recently, I attended a debate at the SoHo Forum in New York in which Dr. Jeffrey Singer, a practicing surgeon (and ACSH advisor), and Dr.

 

Let's say you wanted to keep as many people smoking as possible. How would you do it? Your best move would be to restrict consumer access to the most popular and effective smoking cessation tool we know of.

Earlier in June, the FDA agreed to reevaluate the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) in plastics, coating, and other materials that contact food.

It is difficult to understand how the EPA can continue to propose safe levels for chemicals such as formaldehyde that approach, or in some cases are lower than, levels that occur naturally or are produced in human metabolic pathways.  This is

Federal regulators are deeply concerned about flavored tobacco, especially vaping products.

Gun violence restraining orders (GVRO), the legal term for red flag laws, allow the courts to “temporarily prohibit individuals from possessing and purchasing firearms and ammunition during periods of heightened risk of self- or other-directed har

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