The good news resides, for a change, in California. The latest polls there show support for the insidious Proposition 37, which would mandate labels for many foods with genetically modified ingredients, is falling fast. Just 39.1 percent of likely voters support the measure, while 50.5 percent oppose the labeling requirements, the poll by the California Business Roundtable and the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy shows.

We've seen it before reports of reports of near-immediate reductions in heart attacks after smoking bans were enacted indoors. Now a new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine repeats the same errors of statistical analysis in an even more egregious manner.

Inspired by Rachel Carson s anti-science book Silent Spring, the ban on the chemical DDT has cost countless lives through an upsurge in malaria. (DDT is used to control mosquito populations, which spread the disease). Now it seems the United Nations Environmental Programme is violating the Stockholm Convention by pressuring the seven remaining countries still actively spraying to stop using the cheap and effective chemical, as well as pressuring India to stop making it.

As many as 40 percent of women have dense breasts, which increases significantly their risk of getting breast cancer. Because of the way dense breast tissue appears because on a mammogram, it can also obscure tumors, making increasing the likelihood doctors will miss a dangerous lesion.

A simple aspirin a day might help treat colon cancer in patients with a gene mutation that makes them more vulnerable to the disease, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Andrew Chan of Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues examined health questionnaires filled out by 964 colon cancer patients.

Two ACSH staffers have published pieces today. In Medical Progress Today, ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom calls out the makers of energy drinks for peddling potentially risky products with little labeling or oversight a dangerous state of affairs made possible by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which freed supplements from Food and Drug Administration labeling requirements.

If there is any perfect example of how supplement makers get away with murder, this is it.
So-called "energy" drinks are currently in the news because the FDA is investigating whether the deaths of 5 people who drank concoctions with names like Monster and Red Bull, are related to the caffeine content in the drinks. The FDA isn't talking yet, but the idea is certainly plausible. Here's why.

A new report presented at a meeting of acute cardiac care experts, but not yet published in a journal reveals that among 5,000 new admissions for heart attack, women died more than twice as often as men while in the hospital.

It isn t very often that a world-renowned, respected teaching facility, such as Harvard University s Brigham and Women s hospital, publicly apologizes for promoting bad research but that is exactly what they did. The so-called study, led by Dr.

A new study from JAMA shows that when initial findings about experimental drugs or devices sound too good to be true, they probably are. Stanford University researchers statistically analyzed nearly 230,000 trials compiled from a variety of disciplines.