In a short but punchy letter in Sunday’s USA Today, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson lauds the newspaper for its January 14 coverage of a so-called research study which actually just recycled old CDC biomonitoring data to show that pregnant women have dozens of chemicals in their bodies — at trace levels.

Dr. Gilbert Ross in the DesMoines Register, March 2, 2011
Guest opinion: Don't let money cloud the vision of drug regulators

The state of Tennessee, one of the largest growers of dark tobacco used in smokeless products such as Swedish snus, is seeing a comeback in smokeless tobacco use and is reaping the benefits. Beyond the financial gains, the increased use of smokeless alternatives to cigarettes offers great potential in terms of harm reduction. Many modern smokeless tobacco products, like snus, come in small packets that are placed between the cheek and gum line.

Hoover Institute Fellow and former ACSH trustee Dr. Henry Miller castigates Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin’s single-minded focus on obesity while ignoring other very important health issues. Instead, Dr. Miller presents former Surgeon General and ACSH friend Dr. C. Everett Koop — who led campaigns to increase awareness of HIV and smoking-related health risks — as a better example to follow. Dr. Miller also recommends that Dr.

The USDA and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released new dietary guidelines on Sunday. In addition to standard recommendations like eating more veggies and fish while reducing overall calorie intake, HHS calls for lower salt consumption across the board.

Efforts to reduce health care spending should not come at the cost of fewer drug options, ACSH’s Dr. Gilbert Ross argues in an op-ed featured in yesterday’s Des Moines Register.

ACSH has long been a leader in the fight against cigarettes, and we take pride in the work we have done to inform the public about the vast (and little-known) spectrum of real risks posed by cigarettes.At the same time, we firmly believe that educating the public on this important issue requires truth-telling and not appealing to hysteria.

While radical environmentalists were commencing a new battle with the EPA, they were losing a round in an important fight with the USDA. Working in tandem with organic farmers, they had previously succeeded in getting USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to say that he was considering limitations on the planting of genetically modified (GM) alfalfa plants. Dispatch readers may recall that in December Vilsack suggested that growers of GM alfalfa might be required to put special fencing around their fields to prevent their seeds from blowing into the fields of organic alfalfa farmers.

While legislators on the East Coast were railing against the perils of teenagers guzzling caffeinated beverages, a radical environmentalist group called the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), accusing them of being lax on pesticides.The ostensible legal grounding for the suit lies in the Endangered Species Act.

Does it make sense that teenagers should be able to buy coffee at Starbucks but not energy drinks at 7-Eleven? Even when each of their Mocha Grandes has almost twice as much caffeine as one Red Bull?That peculiar idea is the subject of an editorial which appeared Friday in TheDailyCaller co-authored by ACSH’s Dr.