Be sure to read ACSH President Dr. Elizabeth Whelan’s op-ed in today’sNew York Post describing the fantastic gains scientists have made fighting breast cancer, transforming the disease from a “virtual death sentence” to a far less threatening condition.

Patients with the brain cancer glioblastoma the disease that killed Sen. Ted Kennedy are usually dead within a year. That s why results of a small study of a brain cancer vaccine made by Celldex Therapeutics Inc. are so encouraging.

A new study finds that pregnant women who get flu shots partially pass the benefits of the vaccine to their offspring.

A U.S. government team has developed a new dual vaccine that they say will protect against both smallpox and anthrax better than existing vaccines.

Six leading tobacco policy experts have proposed mandating that the nicotine in cigarettes be reduced to levels that aren t addictive.

As much as we will it to be, science is often not a simple case of black or white, a point reporter Anthony DePalma makes in a Huffington Post article describing the complexity of measuring 9/11 health effects. Mr. DePalma points out that while there is much known about the World Trade Center dust composition, the knowledge surrounding its health impact is limited; therefore, such legislation as the James Zadroga bill, which aims to reopen the Sept.

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to regulate perchlorate under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The chemical has long been used in testing rockets and missiles, and therefore has been notoriously dubbed as the toxic chemical used in rocket fuel.

ACSH staffers over the weekend received commentary from a reader condemning our recent praise for Dr. Paul Offit after she mistakenly confused his rotavirus vaccine Rotateq with Rotashield. While Rotateq remains on the market as a highly effective vaccine, Rotashield was removed from the market over ten years ago after a very small number of children developed obstructed bowels, even though the vaccine likely prevented thousands from getting sick from rotavirus.

Sunday NFL football fans may have noticed something different amongst the hordes of their favorite gridiron defensive linemen and quarterbacks — pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, chin straps, sideline caps, helmet decals, eye shield decals, captains' patches, sideline towels and quarterback towels. In honor of breast cancer awareness month, every NFL game in October will feature this distinct pink tint, reminding all of us about the devastating disease.

While an appeals court has lifted a federal judge’s previously imposed injunction disallowing federally funded embryonic stem cell research to continue, scientists are making new breakthroughs in research that circumvent the use of embryonic stem cells, a highly charged moral and political field of medical research. The first batch of good news comes from a team led by Dr. Derrick J. Rossi of the Children’s Hospital Boston.