Many breast cancer nonprofits are attempting to attract public interest and generate support by exploiting commonly-held fears of chemicals as possible causes of breast cancer, a review by the American Council on Science and Health has found. The association between chemicals and breast cancer is discredited by a majority of the scientific community.

New proposals to tax sugary beverages and create stricter regulatory policies for restaurants are unlikely to reduce obesity, according to economic analyses published in the Cato Institute’s current issue of Regulation, something ACSH has been saying all along.

Pfizer s novel pain reliever tanezumab may work too well.

In contrast to Wednesday’s lists of false or unprioritized cancer prevention tips, (from USA Today and the

File under, you reap what you sow : Caving to the complaints of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Ben & Jerry s has decided to remove the all-natural label from its ice cream.

ACSH trustee Dr. Paul Offit, chief of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Division of Infectious Diseases, shares in this Medscape video a sad story of what happened in his hospital when a new mother declined the Tdap (tetanus-diptheria-pertussis) vaccine, and a nurse didn’t try to change her mind.

Following what it calls a “detailed and comprehensive review of recent scientific literature and studies,” the European Food Safety Authority has again found no reason to revise safety standards for low-dose exposure to bisphenol A (BPA).

Just a week after a Norwegian study cast doubt on the extent of the benefits of mammography, a Swedish study has found they’re more beneficial than previously thought.

Cardiff University researchers report in The Lancet that they’ve found the first direct evidence that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is, at least to some extent, a genetic condition.

Statin medications such as Lipitor and Crestor are a cost-effective way of preventing heart attacks even in lower-risk populations, according to a computerized analysis published this week in Circulation.