With public hearings on AquaBounty Technologies’ quick-growing genetically modified salmon scheduled for September 19th, the FDA concluded Friday the fish is safe for the environment and consumers.
The California Legislature has approved a bill that prohibits children’s jewelry from containing more than three-hundredths of a percent of cadmium, worrying that higher levels of exposure would cause long-term poisoning in kids. The Fashion Jewelry and Accessories Trade Association argues that instead of limiting the total amount of cadmium in jewelry, the new legislation should address how much of the metal can leach out of jewelry.
Committed cigarette smokers demonstrate that where there’s a will, there’s a way. In order to continue smoking but also circumvent the recent tax hikes on cigarettes, people have come up with a novel solution: roll-your-own cigarette machines. Found in about 150 tobacco outlets in 20 states, these machines produce a carton of cigarettes in about eight minutes and cost about $21, which explains why people wait up to an hour on some days to use this service.
We’ve said it more than once, but we’ll say it again — and this time, a powerful, new study agrees with us: men with early, probably non-aggressive prostate cancer (determined by lower PSA levels and the presence of low-grade tumor pathology) can safely postpone surgery.
The California Legislature has approved a bill aimed at limiting radiation exposure, following reports that hundreds of patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and three other hospitals were accidentally overdosed during CT brain scans. The measure requires that radiation dosage levels are recorded on the scanned image and patient’s health record, as well as given to the patient, their physician and the California Department of Health.
ACSH trustee Dr. James Enstrom is still at the University of California at Los Angeles, despite an earlier notice that his last day would be Monday, Aug. 30. As you may recall, Dr.
The National Institutes of Health this week ordered all of its researchers to immediately halt any experiments using human embryonic stem cells following a federal injunction. U.S.
The California Legislature ended its session at midnight last night — and in the end, two pernicious pieces of legislation failed. The Senate rejected a bill to ban plastic bags from grocery stores and pharmacies after opponents argued it went too far in restricting consumer choice.
In yesterday’s Dispatch, ACSH staffers considered the Reproductive Risk Factors for Incontinence Study at Kaiser (RRISK) study, which correlates breast feeding with a reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes, as the first of its kind that we were aware of. But Dr.
