A troubling denial of academic freedom at the University of California, Los Angeles: ACSH trustee Dr. James Enstrom has been terminated by a secret vote of the faculty after serving for 34 years as a faculty member at the UCLA School of Public Health.

This may sound like an April Fool s joke, but a team of British researchers from Imperial College London are apparently serious when they suggest that fast food restaurants should give away statins to combat the heart disease dangers of fatty foods.

ACSH staffers re-learned a valuable lesson in news reporting yesterday: the media isn t always right. Based on inaccurate news reports, in yesterday s Dispatch we stated that Oregon has banned all electronic cigarettes. Thanks to ACSH friend Bill Godshall (and co-author of our publication on tobacco harm reduction), we re able to bring you the right information:

Sanofi Aventis rimonabant a diet pill approved but subsequently banned in Europe in 2007 was wrongfully pulled from the market because clinical trials assessing its cardiovascular benefits were prematurely terminated, according to an article published Friday in the Lancet.

ACSH staffers breathed a temporary sigh of relief as a provision to ban BPA was omitted from the Food Safety Modernization Act by the Senate health panel on Thursday. The provision was originally introduced by Sen.

Mental illness among college students is on the rise, the LA Times reports, based on data presented at the American Psychological Association s annual meeting in San Diego.

ACSH staffers offer Wall Street Journal reporter Allysia Finley a seat at the table for her piece underscoring the lack of evidence supporting the claim that phthalates and BPA have contributed to the obesity epidemic.

ACSH staffers were among the first to report on the first lady’s media faux pas in the current issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, in which she stated:

ACSH staffers have already discussed chemoprevention in the context of women refusing preventive medication for breast cancer.