Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced Tuesday that in order to protect our teens from unsafe products, Smoking Everywhere, Inc s electronic cigarettes will be banned from the state. E-cigarettes are a recently developed alternative to cigarette smoking. These devices supply the addictive nicotine that smokers crave, while mimicking tobacco smoking, but without the inhalation or emission of the harmful tobacco combustion products that come from smoking cigarettes.

ACSH's Jeff Stier appeared on CNBC Aug. 10, 2010, to defend consumer choice and Pop-Tarts from anti-obesity crusader MeMe Roth. (A new Pop-Tart store is opening up in Times Square). Click to watch .

A dedicated Pop-Tart store joined its candy friends M&Ms and Hershey’s by popping up in Times Square yesterday — but some people aren’t happy about it. Stier appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” to debate anti-obesity crusader MeMe Roth , where he argued that it’s okay to occasionally indulge in a sugary snack as part of an overall balanced diet.

In a small, preliminary study, magnetic resonance imaging scans of the brain have been used to reliably detect autism, British researchers report in the most recent Journal of Neuroscience.

Hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have declined 28 percent from 2005 to 2008, CDC researchers report in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The H1N1 flu pandemic that killed more than 18,000 people is officially over, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. ACSH S Jeff Stier was a guest on the BBC s Up all Night radio program via Skype last night to discuss the lessons learned from the outbreak.

Traffic injury rates decreased by 18 percent for children in New York State between the ages of 4 and 6 after a March 2005 law requiring them to use car booster seats was enacted, according to new study. Dr. Kainan Sun and her colleagues at the New York State Department of Health believe the findings underscore the importance of the law and the effectiveness of booster seats.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s uranium! In Metropolis, Ill., the self-proclaimed hometown of Superman, union workers are on strike against Honeywell’s uranium conversion plant, claiming that their occupational exposure to uranium and to hydrofluoric acid has contributed to a higher risk of cancer.
Peter Dalpe, a spokesman for Honeywell, rejects these allegations:

Some of the 10,500 Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers who received a $712.5 million settlement to cover health care costs are still bitter. The money will be allocated according to not only severity of illness, but also possibility of being able to prove a causal relationship between exposure and disease — so plaintiffs with asthma will receive greater compensation than those with cancer, because it would have been easier to prove a causal link between at least worsened asthma and exposure at Ground Zero.