Can we turn down the heat while turning on the light on the controversial issue of labelling (or not) GMO food products? Maybe: just use your app! An idea endorsed by two recent USDA secretaries and the NY Times Andrew Revkin and it makes sense! Will the anti-GMO crusaders agree? (hint: doubt it).

In 2012 the FDA warned parents against using products containing the local anesthetic benzocaine to relieve their infants teething pain. Today the agency extended that advisory to viscous lidocaine another local anesthetic.

Dr. Gilbert Ross in the Washington Times, June 27, 2014.
The premature death of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn has brought the issue of chewing tobacco use

A new warning about the dangers of acne medicines is enough to make you break out into a rash. It is all over the news. Here are a few representative headlines:
"Acne products can cause dangerous side effects, FDA warns"
"FDA: Acne products can cause severe allergic reactions"
"FDA Warns Of Life-Threatening Reactions With Acne Products"

Two new studies show that sudden-onset strokes are often provoked by the relatively common heartbeat irregularity, atrial fibrillation. If short-term cardiac monitoring fails to detect it, 30-day testing is required. Anticoagulation can be lifesaving.

A pancreatic cancer diagnosis most frequently indicates poor prognosis it has among the worst 5-year survival rate of all cancers which

The supplement industry, an industry which we have written about numerous times, is a $30 billion industry, with more than half of Americans taking some form of supplement. However, as David Seres, ACSH friend and

The usefulness and guidelines for screening mammography have been hotly debated for years. Some have questioned whether the technique finds too many lesions that would not progress to threaten a woman s life,

Another study supports the lack of adverse effects on the heart from e-cigarettes. Don t expect a reduction in politicians and regulators clamor against this breakthrough technology: willful blindness has taken over it seems.

If you find yourself in the scope of Science 2.0 founder Hank Campbell s rifle, expect a rough time. He has a zero tolerance policy for anti-scientific activist groups, and is more than willing to forego good manners when he deals with them.