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CNN's Erin Burnett interviewed ACSH Senior Director of Medicine and Public Health Dr. Gil Ross for her primetime program "Out Front"

In the Chicago Tribune, ACSH Senior Director of Medicine and Public Health Dr. Gilbert RosS discusses the media firestorm that broke out after a team of American Council on Science and Health current and former advisors called on Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons to reconsider having "America's doctor," Mehmet Oz, retain his position on their faculty.

The insanity that is evident from examining the role (or lack thereof) of the FDA in regulating alternative remedies may be finally coming to a head. It s about time.

Malaria, the mosquito-borne parasitic disease, infected an estimated 198 million people in 2013 and killed over 500,000, according to the WHO. The majority of those victims were children under the age of five.

Placing infants in carrying devices such as car seats, baby slings/swings, bouncers, and strollers for naps may put them at risk of death or injury, warns the American Academy of Pediatrics. Sleep-related deaths are the most common cause of death for infants up to one year old.

The latest in health news: The FDA is finally reviewing homeopathic products to decide whether they should go under same approval process as conventional drugs, a new study shows why napping in carseats and strollers could be dangerous for your infant, and Columbia faculty speak out for or against Dr. Oz; we aren't sure.

Excessive alcohol consumption has long been considered a major health problem in our society, especially amongst the young. We here at ACSH have spoken many times before about the detrimental effects it has on the body, including liver, brain and heart, as well as the destructive

The Wrap uses the term "embattled" about Dr. Mehmet Oz ever since current and former members of the American Council on Science and Health spearheaded an effort to get Columbia University to reconsider his faculty status due to his promotion of "miracle" vegetables, homeopathy and more suspect treatment.
It's a fair term, he is embattled, much as the evidence-based science and health community has been embattled trying to undo the damage he does five days a week.

Medicine's version of Jerry Springer, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has been under a lot of fire since four American Council on Science and Health-affiliated doctors spearheaded a campaign to have Columbia University reconsider his faculty status - and a lot of of his peers at Columbia agreed.

Four current or former members of the American Council on Science and Health recently created a letter asking Columbia University to reconsider the faculty position of "America's Doctor", Dr. Oz, due to scandals involving his promotion of "miracle" cures and his belittlement on the floor of Congress, writing "Dr. Oz has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops.

As the shockwaves continue to pummel "America's Doctor" Mehmet Oz after the American Council on Science and Health issued a letter to Columbia University asking them to reconsider his faculty status due to his support for "miracles" instead of medicine, his supporters - referred to as "GMO Truthers" by the reputable science and medical community - have ramped up their defense, saying anyone who sides with science must be a corporate shill.

In a MedScape editorial, Robert Lowes defends Dr. Oz from criticism about weekly miracle cures and scare journalism by noting that the pro-science and health groups aligned against him support lower greenhouse gas emissions, in the form of natural gas, and the safety of genetically modified foods, implying that American CO2 emissions have not dropped due to cleaner natural gas and that GMO foods are harmful, both against the science consensus in earth science and biology, respectively.

We at ACSH are fortunate to have amongst our erudite Advisors Dr. David Shlaes, one of the world experts in the fields of both antibiotic research and FDA regulatory policies. Shlaes has been intimately involved with the FDA, which he has both criticized and worked with, trying to prevent us from entering a pre-penicillin age, when there were no effective treatments for bacterial infections.

The New York Times tag-teams e-cigarettes, part of the media crusade orchestrated by the top levels of America s public health and abetted by willing lackeys such as The Times, Matt Myers and ex-FDA head David Kessler.

Tomorrow (April 24th) begins World Immunization Week, a campaign started by the World Health Organization (WHO) to increase worldwide efforts to immunize children against a variety of life threatening

An article in yesterday s NYTimes revealed that two U.S.Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are proposing a bill to tighten the FDA s regulatory oversight of the cosmetics

Scientists and doctors alike have considered gene therapy a potential panacea since it was first postulated on in the 1970s. If harnessed correctly, it is theorized gene therapy could provide real cures for an

Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes, affects approximately 1.25 million American children and (much less commonly) adults. Unlike the much more common type 2 diabetes, which is largely related to lifestyle, type 1 an autoimmune disease

It is hardly news that the US is plagued by an enormous narcotic addiction problem. Nor is it news that the so-called war on drugs has been an abysmal failure since its inception.

As if we needed another supplement story. Between New York s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman s crackdown on retailers that have been selling adulterated or mislabeled supplements, to the discovery of an illegal

The American College of Physicians, the governing body for internists across America, issued a position statement calling for strict regulation of e-cigarettes, including bans on flavors and advertising.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) stood firm to their 2009 recommendation that women should receive biennial mammograms from ages 50 to 75. The report also continues the party line that starting mammograms at a younger age (i.e. age 40) is a decision that should be made on the individual basis with inpu

it is important to pay attention to yet one more study of the purported connection between MMR vaccination and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

The latest: ACSH Advisor Dr. C.S. Prakash receives the 2015 Borlaug CAST (Council for Agricultural Science and Technology) Communicator Award, blood DNA test could detect cancer tumors, and CSPC watchdog puts agency to task for shoddy science.

Former CPSC Commissioner Nord takes the Commission to task for shoddy science, apparently rendered in service to a pre-determined decision to regulate another safe and useful chemical right off the market.