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Plan B becoming available to girls of all ages was a huge victory for contraception availability advocates. However, lifting the age restrictions for Teva s Plan B One-Step

Earlier this month, we reported on research done by Ronald Bayer and Kathleen Bachynski at Columbia s Mailman School of Public Health, looking at the scientific justification for banning smoking in parks and on beaches.

Medical News Today urged readers not to skip breakfast in their article Eat breakfast to improve your heart health, published yesterday.

The FDA s Center for Tobacco Products, through its head, Mitch Zeller, made yet another non-announcement yesterday concerning menthol cigarettes. The 2009 law

It has long been known that there are disparities in health care between black women and white women, specifically in women with breast cancer. A new study,

Today s edition of Lancet Respiratory Medicine has a debate on the crucial question of whether e-cigarettes should be regulated, and if so how, and by whom?

An excerpt from Do You Believe in Magic, by ACSH trustee Dr. Paul Offit was published in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine.

Last week, 25 children in India died and many others sickened as a result of organophosphate pesticide poisoning which contaminated the children s school lunches.

It's not [yet] a solution, but certainly a clever idea aimed to minimize hair loss and perhaps lessen the emotional struggles among some patients undergoing chemotherapy

A group of researchers led by Dr. Vinay Prasad of the National Cancer Institute reviewed over 1,300 articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine over

This week marks the 10 year anniversary of New York s indoor smoking ban. According to Blair Horner, vice president of advocacy at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network,

Parents have been advised frequently to be cautious about their kids exposure to television television viewing, that is. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics

When the federally-funded Women s Health Initiative (WHI) study was terminated prematurely, in 2002, it created a firestorm of both concern and controversy.

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which protects women against cervical cancer, also appears to likely to protect them against

ACSH wishes to bring to the attention of its readers a feature article published in this month s The Atlantic, How Junk Food Can End Obesity. Although it is somewhat lengthy, it is nonetheless a must-read.

Endocrine-disruptor we at ACSH have been fighting an uphill battle against this pseudo-scientific term for years.
According to radical environmental groups and others with similar anti-chemical agendas, we are being bathed in these things and they are doing serious, chronic harm to all of us.

A Finnish study may have an important implications for patients with hypertension. The study found

One group of landowners who wish to exploit the gas/oil reserves beneath their property are being prevented from doing so by "environmentalists"

The phrase sugar is poison, fructose is toxic, is incorrect, says Dr. David Katz, the Director of the Yale Prevention Research Center

ACSH's new series where experts debunk the junkiest health and science studies making news. This segment features Dr. Gilbert Ross and Dr. Josh Bloom talking about GMOs and artificially-sweetened beverages

More often than not, significant medical discoveries arise unintentionally. But frequently a clever observation

It s nice to know that there are others out there who are presenting ACSH s opinion

A new study, utilizing the technology of specialized CT scanning for coronary artery calcification (CAC), found that prolonged abdominal obesity

NBC s headline An aspirin every other day cuts colon cancer risk for women may be catchy,

We at ACSH are heartened to know that America has gotten a little safer this week.
Self-proclaimed vaccine expert Jenny McCarthy will soon become a co-host on The View, where she will no doubt be sharing her medical acumen with millions of people who will devour every word.