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We d call the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wolves in sheep s clothing, but we re certain they would take offense. They are a vegan group posing as health experts, but that didn t stop gullible journalists from carrying their water. And it seems the President is their new target?

Rheumatoid arthritis an autoimmune disease in which the body s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, gradually destroying the body s joints affects an estimated 1.5 million Americans, with an estimated 30 to 40 percent of them beyond the help of available drugs.

The iconic 90-year-old perfume Chanel No.5 is one of the most well known perfumes worldwide. Now, this world-famous perfume along with other famous brands such as Shalimar may soon be banned by the European Union after scientists found that some of the ingredients may cause allergies.

Patients who undergo total hip replacement surgery may have a four- to five-fold increased chance of stroke within the first two weeks, a recent study suggests.

Patients with type 2 diabetes taking a widely prescribed drug are suffering more heart attacks, strokes and deaths than those taking another common treatment, according to a startling new study that raises the question whether the drug is dangerous.

If you have high blood pressure, watch out. You may be putting your brain at risk even if you re under 40.

Sixty years after health reports started tallying the deadly toll of cigarettes, millions of people are still addicted to tobacco. Writing in Examiner.com, ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross uses the release of a Million Women Study in Britain to examine the damage women have sustained, and continue to sustain to their bodies, thanks to the scourge of addiction to cigarettes:

Using brain scans, researchers from Banner Alzheimer s Institute in Arizona have detected some of the earliest signs of Alzheimer s disease, more than two decades before symptoms would normally occur.

The votes are in, and Californians have soundly rejected a measure that would have required labeling of genetically modified foods. With 98 percent of ballots tallied, Proposition 37 was trailing 47 to 53 percent, the Mercury News reports. ACSH was joined by a number of other groups, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and newspaper editorial boards around the state, in condemning the measure as anti-scientific scaremongering.

Although chelation has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat heavy metal poisoning such as from lead or mercury a growing number of alternative medicine practitioners have been promoting its off-label use as a means of treating diseases such as autism and heart disease.

In more promising news from the American Heart Association s Scientific Sessions in California, researchers have reported a key advance in using stem cells to repair damaged hearts.

Recent safety concerns among Pradaxa users, their families and some doctors, has caused the Food and Drug Administration to issue a safety review on Friday stating that the risk of serious bleeding in Pradaxa patients is no higher than that among patients taking the older

In a quick note to all our readers and friends, today as you all know is Election Day, and ACSH will be monitoring the vote and hoping when Californians vote on Proposition 37, they ll vote in favor of sound science.
We ll look forward to reporting on this issue tomorrow.

For diabetes patients with blockages in the coronary arteries, bypass surgery is better than angioplasty, according to the findings of a major new study that could change clinical practice.

Warning: Your risk of dying is 100 percent. And if you live long enough, your chances of getting cardiovascular disease are rather high.

Taking multivitamins to prevent a heart attack or stroke? They re probably not doing you any good, according to a study in this week s JAMA.

It s enough to make us sick to our stomachs all the shoddy food-related public health articles and pseudo-science we see sometimes. And we re not the only ones in Reason.com, Baylen Linnekin, president of a Washington-based issue organization called Keep Food Legal, has a very thorough expose citing articles and naming names. In one example, California was praised by USA Today for perhaps bringing us to the turning point in combating childhood obesity.

The Food and Drug Administration has begun looking more closely at the way generic companies make extended-release drugs.

Regular physical activity may cut the risk of a type of mental decline known as vascular dementia in older people, according to a new study.

University of California at Los Angeles chancellor Gene Block yesterday announced that the campus will go tobacco-free on April 22, 2013, which is Earth Day.

ACSH sends kudos to the Los Angeles Times editorial board for their common-sense analysis and rejection of two proposed taxes on sodas. They rightfully state that when it comes to so-called sin taxes, tobacco is simple. Food and drink are complicated.

Although the danger from salmonella-contaminated mangoes appears to be over, the Food and Drug Administration has labeled them a high risk fruit. Last summer a total of 143 people in 15 states were sickened by two strains of salmonella, and more than 30 were sick enough to require hospitalization. Both the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the FDA found that the source of the problem was Mexico.

Adding confusion to the already-confusing world of dietary supplements, a new study published in the British Medical Journal compared the incidence of strokes in people who ate fish with those who took fish oil supplements.

Flu shots can stop you from getting the flu. Can they also stop you from having a heart attack?

The good news resides, for a change, in California. The latest polls there show support for the insidious Proposition 37, which would mandate labels for many foods with genetically modified ingredients, is falling fast. Just 39.1 percent of likely voters support the measure, while 50.5 percent oppose the labeling requirements, the poll by the California Business Roundtable and the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy shows.