American Council on Science and Health
Taming menopause? Antibody might restrain obesity, osteoporosis risks
Menopause often has some pretty negative effects on women. Their risks of heart disease, osteoporosis and obesity all increase, to ...
Is saffron a cancer-fighting ‘super food’?
The “superfood” craze is premised upon the dubious notion...that eating them will bring good health and long life...But the notion ...
GMOs being used to clean up heavy metal pollution
Environmental contamination with heavy metals is often the result of various types of industrial processes. Because heavy metals can be ...
Feeling tired? Easy cure? Unfortunately, ‘sleep science’ consumed by hype
Nutrition science is notoriously unreliable. The reason is because a substantial proportion of research in the field is conducted using ...
Telomere controversy: Could stem cell biomarkers help treat chronic diseases?
There are many questionable aging-related products on the market. One of the more recent is TeloYears, a test that supposedly ...
Opinion: Bloomberg journalists botch another anti-Monsanto article
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] Bloomberg Businessweek has written another anti-Monsanto article.... It's ...
Stem cell treatments can be dangerous: ‘Call to action’ targets ‘medical tourism’
An international team of medical experts recently published a global call to action in Science Translational Medicine in an effort to curb ...
Why do women suffer more migraines than men?
Women suffer about twice as many severe headaches and migraines as men. Genetics likely plays a role. According to a review published ...
Innovative ‘cell guillotine’ could revolutionize wound healing
For the last 100 years, slicing a single cell into two equal parts has proven to be a process that's tedious, ...
Fighting depression: Drugs stimulating growth of new brain cells may be key
Depression is something of a black box. Its underlying causes aren't completely understood, nor why particular medications work for some ...
Usain Bolt’s asymmetrical gait: Does running unevenly make him faster?
Usain Bolt is the world's fastest man. But does that also mean that compared to all other competitive runners on ...
1,003 new genomes: Bacterial DNA library doubles as sequencing becomes cheaper, faster
The sequence of an organism's genome, a staple in today's world of scientific experimentation, is as essential to scientific research ...
10,000 times more pesticides ‘naturally’ in plants than synthetic residue on food
The word pesticide is misunderstood, nearly to the same extent as the word chemical. People have been led to believe, ...
People who commit suicide may have genetic predisposition
The causes of suicide are complex, but they seem to involve some combination of nature and nurture. Now, a new ...
Smaller breast cancer lumps don’t always mean less aggressive cancer
[Editor's note: Dr. Charles Dinerstein, M.D. is Senior Medical Fellow at the American Council on Science and Health.] The diagnosis ...
Dissecting MIT computer scientist Stephanie Seneff’s claim that glyphosate herbicide causes autism
[Editor's note: Josh Bloom is director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the American Council on Science and Health. He ...
Nature or nurture? Chess players have higher than average IQ
Though we don't like to admit it, intelligence and IQ matter...The traditional view is that expertise, in general, requires a ...
10 ways Whole Foods misleads consumers about organic food and farming
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] I was at a meeting with ...
Scared to Death: Environmental Working Group fails the ‘sound science’ chemicals test
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) uses an authoritative sounding name to peddle scientific half-truths and outright fabrications. Along with Greenpeace ...
‘Uncertainty and fear’: Why GE vitamin-A fortified ‘Golden Rice’ has been slow to catch on
Vitamin-A deficiency around the world leads to between 250,000 and 500,000 children going blind – every single year. Half of ...
European Food Safety Authority slams Ramazzini study, finds (yet again) sucralose sweetener not carcinogenic
[F]or some reason, some folks don't want to leave the issue alone and keep trying to "prove" that [sucralose and ...
Psychiatrists developing model to identify which mentally ill patients likely to become violent
It is certainly true that rates of violent crime are higher among the severely mentally ill than among the general ...
US Right to Know’s Gary Ruskin linked to anti-science Russian ‘fake news’ site
[Editor's note: Alex Berezow is a senior fellow of biomedical science at the American Council on Science and Health.] RT is the ...
Why the FDA is powerless against supplement makers’ dangerous, dubious health and cancer claims
[Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)] was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, but really this ...
Potential tumor ‘blockers’ identified that could limit skin and breast cancers
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, claims between 9,000-10,000 American lives annually. And a primary reason it does is ...
Why does pancreatic cancer often hit so hard and usually kill its victims so quickly?
Pancreatic cancer. When news of this type of diagnosis is mentioned, those two words strike fear and dread in most ...
Herzegovinians dethrone Dutch as tallest men in world
At a towering 183.8 cm (just over 6 feet tall), Dutch men are widely hailed as the tallest in the ...
Why humans have larger penises and smaller testicles than other great apes
[While humans have a much longer and wider penis than the other great apes[, human] testicles are rather small...The relative size ...
