American Council on Science and Health
Junk science: Journal paid to publish ‘food industry conspiracy’ paper—funded by organic industry
Gary Ruskin, the chief junkyard dog of US Right To Know, an industry front group created by Organic Consumers Association ...
Obesity linked to increased breast cancer risk–if you have certain hormone receptors
It's pretty common knowledge that obesity increases the chance that a woman will develop breast cancer, and how her excess ...
How much can you make on a successful cancer drug? Billions
[Editor's note: Dr. Jamie Wells, MD, FAAP, is a Board-Certified physician and the Director of Medicine at the American Council on Science and ...
Homeless ‘tent cities’ ripe for infectious disease outbreaks
[The] luxury of modern life is due to the strong defense provided by the "pillars" of our public health system. According ...
New pathway for spread of antibiotic resistance: ‘Membrane blebbing’
Unlike animals, bacteria can readily share genetic information with other bacteria, even those of entirely different species. [...] For decades, ...
Ethanol injections cure skin cancer in hamsters, offering hope for cheap treatments
[C]heap, uncomplicated, portable, and preferably non-surgical treatments that do not require electricity are needed [to treat cancer in developing countries] ...
Even ‘good’ HDL cholesterol can be dangerous at high concentrations
So-called "good" cholesterol, the HDL, anything above 60 mg/dl is considered protective against heart disease. That's because HDL facilitates removing ...
Blood test cancer diagnosis could be as easy as checking cholesterol
Imagine a world where it is as easy to check for cancer as it is high cholesterol. New research out of ...
Newly approved CAR-T therapy could mark breakthrough in cancer treatments
Carl H. June, MD, is a professor of immunology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He developed ...
What’s behind EU’s skepticism of Bayer-Monsanto merger?
[Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto] may not go through. Multiple media outlets have reported that European Union regulators are skeptical of ...
Ebola ‘family tree’ suggests virus becomes more deadly as it evolves
From 2013 to 2016, western Africa faced an enormous outbreak of Ebola in which 28,616 people fell ill and 11,310 ...
Sustainable wheat: New GMO variety could reduce need for fertilizers, preserve phosphorus
One of the troubles with agriculture is the need for farmers to apply fertilizer. The plants don't soak up all ...
Viewpoint: Media focus on ‘scare fears’ like trace chemicals ignores real dangers like dietary supplements
There can hardly be a better example of […] logical disconnect than the silly July 12th hit piece in the [New York] Times about ...
White collar jobs may carry greater risk for Lou Gehrig’s, Parkinson’s
The causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) and Parkinson's disease are not known. Both diseases are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
