Worried About Vaccine Fears (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Monday, August 18, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  It would be impossible to get unanimity on any medical topic. But all pediatric and vaccine experts, as well as all federal health officials, advocate vaccination of preteen and young teen girls against human papilloma virus...  Read Full >>

Group Not Industry-Funded (from the Dallas Morning News)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Your editorial urging Congress to ban phthalates in toys (despite the fact that they present no health hazard) implied that the only dissenters to the proposed ban are...  Read Full >>

ACSH's President Dismisses Harvard Health Letter's Condemnation of Plastic Products as Health Risks
"I fear that you may have misled your readers, causing them needless anxiety"
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Friday, May 23, 2008
New York, NY--May 23, 2008. In a letter responding to Harvard's Dr. Claire McCarthy, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health, maintains that the use of plastic bottles and other plastic products pose no known hazard to human health...  Read Full >>

Chem-Phobia: A Phony Plastics Threat (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, April 28, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Chemical-phobia is in full bloom this spring...  Read Full >>

Plastic Hysteria Strikes Again (from the Washington Times) UPDATED
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, April 24, 2008
By Gilbert Ross, M.D. A new health scare -- over the safe and useful plastic component, bisphenol-A (BPA) -- has taken wing...  Read Full >>