4-Methylimidazole Warning # 407 (Medical Progress Today)
Edited By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D.
Publish Date : Monday, March 5, 2012
Dr. Josh Bloom's Medical Progress Today blog revisits a favorite scare of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s: caramel coloring in sodas.  Read Full >>

Drug Reps: The Perfect Rx for Bad Doctors (Medical Progress Today)
By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D.
Publish Date : Friday, March 2, 2012
Pharmaceutical sales representatives often get a bad rap, stereotyped as unethical drug peddlers. But in his latest op-ed for Medical Progress Today, ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom points out how important drug reps may be to improving medical care.  Read Full >>

Hippocrates and Hypocrites (Medical Progress Today)
By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D.
Publish Date : Monday, February 27, 2012
In a new post for Medical Progress Today, ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom describes an unfortunate double blow that Congress has been aiming at doctors: threatening to reduce Medicare reimbursements by 27 percent and attacking interactions between pharmaceutical companies and physicians as necessarily corrupt  Read Full >>

How Health Regulators Are Killing American Smokers (Forbes)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Friday, February 17, 2012
Dr. Ross finds that public health regulators, through willfull resistance of tobacco harm reduction strategies, are killing smokers.   Read Full >>

Dr. Ross to speak at AAAS
Publish Date : Friday, February 17, 2012
ACSH’s Dr. Gilbert Ross is off to Vancouver, where he'll speak about tobacco harm reduction at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Saturday, February 18.   Read Full >>

Boy, are we in trouble (Medical Progress Today)
By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D.
Publish Date : Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Dr. Josh Bloom's latest blog post discusses cuts to Medicare and worsening drug shortages.  Read Full >>

Dr. Ross to appear on NBC Nightly News
Publish Date : Friday, January 27, 2012
Tune into NBC Nightly News this Saturday evening, January 28, to hear ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross discuss what’s problematic about the current trend of shopping for discounted medical care via websites like Groupon and Living Social.  Read Full >>

Should Patents on Pharmaceuticals Be Extended to Encourage Innovation?
Yes: Innovation Demands It (Wall Street Journal)
By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D.
Publish Date : Monday, January 23, 2012
In this Wall Street Journal debate, ACSH's Dr. Josh Bloom makes a compelling argument for extended patent protection on pharmaceuticals.  Read Full >>

ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross meets with TPSAC
Publish Date : Thursday, January 19, 2012
On Thursday, Dr. Ross met with the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) to discuss the importance of smokeless tobacco and other reduced risk nicotine delivery systems to curbing the country’s smoking-related mortality rate.   Read Full >>

Dr. Felsot on pesticides, in DC and on TV
Publish Date : Wednesday, January 18, 2012
In an interview on Wednesday with E&E TV, Dr. Allan Felsot discussed the role of pesticides in allowing us to supply the world’s population with food and keep people healthy...   Read Full >>