|
Home >
News & Commentary >
Browse by Date |
 |
|
|
This is browse by date page.
| 2010 |
|
| December |
|
| New Antibiotics, Stat! (National Review Online) |
| The vaccine makers are in a bind — and public health is in danger. |
| By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D., Gilbert Ross, M.D. |
| Posted: Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| By Dr. Josh Bloom and Dr. Gilbert Ross.The development of new antibiotics has slowed to a trickle, just when we need them most. As drug-resistant bacteria are on the rampage worldwide, we find ourselves in a most precarious situation — one not unlike the one we faced in the pre-antibiotic era, before penicillin, when staphylococcal and pneumococcal infections were the dominant pathogens. . . |
|
|
|
| Drug approvals are bogging down (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) |
| By Gilbert Ross, M.D. |
| Posted: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Patients and doctors cheered in 2008, when the Food and Drug Administration approved Genentech’s Avastin for treating women with advanced breast cancer. Scientists had found that in many cases, the drug could prolong life, and today doctors prescribe it to some 17,500 women a year as their last, best hope. . .
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Don’t fall victim to the hysteria over plastic toys (The Daily Caller) |
| By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H. |
| Posted: Thursday, December 9, 2010 |
| By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. In the midst of prepping for the in-laws and the added financial stress of the holidays, the last thing Americans need is another source of unwarranted anxiety. But just in time for the holidays, Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) released its annual “Trouble in Toyland” report, which preys on parents’ greatest fears by warning shoppers of “toxic” chemicals and other dangers lurking on every toy aisle.
|
|
|
| The 'pariahs' who tamed AIDS (New York Post) |
| By Jonathan (Josh) Bloom, Ph.D. |
| Posted: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 |
| By Dr. Josh Bloom. This World AIDS Day, some 30 years after the epidemic began, we should recognize how the hard work of thousands of dedicated scientists transformed the most dreaded disease of the late 20th century into a chronic, manageable condition.
|
|
|
|
|
| November |
|
|
|
|
| Health Panel Finds All-Natural Carcinogens Galore in Holiday Dinner Menu |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
|
NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK — Scientists associated with the American Council on Science and Health analyzed the natural foods that make up a traditional holiday dinner — and have found that they are loaded with "carcinogens": chemicals that in large doses cause cancer in laboratory animals. None of these chemicals are made by man or added to the foods. Indeed, all of these "carcinogens" occur naturally in foods. But ACSH scientists have good news: these natural |
|
|
|
|
Click here to see our Video News Release summarizing the implications of biomonitoring.
