Vaccines. Again. Sheesh.
(Alternate title: jerks aren’t always wrong). Over at Moms Speak Up, Cristina shares her angerat a doctor that doesn’t want to go along with a “modified” vaccine schedule that she made up herself. Over...
View ArticleMore on Bisphenol A
If you haven’t seen it yet, USA Today is doing a series called “toxic legacy“. First was lead, then mercury, and today, plastics. Well, really it’s about BPA. We’ve dicussed BPA here before and I’m not...
View ArticleThere is no safe level of bacon. It all causes cancer.
Or so says USA Today on the front page, paragraph two (regarding sausage, bacon and lunchmeat). Of course they are contradicted on paragraph 8 by someone who says that “you can still occasionally have...
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Over the Counter Drugs Getting More Scrutiny — Does that mean anything?
A couple of weeks ago, as I’m sure you heard, the FDA held an advisory committee meeting that concluded that there should be no use of cough/cold products for children under 6. There is a good amount...
View ArticlePractical Water Bottle Advice
A reader asked me for some help choosing a water bottle because of concerns about antimony, bisphenol A, and phthalates (BPA is really the only risk worth thinking about in this trifecta). She read...
View ArticleFDA says cloned beef is safe to eat, not necessarily a good idea.
So the FDA says that cloned meat is safe and this is making big news. Well, this isn’t much of a surprise, it’s unlikely that a clone would be unsafe (it’s a clone of a naturally healthy animal!). What...
View ArticlePart of this nutritious nano-breakfast
The Woodrow Wilson Center released a report on engineered nanomaterials used for food applications. The aren’t common (we think), but there are a few technologies that are making their way to the...
View ArticleWeighing in on Sunscreen (again)
A couple of readers have asked bout the NYTimes article about sunscreens so I thought I’d weigh in. 80 lbs. Okay, with the lame humor over, let’s get to the particulars. The most common question has...
View ArticleScience: the enemy of public health.
Every party needs a pooper, that’s why Scienceblogs invited me. Enemy? Really? Yes, it can be. Read on; It doesn’t have to be. A commentary in Nature Nanotechnology discusses the European Environment...
View ArticleDoes ezetimibe (Zetia, and in Vytorin) cause cancer? and who cares?
Cutting to chase for those of you who want a quick answer: we don’t know, there aren’t enough people to study yet. There are hints, though. Ezetimibe is commonly used in combination with a statin as...
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