Determining the Benefits of the New York City Trans Fat Ban (from Annals of Internal Medicine)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Tuesday, February 2, 2010
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Angell and colleagues want to be congratulated for finding that their own regulatory approach has succeeded...  Read Full >>

Why Drug 'Reimportation' Won't Die
The drug industry made a foolish bet in supporting health reform.
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, January 7, 2010
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  As a threat to our nation's security, allowing imported drugs into our pharmacies ranks just below terrorism...  Read Full >>

Lancet Snaps Fingers to Make New Drugs Appear (from TCSDaily.com)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Friday, December 11, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The pharmaceutical industry gets blamed for many flaws in America's healthcare system. Witness an editorial in last week's The Lancet...  Read Full >>

With a New Ideologue in Charge, It's (Bad) Business as Usual at EPA (from Investor's Business Daily)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D., Henry Miller
Publish Date : Tuesday, November 17, 2009
By Henry Miller and Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The only things being protected these days by the Environmental Protection Agency are the insupportable, unscientific views of radical activists...  Read Full >>

Public Enemy No. 1 (from Forbes.com)
According to the EPA, it's not influenza or obesity, but chemicals. Right.
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Friday, October 9, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Despite the ongoing epidemics of cigarette-related disease, novel influenza and obesity, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson is focusing on a very different set of purported health risks...  Read Full >>

NYC's School Snack Attack Is an Insane A-Salt (from the Daily News)
New vending machine rules make no sense
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Friday, October 9, 2009
By Dr. Gilbet Ross.  This week, the city's Department of Education is rolling out new rules for beverage and snack-food vending machines...  Read Full >>

An Empty Nod to Tort Reform (from the American)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, September 24, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  In an apparent attempt to sway at least one undecided Republican senator to sign on to his healthcare reform program...  Read Full >>

Toys, Lead, and Unintended Consequences (from National Review Online)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Monday, September 14, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  With enforcement of the misleadingly named Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) now fully in place...  Read Full >>

Banning Drug Ads (from Medical Progress Today)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Friday, August 21, 2009
By Gilbert L. Ross, M.D.  Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, and his allies say they want to make drugs safer...  Read Full >>

Drugs from Overseas Can Be Cheap, Which Is Part of the Problem (from the Washington Examiner and San Francisco Examiner)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sen. David Vitter tacked an amendment easing importation of foreign pharmaceuticals onto an essential funding bill...  Read Full >>