What's Really Causing Childhood Obesity? (Forbes.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, July 6, 2011
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. An alarming one-third of American children are overweight or obese. It's a rate that's climbed three times as high as it was even a generation ago, and the hunt is on to identify the culprit and root it out.  Read Full >>

Dr. Whelan refutes proposal to ban soda purchases using food stamps (BBC News)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, March 10, 2011
In an interview for BBC, ACSH’s Dr. Elizabeth Whelan challenges the validity of a recent request by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bar residents who receive food stamps from using them to purchase soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.  Read Full >>

The biggest unfounded health scares of 2010 (The Daily Caller)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, December 30, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. As we begin a new year, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) would first like to try and slay the demons and hobgoblins of the past year. We do this each New Year’s Eve by making a list of the top unfounded health scares of the outgoing year. These bouts of hysteria are prompted by many different things. But what they have in common is that there’s no scientific evidence to back up the alarms being sounded.  Read Full >>

FDA Conflict-of-Interest Rules Go Too Far (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Sunday, December 12, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. When an FDA panel voted to reject a new weight-loss drug this fall, many observers were outraged.  Read Full >>

What's so ridiculous about Katherine Heigl's e-cigarette habit? (Daily Caller)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, October 18, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. Katherine Heigl is in trouble with the P.C. police. After telling David Letterman how she managed to quit smoking by switching to e-cigarettes, the “Life as We Know It” actress is drawing not praise but condemnation from moralistic public health types.  Read Full >>

Curing breast cancer (from the NY Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, October 6, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. This is the 25th year when October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink ribbons, marches in the park, fundraisers to find "the cure." Time to talk about our loss of mothers and sisters (and even some brothers) to this dreaded disease. But this year we should also focus on the good news about breast cancer.  Read Full >>

The Deadly War against DDT (National Review)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, September 15, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. A remarkable new documentary tells the story of how political and ideological forces combined to ban a widely and safely used chemical, DDT, leading to a surge of malaria deaths in developing countries like Kenya, Indonesia, and India.  Read Full >>

Unlocking The Genetic Secrets Of Autism
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., and Dr. Henry I. Miller
Publish Date : Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Drs. Elizabeth M. Whelan and Henry I. Miller. Intense and even fanatical resistance to childhood immunizations is itself a significant public health problem, but a recent study of abnormalities in the DNA of children with autism spectrum disorders should finally put rest to claims that vaccines cause these conditions.  Read Full >>

Vaccines are not just for children (from Contra Costra Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Saturday, June 5, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. While it is customary for parents to make sure that their children get all the recommended vaccinations, many adults avoid getting their shots — and tens of thousands of people contract vaccine-preventable diseases each year as a result.  Read Full >>

Bad Ads, Badder FDA (from Medical Progress Today)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, June 3, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. No one wants misleading pharmaceutical advertising, but the Food and Drug Administration's plan to deputize doctors to police drug companies is a misguided effort.  Read Full >>