Junk Science Week: Toxic terrorists ignore organic food threat (Financial Post)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 15, 2011
By Gilbert Ross. A respected newspaper notes the latest toll among Europeans of a virulent strain of the bacterium E. coli, the source of which has recently been determined to be sprouts from an organic farm in Germany. In the same newspaper, a few pages distant, a credulous journalist has in essence copied and pasted another press release from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a U.S. activist organization, warning us yet again about the traces of pesticide residues on their   Read Full >>

Dr. Gilbert Ross on the Dr. Joe Show
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, May 19, 2011
Listen to ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross talk chemophobia, radiation scares, and the promotion of sound science with beloved chemistry professor and radio show host Dr. Joe Schwarcz on The Dr. Joe Show.  Read Full >>

Better Living Through Chemistry (The American)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, May 5, 2011
The overwhelming body of scientific evidence supports the safety of myriad chemicals in use today.A fusillade of recent items by the New York Times, US News, CNN, and others purports to show how certain common pesticides lead to reduced IQs among children of women exposed to these chemicals while pregnant.  Read Full >>

Will Rationing Supersede America's Healthcare Legacy? (Medical News Today)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, March 24, 2011
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. We all like to think of America as a land of opportunity, a place where people are free to make their own choices in matters large and small. That's why it's so disturbing to see American regulators moving to restrict the treatment options of women suffering from advanced-stage "triple-negative" breast cancer, the most difficult type to treat - and doing so at the same time European regulators are reinforcing the choices available for   Read Full >>

Guest opinion: Don't let money cloud the vision of drug regulators
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Monday, January 31, 2011
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. The medical journal Eye recently published a highly anticipated preliminary study comparing the drug Lucentis with the anti-cancer drug Avastin for the treatment of "wet," age-related macular degeneration (AMD). If Avastin is comparable in effectiveness to Lucentis, the federal government could see this as an opportunity to trim Medicare and Medicaid costs.  Read Full >>

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.
Publish Date : 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. . .  Read Full >>

Drug approvals are bogging down (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : 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. .  .        Read Full >>

The Debate Continues on Cancer-Treatment Therapies and Statistics (from the Wall Street Journal)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Wednesday, March 28, 2007
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Dr. Marc Siegel's op-ed calls for increased use of specialized ("spiral") CT scans to detect lung cancer early enough to intercept its deadly course. However, he is too quick to dismiss the crucially important ongoing scientific debate over whether such screening actually save lives over the long-term...  Read Full >>

A Drug-Free America? (from NationalReview.com)
Regulating ourselves into sickness.
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, April 14, 2005
Now that the FDA has pressured Pfizer to remove Bextra from pharmacy shelves, applause rains down from the usual locales: self-styled “consumer advocates,” politicos looking for a quick score, and columnists, all patting themselves on the back for “getting” Bextra...  Read Full >>

The Myth of Absolute Safety (from National Review Online)
The FDA shouldn’t be excessively cautious in its drug-approval process
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Thursday, March 3, 2005
The FDA has its heavy regulatory hand on almost one quarter of the nation's economy, so its leadership is of deep concern to all Americans, not merely those involved in public health...  Read Full >>