Politics has overtaken science at the EPA (The Daily Caller)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Dr. Gilbert Ross. Science depends on rigid observation and independent replication. So what happens when government bureaucrats — seeking to promote a political agenda while acting under the guise of protecting the environment and public health — systematically subordinate sound scientific principles to their own goals?   Read Full >>

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 >>

Immunity: when it's smart to go with the herd (Guardian)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D., Dr. Henry Miller
Publish Date : Monday, June 13, 2011
By Dr. Henry Miller and Dr. Gilbert Ross. Infectious diseases that used to claim the lives of one in six children before their fifth year are making an alarming comeback in the US. The culprits are parents who should know better – and the politicians who bend over backwards to accommodate them.   Read Full >>

The Hijacking of Earth Day (The American Spectator)
A Further Perspective
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Wednesday, May 11, 2011
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. The last weekend in April saw the confluence of Earth Day and World Malaria Day. The very first Earth Day back in 1970 found many of us devoted to saving the world from polluting corporations and their toxic smog. And in fact, over the course of the next two decades or so, major strides were made in cleaning up our air and water.  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 >>

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 British Health Care Invasion (from Forbes.com)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Wednesday, November 17, 2010
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Just as Britain is moving away from destructive cost-control policies in its health system, the U.S. seems to be embracing them. If American health policy-makers begin putting cost before quality, doctors might soon lose the freedom to treat patients without being obstructed by regulators. Countless patients could lose access to life-saving treatments.  Read Full >>

Congress might be fed up, but America's children aren't (Daily Caller)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Publish Date : Tuesday, October 12, 2010
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. A tuna fish sandwich is both nutritious and affordable — but this once ubiquitous lunchbox staple is fast becoming an anachronism because of unfounded fears of mercury. It’s omitting seafood from your diet that’s the real risk, since fish provide nutrients that protect our hearts, stave off strokes and help save our eyesight.  Read Full >>

Vaccines: Do your homework (San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D., and Dr. Jack Fisher
Publish Date : Wednesday, August 4, 2010
By Drs. Gilbert Ross and Jack Fisher. As kids head back to school over the next few weeks, parents will be met with a bevy of papers. There are enrollment forms, permission slips, perhaps even a few credit card bills. Sadly, an increasing number of parents aren’t signing the most important piece of paper of all – their children’s vaccine form.  Read Full >>