Gilbert Ross, MD

Gilbert Ross is a physician.

June 10, 2012Jun 10, 2012

Willful blindness of our public health officials on tobacco is still killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. Here are the facts: i) There are approximately 46 million tobacco smokers in the United States. ii) While three-quarters say they…

Willful blindness of our public health officials on tobacco is still killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.

Here are the facts:

i) There are approximately 46 million tobacco smokers in the United States.
ii) While three-quarters say they want to quit smoking, and about one-third try to quit each year, fewer than 10% succeed.
iii) The FDA-approved smoking cessation aids simply do not work: They improve quit rates only minimally, if at …

Medications

Unregulated supplements are a tragedy in waiting

George Lundberg, MD & Gilbert Ross, MD

March 17, 2012Mar 17, 2012

The latest supplement toxic alert thankfully involves only two young soldiers who died suddenly, both reported to have the unregulated amphetamine-like dimethylamylamine, DMAA, aka "Jack3d" and "OxyelitePro," as the suspected death-dealing toxicant. Who knows how many other unexplained deaths and…

The latest supplement toxic alert thankfully involves only two young soldiers who died suddenly, both reported to have the unregulated amphetamine-like dimethylamylamine, DMAA, aka “Jack3d” and “OxyelitePro,” as the suspected death-dealing toxicant.

Who knows how many other unexplained deaths and near-deaths can be attributed to the vast experiment foisted upon an unwary American populace by such drugs — I mean, “supplements”?

Thanks to 1994’s Hatch Act, the Dietary Supplement Health …