Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner writes on the reasons not to abandon the effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.

PSR Board President Jeff Patterson, DO, carried a strong health message to the White House today about the need for action on climate change to protect the health of all Americans. Attending the President’s Earth Day reception, Dr. Patterson stated that “The health of Americans requires that we reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the safest, most immediate way possible.”

PSR/Sacramento Annual Fundraiser Dinner with Steffie Woolhandler, MD, keynote speaker. Dr. Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is co-director of the general internal medicine fellowship program. She has authored more than 50 research articles on health care access and financing and is a co-founder and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program.