CDC reports drug overdose deaths decline 27% in 2024
With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.
Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food shortages in 2020
With the future looking ever more uncertain due to the climate crisis — one of President Biden's top priorities — adapting to new ways of producing and transporting food will be key to our survival.
Does the coronavirus crisis have to end with a wealthier wealthy?
These wealthy few can exploit the vulnerabilities of societies in crisis to make themselves even wealthier.
A health breakthrough that depends on people, not drugs
Meet the system stewards, people from every walk of life who improve Americans’ well-being by tackling the deeper causes of disease and despair.
Wildfires unleash deadly air crisis as Western USA chokes on toxic smoke surge
Rising wildfire smoke nullifies decades of air quality gains.
The long haul
Or living through pandemic-plus...
The real deal with Medicare for All
Any Medicare for All is better than our present system.
This mental health awareness month
Simple actions in the present make it more likely that such services will be launched in the future.
Supermarket food in the UK could soon have eco-labels
“The tool could help us by ensuring that as we are developing new recipes there is a delicious option for someone who is actively looking to reduce their environmental impact through what they eat.”
Warning US could face ‘darkest winter in modern history,’ ousted whistleblower demands science-based pandemic...
“If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities.”