Just one tea bag can release billions of microscopic plastic particles into your drink,...
From Arctic snow to the deep sea, microplastics have been found in some unusual places. Now, it turns out they could be lurking at the bottom of...
US Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates—but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses...
Homogenizing peoples’ reasons for not getting vaccinated diverts attention away from social factors that research shows play a critical role in health status and outcomes.
As wealthy nations debate giving booster vaccine shots, calls grow for global vaccine equity
“This is an emergency that affects all of us because variants are coming from areas where there are large numbers of unvaccinated people.”
2.3 million Americans exposed to high levels of strontium in drinking water
High strontium in drinking water is linked to rickets in children, an extremely rare skeletal condition causing soft, sometimes deformed, bones.
A doctor went to his own employer for a COVID-19 antibody test. It cost...
Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman’s insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising: The insurer paid in full.
We won’t go back to normal, because normal was the problem
When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart.
Newborns torn from mothers: South Carolina’s harsh crackdown on drug use during pregnancy
South Carolina leads the charge in prosecuting pregnant women for substance abuse.
4 signs we’re winning the battle against Monsanto
It’s no wonder Monsanto can’t wait to hand over the keys to Bayer. Things are getting messy. For consumers and environmentalists, it’s a beautiful mess.
The EPA is banning chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on food crops, after 14...
“The EPA has had nearly 14 years to publish a legally sufficient response to the 2007 Petition.”
‘The opioid crisis isn’t white:’ How the lethal epidemic affects communities of color
"Especially in the last few years, if you look at the rates of increase of opioid overdose death rates, we find that especially black Americans have had a stark increase in the death rates compared to other groups – in fact, more than white Americans."