Advocates pressure EPA to consider public health over Monsanto profits
The Environmental Protection Agency is currently green-lighting the continued use of cancer-linked glyphosate in the United States for another 15 years. Those...
What’s up with the herd?
The United States won’t achieve herd immunity because a significant portion of the herd is suffering from mad cow disease.
No, Paul, it wasn’t because of “growing pains”
America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections – the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 – set things right.
USDA is removing safeguards on food while everyone else is fighting a pandemic
Tell Congress to stop allowing USDA food safety waivers. This is no time to gamble with Americans' health.
How union solidarity improves everyone’s health care
"People want to see us being treated well so they’re treated well. We were fighting for everyone.”
Millions consumed potentially unsafe water in the past 10 years
The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a “D” grade for the quality of its drinking water systems based on an evaluation of their safety, condition, capacity and other criteria.
What’s next for health care? Confused Congress should look to Indian Country
Indian Health Service is a great example of health care run and managed by the government. Let’s use it to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
Gene editing mishaps highlight need for FDA oversight
The FDA plans to require pre-market safety assessments for gene-edited food animals, as they do for new animal drugs.
Here’s why the CDC recommends wearing masks indoors even if you’ve been fully vaccinated...
The shifting recommendations don’t mean that the old ones were wrong, necessarily, only that conditions have changed.
Children living close to fracking sites have two to three times higher risk of...
A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that fracking represents a “public health crisis,” experts say.