Saturday, July 12, 2025

Tag: health

California introduces bill to protect children from ultra-processed food in public...

Known as Assembly Bill 1264, the bill would create a legal definition of ultra-processed food or UPF in the United States.

Heinrich-backed ORPHAN Cures Act returns in GOP reconciliation bill, critics say...

Senate parliamentarian reverses an earlier ruling, letting a provision that shields multi-use orphan drugs from Medicare price talks ride on Republicans’ budget package as patient advocates warn of higher costs for taxpayers and seniors.

A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled...

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

‘A clown show:’ RFK Jr. fires CDC panel & stacks it...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization.

SCOTUS opinion says states can block Medicaid money for health services...

Justice Neil Gorsuch and five other justices found that "while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court in the case."

GOP healthcare bill would strip insurance from 16 million to fund...

Republican budget proposal would double uninsured rates in many states and lead to over 50,000 preventable deaths each year, healthcare workers warn.

Food museums uncover the culture, science, and history behind the food...

Institutions like New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink are making food literacy fun.

General Mills to remove dyes from products amid legal action

The probe revealed that the company was deceptively marketing its cereals as "healthy" and "nutritious" despite containing petroleum-based food coloring.

SCOTUS rules on ban on gender transition care for minors

The Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee's ban did not violate "U.S. constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law by discriminating on the basis of sex" and upholds ban against treatment for minors.

Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels...

Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.

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Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human rights officials

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.

Five facts that show the enormity of American inequality

Whatever wealth exists among America's poor should not be taken away because of some ignorant prejudice of the rich.

No ordinary solidarity—inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.