Tag: health
Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm...
New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.
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.
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Largest U.S. corporations paid 10.4% federal tax in 2025, ITEP finds
The study of 706 companies counted 114 that paid no current federal income tax and $198 billion in subsidies from rates below 21%
Insurers drop Medicare Advantage plans for 1 million seniors
KFF counted 193 counties with no Medicare Advantage drug plan open to general enrollment in 2027, up from 123 this year
Gaza newborn dies of hypothermia as Israel continues to block lifesaving aid
A two-week-old infant’s death amid winter storms underscores mounting warnings from UN agencies that blocked shelter, destroyed hospitals, and widespread hunger are making exposure deadly for Gaza’s youngest residents.
Bird flu keeps spreading on a Utah mink farm as officials hold off on...
Seven mink have tested positive on C&T Fenn Farms, and no federal rules cover sick mink, ProPublica reports; Utah has issued a verbal hold instead of a formal quarantine.
How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement
Conservative powerbroker Cleta Mitchell has raised a grassroots army to transform American voting systems and worked closely with the administration to enact her plans. No one besides Trump himself has done more to overhaul elections.