Tag: health

“Today’s decision marks a key step toward ending the food industry’s deceptive and discriminatory GMO food labeling practices, which have kept consumers in the dark by concealing what’s in their products.”

"No one's religious beliefs should ever prevent access to essential lifesaving medication."

Ethylene oxide is known to cause cancer when people within close proximity to sterilizer facilities breathe the gas in over the course of many years.

A trove of recently released documents offers the public an unvarnished look inside those relationships from the perspective of drug companies themselves.

The Medicare for All Act of 2022 would be implemented over a four-year period and would include dental care, vision coverage, and hearing aids with no out-of-pocket expenses, insurance premiums, deductibles, or co-payments,

“Parents shouldn’t have to strap their child into a car seat that exposes them to toxic chemicals.”

We can understand the problem best through the example of diabetic ketoacidosis.

Rupa Marya, a physician and musician, studies how social structures impact health. She says colonial capitalism fractures the critical relationships that keep us healthy.

While more studies need to be done to examine the direct effects of microplastics on the human body, researchers from the study warn microplastics can cause damage to human cells.

So what's coming down the pike?