ZME SCIENCE – Imagine a bustling city on a weekday morning, with sidewalks crowded by people rushing to work. Now shrink that scene to a microscopic scale, and you get an idea…
Month: January 2025
More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary
NBC NEWS – More than 15,000 doctors have signed a letter urging senators to vote against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services….
Prices of top 25 Medicare Part D drugs have nearly doubled, AARP study finds
NBC NEWS – List prices for the top 25 prescription drugs covered by Medicare Part D have nearly doubled, on average, since they were first brought to market, according to a new…
Leaked Memo Requesting Paramedics at Inauguration Sparks Alarm
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Department of Veterans Affairs insider shared a Department of Health and Human Services memo with James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) that requested “presidential inauguration [medical personnel] support deployment.” “What concerned me was…
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources
KFF Health News – Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan…
Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss
Truthout – We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day. Nearly five years since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, public health experts…
California aims to limit unhealthy food ahead of Trump administration and RFK Jr.
LA TIMES – Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday attempting to limit access to ultra-processed foods, a directive he cast as a continuation of California’s “nation leading” nutrition and…
McDonalds’ new ‘McValue’ menu is out. Here’s what’s on it, and how it works
NBC CHICAGO – McDonald’s is taking its efforts to attract money-conscious diners to another level. Diners will be able to create their own deals by mixing and matching various items through the…
Louisiana reports first U.S. H5N1-related human death
The patient was over the age of 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions. The patient contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild…
My relatives have been dropping dead from mysterious causes for generations — now I know why
DAILYMAIL.COM – Susan Weiss Liebman spent years searching for the minute genetic mutation lurking in her family’s DNA that had been causing unexplained abrupt deaths for generations. Her investigation, detailed in her…