ARS TECHNICA – Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling 4.4gs in freefall back to planet Earth, thudding into the ground, and emptying their…
Month: April 2025
Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Dentists reveal what happened
SCIENCE NEWS – Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has…
Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive
City of Hope National Medical Center – It’s no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle age, but the problem isn’t strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism,…
Living alone with depression and anxiety raises suicide risk by more than 500%,
Medical Xpress – An international team has found that Korean adults living alone with both depression and anxiety face a 558% increased risk of suicide. Individuals aged 40 to 64 and men…
Common medical test may reveal dementia risk
MedPage Today – Reducing hypertension dropped dementia risk by 15% in the open-label China Rural Hypertension Control phase III (CRHC-3) trial of nearly 34,000 people. At 48 months, all-cause dementia among people…
FDA stops short of synthetic food dye ban, calls on industry to stop use
CBS News – The Food and Drug Administration is asking the food industry to stop using synthetic food dyes, in a bid to fulfill one of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert…
USDA withdraws a Biden-era effort to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
CBS/AP – The United States Department of Agriculture is withdrawing a rule proposed in August to help prevent food poisoning from poultry contaminated with salmonella. The Biden Administration effort, which had been…
Coffee Creamer Recalled as FDA Sets Highest Risk Level
NEWSWEEK – A nondairy coffee creamer sold across the Northeast has been recalled after it was found that it could pose serious health risks to consumers with milk allergies. MO-CHA brand Premium…
Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and…
Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures
The New York Times – The opioid overdose reversal medication commercially known as Narcan saves hundreds of thousands of lives a year and is routinely praised by public health experts for contributing…