“Although people argue against costly regulations, unrestricted use of these chemicals is far more expensive in the long run, with American children bearing the largest burden.” (Beyond Pesticides) Exposure to environmental chemicals in the U.S. ...
Reducing the suffering of chickens can only happen if companies follow through on their promises. Consumers and scientists agree: Eggs from hens raised in cages are bad business. “Cage-free” is much more than a trend—soon, ...
The FDA is attempting to tackle the high costs of prescription drugs with two new proposals, but the start of 2020 suggests the FDA’s efforts may backfire. Although a new year is usually cause for ...
“It’s no surprise that drug prices continue to skyrocket on the Trump administration’s watch. Trump and Secretary Azar have talked a big game about lowering drug prices, but they simply haven’t delivered. Trump’s pharma hires ...
Recent challenges to anti-camping or homeless bans in court will likely affect how homelessness is handled across the country. This month two high profile court cases have limited cities’ ability to try and ban sleeping ...
An estimated 500,000 Americans every year are driven into bankruptcy due to medical bills or missed work from illness. A report from Gallup published earlier this month demonstrates the consequences of the United States’ exceptionally ...
“These companies – the richest companies in the world, these fancy gadget-making companies – have allowed children to be maimed and killed to get their cheap cobalt.” Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell have been ...
The USDA is framing changes to federal food assistance as a return to the original intent of the SNAP program and preventing dependency on government assistance. On December 4 the United States Department of Agriculture ...
South Carolina’s new Medicaid work requirement will force recipients to file a monthly report stating that they have been employed, searched for a job, attended training or classes, or volunteered. The Trump administration approved South ...
Could a new study suggesting BPA levels in humans are higher than previously thought explain public health trends like a global decline in sperm counts? A new and more accurate method of measuring BPA levels ...
Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people. In 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that ...
Teen usage of vaping and e-cigarettes took a drastic jump in 2018, but are blanket approaches like bans the most effective solution? After a spate of negative publicity and illnesses related to black market vaping ...
Over a dozen groups call for a full congressional investigation in the online giant citing threats to privacy, security, and civil liberties posed by Alexa, Ring, and Rekognition. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Amazon must ...
“The industry executive said the quiet part out loud,” said one outside expert in response. “Price-gouging is central to the industry business model.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Corporations’ quest for profits is what “is ...
The rollback of the Chemical Disaster Rule is the latest of the EPA’s slashed environmental regulations, joining asbestos, coal ash, chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, methane, and carbon emission deregulations. The Environmental Protection Agency weakened an Obama-era regulation ...
The proliferation of unregulated CBD products is a striking example of troubling FDA regulation delay but far from the only one. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has served an invaluable role in ...
Americans experience worse health outcomes than people in wealthy countries that have adopted single-payer style health care systems. (By Andrew Perez, MapLight) As health insurance, pharmaceutical and hospital companies fight to prevent more politicians from backing Medicare ...
In May Washington state joined New York state, Vermont and Maryland in passing fracking bans. Of these four states Maryland is the only one that has known oil and gas reserves. According to the U.S. ...
“This proposal has nothing to do with science. They want politicians, not scientists, to evaluate the evidence of harm to the public.” The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to restrict the science it ...
This potential scandal is so large, it’s hard to fully comprehend what the implications may be. A major but largely glossed over report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental and public health nonprofit ...
Skin cancer has increased significantly over the past 50 years and now a new study is raising suspicion that weed killers may play a factor. (Beyond Pesticides) Herbicide use is associated with an increased risk ...
Big tech is opening its pocketbooks to fight growing anti-trust and consumer scrutiny. (By Andrew Prez and Tim Zelina, MapLight) With calls for big tech companies to be broken up growing louder, Silicon Valley is ...
More Joy Less Pain, which will premiere in New York on November 11, is a candid look at social anthropologist Peter Gorman’s life work of delving deep into indigenous cultures and their healing medicines. We’ve ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
Though IBM contests Google’s claim of quantum supremacy, it concedes that it passed an important milestone. For the science of computing, that is all that matters. Google’s quantum supremacy claim has now been disputed by ...
“The average price of vincristine in the developing world, where it is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, is $1.80 a dose, compared to $42.60 per dose in the U.S.” Vincristine, a ...
From Houston to Honolulu and San Diego to Sioux Falls, methamphetamines are the number cause of drug overdose deaths. According to a report released on October 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Alabama Republicans are hoping to take a new Alabama abortion law all the way to the Supreme Court in hopes of overruling Roe v. Wade. Two and a half weeks prior to a new Alabama ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
Panic-driven e-cigarette bans conflate two separate concerns—youth vaping, and a new respiratory illness that appears to be caused by black market THC vapes using specific additives. According to the October 24 update from the Centers ...
Two bills attempting to lower prescription drug costs are making progress in Congress and show promising signs of bipartisan support. Americans pay exponentially more for prescription drugs than citizens of other developed countries, and spending ...
Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system. (By Andrew Perez, MapLight) Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care ...
“Just looking at these numbers, it’s hard not to find them completely disturbing. It should be a call to action.” An alarming new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that ...
The vaping crisis sweeping the nation is a reminder of the dangers of a lack of national uniform cannabis regulation and decriminalization. Both e-cigarettes and cannabis vaping related illnesses have recently hit the news with ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
It’s getting hot in Cleveland as drug retailers attempt to disqualify a judge presiding over a major opioid trial set to begin in a matter of days. Eight drug retailers, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and ...
Google’s Sycamore 53-qubit quantum machine has opened the doors to a new era of computing. No, quantum computing did not come of age with Google’s Sycamore, a 53-qubit computer solving in 200 seconds a problem ...
More Americans are consuming news from social media platforms despite their concern for fake news shared on social media and the growing proliferation of organized disinformation campaigns. Even though social media channels are easy targets ...
An executive order signed by President Trump to expand Medicare Advantage is being criticized for expanding the scope of Medicare plans contracted out to private companies. President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in ...
As big pharma faces a mountain of opioid lawsuits, one novel solution is to join Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings. Just two weeks after the famed Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma filed bankruptcy, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & ...
“Under the new paradigm of private equity, poorly maintained ambulance services siphon profit from vulnerable patients.” Wall Street investment firms are behind soaring ambulance costs, according to a Thursday article by the American Prospect’s Olivia ...
“The Warren bit (a little overhyped in the headline) will get attention. But the more damning thing in the Zuckerberg tapes is him saying they cloned TikTok and are perfecting it in Mexico.” Facebook CEO ...
As prescription drug costs soar, Congress is pressing for bills that would cap out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare beneficiaries and allow the government a say in drug pricing. Worried to lose the pricing power, the pharmaceutical ...
As the Obama administration worked to develop national prescribing standards that discouraged the use of addictive opioid painkillers, Purdue used third-party groups to undermine the effort. (By Andrew Perez and Lee Fang, MapLight) Purdue Pharma, ...
While USDA inspectors will still be present at every plant, the agency estimates that there will be as much as a 40% decrease in inspectors at some facilities. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) changed ...
For years large amounts of money were transferred out of Purdue Pharma to mysterious offshore accounts – was the company and the Sackler family hiding their money, knowing their day in court would come? Purdue ...
A second class of drugs was found to be contaminated with a known carcinogen, raising concern that the FDA is not adequately monitoring existing drugs on the market. Drug regulators in both Europe and the ...
Should the U.S., the richest country in the world, provide free school lunches? A nine-year-old boy had his hot lunch taken away from him in front of other students on his birthday because of an ...
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have spent more than $330 million on attempts to influence federal lawmakers since 2008. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) The nation’s largest tech companies, which are currently facing state and federal investigations to determine ...
Given Silicon Valley’s reputation (and penchant) for breaking things rather than stopping to think them through, brainwave reading devices will need close regulation and ethical reviews before testing begins. (By Garfield Benjamin, The Conversation) Not ...
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