Category: Health
Beth Linker shakes up good posture
A historian and sociologist of science re-examines the “posture panic” of the last century. You’ll want to sit down for this....
Penny Simkin, “mother of the Doula movement”, dies...
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers p...
At Least Three Women Were Infected With HIV After ...
The women underwent the cosmetic procedure at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
Biden delays ban on menthol cigarettes
The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an electi...
Federal authorities find no live bird flu virus in...
The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.
Supreme Court Arguments on Idaho's Abortion Ban: 5...
The court’s ruling could extend to at least half a dozen other states that have similarly restrictive bans, and the implications o...
Dairy cows transported interstate must now be test...
Since a new form of bird flu arrived in 2022, federal officials have sought to reassure Americans that the threat to the public re...
FDA Approves Antibiotic for Increasingly Hard-to-T...
Pivmecillinam, which has been used in Europe for decades, will become available next year to women 18 and older.
Let them eat… everything
In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is inspiring and infuriating her followers.
Avian flu is infecting more mammals. What does thi...
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. S...
Lori and George Schappell, longtime conjoined twin...
They were distinct people who pursued different lives. “Get past this already, everybody,” Lori said, “get past it and learn to kn...
Joel Breman, who helped stop an Ebola outbreak in ...
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, ma...
