AXIOS – The list of food recalls is growing as the end of the year approaches.
The rise in recalls can partially be attributed to an increase in consumer demand for ready-to-eat foods and prepackaged meals.
Darin Detwiler, a Northeastern University professor and food safety advocate, told Axios earlier this month:
"We're also dealing with a scenario where we're having increased globalization of food production, which not only creates more opportunities for contamination at multiple points in...
LifeNews – A federal district court granted a Texas doctor an injunction against Biden administration regulations that illegally restrict how doctors can protect patients from the harms of abortion and “gender transition” while a lawsuit proceeds.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit on behalf of a Texas physician in October to challenge rule changes by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The changes to regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act added...
GOATS AND SODA – Genital herpes infections are very common.
There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second.
While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no cure. So once someone gets infected, they've got the virus for life. In the 15-to-49-year-old age range, 1 in 5 people are living with a genital herpes infection — that's about 846 million people.
These estimates were published this month...
“We’re going to unwoke the state,” Representative Jeremy Haroldson, the next speaker pro tem, said. Members chose Representative Chip Neiman, also of the Freedom Caucus, as House speaker.
THE NEW YORK TIMES – The effort to prosecute Alec Baldwin for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer in 2021 ended on Monday when the special prosecutor withdrew her appeal of the judge’s decision to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge during the actor’s trial.
The prosecutor, Kari T. Morrissey, said in a news release that she was abandoning the case because the New Mexico attorney general’s office, which handles appeals of criminal cases, did not...
CNN – Peeing only every six to eight hours, or fewer than four times daily, could mean you’re dehydrated or that there’s an issue with how your bladder or kidneys are working.
Abnormally high levels of calcium can lead to bladder stone formation and block urine from exiting.
Regarding hydration, the National Academy of Medicine recommends women consume 2.7 liters (91 ounces) of fluids daily, and that men have 3.7 liters (125 ounces) daily.
This guideline includes...
NBC NEWS – Federal food regulators raised their alarm for recalled eggs sold from Costco stores over possible salmonella exposure, reclassifying the targeted product to their highest risk level.
The targeted egg cartons were sold in 25 Costco stores in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee beginning Nov. 22.
The "Organic Pasture Raised" eggs, sold in sets of 24, have a Universal Product Code (UPC) of 9661910680 with a use-by date of Jan 5,...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Since the late 1990s, drug companies have spent tens of billions of dollars on television ads, drumming up demand for their products with cheerful jingles and scenes of dancing patients.
Now, some people up for top jobs in the incoming Trump administration are attacking such ads, setting up a clash with a powerful industry that has long had the courts on its side.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s...
WILEY – In a recent analysis of data from more than a dozen studies, coffee and tea consumption was linked with lower risks of developing head and neck cancer, including cancers of the mouth and throat.
The findings are published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
Head and neck cancer is the seventh most common cancer worldwide, and rates are rising in low- and middle-income countries. Many studies have...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.
Mireille Efonge got sick a few months ago, with a fever and painful blisters on her groin.
She became too weak to move, so neighbors carried her to a health center with walls of plastic sheeting in Pakadjuma, a crowded, poor...
Tarrant County Republican Chairman Bo French said the lack of representation during a crucial voting period in Congress was “troubling to say the least.”