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U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

Promising clinical trials in Alzheimer’s prevention

CBS News – "I just know that my brain's not right," said Carrie Richardson, 44. "And so, I hate it. I just want it to be normal." At 41, Carrie developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The condition is caused by rare genetic mutations that essentially guarantee a person will develop the disease. Her mother, Mary Salter, of Montgomery, Alabama, knows the toll of the disease all too well. "I've lost seven family members from the ages of...

Food for Thought: These Weird Food Laws Actually Still Exist in America

A long-standing law forbids the use of tomatoes in clam chowder in Massachusetts.

Recipe for Wellness: Barbara Charis, 91 years young

"Health does not stem from a drug or a vaccine. It comes from everything one is doing on a daily basis."

GOP senators want to allow direct sales of state-inspected meat and poultry on the web

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – State-inspected meat and poultry sold on the internet could soon be crossing state lines, as the federal government embraces “direct to consumer” sales. Direct-to-consumer sales are favored by the nascent “Food Freedom” movement for reducing food safety concerns. Many state and local statutes use the technique in scaling back food safety regulations for raw milk and various homemade products. Such a tactic hasn’t come up on the federal level until now. U.S. Senators...

America’s Pharmacy Benefit Managers Support Trump’s Drug Pricing Momentum

REAL CLEAR HEALTH – The Trump Administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug prices has resulted in progress on a new approach to getting brand name drug manufacturers to announce price reductions in connection with direct-to-consumer avenues for Americans to access some of their products. Selling to direct-to-consumer has been characterized by some as a way to work around consumers’ pharmacy benefits – the reality is that America’s pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) stand ready to support...

Avian flu strikes turkey farms in Dakotas, large egg facility in California

CIDRAP – The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported several new detections of highly pathogenic avian flu in poultry, including four major outbreaks on commercial turkey farms. In Lamoure County, North Dakota, a commercial turkey farm with 24,700 birds was hit, and in Mcpherson, South Dakota, a facility with 63,800 birds was also affected. South Dakota also had a detection last week on a turkey farm with 56,300 birds in...

Dave Portnoy Slams ‘Weird’ Tom Brady Who Revealed He Cloned His Dead Pit Bull, Lua

How Much Did Tom Brady Reportedly Pay To Have His Dog Cloned?

6 deaths tied to listeria outbreak from prepared pasta meals. Here are the products.

"Illnesses, deaths, and recalls could have been prevented, if a proper root cause investigation would have been conducted back in June."

Six who died at Colorado dairy were exposed to toxic gas, coroner’s report finds

The autopsy reports gave no indication of the circumstances of the deaths, describing only an industrial accident in a confined space at a dairy farm.

End of daylight saving time can hurt our health. An expert tells us how to avoid that.

An expert says in the long run when daylight savings time has gone away it can wreak havoc on our moods, sleep schedule, social schedule and more, related to less daylight, increase in melatonin that tells our bodies to go to bed bed earlier, and impact hormones.

The five factors that drive heart disease

Harvard Heart Letter – To live a long life free of heart disease, what habits or conditions matter the most? According to a major global study, smoking and high blood pressure stand out as the two most important factors driving the risk of developing heart disease. Together with high cholesterol, excess weight (or being underweight), and diabetes, these five factors account for about 50% of the burden of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide....

Trump’s HHS orders state Medicaid programs to help find undocumented immigrants

KFF Health News – The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they’ve received more than 170,000 names collectively — an “unprecedented” step by the federal government that ensnares the state-federal health program in the president’s immigration crackdown. Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage...

Immigrants Worry About Losing Food Stamps: HEADLINE HEALTH

For what conceivable reason would US taxpayers provide federal benefits to non-citizens? – HEADLINE HEALTH

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