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More than half of adults who start a GLP-1 medication for weight management stop taking it within […]
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A heat stroke victim arrives at an average core temperature of 108 degrees, and there is roughly
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A pilot study from Rutgers University found that older women who limited their daily eating to roughly
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The rule that would have forced a single head of lettuce to be traceable back to a
An FDA advisory committee narrowly voted Thursday to recommend that four peptides, including the wildly popular BPC-157,
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On March 20, 2025, the FDA announced it would delay the rule requiring produce companies to trace
When a person collapses on historic Main Street in Newmarket, the outcome is often decided in the
Why Bystander First Aid Is the Public-Health Story We Keep Overlooking Read More »
The agency spent Saturday telling the public its lab had found the parasite in shredded iceberg lettuce
The FDA Says Its Cyclospora Test on Taylor Farms Lettuce Was a False Positive. Now What? Read More »
Five months after President Trump called TrumpRx.gov “the biggest thing to happen in healthcare in decades,” an
Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning across Canada has blanketed the Midwest and Northeast, pushing air quality
Canadian Wildfire Smoke Is Choking 100 Million Americans and It Is Getting Worse Read More »
A U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested
A parasitic illness spreading through Michigan and Ohio has now sickened more than 1,400 people, and public
Michigan’s Parasite Outbreak Tops 1,400 Cases and Nobody Knows the Source Yet Read More »
Danny Glover, 79, told Lester Holt on TODAY that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2023.
Nearly 685,000 bags of Zapp’s and Dirty brand potato chips are now under the Food and Drug
The FDA has recalled 11,460 bottles of Chlorthalidone tablets after the pills failed dissolution testing, meaning they
A federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s restrictions on what Americans can purchase with food stamps
Emma Heming Willis wants people to understand something about her husband’s condition that most of the public
The FDA just slapped its highest-risk classification on a recall of alfredo sauce distributed across 41 states,
FDA Issues Its Most Serious Recall for Alfredo Sauce Sold Across 41 States Read More »
