FDA: Deliveries Of Scarce Childhood Cancer Drug Due To Resume But Shortages May Continue
(Forbes) Deliveries of the vital childhood cancer drug vincristine, which is currently in very short supply across the U.S. should resume...
Greta Thunberg Is Now Odds-On Favourite To Win Nobel Peace Prize
(Unilad) From school strikes to condemning a UN summit for stealing her dreams and childhood, climate change activist Greta Thunberg...
College Students Think World Will End In 12 Years
(The College Fix) Students across the globe walked out of class on September 20 as part of a “climate strike” aimed at pursuing...
Fukushima Disaster: Nuclear Executives Found Not Guilty
(BBC) More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court has cleared three former executives of the firm...
U.S. Surgeon General : 'This Is Not Your Mother's Marijuana'
(Cheddar) U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Thursday issued a stark warning against the use of marijuana by young people and pregnant...
Death Of Starbucks Worker Who Couldn’t Afford Kidney Dialysis
(Daily Dot) It’s been less than a week since Popeyes’ chicken sandwich took over Twitter and won the #ChickenSandwich with Chick-fil-A....
Healthcare Promises: What 2020 Presidential Candidates Aren’t Telling You
(Forbes) Healthcare remains the nation’s top voting issue ahead of the 2020 elections, just as it was during the 2018 midterms. Surveys...
Trump’s Tariffs On Monkeys Could ‘Severely Damage’ U.S. Medical Research
(NBC) Researchers who use laboratory monkeys to study human diseases are worried that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on China will...
Obamacare’s Unpopularity Suggests Medicare For All May Be A Hard Sell
(FiveThirtyEight) The first and second Democratic debates have made one thing clear: A number of major policy reforms are on the table,...
Coke And Pepsi Abandon The Plastics Lobby
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, two major sellers of plastic bottles, have made sweeping sustainability commitments. Now they are stepping away...
Which Is Worse Cigarette Butts Or Plastic Straws?
(CBS) The plastic straw has been at the forefront of conversations about damaging man-made waste but cigarette butts have turned out to...
Bipartisan Health Care Package Coming Thursday
(The Hill) Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) says he plans to release a draft of a bipartisan package of bills...
New York AG Leads Suit To Block Doctors And Nurses To Refuse Health Care Based On Religious Belief
(The New York Daily New) New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of states suing to block a planned move to give...
Democrats Have No Safe Options On Health Care
(FiveThirtyEight) Even though most of the candidates have committed to some form of universal health care, the Democratic primary is...
Tax Hikes on the Wealthy Alone Can’t Pay for ‘Medicare for All’
(Bloomberg) Thirty trillion dollars, even in U.S. budget terms, is a lot of money. That’s the rough estimate from some analysts of the...
Handshakes Could Be BANNED Under New Workplace Rules
(The Sun) HANDSHAKES could be banned under new workplace rules to avoid expensive sexual harassment claims, an expert has said. Kate...
Comatose Woman Wakes Up After 27 Years
(Newser) Until June 2018, Munira Abdulla had last been conscious when mobile phones were just starting to be widely sold. Had they then...
Bill To Be Introduced To Raise Minimum Age To 21 To Buy Tobacco
(CNBC) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will introduce legislation to raise the federal minimum age to buy tobacco to 21 from 18,...




















