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New York Times Advocates Getting Zero Sun This Summer

New York Times Advocates Getting Zero Sun This Summer

May 31, 2023

From cabanas with curtained walls, to broad-rimmed umbrellas, to long-sleeved swimwear, and more, the list of sun-blocking equipment The New York Times says you need to enjoy the sun this summer — without getting any sun — is long and...

Lab-Created Salmon Fat Is Next on the Fake Foods Menu

Lab-Created Salmon Fat Is Next on the Fake Foods Menu

May 31, 2023

Most likely spurred by the success of fake blood and burgers created in a lab to feed folks of the 21st century and beyond, a Dutch startup is aiming to create fake salmon fat and seafood to add to the menu. Upstream Foods is hoping to make its fake...

RIP Farmer Brandt: ‘It Ain’t Much but It’s Honest Work’

RIP Farmer Brandt: ‘It Ain’t Much but It’s Honest Work’

May 31, 2023

An Ohio farmer known as a leader and mentor in agriculture, has died. David Brandt passed away due to a car wreck on May 27, 2023. Brandt is also known for a Reddit meme that shows him dressed in bib overalls and a checkered shirt standing in a farm...

Scientists Near Breakthrough to Revolutionize Human Reproduction

Scientists Near Breakthrough to Revolutionize Human Reproduction

May 25, 2023

It may sound like science fiction, but it’s not. NPR reports that scientists not only may soon be able to mass produce eggs and sperm in a lab from any cell in a person’s body but will be able to create embryos to make a child using just...

Soft Contact Lenses Have Toxic ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Them

Soft Contact Lenses Have Toxic ‘Forever’ Chemicals in Them

May 24, 2023

A ground-breaking investigation by Environmental Health News and Mamavation has found that all contact lens products tested for PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, contained toxic organic fluorine, a marker for PFAS. Not only that, but all...

WHO Launches Network to Detect, Prevent Infectious Disease Threats

WHO Launches Network to Detect, Prevent Infectious Disease Threats

May 23, 2023

With the goal of reaching every corner of the earth to detect infectious diseases as they appear, the World Health Organization is partnering with key countries in all continents and private entities such as the Wellcome Trust and the Rockefeller...

Babies Struck by ‘Unusual’ Cluster of Myocarditis

Babies Struck by ‘Unusual’ Cluster of Myocarditis

May 18, 2023

One baby in the U.K. is dead and eight others out of 15 who were sickened by a normally harmless virus are in intensive care after suffering myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart. The virus that made them ill is enterovirus, which tested...

Cancer Mystery as Cases Rise Among Younger People Around the World

Cancer Mystery as Cases Rise Among Younger People Around the World

May 18, 2023

Cancer cases are rising exponentially among people aged 50 and younger, particularly with bowel cancer. Tumor cases of all types had been seeing a steady incline for the past 30 years in the younger population, but “the figures for bowel...

FDA Staff Call RSV Vaccine ‘Generally Favorable’ Despite Red Flags

FDA Staff Call RSV Vaccine ‘Generally Favorable’ Despite Red Flags

May 18, 2023

Preterm births, low birth weight and infant developmental delay, were all noted as adverse events in Pfizer’s RSV vaccine clinical trials, but FDA reviewers apparently don’t think such events are serious enough to withhold approval for...

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