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The Study That Called Out Black Plastic Utensils Had a Major Math Error

Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic...

Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not Enough

Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular...

A Popular Decongestant Doesn’t Work. The FDA Is Finally Doing Something About It

In a long-sought move, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of...

The Covid-19 Summer Wave Is So Big, the FDA Might Release New Vaccines Early

With the US experiencing a relatively large summer wave of Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration is...

US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine

The US government will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine against a pandemic influenza—an...

Wegovy Can Keep Weight Off for at Least 4 Years, Research Shows

A large, long-term trial of the weight-loss medication Wegovy (semaglutide) found that people tended to lose weight...

Despite Bird Flu Risk, Raw-Milk Drinkers Are Undaunted

To drink raw milk at any time is to flirt with dangerous germs. But, amid an unprecedented...

There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association sent out separate but similar...