Recycled food-grade plastics require stricter safeguards, UN food safety experts warn
The UN food safety agency warns that recycled plastics and alternative packaging materials can help reduce waste, but only if…
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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary speaks during an announcement at the Department of Health and Human Services on…
How worried should we be about hantavirus?
Our global health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli explains that there is no indication that the hantavirus outbreak could become a pandemic,…
RFK Jr. Trades Vaccine Talk for Healthy Foods and Reading for Little Ones in Effort to Attract Voters
TOLEDO, Ohio — The boy, dressed in a Toy Story sweatshirt, hugged the nation's health secretary. “What do you want…
From childhood to college, economic inequality shapes life chances around the world
Independent studies by the agencies paint a picture of widening disparities that begin in childhood and continue into higher education,…
Novo Nordisk releases new Wegovy data on high doses
A Wegovy injection pen is shown in Waterbury, Vermont, on April 28, 2025. Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | fake images…
Passengers leave hantavirus-affected cruise ship in Tenerife as WHO says outbreak 'not another COVID'
The ship arrived in the Canary Islands after weeks at sea in the center of an international public health response…
Whoop wearable fitness device will offer access to on-demand doctors in the US
What wearable fitness! Courtesy: Wow! Wearable fitness tracker Whoop announced Friday that it will introduce in-app access to on-demand licensed…
Hantavirus cruise passengers will disembark in Tenerife and return to their countries of origin
The cruise ship at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak is expected to arrive in Tenerife, part of Spain's…
Journalists shed light on the deadly hantavirus outbreak and the crisis in the country's emergency rooms
KFF Health News Public Health Editor-at-Large Céline Gounder spoke about the hantavirus outbreak on cruise ships on PBS NewsHour, Fox's…