MAHA’s special protein-focused formula for skin care: Beef tallow and salmon sperm. How could they be wrong?

MAHA’s special protein-focused formula for skin care: Beef tallow and salmon sperm. How could they be wrong?

Amy Taxin, Melina Walling | AP |
From moisturizers made with beef tallow to salmon sperm facials, consumers have become more interested in animal-based skin care products ...
Viewpoint: ‘Exposing lies’’ or manufacturing them? RFK Jr.’s new podcast alarms health experts

Viewpoint: ‘Exposing lies’’ or manufacturing them? RFK Jr.’s new podcast alarms health experts

Ali Swenson | AP |
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin “a new era of radical ...
Dictators are manufacturing visual misinformation about the Iran war

Dictators are manufacturing visual misinformation about the Iran war

Mellisa Goldin | AP |
A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part ...
Supreme Court sides with conservatives, requires schools to automatically notify parents if their children identify as transgender

Supreme Court sides with conservatives, requires schools to automatically notify parents if their children identify as transgender

Lindsay Whitehurst | AP |
The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without ...
MAHA turns its ire towards what it claims are unsafe, industry-friendly EPA chemical rules

MAHA turns its ire towards what it claims are unsafe, industry-friendly EPA chemical rules

Last year, prominent activist Kelly Ryerson was so frustrated with the EPA ... that she and other MAHA supporters drew ...
New York Times says it will not be intimidated into reporting about Trump’s faltering health

New York Times says it will not be intimidated into reporting about Trump’s faltering health

David Bauder | AP |
The New York Times, attacked by President Donald Trump for reporting about his physical condition, said on [December 9, 2025] that ...
Viewpoint: ‘Gold standard science’ farce: RFK Jr.’s pledge dangerously mocks U.S. healthcare and endangers medicine globally

Viewpoint: ‘Gold standard science’ farce: RFK Jr.’s pledge dangerously mocks U.S. healthcare and endangers medicine globally

Devi Shastri | AP |
The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health ...
Power gambit: Some women embrace bald look as a new symbol of power and beauty

Power gambit: Some women embrace bald look as a new symbol of power and beauty

Cathy Bussewitz | AP |
Sensuous, self-assured and glamorous are not the adjectives typically assigned to women with shorn hair. For centuries, many cultures have viewed long ...
Viewpoint: The biggest winners of RFK, Jr.’s junk science push

Viewpoint: The biggest winners of RFK, Jr.’s junk science push

Laura Ungar, Michelle Smith | AP |
Two advisers to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat on a stage in California this ...
Greece welcomed the humanoid Olympic games. Don’t worry athletes—it will be many years before they are true competitors

Greece welcomed the humanoid Olympic games. Don’t worry athletes—it will be many years before they are true competitors

Derek Gatopoulos, Matt O'Brien | AP |
With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows ... at the birthplace of the ...
Wisconsin’s liberal Supreme Court bans rightwing attempt to legalize gay conversion therapy

Wisconsin’s liberal Supreme Court bans rightwing attempt to legalize gay conversion therapy

Scott Bauer | AP |
The Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the state to permanently enact a ban on conversion therapy in a ruling ...
‘Mutational discrimination’: Gene editing medical innovations are leaving out people with rare diseases

‘Mutational discrimination’: Gene editing medical innovations are leaving out people with rare diseases

Laura Ungar | AP |
Stunning advances in genetic science have revealed the subtle, insidious culprits behind these brutal [rare genetic] diseases and have started ...
Organic farming acreage in the U.S. is in steep decline

Organic farming acreage in the U.S. is in steep decline

Caitlyn Daproza, Patrick Whittle | AP |
[A]merica’s certified organic acreage fell almost 11% between 2019 and 2021. Numerous farmers who implement sustainable practices told The Associated ...
Why are kindergarten vaccination rates falling?

Why are kindergarten vaccination rates falling?

Mike Stobbe | AP |
U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates dipped [in 2023] and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according ...
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COVID-19 infection undercount: CDC says actual victims likely closer to 20 million Americans and many more deaths

Marilynn Marchione, Zeke Miller | AP |
[A new] estimate [suggests that 20 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19,] roughly 10 times as many infections as ...
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‘It makes me feel more connected to the human race’: Epilepsy patients donate live brain tissue for research

Carla Johnson, Malcolm Ritter | AP |
Though Genette Hofmann is still using her brain, last month she donated a bit of it — to science. Hofmann ...