How a mere 12% of Americans eat half the nation’s beef, creating significant health and environmental impacts
A new study has found that 12% of Americans are responsible for eating half of all beef consumed on a given day, a finding that may help consumer groups and government agencies craft educational messaging around the negative health and environmental impacts of beef consumption. Those 12% — most likely to be men or people […]
What to Know About New Tools to Fight RSV
The tide may be turning on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a seasonal scourge that’s responsible for a substantial number of hospitalizations and deaths among older people and young children each year. In the span of just a few months, the FDA has approved two vaccines and a monoclonal antibody for use in specific populations with […]
When My Infant Daughter Was Declared Brain-Dead, I Had To Make An Unimaginable Choice
Nearly a decade ago, the doctor who had been responsible for my daughter’s care in the pediatric ICU asked me: “Would you consider organ donation?” My mind struggled to string his words into a decipherable sentence. My husband and I had just been told that our 1-year-old daughter, Rehma, was brain-dead. She was on a […]
Common pesticide may contribute to global obesity crisis: Chlorpyrifos slows down the burning of calories in the brown adipose tissue of mice fos
A commonly-used pesticide could be partially responsible for the global obesity epidemic, says a study led by McMaster University scientists. Researchers discovered that chlorpyrifos, which is banned for use on foods in Canada but widely sprayed on fruits and vegetables in many other parts of the world, slows down the burning of calories in the […]