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    Jeffrey Katzenberg says legislation to protect children from online harms is unlikely: ‘It took 80 years’ to pass seatbelt laws

    Jeffrey Katzenberg says legislation to protect children from online harms is unlikely: ‘It took 80 years’ to pass seatbelt laws

    Katzenberg warns that laws protecting kids online could take decades — just like seatbelts — and says parents need AI-powered guardrails now.

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    September 9, 2025

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    America is doing PTO wrong–and its burned-out workforce is less productive than the 11 nations that know how to take a break
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    America is doing PTO wrong–and its burned-out workforce is less productive than the 11 nations that know how to take a break

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    February 5, 2024
    U.S. President Joe Biden takes a selfie photograph with an attendee at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 12, 2022. Biden's remarks on his administration's cancer moonshot, taking place on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot" speech, are aimed at the goal of ending cancer.
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    Public health advocates urge action on menthol, applaud accomplishments like patient navigation as Biden administration celebrates 2-year anniversary of ‘cancer moonshot’

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    February 4, 2024
    Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer
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    Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer

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    February 4, 2024
    Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, speaks to the media during a press conference with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, at the Government Buildings in Dublin on Dec. 18, 2023. Ghebreyesus spoke on the topic of the pandemic treaty Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit in Coventry, England, attending virtually from Geneva. He called the treaty, currently in dispute my member nations, "mission critical for humanity."
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    WHO chief warns ‘future generations may not forgive us’ if pandemic treaty not agreed upon: ‘There will be a next time’

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    February 3, 2024
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    ‘Dry January’ turns into ‘High January’ as Gen Z’s buyers’ strike on alcohol turns things green

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    February 3, 2024
    NFL tight end Mark Andrews assisted a critically ill passenger on board a plane. How to spot—and help during—a diabetic emergency
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    NFL tight end Mark Andrews assisted a critically ill passenger on board a plane. How to spot—and help during—a diabetic emergency

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    February 2, 2024
    OxyContin marketer and opioid maker announce $500m in settlements to avoid trials on their responsibility for crisis
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    OxyContin marketer and opioid maker announce $500m in settlements to avoid trials on their responsibility for crisis

    By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press
    February 2, 2024
    The impact of various environmental factors—like climate, nutrition, and toxicants—on the epigenome has been shown to extend tens of hundreds of generations in fruit flies and hundreds of generations in plants. It's unknown how far out it might extend in humans.
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    Toxic chemicals your grandparents were exposed to are likely affecting your health, new research claims. Here’s how it works

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    February 2, 2024
    In this photo illustration, the Weight Watchers logo is displayed on a smartphone screen.
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    WeightWatchers’ worst month ever—a stark reversal of 2023—wipes out obesity-drug gains

    By Katrina Compoli and Bloomberg
    February 2, 2024
    Vials of injectable penicillin in cold storage at the Metro Public Health Department in Nashville, Tenn. Injectable penicillin is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only treatment considered safe for pregnant people with the disease. In mid-2023, the health department began rationing the injectable to just pregnant women because of a nationwide antibiotic shortage. Patients who test positive for syphilis and are not pregnant are given an oral antibiotic instead.
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    Surge in syphilis cases leads some providers to ration penicillin

    By Catherine Sweeney, WPLN and Kaiser Health News
    February 2, 2024
    More than 24 million Americans, by some estimates up to 50 million, have an autoimmune disorder — diseases such as vitiligo (as pictured), lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and dozens more.
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    Autoimmune diseases like lupus, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis strike far more women than men. Scientists now think they know why

    By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press
    February 1, 2024
    The main gate to Camp Lejeune Marine Base outside Jacksonville, N.C., on April 29, 2022. Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday, in a long-awaited study of the North Carolina base's contaminated drinking water.
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    Camp Lejeune water contamination tied to a range of cancers—from leukemia to thyroid—in troops and civilians alike, CDC study finds

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
    February 1, 2024
    Hope Zuckerbrow, founder of the cozy cardio wellness movement, shows her workout set-up, including a walking pad, smoothie and remote control for watching television.
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    The new ‘lazy girl workout’? In a world of comfort-seeking, some find happy medium in ‘cozy cardio’

    By Melissa Rayworth and The Associated Press
    February 1, 2024
    Are Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and ALS prion diseases? It's a complicated question and one that involves semantics, experts say.
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    Alzheimer’s disease may be transmissible, some experts say—but only in rare, unusual circumstances. Here’s how

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    February 1, 2024
    A young man is seen drinking from a beer bottle on Aug. 13, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. Global cancer diagnosis rates are expected to rise 77% to 35 million by 2050, fueled by aging, obesity, and tobacco and alcohol use, according to the World Health Organization.
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    Global cancer rates are expected to rise 77% by 2050, the WHO warns. From aging to alcohol, here’s why

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    February 1, 2024
    6 killings in likely cannabis dispute highlight risk in California’s illegal pot market—despite years of legal sales
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    6 killings in likely cannabis dispute highlight risk in California’s illegal pot market—despite years of legal sales

    By MIchael R. Blood, Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
    February 1, 2024
    EBay will pay $59m settlement over pill presses sold on the site—the kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl
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    EBay will pay $59m settlement over pill presses sold on the site—the kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
    February 1, 2024
    The last time there was this much hype over a new drug was for Viagra, which was approved in 1998. Yet hurdles remain, when it comes to the ability of patients to access weight loss and anti-diabetes injectables like Zepbound and Wegovy: These drugs cost a lot, insurance coverage is spotty, and patients may need to take them indefinitely to avoid regaining weight.
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    Weight-loss injectables like Zepbound are making as big of a splash as Viagra, if not bigger. What you need to know about the ‘miracle drugs’

    By Emma Court, Madison Muller and Bloomberg
    January 31, 2024
    Seth Robinson, a chiropractor who serves as Tesla BioHealing's medical director, lifts bed skirts to show "biohealers" — canisters that the company claims exude "life force energy," or biophotons, at the Tesla BioHealing & MedBed Center, in Milford, Del., on Oct. 3, 2023. According to QAnon adherents, medbeds were developed by the military (in some versions, using alien technology) and are already in use by the world’s richest and most powerful families.
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    From ‘life force energy’ canisters to ‘medbeds,’ online health conspiracy theories are creating a new age of unproven treatments

    By David Klepper and The Associated Press
    January 31, 2024
    ‘We are using all the tools we have’: Lina Khan’s FTC takes aim at Big Pharma’s ‘patent thickets’, arguing they keep old drugs too pricey
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    ‘We are using all the tools we have’: Lina Khan’s FTC takes aim at Big Pharma’s ‘patent thickets’, arguing they keep old drugs too pricey

    By Elisabeth Rosenthal and KFF Health News
    January 31, 2024
    The federal government is simultaneously investing in my startup–and crippling our business with a little-known tax code provision. Only Congress can save us
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    The federal government is simultaneously investing in my startup–and crippling our business with a little-known tax code provision. Only Congress can save us

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    January 31, 2024
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    New Jersey’s $5.8 billion casino industry’s ‘sky is falling’ moment arrives as state senate closes in on smoking ban

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    January 31, 2024
    Policymakers have long tried to lure more primary care providers to the areas of the nation that have fewer than one physician for every 3,500 residents. Recent examples include the Biden administration boosting funding in 2022 to address shortages and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pushing sweeping primary care legislation in 2023.
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    Where are the nation’s primary care providers? It’s not an easy answer

    By Rae Ellen Bichell and Kaiser Health News
    January 30, 2024
    It's not clear why syphilis rose 9% in 2022 while gonorrhea dropped 9%, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, adding that it's too soon to know whether a new downward trend is emerging for the latter.
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    The US syphilis rate has hit a near 75-year high. Scientists are baffled

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
    January 30, 2024
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    Workplace podcaster who slammed a Gen Z hire for missing an 8 a.m. meeting to work out has been forced to apologize after TikTok backlash

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    January 30, 2024
    Activists pose at a colorectal cancer awareness installation on the National Mall showcasing the increasing number of cases in young adults on March 13, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The installation was a visual representation of more than 27,400 people under the age of 50 estimated to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2030.
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    More Millennials and Gen Xers are dying from colorectal cancer. Obesity and alcohol consumption are fueling the trend

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    January 30, 2024
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    32-year-old blogger’s research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31

    By Carla K. Johnson and The Associated Press
    January 29, 2024
    North Carolina drops coverage for Wegovy and Ozempic, with implications for anti-obesity drug market projected to hit $100B by 2030
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    North Carolina drops coverage for Wegovy and Ozempic, with implications for anti-obesity drug market projected to hit $100B by 2030

    By Simone Foxman, Madison Muller and Bloomberg
    January 27, 2024
    a laboratory monkey sitting in its cage in the breeding centre for cynomolgus macaques (longtail macaques) at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand
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    What losing vision in one eye helped me understand about animal research

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    January 27, 2024
    A long-tailed macaque being held by lab employees.
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    Why Big Pharma can’t quit the lab monkey business

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    January 27, 2024

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