Food, Fitness & Wellness

In early September 2022, electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs – the face of the vaping epidemic among teenagers – agreed to pay US$438.5 million to 33 states. The settlement concludes a two-year bipartisan investigation into the e-cigarette maker’s marketing and sales practices for its vaping products. Those states claimed that Juul marketed its addictive nicotine

CNN  —  The US Food and Drug Administration is alerting the public about certain cancers – including squamous cell carcinoma and various lymphomas – that have been reported in the scar tissue that forms around breast implants. The FDA announced Thursday that although it believes that occurrences of squamous cell carcinoma and various lymphomas in

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-KY) unveils a nationwide abortion bill with new restrictions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, September, 13, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban most abortions nationwide starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy. The South Carolina senator introduced the

Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act in place following the law’s third major legal challenge in June 2021. This decision left widely supported policies in place, like ensuring coverage regardless of preexisting conditions, coverage for dependents up to age 26 on their parents’ plan, and

CNN  —  After the summer launch of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number, calls to the lifeline increased 45% compared with the same time last year, and the majority of those calls were connected to a counselor, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. On Friday, HHS released performance data

Mehmet Oz, US Republican Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, during a news conference with Senator Pat Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Hannah Beier | Bloomberg | Getty Images Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has financial ties to at least two pharmaceutical companies that supply hydroxychloroquine, an

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the updated Covid-19 vaccine boosters this month, after the US Food and Drug Administration’s authorization. The updated Pfizer/BioNTech booster is authorized for people 12 and older, and Moderna’s is authorized for 18 and older. At the same time, health officials stress the recommendation to get your

Health workers sit at a check-in table at a pop-up monkeypox vaccination clinic which opened today by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on August 3, 2022 in West Hollywood, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images People living with HIV who have monkeypox are hospitalized more than twice

Maternal diet could be the most important exposure shaping childrens’ health outcomes. With this in mind, researchers at the University of Catania in Catania, Italy, examined the relationship between maternal intake of nutrients in early pregnancy and telomere length of cell-free circulating DNA (cfDNA) from amniotic fluid. Since amniotic fluid contains a greater amount of

BA.4.6 is an offshoot of the BA.4 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant. Only a couple of mutations separate it from its predecessor, but it is slowly gaining ground in the United States, even against BA.5, which continues to dominate transmission. BA.4.6 is now causing an estimated 7% to 10% of new Covid-19 infections, according

A health care worker administers a dose of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, on August 9, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Los Angeles health officials are investigating the death of a person who had monkeypox. Dr. Rita Singhal, director of disease control in

“As our customers face an ongoing inflationary environment, we know they are looking to stretch their dollars further than ever before,” ​said SVP and chief merchant and marketing officer Stuart Aitken. “Smart Way is an exciting, eye-pleasing product line that will be easy for customers to find. By adding a simplified opening price point brand

Is the Covid-19 vaccine going to become an annual shot, like the flu vaccine? Speaking Tuesday, head of the Biden administration’s Covid-19 Response Team, Dr. Ashish Jha, suggested so, telling reporters that the vaccines and boosters are likely to become “a more routine part of our lives.” A lot of people have specific questions about

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency over polio to boost vaccination rates in the state amid further evidence that the virus is spreading in communities. Poliovirus has now been detected in sewage samples from four counties in the New York metro area as well as in the city itself.

Join FoodNavigator-USA senior correspondent Mary Ellen Shoup September 27 for a 60-minute webinar featuring market data and analysis from SPINS and insights on category trends from two emerging brands (Catalina Crunch and Eat the Change) and two CPG Giants (Mondelēz International and Frito Lay North America). We’ll also delve into go-to-market and channel strategies, and

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of young people under 18 years old. Over-activity in this collection of brain regions, known as

CNN  —  Nine years ago, Cade DeSpain messaged a friend about a cute girl he saw on her Facebook feed. The friend introduced him to Kailee Lingo, her sorority sister at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Kailee remembers that when she and Cade met, it was “a connection at first sight.” A month after

Big Tech wants to keep you healthy and make loads of money along the way. Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) — which already have their hands in many facets of our lives, have been ramping their health-care businesses. They’re all vying for a slice of the more than $4 trillion that

Elo to commercialize new high-intensity plant-based sweetener in 2025 with sweeter, cleaner taste than monk fruit extracts Elo​​ – which was spun out of biotech firm Precision Bio in December 2021 – deploys a variety of plant breeding technologies including a propriety gene editing platform called ARCUS, and is best known for its work with

For the Laudick family of Greensburg, Indiana, life forever changed on Aug. 5, 2013. That was the day 4-year-old Leah Laudick told her mom, Shelly, that she had a bad headache. Two days later, Leah was hospitalized nearby with worsening headaches and a slightly elevated white blood cell count. She slept for most of the

New cases reported among children in the last week of August were 14% higher than they were two weeks earlier, according to data tracked by the American Academy of Pediatrics. They jumped even more in the South, where classes have been in session for weeks. In contrast, overall cases for all ages were down about

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Thursday’s key moments. We made two trades: AMD, CVX Quick mentions: AAPL, QCOM, HUM 1. Two trades: AMD, CVX Stocks turned mixed Thursday after originally dropping during Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s morning