Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Canada will cover the full cost of contraception for women, the government said Saturday as it highlighted the first part of a major health care reform.…
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the road to legal cannabis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Germany is set to join the global cannabis revolution on Monday, with a law coming into effect legalizing recreational use of the drug. It is the…
Meet Ruminococcus bromii, the microbe that loves carbs
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The fascinating human gut bacterium Ruminococcus bromii is one of the ten most common bacterial species found in the colon. This bacterium, first discovered discovered in…
What’s in tattoo ink? My team’s chemical analysis found ingredients that aren’t on the label and could cause allergies
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tattoos are an incredibly common form of permanent self-expression that date back thousands of years. Most tattoo artists follow strict health and sanitation regulations, so you…
Allergy season arrived early in US. Here’s how to keep pollen from ruining your spring
The branches of an oak tree are stained with a green tint from pollen at park in Richardson, Texas, Thursday, March 21, 2024. The 2024 allergy season in the U.S.…
Australia moots jail time for illegal vape sellers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Illegally selling or manufacturing vapes in Australia could spell up to seven years in jail under new legislation proposed Thursday, as authorities moved to toughen rules…
New study highlights troubling trends in midlife mortality in the US and UK
Study figure: Age-standardized mortality from drug-related causes from 2000-2019. CEE, Central and Eastern European country. ‘Peer’ indicates a high-income country comparable to the U.S.. Credit: Oxford Population Health A new…
Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The public is being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily…
How meth became an epidemic in America, and what’s happening now that it’s faded from the headlines
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rural America has long suffered from an epidemic of methamphetamine use, which accounts for thousands of drug overdoses and deaths every year. William Garriott, an anthropologist…
COVID lowered life expectancy by 1.6 years worldwide: Study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a more dramatic decline…
