This article was originally published on KFF Health News. A food poisoning outbreak that killed two people and sickened 51, stemming from a Montana restaurant, has... Read More
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America’s eight largest pharmacy providers shared customers’ prescription records to law enforcement when faced with subpoena requests, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The news arrives... Read More
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Humans eat a stunning amount of meat every year — some 800 billion... Read More
Americans consume billions of pounds of meat each year. And yet, there’s a plethora of research showing that copious amounts of meat can be unhealthy,... Read More
“It’s been forever considered a garbage fish, but it’s probably the most delicious fish that we serve,” David Standridge says about the bottom-dwelling sea robin.... Read More
The Guinness World Records officially dubbed Pepper X the world’s hottest chili pepper earlier this year, going public with the announcement on October 9. Pepper... Read More
Chinese researchers published a study in the Frontiers journal Veterinary Infectious Diseases showing that miracle mineral supplement (MMS), also known as chlorine dioxide, is a... Read More
Farmers who grow cucumbers in South Carolina experience huge crop losses every year due to a plant disease called downy mildew. Fortunately, researchers from Clemson University have... Read More
PopSci is spending September relearning how to eat. As intuitive as our love of chowing down is, a lot stands between us and optimal eating. This... Read More
I-Min Lee is an epidemiologist at Harvard University School of Public Health. Here’s her tale from the field, as told to Claire Maldarelli. A few... Read More