The UN is set to review the legal status of nicotine. An outright ban would go too far, but there is no case for its easy availability The health case for banning cigarettes is ironclad. As the then head of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, put it in 2000, “a cigarette is th...
This summer the FDA will consider loosening restrictions on certain peptide injections, with encouragement from RFK Jr. and the Trump administration. Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Amanda Mull explains to hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini how peptides are popular among wellness ent...
Screenings can find treatable conditions before they’ve caused too much damage – but ‘overscreening’ can cause harm I couldn’t help but roll my eyes when tech entrepreneur and longevity influencer Bryan Johnson posted about his girlfriend’s “vaginal microbiome report” in April. (He said it was i...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is looking to use his political power to reshape New York’s congressional delegation less than six months after taking office. The popular mayor has made endorsements in multiple contests ahead of Tuesday’s House primaries in New York, including for progre...
Health alerts are in place as very high humidity adds to danger of heat stress for the most vulnerable The Met Office has expanded its extreme heat warning for the UK, predicting record-breaking highs of 38C (100. 4F) this week. The Met Office forecasts that extremely high temperatures could las...
Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removals One morning early last July, Micha Bitsinnie arrived at work to an onslaught of messages from confused families. New Mexico’s governor Michelle Lujan Grisham had just issued a direc...