These maps use phone data to track social distancing – The Washington Post
On Tuesday, a company called Unacast that collects and analyzes phone GPS location data launched a “Social Distancing Scoreboard” that grades, county by county, which […]
Health
Pharmaceutical Pollution Hurts Wild Animals – The Atlantic
Waterways can contain traces of many drugs—among them antifungals, antimicrobials, and antibacterials, as well as ones for pain, fertility, mood, sleeplessness, and neurodegenerative diseases. If […]
America’s Prescription Drug Prices Are Out of Control
It seems entirely possible that no two people in the country pay the same price for the same drug. And thanks to the bureaucracy that’s […]
Death of the calorie | 1843
Susan Roberts, a nutritionist at Tufts University in Boston, has found that labels on American packaged foods miss their true calorie counts by an average […]
Pork industry soon will have more power over meat inspections – The Washington Post
The Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork industry as early […]
Armed police kick down door to remove unvaccinated 2-year-old with a fever | CTV News
Authorities in the U.S. have condemned the use of armed police officers to check on an unvaccinated child with a high fever. Shocking home surveillance […]
On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post – The New York Times
The Trump administration has been quietly working on a proposal to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to help identify people who claim […]
US invaded by savage tick.
Maryland became the eighth state to report the presence of the tick. Other affected states include Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, […]