Read More: Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce In Alabama, adoptive parents can get permanent custody of the child within six weeks, says Mancuso. That’s a rapid timeline in a country where most adoptions can take a year or longer. Still, for many, baby boxes are not a reminder of a tragedy for … Read more
Federal health officials are scrutinizing a mineral—added to some makeup, medications, and foods—that many people have never thought twice about: talc. In a recent viewpoint article called “Priorities for a New FDA,” published in the medical journal JAMADr. Martin Makary, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Cattle herds across the US caught bird flu this year Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A highly infectious type of bird flu began spreading in dairy cows across the US earlier this year, providing the pathogen with one of its best opportunities to date to evolve and more easily infect people. Infectious disease … Read more
Graphs and data were vital to understanding the spread of the coronavirus Daniel Leal-Olivas – WPA Pool/Getty Images As the covid-19 pandemic took hold, the world was transfixed and transformed while we came to terms with just how vulnerable society is to a deadly virus. These five graphs highlight just some of these changes, and … Read more
