Which Foods Have Red Dye No. 3? What to Know About the FDA’s New Ban

For over a century, food and drug manufacturers have added a synthetic chemical to candies, pills, shakes and more to color them a vivid cherry red. That will end soon. The Food and Drug Administration this week banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food, citing concerns that the common dye could cause […]

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Lead Levels in Children’s Applesauce May Be Traced to Cinnamon Additive

With dozens of children across the United States suffering from lead poisoning, federal regulators are now investigating whether the culprit is cinnamon that was added to some popular applesauce pouches, and if lead had been added somewhere along the global supply chain, either to enhance the spice’s reddish color or to add weight. In November, […]

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Why Long-Term Care Insurance Falls Short for So Many

For 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance allows her to stay in her Sacramento bungalow, near the friends and neighbors she loves. Her family pays $4,000 a month for that. […]

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Why It Took So Long for the FDA to Tackle a Cold Medicine

Dr. Leslie Hendeles began prodding the Food and Drug Administration to reject a decongestant in cold medicines when he had a mop of curly red hair and Bill Clinton had just become president. By the time opposition to the drug had coalesced, Dr. Hendeles was appearing, at age 80, as an expert to testify before […]

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Meta to Lower Age for Users of Quest VR Headset to 10 From 13

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to lower the recommended age for using its Quest headset to 10 from 13, the company said in a blog post on Friday, a move that could set off new privacy and safety concerns with parents and global watchdogs. The company is discussing its plans with regulators, […]

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California and New York Could Ban 5 Food Additives Linked to Health Concerns

Newly proposed bills in California and New York are putting food additives — the chemicals manufacturers add to food to act as preservatives or to enhance color, texture or taste — under the microscope. The state legislators are seeking to prohibit the manufacturing and sale of products containing additives that have been linked to cancer, […]

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Updated Covid Shots Are Coming. Will They Be Too Late?

Roseann Renouf, 77, has grown tired of the current generation of coronavirus shots. Having “never been one for a lot of vaccination,” she decided to forgo the latest round of boosters after watching vaccinated friends contract Covid-19, even though the doses offer a critical extra layer of protection. “It’s just taking another same booster,” Ms. […]

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Waiting on U.S. Mandate, Some Nursing Homes Are Slow to Vaccinate Staff

When Jim Lewis was told earlier this month that his 90-year-old mother, who lives in a nursing home outside of Boise, Idaho, tested positive for Covid-19, he wondered if she had gotten the virus from an unvaccinated employee. And he had reason to worry. A little more than half of the workers in the home, […]

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Covid-Sniffing Dogs Are Accurate, But Wide Use Faces Hurdles

Dog noses are great Covid-19 detectors, according to numerous laboratory studies, and Covid sniffing dogs have already started working in airports in other countries and at a few events in the United States, like a Miami Heat basketball game. But some experts in public health and in training scent dogs say that more information and […]

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Should You Bank Your Baby’s Cord Blood?

The trial did suggest that the therapy might be safe. But it was not designed to determine whether it worked, said Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center and president of the Cord Blood Association, who led the trial. Dr. Kurtzberg has also led two subsequent Phase 2 clinical trials — […]

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