While evidence of the adverse health effects of a group of ‘forever chemicals’ found in many common products continues to stack up, lawmakers struggle to agree on how to impose restrictions.
It has long been suspected that these synthetic compounds, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), are hazardous to human health. They take a very long time to break down, thereby accumulating in the body.
However, a new Danish study, focusing on seven different PFASs, has illustrated more negative effects. Through
The global weight-loss market is worth about £250billion, with much of its profitability hinging on calorie counts and booming sales of diet food and drinks. But when you set the runaway success of this sector against the world’s ever-rising obesity levels, it’s obvious something isn’t working.
I have been an epidemiologist for 30 years, studying how and why diseases occur in different groups of people, and for the past decade I have been leading teams at the cutting edge of
This summer, yet another disease unfamiliar to most people in the United States is being transmitted around the world—as is the impulse to find someone to blame. Many news stories about the current monkeypox outbreak make reference to a “patient zero,” supposedly the one person who brought the virus into a particular state or community. This kind of finger-pointing, which long predates monkeypox, is a deeply flawed framing. Worse yet, stigmatizing individuals who get sick—and portraying the social, interconnected
