Nursing Home Vaccine Mandates Have a Tradeoff

Some two weeks before U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Aug. 18 that nursing homes must require their staff to get vaccinated or risk losing their Medicare and Medicaid funding, Genesis HealthCare, which…

Why Infectious Disease Outbreaks Are Becoming So Common

SARS-CoV-2. Monkeypox. Polio. Marburg. These viruses are no longer familiar just to public-health experts, but household names around the world, thanks to their recent incursions into human populations. People have always confronted pathogens…

Boohoo bans wool after PETA campaign but quickly backtracks on decision

It had said that it would no longer use the fibre that was once the mainstay of the English economy but that has come under increasing attack by animal rights and environmental groups.Yet…

China agency denies dead Russian model, 14, was overworked

The death of Vlada Dzyuba in a Chinese hospital on Friday has shone a light on the murky world of western models in China, many of whom are from the former Soviet Union…

California’s Democratic Party unanimously endorses cruelty-free cosmetics bill

The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act (SB 1249) would put California ahead of any other state in the US and even ahead of the European Union with respect to stopping the sale of animal…