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In historic move, EPA bans pesticide; cites alarming setbacks for fetuses
Adrianna Rodriguez August 6, 2024 To watch video report, Click Here. For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken emergency action to suspend the use of a pesticide found to cause irreversible damage to fetuses when they’re exposed in utero. The pesticide, dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known as DCPA…
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After social media outcry, CDC tells doctors to better manage IUD pain
Lindsey Bever | The Washington Post Amid a nationwide outcry from women who say they experienced severe pain when getting an intrauterine device, new federal health guidelines published Thursday are urging health-care providers to address the problem. The recommendations, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), advise clinicians to counsel patients about the potential…
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‘I feel dismissed’: People experiencing colorism say health system fails them
By Chaseedaw Giles, KFF Health News Published 6:06 AM EDT, Thu August 1, 2024 Jonnae Thompson has felt for a long time that her dark brown skin and natural hair have made finding work in Hollywood especially hard. “It’s like this negative connotation,” said the 37-year-old actress, singer, and stand-up comedian, who said she is…
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Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity
Advocates say air conditioning is no longer a luxury but a public health and affordability issue By ANITA SNOW August 1, 2024, 11:13 PM PHOENIX — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits. For…
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To prevent supercharged flu virus, CDC pushes seasonal flu vaccines to farmworkers at risk of coinfection with bird flu
By Jen Christensen, CNN Updated 3:58 PM EDT, Tue July 30, 2024 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday a $5 million initiative to offer seasonal flu vaccines to livestock workers in order to reduce the public health concern that a new version of the influenza virus could emerge among farm workers who…
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Climate anomalies may play a major role in driving cholera pandemics
Global climate change could create more opportunities for rise and spread of new cholera strains Date: August 1, 2024 Source: PLOS Summary: New research suggests that an El Nino event may have aided the establishment and spread of a novel cholera strain during an early 20th-century pandemic, supporting the idea that climate anomalies could create…
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Medicine garden at Washington Corrections Center brings healing and connection for Indigenous inmates
The medicine garden is home to culturally significant plants like lavender, sage and sweet grass. Author: Sharon Yoo Published: 7:11 PM PDT August 3, 2024 Updated: 7:11 PM PDT August 3, 2024 To watch video report, Click Here. SHELTON, Wash. — Barbed wire and concrete walls at the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) don’t keep culture out. In fact,…
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Tips can’t go toward Seattle’s minimum wage after December. Restaurateurs, labor advocates clash over changes
Ruby de Luna August 06, 2024 / 5:00 pm Seattle’s practice of allowing businesses to apply customer tips toward employee wages and benefits will end in December. Small business owners say the new rules could lead to job loss and higher prices, while labor advocates argue the policy is a step in the right direction. The city’s…
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In a win for Mexico, US will expand areas for migrants to apply online for entry at southern border
By REBECCA SANTANA and MARIA VERZAUpdated 8:45 PM CDT, August 3, 2024Share MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Biden administration will expand areas where migrants can apply online for appointments to enter the United States to a large swath of southern Mexico, officials said Saturday, potentially easing strains on the Mexican government and lessening dangers for people trying to…
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