#Public Health
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🇺🇸 "One year of failure." The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief
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In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
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🇺🇸 Power plant pollution rose last year, green group analysis finds
[USA]
U.S. power plant pollution rose last year, according to a green group’s analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. Emissions of sulfur dioxide increased by 18 percent in 2025, according t...
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🇺🇸 Casey Means, Critic of Mainstream Medicine, May Become Nation’s Top Doctor
[USA]
Dr. Means, a wellness influencer and President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, will appear before a Senate committee Wednesday.
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🇺🇸 Jillian Michaels on Trump, RFK Jr. defense of pesticide: 'Devastating'
[USA]
Health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels on Monday rebuked President Trump’s executive order approving the use of a controversial pesticide, describing the move as "devastating." "This is actually ...
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🇺🇸 New York City’s Homeless Population Faces Another Dangerous Storm
[USA]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that his administration had taken lessons from the city’s last storm, when at least 20 people died after exposure to the cold.
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🇬🇧 Sydney Water ordered to clean Malabar treatment plant where fatberg is birthing poo balls
[United Kingdom]
<p>Environment watchdog says water corporation is ‘responsible for ensuring it doesn’t pollute our beautiful beaches’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/feb/23...
Related: #Environmental Protection, #Infrastructure Challenges, #Corporate Accountability -
🇬🇧 Falling measles vaccination rates can have terrifying consequences for families | Letter
[United Kingdom]
<p><strong>Karen Ford’s </strong>granddaughter became seriously ill, highlighting just how important it is for communities to have herd immunity</p><p>Your report on the response to the measles outbre...
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🇺🇸 RFK Jr.'s focus on viral nonsense is putting children's lives at risk
[USA]
The Health secretary released a video of him flexing with Kid Rock, while his reckless decisions have contributed to more than 900 people contracting measles in 2026.
Related: #Vaccine Policy, #Political Interference in Science -
🇬🇧 Funding approved to reduce cold deaths
[United Kingdom]
Citizens Advice's Warm and Well scheme in North Yorkshire will receive the money over three years.
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🇺🇸 U.S. closes in on 1,000 measles cases in first two months of 2026
[USA]
The U.S. has officially logged 982 measles cases in 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
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🇺🇸 Dog Poop Wars: In New York, the Snow Is Foul, and So Is the Discourse
[USA]
As melting snow reveals weeks’ worth of uncollected dog waste, frustration at the state of the sidewalks has boiled over.
Related: #Urban Governance, #Political Response -
🇺🇸 Adapting Actively on the Fly: Relevance-Guided Online Meta-Learning with Latent Concepts for Geospatial Discovery
[USA]
arXiv:2602.17605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many real-world settings, such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, or public health, with costly and difficult data collection and dyn...
Related: #Active Learning, #Online Meta-Learning, #Geospatial Discovery, #Environmental Monitoring -
🇬🇧 Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits
[United Kingdom]
<p>President’s move, which also seeks ‘immunity’ for makers, faces backlash from health advocates and Maha coalition</p><p>Donald Trump has signed <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-acti...
Related: #Environmental Policy, #Corporate Protection, #National Security -
🇺🇸 Trump's directive to increase glyphosate production faces MAHA backlash
[USA]
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to spur the domestic production of phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides by invoking the Defense Production Act, infuriating Make America He...
Related: #National Security, #Agricultural Policy, #Political Conflict -
🇬🇧 Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts
[United Kingdom]
<p>Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town’s wastewater</p><p>Tests on wastewater in an upscale <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ma...
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🇺🇸 Doctor explains why he thinks U.S. food system is "single biggest threat to our future"
[USA]
Dr. Mark Hyman, a bestselling author and CBS News contributor, speaks with "CBS Mornings" about his claim that America's current food system is the "single biggest threat to our future as a society." ...
Related: #Food Systems, #Systemic Change -
🇺🇸 Comparing social media trials and Big Tobacco litigation
[USA]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over alleged social media addiction. The case has commentators wondering if social media's "Big Tobacco moment" has come. CBS News' Lin...
Related: #Legal Challenges, #Tech Regulation -
🇺🇸 News Wrap: Bhattacharya to serve as acting head of CDC
[USA]
In our news wrap Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya will serve as acting head of the CDC, the FDA reversed its decision to consider whether to approve a new mRN...
Related: #Government Leadership, #Legal Investigations -
🇺🇸 Trump and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore feud over Potomac River sewage spill
[USA]
President Trump blasted Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on social media over the handling of a massive sewage spill in the Potomac River in January. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi has more.
Related: #Environmental Policy, #Political Rivalry -
🇺🇸 Less pavement and more shade trees would help everyone in L.A.
[USA]
'We must require new buildings to include space for big shade trees planted in the ground for a livable and healthy city,' writes an L.A. Times reader.
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🇺🇸 U.S. rejection of new mRNA flu vaccine 'sends chills,' epidemiologist says
[USA]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced recently that it will not review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, despite late-stage trials showing it was safe and effective. The rejection has many in and ...
Related: #Vaccine Policy, #Scientific Regulation -
🇺🇸 FDA investigating Salmonella outbreak connected to moringa powder
[USA]
Rosabella-brand moringa capsules could be linked to Salmonella cases in seven U.S. states, health officials said.
Related: #Food Safety, #Dietary Supplements, #Regulatory Oversight -
🇺🇸 Measles cases in South Carolina rise by 12 to 962, state health department says
[USA]
Related: #Disease Outbreak, #Vaccination
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🇺🇸 Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
[USA]
Federal policies under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that are hostile to vaccines have “sent a chill through the entire industry,” one scientist said.
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🇺🇸 Policy4OOD: A Knowledge-Guided World Model for Policy Intervention Simulation against the Opioid Overdose Crisis
[USA]
arXiv:2602.12373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The opioid epidemic remains one of the most severe public health crises in the United States, yet evaluating policy interventions before implementati...
Related: #Policy Simulation, #Knowledge Modeling -
🇺🇸 2/15/2026: Generally Recognized As Safe; Youngest Survivors
[USA]
First, a report on how GRAS fuels the rise of ultraprocessed foods. Then, the miracle babies of the Mauthausen camp.
Related: #Food Safety, #Human Survival, #Historical Memory -
🇺🇸 US health regulators to consider safety status of processed ingredients, RFK Jr. says
[USA]
Related: #Food Safety, #Regulatory Policy
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🇺🇸 How manufacturers can use ingredients that haven't been federally approved
[USA]
In the quest to make America healthy, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler are targeting ultraprocessed foods and the GRAS exemption.
Related: #Food Safety, #Regulatory Reform -
🇺🇸 Human biology is ill-equipped for ultraprocessed foods, former FDA head says
[USA]
There are Americans who are "obscenely obese and at the same time malnourished," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says. He blames ultraprocessed food.
Related: #Nutrition, #Food Policy, #Obesity Crisis -
🇺🇸 RFK. Jr. pins America's obesity on ultraprocessed food, calls it "poison" | 60 Minutes
[USA]
There are Americans who are "obscenely obese and at the same time malnourished," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says. He blames ultraprocessed food.
Related: #Food Policy, #Obesity Crisis