The funding Planned Parenthood receives for a variety of reproductive and preventive care services through Medicaid is under threat after the Supreme Court and Senate Parliamentarian both greenlit Republican efforts…
Month: July 2025
How to Actually Do Laundry the Right Way
Even if you’ve been doing laundry for years, chances are you’re making at least one common mistake. (If only it were as easy as tossing in clothes and pressing “start.”)…
The Surprising Reason Rural Hospitals Are Closing
Thomasville Regional Medical Center was supposed to be a gamechanger. Situated in the U.S. Congressional district with the worst health outcomes in the country, the hospital opened in 2020 with…
If Thimerosal Is Safe, Why Is It Being Removed From Vaccines?
There’s a newly appointed panel of experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), freshly chosen by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Called the Advisory…
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society supports step forward for veterinary care in Northern Ontario
Veterinary care in Ontario is in crisis, even more so in the North. Many communities are left without access to critical animal care, and pet parents are driving hours for basic…
Dominion Energy’s latest plan sidesteps Virginia’s 2045 clean power goal
Dominion Energy’s latest plan to meet power demand in the coming years ignores Virginia’s carbon-free electricity deadline and should be rejected by state regulators, say clean energy advocates. A 2020…
Is Cheese Giving You Nightmares?
For centuries, folklore and popular wisdom have linked poor eating habits and indigestion to nightmares and restless sleep. In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge at first dismisses the ghosts that…