Current Health News

September 3, 2019

These study findings were so controversial, they had to undergo additional peer-review and scrutiny before being published. Their publication even warranted a special editor's note justifying the journal's decision to publish the story. Will the findings be taken seriously?

September 3, 2019

Food handlers working in Franklin County, Missouri, will now be required to receive a hepatitis A vaccine to continue their work, even though federal public health officials state that routine vaccination of food workers is not necessary. Most hepatitis A outbreaks have stemmed from alternative activities, not food preparation, making the vaccine mandate highly questionable.

September 3, 2019

Wealthy land owners receive the bulk of farm subsidy payouts, even if they live in urban areas and don't do much farming. The giant mega farms being supported by the government plant primarily annual monocrops that are degrading the environment and encouraging the formation of another catastrophic Dust Bowl.