Some companies changed to glutaraldehyde in their hair straighteners. The chemical is used to tan pig heart valves to replace a person’s bad heart valve. I’m not sure how much better it is.
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There are thousands of pfas chemicals, not just these two, but at least your poop will be good. 
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This is why i have confidence in vaccines. Very few medical interventions have the level of post-approval scrutiny that vaccines go through. This is why we don’t use live polio, whole cell pertussis or the first iteration of rotavirus anymore. Very uncommon, on the order of 1 per millions, side-effects and they are gone. Something the antivaxxers try very hard to ignore.
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Rotavirus vaccine was first introduced in 1998, and pulled quickly in March of 1999. There was enough coverage in mainstream media that I knew, halfway through 1998, to refuse that one vaccine for my child (who got all the others). That’s how quickly news got around that it wasn’t as safe as the others. No conspiracy ‘hid’ it from us.
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Single payer now!
Also - everyone doesn’t want the completely private health insurance, Secretary Brain Worm.
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We recently had a young child die of HUS, with no good exposure history. I have to wonder if this is why it happened…
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it might make E. coli stealthy on lettuce
I hope not so stealthy that I can’t rinse it off.
I see viddies of folks using various soap-like products to wash their veggies, but I haven’t gotten that extreme. Yet.
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But late Friday, the FDA granted the company full approval for its vaccine for use only in adults 65 and older – or those 12 to 64 who have at least one health problem that puts them at increased risk from COVID-19.
I think “one health problem that puts them at increased risk from COVID-19” covers a lot of territory, though. Unless there is an official list which is excessively narrow.
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It’s still narrowing the allowed class of people who can be protected.
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one of the weirdest and most common forms of unintentional disinformation is that doctors and veterinarians prolifically diagnose “spider bites” based on absolutely no evidence of contact with a venomous, medically significant spider, and most of them, if tested, are just MRSA abscesses
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Physician here. Obviously, cannot comment directly on what this person was told, but equally obviously, no, spider bites do not cause breast cancer, or any other cancer. On the topic of MRSA, though. In my area, 60-80% of skin infections are MRSA. These are sometimes caused by bug bites of whatever sort that get scratched open and infected. There is no way to tell what bit them. And, quite often, folks have already decided it was spiders, and yes, brown recluse gets blamed a lot. Earlier in my career i did spend time trying to educate my patients about that, but it never worked and eventually i gave up on it. Apparently, Virginia is infested with man-eating spiders. Who knew? Anyway, in my experience, “it was a spider bite” is not generally wgat the patient was told, but it is certainly what they believe and might even hear. It’s a common enough trope that the there might be some docs who even believe it, but most are probably just exhausted from swimming against the tide.
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“If it fits in their mouth, it will go in their mouth” is a standard line at well checks many times a day in my life. Along with “they are always looking for new and interesting ways to kill themselves.” And we keep giving them new and interesting ways. Parenting is not easy, man, but it is not optional either. (At least once the kid arrives! Prior to that, yeah, optional)
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Only one quarter of sunscreens on store shelves are safe and effective, new report says
The “report” that CNN’s piece is about:
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