On Monday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments over Bayer AG’s efforts to shut down the thousands of lawsuits alleging its product Roundup, a weed killer containing glyphosate, causes people to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. Bayer, a German company which bought the American agrochemical giant Monsanto, has spent the better part […]
In March 2024, the Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden introduced a new rule that would have banned, after decades, the use of electric shocks on disabled children as a form of punishment. A ban on forcibly shocking kids—which the American Academy of Pediatrics says causes “long-lasting adverse physical and psychological impacts,” was […]