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Tyson Foods is misleading shoppers and investors by saying it would hit net-zero emissions by 2050 and marketing climate-friendly beef without having an actual strategy to do either, allege advocates suing the world’s second-biggest meat processor. Tyson should have to curtail its climate claims or release a substantial plan to support its claims, according to
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South Jersey family shares scary experience with whooping cough South Jersey family shares scary experience with whooping cough 02:12 This year’s resurgence of whooping cough cases has now accelerated to the fastest pace on record in nearly a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as pertussis infections
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Costco’s first membership price hike takes effect Costco’s first membership price hike takes effect 00:23 Certain boxes of waffles sold at Costco Wholesale stores in the Midwest are being recalled because they may contain plastic, according to a notice by supplier Kodiak Cakes. The recall involves Kodiak Power Waffles Buttermilk & Vanilla 40 count with
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Drugmakers have decided to stop selling a kind of controversial fentanyl painkiller at the end of this month, the Food and Drug Administration said this week, marking an end to a controversial brand of “fentanyl lollipops” and other formulations blamed for playing a part in fueling the opioid overdose epidemic. The end of sales of
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At her home in San Jose, 91-year-old Terry Asquith looks back at how she’s given the gift of life to at-risk babies. 50 years ago, she founded the nation’s oldest nonprofit milk bank, Mothers’ Milk Bank. “I really think I’m proud of myself, how many thousands of babies have been helped,” she said. In 1974,
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COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health officials are so far not raising concern about this variant, unlike some previous, more highly mutated strains that worried experts. XEC’s emergence
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BOSTON – Using artificial intelligence, doctors have found a way to give people who lost their voice to ALS the ability to speak again. This new technology is actually translating brain activity into speech. “Not being able to communicate is so frustrating and demoralizing,” said Casey Harrell, a study participant. “It is like you are
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A week after Apple held an event revealing its new iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPod models, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an Apple Watch function that can detect sleep apnea in device-wearers. The sleep apnea detection tool comes four days before the launch date of Apple’s new Series 10 watch, which will
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Many people in mental health crisis fear that if they dial 988, law enforcement might show up or they might be forced to go to the hospital. But getting sent that kind of “involuntary emergency rescue” happens to around 1% of callers, suggests new data from Vibrant Emotional Health, the administrator of the 988 Lifeline
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Thanks to all those shots in the arm, in the year 2000, measles in the United States was declared eliminated. But now, it’s coming back, with measles cases reported from California to Vermont. CBS News One big reason: across the country in 2023, more families exempted their children from routine immunizations than ever before. “There’s
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