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Reporting from U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health.

Publisher

U.S. Right to Know

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2025

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

114 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Babies exposed to microplastics and hormone-disrupting chemicals through formula, plastic bottles, infant feeding supplies

   Babies may consume millions of microplastics and traces of harmful chemicals through infant formula, plastic bottles, and other feeding products.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus more infectious

   On a Sunday morning in October 2019, the chief of the virus ecology unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories emailed a postdoctoral scientist in his lab with an idea.

3. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Drug company gifts, meals, and payments to doctors lead to worse prescribing, review of 93 studies finds

   Gifts, payments, free meals, and other marketing ploys by pharmaceutical companies heavily influence doctors to prescribe more drugs, choose less appropriate treatments, and drive up prescription costs, according to a systematic review of 93 studies.

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