If you’ve recently received an invitation to join the AARP and you’re a woman, you may want to hold off on drinks with artificial sweeteners after a new study says that having two or more artificially sweetened drinks a day can increase the chance of blood clot-based strokes, heart attacks, and early death in women over the age of 50. Diet sodas … [Read more...]

Lead in school drinking water has been a problem for decades, but still, to this day, federal regulations don’t require schools to test their drinking water, and there’s no one health standard for school drinking water that’s consistent across the entire country. Because of this, millions of American children are drinking water at school that has … [Read more...]

It appears 3M has been ordered (again) to pay out a large sum of money, this time for defective earplugs sold to the military many years ago. The 3M Company has agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle allegations it knowingly sold defective combat earplugs to the United States military without disclosing defects that limited the effectiveness of the … [Read more...]