Health
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Toxic chemicals are raising infertility in humans, fish, birds, and insects: ‘A whisper that is powerful enough to redirect a hurricane’
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fertility rates, the average number of births women are projected to have over their lifetime, fell to a record low last year. It’s a demographic shift that could hold repercussions for the economy and the country’s politics. There are many reasons for this,…
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Young adult suicide rate down 11% over 2.5 years of new 988 mental health crisis hotline
Nearly 4,400 fewer U.S. teens and young adults died by suicide than projected in the first two-and-a-half years of the 988 mental health crisis hotline, a sign the program is working even as it faces long-term funding challenges. Suicide deaths among 15- to 23-year-olds were 11% lower than what researchers expected between July 2022 —…
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The man who helped put meat at the top of RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid is Steak ’n Shake’s new ‘Chief MAHA Officer’
The MAHA movement is going corporate as Steak ’n Shake offers a well-done wellness pivot and puts “Make America Healthy Again” movement on the menu. The burger chain announced that Michael Boes will serve as its first “Chief MAHA Officer,” a new executive post focused on “nutritional integrity, ingredient transparency, and the healthiness” of its…
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Billionaire Michael Dell started his company in his University of Texas dorm room. Now, he’s betting on AI with a $750 million gift
Michael Dell is having one of his biggest philanthropic years yet, having announced a major gift to his alma mater on the heels of a $6.25 billion pledge to seed “Trump Accounts.” The Dell Technologies founder and his wife, Susan Dell, announced Tuesday a $750 million gift to the University of Texas at Austin to…
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The health misinformation crisis is bigger than anyone thought: Most people worldwide believe at least one of 6 common medical myths
For years, the working theory about health misinformation was reassuringly simple: it was a fringe problem, confined to a narrow slice of the population — the deeply partisan, the undereducated, the chronically online. A sweeping new global survey blows that theory apart. The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report on Trust and Health, based on…
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‘The current system right now is unsustainable’: top economist sees a crucial crack in the economy
Home healthcare workers make up less than 3% of the total jobs, but KPMG senior economist Matthew Nestler sees reason to pay attention—and reason to be concerned. “The current system right now is unsustainable,” he told Fortune, “and [it’s] buckling before we’re hit with this massive aging and retiring of the baby boomers—the largest generation…
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As a small business owner, I never expected to pay $100,000 protecting my business from ransomware
As a small business owner in Columbia, Pa., I have always paid my taxes on time each and every year. My family started Susquehanna Glass in 1910 when my grandfather installed a cutting machine in a shed behind his house. I joined the business in 1975 and spent five dcades growing it into a company…
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Top New York surgeon: Americans have better data for choosing restaurants than surgeons. That has to change
Americans comparison-shop for everything. Almost everything, that is. People scrutinize product reviews before making even minor Amazon purchases. They research restaurants based on Google and Yelp ratings. They spend hours meticulously investigating the merits of different hotels and cruise ships. But when the time comes to choose a surgeon for a major procedure — a…
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Spinach is the most pesticide-laden produce in America, EWG’s Dirty Dozen shows. But farmers say the list ‘villainizes’ fruits and vegetables
It may be Popeye’s source of supernatural strength, but spinach apparently can’t fight off bugs as effectively as the sailor fights off his adversaries. For the second consecutive year, spinach topped the Dirty Dozen list of conventionally grown produce with the most residual pesticides. Published by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) annually since 2004, the…
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‘Babies become sitting ducks’: Babies too young for vaccines remain vulnerable in measles ‘hotbed’ communities
With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June, the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started factoring into their grocery run. “We go to the Costco that was kind of a hotbed,” said John Otwell, who knew about the state health department’s warnings…