Dani Blum

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Maggie Astor |Dani Blum

The Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it would work to remove some artificial dyes from the U.S. food supply, citing concerns about how they might affect children’s health. Among the dyes that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is targeting are colorings common in ultraprocessed foods like candy, chips and some cereals.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Dani Blum |Maggie Astor

The federal health department has said it will move to phase out eight artificial dyes, citing health concerns. The Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it would work to remove some artificial dyes from the U.S. food supply, citing concerns about how they might affect children's health. Among the dyes that the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is targeting are colorings common in ultraprocessed foods like candy, chips and some cereals.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Dani Blum

The virus leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths in the United States each season - many of them so sudden that families are left reeling. Lauren Caggiano had felt sick for days by the time she tested positive for the flu in an emergency room on a February afternoon. Hours later, she was in the intensive care unit. By 4 in the morning, she was on a ventilator. Ms. Caggiano, a paralegal who lived in Oceanside, Calif., doted on her two dogs and had recently become a grandmother, died two days later.

3 weeks ago | dtnext.in | Dani Blum

Just once, Matthew Slater would like to experience a hangover. But even if Slater, 34, finishes a bottle of vodka, he still wakes up feeling fine the next day. “Unless they know me, people don’t really believe me,” Slater said. “It’s just kind of assumed that when you drink a bunch of poison, your body is going to react.”Daniel Adams, 23, also never felt queasy or shaky the morning after a night out.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Maggie Astor |Azeen Ghorayshi |Dani Blum

People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remarks this week that autism "destroys" children have prompted outrage among many autistic people and their families. They said that they had done things he claimed were impossible - hold a job, write a poem, play baseball, go on a date - and added that the lives of people who did need help performing daily activities were still worthy of respect.