How climate change gets under the skin

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https://grist.org/article/how-climate-change-affects-your-body-systems-health/

Doctors agree: Climate change is a hazard to your health. Leading medical journals warn that rising greenhouse gas emissions will result in millions of needless deaths and undermine decades of hard-won progress in public health.

Some of these risks…

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Online Depression Information Is Misleading: Analysis of Popular Health Websites

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https://www.additudemag.com/online-depression-information-misleading-circular-reasoning-study/

Psychiatric diagnoses are purely descriptive; yet, none of the organizations directly referred to depression in this way. “The American Psychiatric Association, in the DSM-5, makes explicitly clear that the diagnostic criteria of mental…

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Faster biological aging consistently linked to poverty and discrimination

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https://phys.org/news/2026-06-faster-biological-aging-linked-poverty.html

link to open access study www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02477-6

There is now abundant correlational evidence linking a range of socially stratified exposures with epigenetic clock measures of biological ageing (for example, environmental toxicants,…

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No Babies? Blame Capitalism.

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https://jacobin.com/2026/06/birth-rates-capitalism-socialism-germany

Capitalism seems so inevitable to us that we sometimes fail to notice its explanatory power. In this case, it’s staring us right in the face. The incentive structures of capitalism run counter to those of child-rearing — and as market logics pervade deeper into…

Teva Pharmaceuticals, Granules USA, and Heritage Pharmaceuticals to pay combined $5.55M class action settlement to resolve claims their metformin products were contaminated with cancer-causing NDMA

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https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit-settlements/5-55m-teva-granules-and-heritage-metformin-class-action-settlement/

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