In recent years, clothing for children with disabilities, known as “adaptive wear,” has slowly become more commonplace in the fashion industry, providing parents of these children with options that can help make their kids feel as comfortable as everyone else. What started as small businesses such as Slick Chicks or…
In May 2021, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a draft treaty that would give law enforcement officials broad, intrusive powers to access user information while performing criminal cross-border investigations. The draft protocol of PACE’s Cybercrimes Prevention Committee would also grant law enforcement agencies unrestricted access…
Hundreds of low-income residents of Lowndes County, a rural, majority-Black county in Alabama, have lived for years with failing septic tanks, Connor Sheets reported for AL.com news in July 2021. Some residents, Sheets wrote, rely on “straight pipes that spew raw sewage into open cesspools in their yards.” A grassroots…
In January 2022, peaceful protesters gathered publicly in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against COVID countermeasures, including lockdowns, vaccine passports, and vaccine mandates. As a variety of European-based news outlets and the Defender, the news and opinion website of Children’s Health Defense, reported, the Brussels protest eventually devolved…
As the United States and the world confront the consequences of human-caused climate change, advocates of solar engineering, including tech billionaire Bill Gates, seek to influence climate policy. To cool the planet, solar geoengineering seeks to reflect some sunlight back into space. As David Vetter reported for Forbes, in January…
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Several recent independent news reports highlight a health-oriented approach to COVID-19 that is missing from most news coverage on the pandemic. These reports highlight how healthy diet and lifestyle can reduce the risk of COVID-19. A December 2021 Harvard Health article reported on the findings of a study, published by…
The Maryland Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act, which mandates the development of a prerelease facility for incarcerated women, was initially vetoed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan in May 2020. That veto was later overridden by a simple majority in February 2021. Yet, as reported by Eddie Conway and Charles Hopkins for The…
In February 2022, Bianca Fortis of ProPublica made multiple attempts to speak with White House officials about the Biden administration’s Pandemic Testing Board, which was developed shortly after President Biden’s inauguration. Fortis, however, received few details about how the plan would help curb the pandemic. The board was designed to…
In a March 2022 Atlantic article, Stephanie Murray discussed how mask mandates have impacted children with speech or language disorders. When the pandemic began in March 2020, many speech pathologists pivoted to teletherapy, which, while useful to slow the spread of a deadly virus, was not always as constructive for…
A federal appeals court ruled in April 2021 that the pesticide chlorpyrifos will be banned from all forms of use unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove it’s safe. The popular chemical has been used on crops for more than 50 years and has been linked to neurological development…
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