Health & Lifestyle

Big Pharma-Backed Dems Join GOP To Block Sanders Effort To Lower Drug Prices

Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent of Vermont) makes remarks as the BiCameral Democratic Leadership meets reporters after their gathering with US President Barack Obama to strategize on how to counter Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. (Photo: Ron Sachs/CNP /MediaPunch/IPX)

Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept The ‘Social Cost of Carbon’?

Boaters pass through a channel as the sun set behind wind mills and an oil refinery, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
(ANALYSIS) — President-elect Donald Trump and members of his proposed cabinet and transition team have taken aim at many of President Obama’s climate and clean-energy policies, programs and legacies 2014 from the Paris Agreement to the Clean Power Plan.

Trump: US Will Pay For Wall, Mexico Will Pay Us Back Later

President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP/Evan Vucci)
(REPORT) — After months of promising that Mexico would pay for a border wall, CNN reported last night that Trump was working with House Republicans on a plan to fund the wall project through appropriations, a move which they said would “break a key campaign promise.”

UK Reclassifies CBD Oil As Medicine, DEA Deems It On Par With Heroin

A young boy is shown taking CBD oil, a derivative of marijuana. (Photo: Jason David/Facebook)
(ANALYSIS) – After the DEA moved to further constrain, Americans’ access to medically miraculous CBD oil by classifying it alongside heroin and cocaine, Britain chose compassion and common sense — and just classified Cannabidiol (CBD) as a medicine.

London Breaks Annual Air Pollution Limit In Five Days

In this general view of London looking towards Canary Wharf which is just visible through the haze and smog in London, Friday, April 10, 2015. (AP/Alastair Grant)
(REPORT) — London has broken legal air pollution limits for 2017 within five days, according to King’s College London.
The annual limit for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was breached on Brixton Road in south London at around 9pm on Thursday.