Year: 2024

More adolescents than ever are watching it. What’s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and “porn literacy.” View original article Contributor: Matt Richtel

Odds are your adolescent has already encountered online pornography. Your role is to openly address it, scholars say. View original article Contributor: Matt Richtel

Speaker Mike Johnson drew criticism for leveraging the National Defense Authorization Act to target medical care for service members’ transgender children. View original article Contributor: Abigail Hauslohner

On Tuesday, top Democrats, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Richard J. Durbin (Illinois) and Benjamin L. Cardin (Maryland), sent Oz a letter asking whether he was qualified for the job running two of the federal government’s largest health-care programs. View original article Contributor: Lauren Weber, McKenzie Beard

Judges ruled that pharmacy chains cannot be held liable for allegations they violated an Ohio public nuisance law by flooding communities with pain pills. View original article Contributor: David Ovalle

A new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in our feline companions. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli

The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes. View original article Contributor: Christina Jewett