Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. “This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and it was portrayed in these terms that were really not accurate: babies having babies,” said Arline Geronimus. Geronimus was at the […]
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The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it had officially declared an end to the nationwide shortage of Ozempic and Wegovy, medications used for diabetes and weight loss. The agency first declared a shortage of semaglutide, the main ingredient used to make Ozempic and Wegovy, in 2022. The FDA’s announcement comes months after drugmaker Novo
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A cholera outbreak in a southern Sudanese city killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days, health authorities said Saturday. The outbreak in the southern city of Kosti was blamed mainly on contaminated drinking water after the city’s water plant stopped due to an attack by a notorious paramilitary
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More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this month as part of the government-wide cuts to recently hired federal workers ordered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force. The cuts amounted to around 100 probationary workers, multiple current and
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has restored a $257,000 contract for 9/11-related cancer research after the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, tried to cancel it, officials say. The contract pays for data processing to compare cancer incidence rates among firefighters exposed to the World Trade Center toxins with firefighters who
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The nation’s largest airlines are looking to rescind new consumer protection rules for travelers with disabilities, arguing in court filings that the U.S. Department of Transportation had exceeded its authority in enacting them. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the trade group Airlines for America and five
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In an industry that relies heavily on plastic packaging, the beauty industry’s environmental fallout is huge. According to a CleanHub study that gauged the environmental impact of beauty industry packaging, at least 120 billion pieces of packaging for the beauty industry are produced each year. Citing a study from the British Beauty Council, CleanHub pointed
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The 56th edition of Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, the leading b2b event dedicated to the beauty industry, will take place on March 20-23 at BolognaFiere, in Bologna, Italy. The show continues to grow, and welcomed nearly 250,000 visitors last year. “After the great results of the last edition with over 3,000 exhibitors from 150 countries,
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Show organizers at Idice, a part of the InfoPro Digital group, are ready to welcome guests to Luxe Pack Los Angeles and MakeUp in LosAngeles on February 12-13 at the LA Convention Center. Beauty industry executives will have the opportunity to network with over 80 packaging suppliers and manufacturers. Primary and secondary packaging
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There are many elements that have contributed to growth for the beauty industry, spanning brands, consumers, retail dynamics, product innovation, category trends, and more. Each of these is embedded in the performance of an industry that has continued to defy expectations, posting dollar growth across the mass and prestige markets over the past few
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