Category: 4. Health

Three consumers had a beef about this stew. Apparently, they had found pieces of wood in their Dinty Moore Beef Stew and complained to the makers of the stew, Hormel Foods Corporation. Rather than have anyone else potentially stew over the situation, Hormel decided then to recall voluntarily around 256,185 pounds of its canned beef stew product,…

Think twice before reaching for a bag of chips or your favorite sugary…

The law of unintended consequences is a principle that, when applied to politics, describes what happens when the government passes a law which creates outcomes which were not expected or foreseen. A 1994 article in the Columbia Law Review provided historical examples of unintended consequences related to laws passed by the federal government. A 2025 report on Forbes.com described how the federal government has recently displayed a shock and awe approach…

Chronic cannabis use- whether smoked or consumed in edible form, is linked to significant cardiovascular risk. The corresponding study was published in JAMA Cardiology. 

Legislation for both medicinal and recreational cannabis use has resulted in higher rates of cannabis use. Research meanwhile suggests that people who regularly use the substance have a significantly higher risk of heart attack than non-users and that there may be a causal relationship…

In a 1.5 degrees Celsius warming scenario, 52% of people born in 2020 will be exposed to climate-change-induced extreme weather events throughout their lifetime, such as heatwaves and droughts, compared to only 16% of…

How can cannabis be used to help chemotherapy patients? This is what a recent study published in Pharmacology & Therapeutics hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how cannabinoids could be used to decrease the side effects in chemotherapy patients. This study has the potential to help researchers, medical professionals, legislators, and the public better understand the benefits of cannabis for cancer treatment and the steps that can be…

CVS Health Thursday sued the state of Arkansas, trying to thwart a law the healthcare company said would lead to the closure of all 23 CVS drugstores in the…

It’s one of those quiet realities of modern life: we unwrap our sandwich or sip from a paper cup, unaware that the packaging protecting our food might be leaching harmful chemicals. For decades, food packaging has relied on PFAS — a family of so-called ‘forever chemicals’ — to keep oil and water from soaking through paper products. But as we now know,…

Using the Salt Lake City campus as a living laboratory, the College of Engineering teamed up with Facilities Management and occupational…