Voters in 41 states will have at least one important item on the ballot this November in addition to all of the local and federal candidates running for office.
Montana's heated senate race between incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) and first-time Republican candidate Tim Sheehy has put the presidential race in the rearview mirror.
After the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in California in August, the virus spread aggressively and has infected at least 124 dairy herds and 13 dairy workers, reports Susanne Rust of the Los Angeles Times. "And according to dairy experts, the spread of the virus has yet to abate."
Even as independent pharmacists face low or no profits from medication sales, pharmacy middlemen reimbursements favor large drugstore chains. The Federal Trade Commission and several lawmakers are starting to take aim at prescription benefit managers' power and repayment practices.
It may not sound pretty, but looking into sewage sludge disposal practices can be a story that helps your community's health. "There was a time when the Environmental Protection Agency renamed toxic sludge as 'biosolids,' and journalists went along with it . . . "
In a novel approach to stemming agriculture's contribution to climate change, researchers are altering bacterial DNA, so that corn seeds require less chemical fertilizer to thrive.
Hard work, generosity and 'extreme networking,' are a few of the reasons the Amish community in Holmes County, Ohio, is thriving. The group's unique ways of supporting new businesses can serve as a model for other places looking to bolster economic mobility.
The loss of independent pharmacies across the country has been a concern for rural residents, but who are the fabled PBMs, or pharmacy benefit managers, how do they operate and what do they gain when they force smaller pharmacies to close, ask Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins of The New York Times.
Over the past decade, rural, independent pharmacies faced shrinking profits and many closed. But now, even big chains are struggling to keep the current drugstore model profitable.