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Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin

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Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin

Joe Grinsteiner is a gregarious online personality who touts the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced a tube of veterinary-grade ivermectin paste — the kind made for deworming horses. He gave the tube a squeeze. Then he licked a slug of the stuff, and gulped. “Yum,” …

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F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Content

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F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Content

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed requiring new nutrition labels on the front of food and beverage products, a long-awaited move aimed at changing eating habits associated with soaring rates of obesity and diet-related illness that are responsible for a million deaths each year. The new label, a …

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