“Families who have endured the heartbreaking loss of a child due to online harms have long advocated for Congress to address Big Tech’s dangerous design choices and predatory algorithms. Today’s passage of KOSPA amounts to the first legislative step since 1998 to regulate online environments, aiming to protect minors from these risks. ParentsSOS calls on…
“In 2011, when she was 21, Esther registered with The Hague-based End of Life Clinic (now the Euthanasia Expertise Center), which provides physician-assisted suicide for patients who meet the requirements of the Netherlands’ Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act. Before accepting a patient’s request, the physician must, among other things, be satisfied…
“The use of the O-word in the title indicates, right away, that fatness and fat bodies are viewed as a problem to be eradicated. At this point in time, we have mountains of data to support the fact that the correlation between fatness and health problems is overwhelmingly due to the real-life impacts of anti-fat…
“The glucagon-like peptide 1, or GLP-1, drug is a fairly new medication that was originally approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It was designed to improve blood sugar, along with diet and exercise, possibly leading to weight loss. But research has shown that nearly half…