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The Modern Ag Alliance, launched by Bayer in 2024, enables the company to lobby and campaign through an entity that looks like a coalition of farm organizations, not a single giant chemical corporation. 

MAA represents itself as a “diverse ...

A small but important study finds that unsupervised, solitary screen time – on TV or handheld devices – may worsen behavioral and emotional challenges in  young children who already struggle with language skills.

The findings, published last month [March 2026] in

Ultra-processed foods are industrially formulated with added sugar, artificial sweeteners, additives and flavorings to be highly rewarding and even addictive. They can alter the brain’s reward pathways the same way that other addictiv...

Ultra-processed foods, now a dominant part of the American diet, may raise the risk of serious pregnancy complications, including preterm birth and blood pressure problems, according to a large U.S. study.

Researchers found each 10 percentage-point increase in