Supreme Court heard FDA appeal in Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments , LLC on Monday .

Case concerns FDA 's requirement for scientific studies to approve premarket tobacco applications for flavored electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) manufacturers and distributors.

Frida Ghitis: Concerns about rampant teen nicotine use are common, but exaggerated.

She says FDA should celebrate decline in cigarette and e-cigarette use among young people and let adults enjoy these embarrassingly flavored stimulants.

Palliative care doctor says it is rare for dying to involve no suffering of any kind but it is equally rare for the suffering involved to be unendurably bad.

Most of the 600,000 people who die in Britain each year have a terminal illness.

Dying people do not typically, suffocate’ or “drown’ in their own bodily fluids, they do not writhe in agony, they are not “tortured”.

The deathbed in Britain today really, as Kit Malthouse claimed during the House of Commons ’ assisted dying debate on 29 November , “a place of misery, torture and degradation, a rain of blood and vomit and tears” for far too many people.

Anyone watching the debate would be forgiven for assuming that most deaths now involve immense, and often intractable, suffering.

The most potent intervention I can offer is not a supersized dose of diamorphine but a simple question.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday by 330 votes to 275 .

Pro-assisted-dying camp gave MPs very little time to examine and familiarise themselves with the bill.

The 38 pages of text appeared just 17 days before the vote.

Those who managed to read it all found glaring inconsistencies and problems.

The UK is on the verge of passing a truly horrific law, writes Kevin Yuill .

We are in serious danger of legalising state-sponsored suicide, he says.

Some MPs did change their minds during the debate and voted against, but it was not enough.

The ayes had it after four-and-a-half hours of debate.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the former consumer rights attorney Trump has said he will nominate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services .

Kennedy 's primary target is ultra-processed foods, which are chockful of sugars, salt, and saturated fats -- though, worse, are additives, chemicals, and preservatives.

Study after study links overconsumption of UPF ’s like breakfast cereals, soft drinks, hot dogs, French fries, frozen pizza and snack chips to non-communicable diseases.

Robert Smith : Food industry underwrites much of the research on product fitness.

Smith: Informing and educating consumers is superior to onerous taxes and heavy-handed regulations.

Food industry and RFK Jr. have an opportunity to work cooperatively to create changes beneficial to the foods Americans eat, he says.

How To!: Carvell Wallace talks to M.P. Dunleavey , a journalist and author of the Squished Substack .

She walks André through the important paperwork that needs to be in place and gives them guidance for working with stubborn family members.

Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail.

Gregg Wallace has a following of more than 200,000 people, but I am part of a far smaller audience less than 1 per cent of those who watch these near-daily live videos.

Wallace ’s eccentric Instagram presence has gone relatively unnoticed, despite him being one of the most prolific posters in British media.

His Instagram account became popular ostensibly because of his national fame and his highly publicised weight loss.

Gregg Wallace’s response to the allegations has generated headlines for a number of reasons.

But the one thing we shouldn’t feel as we watch Wallace flail online is shocked.

We are witnessing the logical conclusion of the boundary-less, unfiltered version of Gregg Wallace that has always been there, posting in plain sight.

A 520 -page report from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released on Monday .

The report said that COVID likely originated and leaked out of a lab, a view that was once banned by Facebook but now echoed by Senate Republicans and the Department of Energy .

The release of the report comes after the committee conducted over 30 transcribed interviews and depositions.

Betsy McCaughey : Left-wing media and public health establishment are rushing to discredit President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead health agencies.

Trump is appointing disrupters with the courage to challenge the status quo, she says.

Dr. Marty Makary was voted into the prestigious National Academy of Medicine , which is like the Hall of Fame for doctors.

She says Makary 's credentials will make it impossible for the Senate to reject him.

A.J. is about to enter his first sober “silly season” (the term for the holidays we use in Australia ) His first sober holiday (silly) season was one of his best Thanksgivings , he says.

"No Longer Silly" is Slate 's advice column on addiction and how to hate yourself less.

Remember that this year , your first year , is about enduring the holidays.

You need to put your recovery first and be honest with yourself about what you can and cannot handle being around.

If you start to feel that sticking around is risky, you need to run to the exit.

Even if you’re not drinking booze, it’s possible to get drunk on self-pity.

David Attenborough describes the pufferfish as probably nature’s greatest artist’ It takes him more than a week to make a flower, with a centre like a sunflower, and a radiating, petal-like pattern.

Most female puffer fish store their toxin in their ovaries, which is where I store my most toxic chemicals, too.