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Lucky Kansas City-area district gets COVID vaccines for every teacher who wants one Mará Rose Williams, The Kansas City Star Jan. 21—Bonner Springs teachers are among the first in Kansas to receive COVID-19 vaccines, district officials said Wednesday. About 200 have gotten their shots since Monday, including all high school teachers who requested it as well as teachers at two of the three elementary schools. "We have about 100 more still waiting," said Kaela Williams, distric...

 E-Mail IMAGE: University of Alberta oncology researcher John Mackey (left) and cell biologist Luc Berthiaume are collaborators on new research showing that PCLX-001, an anti-cancer drug set to begin clinical trials this... view more  Credit: University of Alberta One more piece of the puzzle has fallen into place behind a new drug whose anti-cancer potential was developed at the University of Alberta and is set to begin human trials this year, thanks to newly published research. "The...

WKBT January 21, 2021 7:59 AM E. Napoletano - Forbes Advisor Posted: Updated: January 24, 2021 4:13 AM Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is a strategy you can use to invest in companies that strive to make the world a better place. ESG investing relies on independent ratings that help you assess a company’s behavior and policies when it comes to environmental, social and governance issues. “At its core, ESG investing is about influencing positive changes in soci...

Getty Images Each day at 5 p.m. we collect the five top food and supplement headlines of the day, making it easy for you to catch up on todays most important natural products industry news. The childhood obesity crisis started before COVID-19. The pandemic has made it much worse Children tend to gain weight over the summer when theyre out of school and spending more time at home, which is partly why so many more American kids entered obesity territory over the course ...

Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, talks retail expansion and new product development with fellow Texas entrepreneur Aishwarya Iyer, founder of olive oil upstart Brightland.

Are Some Animal Welfare Labels ‘Humanewashing’? This article features our Director of Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign Amanda Hitt and was originally published here. If you’ve bought meat or eggs in a grocery store recently, you’ve probably seen a wide range of labels promising improved treatment of farm animals. Many of these labels look similar and use the same words and imagery—think cows on pasture or strong, healthy chickens pecking in the grass—but...

Ian Kemp was raised on the smell of cinnamon. And clove, chile peppers, cumin and ginger.  His parents, Bill and Beverly Kemp, started a spice company in Manor in 1983 when he was 5 years old.  The younger Kemp had already spent weeks on the road with his “hippie parents” who loved traveling to Mexico and Central America. En route from Nebraska, the Missouri natives passed through Austin enough times that they eventually decided to move here, in part to make that trip shorter.   “We ...

While some advocates say animal welfare labels are helping change the industry, a new report points to a lack of rigor among widely adopted labels, prompting questions about whether consumer choice can be a lever for change.

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Under-the-radar stock could soar with release of Apple’s 5G iPhone Investing April 5, 2021 The “world’s smartest billionaire” has quietly acquired over 230,000 shares of Apple. And Jim Simons, the legendary founder of Renaissance Technology, is not the only billionaire loading up on Apple stock in anticipation of a once-in-a-decade iPhone opportunity. Business Insider reports that the billionaire founder of Chewy’s has invested “nearly all of his wealth” in Apple and just one oth...