Beauty as a business: acquisitions, funding rounds, retail distribution shifts, celebrity brand economics, and enforcement over unsupported claims.
The federal law that put facility registration and product listing on a two-year clock just cleared its first renewal cycle. Here's what changed, who's still exempt, and what the numbers show.
New guidelines issued July 15, 2026 put a number on what lifestyle and environment can do — and, for the first time, name air pollution as a modifiable dementia risk.
As of April 1, 2026, CMS began enforcing its tightened price-transparency rule, with penalties up to $5,500 a day — and hundreds of hospitals already on notice.
New York lowered Essential Plan eligibility from 250% to 200% of the poverty level on July 1, 2026, ending $0-premium coverage for roughly half a million New Yorkers under federal cuts.
The Health Department's 2026 heat mortality report, released in mid-June, counts about 500 heat-related deaths annually — and most happen on days that never make headlines.
A revised childhood schedule released without a vote, a February meeting cancelled over a missed Federal Register notice, and a reconstituted panel — the CDC's vaccine advisory process has had an unrepeatable 2026.