Business News tracks ownership and money across beauty: brands changing hands, investment rounds, retail distribution deals, contract manufacturing and advertising enforcement. Written for readers who want to know which conglomerate stands behind a boutique label, and how that ownership shapes the formula.
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.
Written by Bianca Torres
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.
Written by Bianca Torres
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.
Written by Bianca Torres
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.
Written by Bianca Torres
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.
Written by Bianca Torres
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.
Written by Bianca Torres
The FDA approved Eli Lilly's orforglipron, sold as Foundayo, on April 1, 2026 — an oral alternative to injectable obesity medications that may reshape who can access treatment.
Written by Bianca Torres
Signed on February 3, 2026, the new appropriations law keeps Medicare telehealth flexibilities in place through December 31, 2027 — the longest certainty the video visit has ever had.
Written by Bianca Torres
The city Health Department's vital statistics put life expectancy at a record 83.2 years — six years ahead of the city's own 2030 goal.
Written by Bianca Torres
Fewer than ten weeks into the year, the CDC's measles tally has climbed to 982 confirmed cases — a pace that puts the country on track to break records set only last year.
Written by Bianca Torres