"The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate ...

This past June, the FDA sent out 25 warning letters to telehealth companies selling compounded semaglutide and ...

Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America ...

I would be remiss not to mention venereal diseases: U.S. Army Medical Department statistics relating to venereal disease in ...

From shuttered labs to kids with measles, others are paying the price for your need to feel "special" and "heterodox," and no ...

HPV Vaccine Maker’s Study Proves Natural HPV Infection Beneficial, Not Deadly.” Way back in 2014, my old pal “holistic” ...

What oncology's hardest decisions can teach the rest of medicine.

The documentary “What the Health” espouses the fairy tale that all major diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and many others) can be prevented and cured by eliminating meat and dairy from the ...

The latest antivaccine disinformation consists of pointing to the large numbers of reports of death (and other adverse events) to the VAERS database. It’s nonsense. Under normal circumstances, 50 ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (sold as Ozempic and Wegovy) are so successful that they have redefined what the pharmaceutical industry calls a “blockbuster”. Few prescription drugs have moved from ...

I had been debating whether to write about something other than COVID-19 this week, given how thoroughly the pandemic has come to dominate the blog (at least my contributions), to the point where it ...