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Rapid antigen tests are harder to find and more expensive in the US than elsewhere in the world, because of how America does public health

Residency training often claims to focus on training effective physicians. In reality, it’s an intricately designed conditioning process to train physicians to be tools for profit maximization. In order to be truly “effective” physicians, residents, in solidarity with other healthcare workers, must organize to challenge the systems that lead to suffering and illness both in […]

The origin of academic freedom is a clue to its current unraveling.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Moderna the green light to roll out an mRNA "booster" shot for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) – not based on actual science, mind [...]

No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after the War to fund two Harvard Business School professors to develop vertical integration which they...

Medical organizations and physicians should play an active role in advancing positive change

From the account of a new doctor to an insider’s look at the government response to Covid, four new titles that capture our reality.

Food as Medicine: The Answer to Mounting Health Crises Our toxic diet is feeding diseases that cant be cured with drugs that never resolve the underlying problem Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of California–San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply...

Adobe Saying it needs to “pivot from ambivalence to urgent action” and hold itself accountable for deeply embedded health inequities, the American Medical Association has vowed in a new strategic plan to use its influence as one of the world’s most powerful medical organizations to fight and dismantle white supremacy and racism in the U.S. health care system — and within its own walls. The 83-page report on racial justice and health equity, which is the culmination of two years of work ...

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