4. The Politics of Health: Public Health & Misinformation

The COVID era has been a golden age of misinformation. It has seen the development of innumerable false claims and shoddy arguments, and it has breathed new life into ancient anti-vaccine tropes. I…

Researchers suggest this provides further evidence of benefit of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination before or during pregnancy.

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Country failed to collect and share data, masking issues and inequalities, according to editorial in British Medical Journal

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Conspiracy theorists have been exaggerating the link between COVID vaccines and heart problems. Here are the facts

‘Compassion fatigue’ may act as a coping mechanism to being exposed to the suffering of others.

Pandemic revisionism has been on my mind lately.

You’re not depressed but you’re not happy – you’re languishing. Give yourself a boost with these evidence-backed strategies

Group therapy promised to be both democratic and radical, but it failed to take hold. Has its time finally come?

A new CDC report published Wednesday found infant mortality rates in the U.S. rose 3% from 2021 to 2022, a small rise but the first year-over-year seen in two decades.

Newsweek and global data firm Statista dropped their fifth annual listing of the World's Best Hospitals for 2023.

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

Researchers found that people with acute respiratory infections who tested negative for COVID-19 could still experience long-term symptoms including coughing, stomach pain and diarrhea.

Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power

A pediatrician, author and co-inventor of a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine warns that the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a political force that threatens the world's gains against deadly childhood infections like measles.

Yes, It’s Taken Until 2023 for Period Products To Be Tested Using Actual Blood And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a broader culture of disregard for women’s health It’s not every day …

Combating misinformation in social media is a topic of debate. Policies for moderation can be effective and socially beneficial.

For the bazillionth time, vaccines do not cause autism—and dog autism is not a thing.

Royal Society review looks at non-pharmaceutical interventions when applied in packages of several measures

The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.

You’re not depressed but you’re not happy – you’re languishing. Give yourself a boost with these evidence-backed strategies

It's common knowledge that anti-vaxxers are dedicated to filling the coffers of Big Coffin.  Simple math leads to another obvious conclusion: they also work extremely hard to enrich hospitals and Big

As COVID-19 continues to evolve, surprise, disappoint and frustrate us, efforts by politicians to pretend it’s behind us is a dangerous form of gaslighting that will deepen societal divisions.

Editor's note: A colon was added to the headline.United States Representative Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) blew a hole in Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine stance during a House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government he...

The public-health emergency expired May 11. But the U.S. remains awash in tragedies linked to doctors who prescribed dubious treatments.