Did a new study published by researchers at Yale really find that by adopting s single payer healthcare system, the US could save 114,000 lives annually and save over a trillion dollars annually?
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Ford government to cut $1-billion in funding to Toronto Public Health over
In a conference call, the Health Ministry told public health officials from across the province it would be phasing in funding cuts to some programs by as much as 50 per cent, Joe Cressy said, with municipalities left to fund the gap
Medscape: US Withdraws From the World Health Organization
The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying...
Nearly half of CDC databases aren’t being updated as experts sound alarm over gaps in health data. Nearly 90% of these reported vaccination topics. The administration’s antivaccine stance has interrupted the flow of data we need to keep Americans safe from preventable infections.
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After NINDS director ouster, 40 neuroscience organizations press U.S. Congress for oversight over hiring process
A letter signed by the groups asks Congress to ensure that scientific expertise remains a priority in the search for a new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
A poem about modern medicine's loss of the human touch. True healing is found not in charts and scans, but in listening, empathy, and the doctor-patient relationship.
Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education
Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.