4. The Politics of Health

In the face of a major measles outbreak, HHS secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has seemingly done a 180. Fellow anti-vaccine activists are furious.

An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!

A new analysis by ProPublica shows that after Texas' 2021 abortion ban went into effect, pregnancy became far more dangerous.

Fascinating new research shows mollusk blood proteins have strong antimicrobial properties, especially when combined with existing antibiotics.

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending

Childhood vaccine refusal is a globally contentious topic, with some jurisdictions addressing it with punitive policies. Media discourse influences ho…

With anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's biggest health agency, it wouldn't take much tampering to enable vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback.

Many claims about the dangers of vaccines come from misrepresenting scientific research papers.

Society and education are inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of color has required educators to design antiracist curricula that explicitly address ra …

Society and education are inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of color has required educators to ...

Halting the spread of the coronavirus will require a high-level counteroffensive against new destructive forces.

There have been recent trends of parents in Western countries refusing to vaccinate their children due to numerous reasons and perceived fears. While opposition to vaccines is as old as the vaccines themselves, there has been a recent surge in the ...

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and pavements, one of the few places for relief from the incessant heat was the American Museum of Natural History. That summer the museum presented a new exhibition with rows of human skulls, snapshots of patients in psychiatric institutions, and the preserved brain of a serial killer. It was all terribly macabre. The immigrants among the museum's visitors who read the leaflet distributed at the entrance soon discovered that this exhibition was all about them.

Keesha Middlemass examines how RFK Jr.'s vaccine rhetoric and medical misinformation could deepen distrust from the Black community.

The would-be Trump appointee is set to undermine public health—and take public education down with it.

Exposing the antiscience playbook reveals the antiregulatory motives of its deep-pocketed bankrollers

Vaccine resistance movements have always been led by white, middle-class voices and promoted by structures of racial inequality.

Canada isn’t the beacon of social democracy that many progressive Americans imagine. But when faced with the coronavirus crisis, the US’s inept political class and for-profit health system couldn't even match a country with a moderate welfare state and functional government.

As America’s health crisis deepens, some experts are calling to “depoliticize” public health. But what we need isn’t less politics in health care — it’s a mass movement to transform our broken system into one that serves everyone.

Dr. Mike EXPOSES RFK Jr's Lies | Hasanabi reacts to Renaissance PeriodizationLink to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJcpmsKayE&t=39s&ab_channel=Rena...

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