Protecting Science & Public Health

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.

Shed where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list

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Beijing wants to double down on advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and basic research.

PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research

School is supposed to be about learning. But for most of us, it’s really about obedience. And that lesson sticks longer than any textbook.

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.

Canada is transitioning from a method of joint US-Canada medical school accreditation to a purely Canadian accreditation system.

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Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

FDA to approve leucovorin despite questions about whom it might help

Limits on FoodNet tracking may impact outbreak response.

Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez said on Thursday she was pushed to rubber-stamp the decisions of Health Secretary Robert F....

When Science Becomes the Enemy From funding cuts to violence: How mRNA became ground zero in the war on expertise Jess Steier, DrPH and Aimee Pugh Bernard, PhD We messaged each other on Tuesday with …

One injection of a long-lasting drug showed up to 76% efficacy in a large trial

Burnout and disillusionment among physicians are not personal failings but rational responses to a profit-driven health care system that devalues healing and demands unsustainable sacrifice.

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

The mental health and suicide crisis among clinicians and first responders is a public health emergency that we must urgently address.

Scientists are urging members of Congress to use their legislative power to defend science, fact-based policymaking and bedrock science-based policies that protect the public health and well-being of all people. Today, in the face of the incoming president's agenda, the Union of Concerned Scientists...

Hospitalizations across the country have increased 20 percent in two weeks, taxing already exhausted health care workers as the United States confronts the Omicron variant.

'In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.'

'We would be able to identify asymptomatic carriers, even before they were conscious of losing their smell,' says Dana Small

The Conservative leader’s promise to cut “woke” funding to universities and research echoes the disaster unfolding in the U.S.

An investigation by the Information Commissioner of Canada concludes the Harper government muzzled scientists.