Protecting Science & Public Health

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.

In the first few days of 2014, scientists, journalists, and environmentalists were horrified to discover that the Harper government had begun a process to close seven of the 11 of Canada's world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries...

Science—and the culture of evidence and inquiry it supports—has a long relationship with democracy. Widely available facts have long served as a [...]

It wasn’t just climate research. Rock snot, sharks and polar bears: All were off-limits during the Harper administration

Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.

In the past few years, the federal government has cut funding to hundreds of renowned research institutes and programs. Ottawa has dismissed more than 2,000 ...

They can use their position and collective power to influence institutional actions and mobilize to support more vulnerable colleagues.

About 100,000 registered nurses in the US left the workplace due to the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the results of a survey published Thursday by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.

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Opening the black box: Unpacking the use of nursing agencies in Canada sheds light on the growing use of for-profit nursing agencies across the country.

After years of change and advancement in healthcare for Canadian citizens, Bill C-64 still might fall short of adequately and fairly providing pharmacare in Canada.