The Disease of Capitalism

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

Breaking down several clips from Bernie Sanders' latest appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. I think even Bernie was surprised by how clueless Rogan has become...

Dr F. Perry Wilson reviews disturbing data about the accumulation of nanoplastics in the human body.

World-renowned physician Gabor Maté’s new book examines the profound physical and psychological harms of “normal” capitalist society, which makes a small minority very well-off while sowing illness and despair on a vast scale.

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Dr Gabor Maté is a world-renowned author and physician, best known for his work on trauma, addiction, and childhood development. His books bring together science, myth, case studies, and his own personal history — from his beginnings in Nazi-occupied Budapest to his participation in the radical […]

The renowned physician and author explores the links between trauma and illness in his new book, "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture."

What’s the connection between the increase in chronic diseases, mental illness and drug addiction in our society today?

In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.” “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.” He says healing requires a reconnection between the mind and the body, which can be achieved through cultivating a sense of community, meaning, belonging and purpose. Maté also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the “mechanization of birth,” how the lack of social services for parents has led to “a massive abandonment of infants,” and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.

An interview on health and politics – Two physicians discuss the political economy of human well-being.

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.

In 2000, 15-year-old Vanessa Young’s doctor prescribed …

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

How do we use our senses to intentionally connect with our ecosystems?

What our bodies & ecosystems teach us about the revolution

Drugmaker makes $37bn in vaccine sales and predicts bumper year ahead from Covid jabs and pill

The revenue medical journals earn from reprints is a big incentive to publish studies with positive findings.

Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks.

An interview on health and politics – Two physicians discuss the political economy of human well-being.

A damning new report shows that one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine makers appears to have played a role in restricting access to those very vaccines. The report, “Pfizer’s Power,” published this week by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, examines Pfizer’s contracts with the United States, United Kingdom, European Commission, Albania, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic and Peru. They offer a rare glimpse into the power Pfizer has to silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk and maximize profits in the middle of a public health crisis. We speak with Public Citizen researcher Zain Rizvi, author of the new report.

Congressional Democrats – citing concerns over the possibility of political interference in the rush to develop a coronavirus vaccine – say they will look to scientists, not President Donald Trump, to ensure that if one becomes available it is both safe and effective.

Sure, it may be true. But that doesn’t mean it’s productive.

"It is painfully clear that the developing world cannot rely on the largesse and charity of rich nations and pharmaceutical companies, and hundreds of thousands of people are dying from Covid-19 as a result."

"If this pandemic cannot catalyze real change, what will?"

Analysis: the new coronavirus variant seems highly transmissible, but the big question is whether it causes severe disease. Either way, poorer nations will be hit hardest

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.

"It's nothing short of pandemic profiteering for Pfizer to make a killing while its vaccines have been withheld from so many."