Lies can blend with the truth when they are crafted correctly, and politicians have long practiced creating such lies. Recently, unsupported claims discrediting the medical community have increased as politicians grapple for power after the Covid-19 ...
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Lies can blend with the truth when they are crafted correctly, and politicians have long practiced creating such lies. Recently, unsupported claims discrediting the medical community have increased as politicians grapple for power after the Covid-19 ...
In this year of crises, the plight of the Ever Given was, without doubt, the most absurd. While attempting to cross the Suez Canal during high winds, the massive container ship was forced to travel at an unsafe speed and subsequently run aground. Nat...
In this year of crises, the plight of the Ever Given was, without doubt, the most absurd. While attempting to cross the Suez Canal during high winds, the massive container ship was forced to travel at an unsafe speed and subsequently run aground. Nat...
Cuban patriot leader José Martí declared during Cuba’s final War of Independence (1895-1898) that the battle was “the revolution of the doctors.” Indeed, Cuban physicians were ideal conspirators in the effort to overthrow Spanish colonial rul...
Cuban patriot leader José Martí declared during Cuba’s final War of Independence (1895-1898) that the battle was “the revolution of the doctors.” Indeed, Cuban physicians were ideal conspirators in the effort to overthrow Spanish colonial rul...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson quickly became household names as the entire world follo...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson quickly became household names as the entire world follo...
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, pleaded for an international ceasefire. He called for countries to unite against the emerging biological threat as it rapidly spread across ...
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, pleaded for an international ceasefire. He called for countries to unite against the emerging biological threat as it rapidly spread across ...
Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH, is the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. Before arriving at Brown last September, he served as Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan...
Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH, is the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. Before arriving at Brown last September, he served as Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan...
Climate change deniers, flat-earthers, and anti-vaxxers sit around the same table when it comes to rejecting science in favor of conspiracy. They subscribe to skepticism, rather than trusting esteemed institutions of academia and healthcare. In 1966,...
Climate change deniers, flat-earthers, and anti-vaxxers sit around the same table when it comes to rejecting science in favor of conspiracy. They subscribe to skepticism, rather than trusting esteemed institutions of academia and healthcare. In 1966,...
Zika has entered the American consciousness in much the same way Ebola did: with a melodramatic flourish and a twinge of impish paranoia. It is something to be feared and something very deadly. And, so goes the narrative, it will be here soon. This i...
Zika has entered the American consciousness in much the same way Ebola did: with a melodramatic flourish and a twinge of impish paranoia. It is something to be feared and something very deadly. And, so goes the narrative, it will be here soon. This i...
A family weekend at Disneyland costs less than getting your children vaccinated — unless, of course, they come down with the measles. Today, it takes $2,192 to fully vaccinate a child, but 30 years ago, it cost the same amount as a ticket to Disney...
A family weekend at Disneyland costs less than getting your children vaccinated — unless, of course, they come down with the measles. Today, it takes $2,192 to fully vaccinate a child, but 30 years ago, it cost the same amount as a ticket to Disney...
While West Africa faces the ravages of Ebola, potential vaccines developed a decade ago are being exhumed from what Dr. James E. Crowe calls “the biotech valley of death.” Dr. Crowe, Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center at Vanderbilt Univers...
While West Africa faces the ravages of Ebola, potential vaccines developed a decade ago are being exhumed from what Dr. James E. Crowe calls “the biotech valley of death.” Dr. Crowe, Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center at Vanderbilt Univers...
This year, the first vaccines licensed in the United States, those for rabies and typhoid, celebrated their centennial. The better half of the twentieth century was spent developing vaccines to prevent some of the most devastating epidemics in histor...
This year, the first vaccines licensed in the United States, those for rabies and typhoid, celebrated their centennial. The better half of the twentieth century was spent developing vaccines to prevent some of the most devastating epidemics in histor...