HEALTH
Marty Makary: The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine
There are moments in public health when the path forward is unusually clear, when the evidence aligns with behavior, when risks are well understood, and when policy has a genuine opportunity to reduce harm at scale. This should be one of those moments. Non-combustible nicotine products—vapes, heated tobacco, and especially […]
Arkansas Reported Largest Bird Flu Outbreak Of The Year
In a diagnosis, which was confirmed on April 10th, Arkansas reported its largest bird flu outbreak of the year. As war has gripped the world, the bird flu issue has been relegated to the bottom of Google searches; however, it is still a concern for farmers and consumers. Around 191,200 […]
To Win at All Costs
Bayer bought Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion —a few months before Monsanto lost its first liability case for causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I was not a close observer of the case, but the win seemed to hinge on documents obtained during discovery that revealed Monsanto knew a great deal about […]
Elon Musk Reveals COVID Vaccine Injury After Former Pfizer Official Admits Shots Likely Killed Tens of Thousands in Germany
In an X post that went viral Sunday, Elon Musk said he “felt like I was dying” and almost went to the hospital after taking his second COVID-19 vaccine. Musk was responding to an X post about how Dr. Helmut Sterz, Pfizer’s former chief toxicologist, admitted during a German COVID-19 […]
Study Links Prolonged Sitting to Increased Dementia Risk, Physical Activity and Sleep Found Protective
Introduction: Sleep and Physical Activity Found to Have Protective Effects A new large-scale scientific review has identified prolonged sitting, insufficient sleep and physical inactivity as significant, modifiable risk factors for dementia in adults. The analysis, which synthesized data from millions of individuals, found that adults who sit for more than eight hours […]
Health Care Is the Largest Industry in the US by Total Spending and Employment
Story at-a-glance America spent $5.3 trillion on health care in 2024.1 That’s not a typo, and it’s not someone else’s problem — it directly affects what you pay, what care you receive, and how the system around you operates. Health care now consumes roughly $18 out of every $100 spent in […]
When War Teaches Medicine
War is the most unrestrained expression of humanity’s destructive capacity, a setting where order disintegrates, moral boundaries are tested, and life is reduced to its most vulnerable state. Medicine, by contrast, stands as a deliberate act of resistance against that collapse, a disciplined and unwavering commitment to preserve life even […]
Tracing the Decline in American Heart Disease Mortality
Story at-a-glance Every 34 seconds, someone in America dies from heart disease.1 That pace continued in 2023, claiming 915,973 lives — more than cancer and accidents combined. After decades of medical advances, heart disease still dominates the death chart. The question is no longer whether we can treat it, but whether […]
Fertilising Hunger: Violence in the Gulf and the Logic of Control
The US-Israeli assault on Iran is being sold by the US as a defensive manoeuvre. However, it functions as something far more revealing: a maintenance operation for a global system that can no longer sustain itself and is increasingly reliant on violence. The Strait of Hormuz can be regarded as […]
Lead Contaminating America’s Food Supply
There has been an outpouring of recalls in the USA due to lead contamination in the food supply. Lead showing up in food in the United States is the result of overlapping structural problems that have been building for decades, and the recalls you are seeing now are simply the system […]
