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Rethinking US Global Health Funding: Welcome, and Long Overdue

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We agree that the international community should continue to support less-resourced members. However, we disagree that this should consist of perpetual and increasing payments to centralized agencies such as GFATM, GAVI, and the Pandemic Fund, or donor bureaucracies like USAID.

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Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns

Retsef Levi Explains His Vote against Routine RSV Monoclonal Use in Newborns

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Levi is no stranger to weighing risk. A professor at MIT with deep experience in data analytics and risk-based decision-making, he had combed through five clinical trials of RSV monoclonals, including clesrovimab and its predecessor, nirsevimab.

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“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi

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The person most associated with civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi. In effect, he instrumentalised, operationalised, and weaponised Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience (1849), turning it into an effective technique for peaceful mass mobilisation against a powerful opponent to win independence.

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FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work

FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work

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The FDA has approved hundreds of drugs without proof they work—and in some cases, despite evidence they cause harm. That’s the finding of a blistering two-year investigation by medical journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, published by The Lever.

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