The first report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is out, with a particular focus on children’s health. The relatively short report includes data on obesity, heart disease, diabetes, life expectancy, substance abuse, mental illness, and many other terribles.
In the Name of Health: First Reactions to the MAHA Report Read Journal Article
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is holding a very important meeting on May 22, 2025. Under consideration at this meeting is the fate of the Covid booster shots.
The First Step on the Covid Shots Read Journal Article
Your mom was right. The government should not have closed schools; you should have been able to breathe and play freely with your friends; the Covid period fear and hysteria devastated and harmed and never should have happened.
The Mom Executive Order Read Journal Article
The lengthy report was littered with bureaucratese and praised many of the government’s actions during the pandemic. The panel applauded the “agility” of the government to act early and lockdown to “buy time” before the vaccines were rolled out.
Experts Shred Australia’s Covid-19 Inquiry Read Journal Article
Trump’s executive order could put in motion a range of policy changes that will put consumers back in charge of the medical marketplace and begin to whittle away at the awesome power of the medical cartels.
The Drug Pricing Scramble Read Journal Article
The HHS report is more than a policy review—it is a warning. It reveals that thousands of children have been placed on a path of irreversible medicalisation without the safeguards expected in any other area of healthcare.
Gender-Affirming Care for Minors under Fire Read Journal Article
In a rare confluence, Canada, Britain, and Australia held elections within a week of one another, although in Britain’s case, these were local elections in England. Yet England’s local elections may turn out to be the most consequential.
Elections in Canada, England, and Australia Read Journal Article
The language continues to contradict previous WHO understanding and public health norms, promoting whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches rather than proportionate measures that minimize long-term harm, and ignores the basic policy requirement of considering any resource allocations against other competing priorities.
Commentary on the WHO’s Draft Pandemic Agreement: Pointless Verbiage Read Journal Article
This is an excellent start to taking the threat of lab-derived pandemics seriously. Obviously, we need a global ban and global enforcement. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) could be strengthened to meet this need.
Trump Issues Executive Order on Gain-of-Function Studies Read Journal Article
None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. All are about respecting individual choice. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system.
Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System Read Journal Article
It’s never as easy as “blame” or “fault” or stringing up the bad guy, and then we can all go home. This is a policy and system problem, which is way bigger than any one individual in that system.
Why California Matters Read Journal Article
Trump’s instinct may well be right that globalisation had shifted the trading balance to America’s net disadvantage, and the new equilibrium that settles after his rupture of the existing world trading order will reposition the US to recover lost ground.
Making Sense of Trump’s Tariffs Read Journal Article
