This latest dispatch from the world of pharmaceutical safety comes from that drug class that is a gift that keeps on giving, the blockbuster weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1’s. These drugs continue to be hailed as modern miracles.
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Each year, as our primary means of sewage disposal, millions of tons of toxic sewage sludge, labeled as “biosolids,” are spread as agricultural fertilizer across our nation’s farmland, where rural Americans call home.
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President Donald Trump’s executive order invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to ensure US glyphosate production and availability is neither necessary nor helpful. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s endorsement of the order has created a firestorm in that health-interested base.
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This is a slightly shortened version of a New York Times article where Katrin Bennhold interviews Dani Blum of the Times’ “Well Team” about Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs. The Fifth Doctor snoops in on the conversation and adds his two cents’ worth.
What Does the Fifth Doctor Think about Ozempic? Continue Reading
If policymakers focus on separating normative functions from emergency authority, designing time-bound compacts instead of permanent command structures, and tying funding to measurable outcomes, global health cooperation can be rebuilt without recreating the structural distortions that weakened it.
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In invitations to screening, women have been told that by detecting cancers early, screening saves lives and leads to less invasive surgery. I shall demonstrate that all three statements are wrong.
The Three Big Lies about Mammography Screening Continue Reading
Our analysis reveals an unusual and temporally concentrated cardiovascular signal among adolescents. Until these findings are fully examined, serious concern remains that the vaccination campaign may have exposed children to risks that were not adequately evaluated at the time.
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The solution is not opposition to technology, but advocacy for balance. It is not anti-progress, but in favor of prudence. Medicine is not about doing more, but about doing what is right. Sometimes, this requires the courage to do less.
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We’ve lacked an objective poll that addresses the curiosities everyone has, with plain questions that get to the root of the controversies over health and medical issues. Health Freedom Defense Fund and Brownstone Institute initiated such a poll to find out.
Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows Continue Reading
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. Albertans will get to say if they want to leave Canada. But Canadian federalists can relax. The Alberta premier is one of them. The referendum is the fix to defeat Alberta independence.
The Fix Is in to Defeat Alberta Independence Continue Reading
The major pet food corporations do not merely sell food. They fund the university departments in the UK and the US where veterinary nutritional science is researched. They stock the waiting room shelves and put posters on the surgery walls.
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reports that illicit e-cigarettes are being used as part of trade-based money-laundering schemes linked to fentanyl trafficking. Illegal vaping products are no longer just a regulatory nuisance or a youth-use talking point.
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