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? Read Journal Article
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.
How to Build a Post-WHO Global Health Architecture Read Journal Article
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 Read Journal Article
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.
271 Teenage Cardiac Reports Buried in a File Labeled “Garbage” Read Journal Article
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.
The Quiet Crisis of Procedural Medicine Read Journal Article
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 Read Journal Article
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 Read Journal Article
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.
They Are Experimenting on Your Dog Read Journal Article
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.
FinCEN’s Warning—and the Predictable Failure of Prohibition Read Journal Article
A medical journal expressed concern that someone with no health care experience was leading one of the foremost organisations dedicated to ensuring good clinical decisions. Wilson made the organisation ineffective, and his actions harmed Cochrane’s mission about ensuring high scientific standards.
Can Cochrane’s New CEO Save the Sinking Ship? Read Journal Article
Despite the availability of advanced tools to manage human life, societies are seeing spiraling rates of illness, loneliness, and anxiety, with resilience on the decline. This paradox highlights a contradiction that has become increasingly apparent in the face of significant progress.
The Moral Ecology of Community Read Journal Article
Books on history are written by the “victors;” that is, by the dominant paradigm, and such books give an inadequately accurate view of history. The books written by Dr. Coulter are therefore a refreshing and even compelling review of medical history.
The Great Harris Coulter Read Journal Article
