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Multiple contemporary reports and commentaries estimate that USAID-related funding cuts have been linked to substantial excess deaths, but . Published analyses presented here range from an 80,000 deat...
Junior (resident) doctors in the UK are paid on structured NHS scales that vary by training grade, location and extra “enhancements” for nights, weekends and on‑call; basic pay for junior doctors rang...
Randomized trials show inconsistent or modest effects of masks at the individual level, while larger syntheses and public-health bodies conclude masks and respirators reduce transmission—especially wh...
The available reporting and expert surveys find no scientific evidence that “chemtrails” — covert toxic sprays from high-flying aircraft — exist; multiple reviews and a survey of 77 atmospheric scient...
Available reporting shows more COVID-19 deaths and higher excess-death signals occurred during the period after January 2021 than before, but comparisons between “Trump years” and “Biden years” are co...
The assembled evidence identifies as the most consistently observed rare long-term adverse events associated with the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine, particularly after mRNA dosing in younger age gr...
Large safety reviews and surveillance systems report that most consequences of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are short‑lived (local pain, fatigue, fever) but rare serious events have been ...
Legal and regulatory definitions and policy treatments of “vaccine” in the United States have shifted from broad, program-driven public‑health mandates toward more product‑and‑risk‑based and individua...
Dr. Mehmet Oz has faced broad criticism over the years for promoting health claims on his show that lack solid evidence; independent fact‑checks have found less than one‑third of advice on The Dr. Oz ...
Florida has announced an intention to end all vaccine mandates, and state health officials have begun rulemaking to remove certain Department of Health–imposed school-entry requirements, but the state...
Available randomized trials and meta-analyses show that reducing overall sodium or using potassium-enriched salt lowers blood pressure in people with hypertension, and subgroup analyses report effects...
The Lancet first published a 27‑author statement on Feb 19, 2020, endorsing the view that SARS‑CoV‑2 most likely had a natural origin and “strongly condemn[ing] conspiracy theories” to the contrary, a...
Multiple peer-reviewed and investigative assessments conclude that a substantial share of U.S. COVID-19 deaths during 2020–early 2021 were avoidable and plausibly attributable to failures of policy an...
Available reporting shows multiple different people named Paul Cox in public records and journalism — notably ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox, a physician Paul Cox in Atlanta, and other unrelated figures ...
Peer‑reviewed clinical research has both supported and questioned broad claims about intermittent fasting (IF); large systematic reviews and network meta‑analyses generally find IF produces weight los...
Conflicts of interest and prior funding ties played a central, contested role in shaping the scientific community’s initial response to the lab‑leak hypothesis: early, authoritative statements that fr...
A small set of randomized trials of ivermectin for COVID‑19 were later retracted or flagged for serious integrity problems — most prominently the Elgazzar trial and several other studies with impossib...
Pfizer has been subject to court orders and Freedom of Information battles over release of its trial documents; a judge ordered the FDA to release Pfizer data at 55,000 pages a month after the agency’...
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS), founded in 1948, is a publicly funded, universal care system that covers a broad range of hospital and physician services with little or no point‑of‑service cha...
Clinical trial and guideline evidence give remdesivir a modest, clinically supported benefit for some hospitalized COVID-19 patients (shortened recovery time; a meta-analysis and network review put re...