Independent analysis of the US-UK trade deal finds the NHS will divert billions from essential services to pay for American medicines — a structural transfer of purchasing power that analysts project will cause 229,000 excess deaths. Labour signed it anyway.
RFK Jr. is demanding that a scientific journal explain why it retracted a vaccine study he used to justify federal policy changes. The study was pulled for methodological failures. That sequence — policy first, retracted evidence second, pressure on the journal third — is the story.
The Trump administration refused to publish a multi-year international alcohol study. The findings — showing cancer risk at light-to-moderate drinking levels — would have triggered mandatory updates to federal dietary guidelines. The alcohol industry has been lobbying against exactly that outcome fo
Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, publicly blamed RFK Jr. for the resurgence of measles and whooping cough. It is the clearest Republican accountability for a public health failure that was entirely predictable — and one senator's X post is not the same thing as a consequence.
The EPA's proposed rollback of Biden-era PFAS drinking water limits doesn't dispute the science linking forever chemicals to cancer. It simply removes the legal requirement to act on that science — and the industry that spent decades causing the contamination spent years lobbying for exactly this ou
The term 'food desert' suggests a natural void. Food apartheid names the system that created it — and identifies who profits from keeping it in place.
Community organizations in Oakland's Latino neighborhoods built hospital-based violence intervention programs with documented results. Federal funding cuts are now forcing them to scale back — a policy choice whose consequences are not speculative.
The emergence of cychlorphine proves prohibition doesn't stop drug use — it forces underground chemists to create increasingly dangerous compounds that evade each new restriction.
A ProPublica investigation documents rising measles and whooping cough rates in states that weakened vaccine requirements following RFK Jr.'s recommendations — a public health crisis the administration refuses to acknowledge.