The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the ...

In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.

Many smart people reassured us that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was both qualified to run the NIH and motivated to make it a better place. They should make the case they were right.

That’s the contradiction embedded in this cutting-edge technology: It can often lead to panic rather than peace of mind.

For those with advanced ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or certain brainstem strokes, they can be what is referred to as ...

Summertime. And the living is easy. Janice Joplin has to be the best singer. Ever. There may be those in the comments who disagree, but remember, within the context of the blog, what I write is canon.

In 2023 Dr. Vinay Prasad said that scientists who recognized the limitations of randomized-controlled trials (RCTS) were ...

Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "mor ...

Nope. Not on the plenary session. “Turbo cancer” is, of course, a nonexistent phenomenon. While it is true that antivaxxers had been claiming that COVID-19 vaccines could cause cancer as early as ...

Five months ago, I called RFK Jr. an “extinction-level” threat to US biomedical science and public health. That extinction is under way. I hadn’t wanted to write about RFK Jr. again. Really, I hadn’t.

Saturday, a second child died of measles this year, a little more than a month after the first death of a child of measles in two decades had been reported. This brings the total number of measles ...