The ‘bot holiday’ and why clinicians can’t tackle disinformation alone
While there is global consensus from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Surgeon General, and others that disinformation is a problem, how to best solve it is up in the air.
While there is global consensus from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Surgeon General, and others that disinformation is a problem, how to best solve it is up in the air.
At best, claims of widespread vaccine hesitancy across African nations are uninformed speculation. At worst, they are attempts to distract people from the injustice of unequal access to Covid-19 vaccines by blaming Africans.
The rights of the incarcerated to self-determination are limited. But expanding them shouldn't start with the choice to shun a shot that authorities say will help them survive.
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As I read a message from a friend who opposes getting vaccinated against Covid-19, I take a breath and try to remember that perspective, that feeling of being so sure I was right and that almost all of modern science was wrong.
Linking Covid-19 testing and contact tracing to vaccination might seem obvious, but it isn't happening nationally. Instead, the three continue to be siloed.
It seems vaccination — long viewed as a chore or an I’d-rather-not or, for many adults, a completely forgotten part of preventive health care — is having a moment.
Democrats are attacking Trump’s vaccine development process as rushed and politically motivated. And they’re taking pains to make sure their rhetoric doesn’t fuel further vaccine skepticism.
Public trust of scientists is hard-earned, and constantly faces erosion. Those who believe in science must stand vigilant against science denial, recognize it, and address the concerns that underlie it.
Steven Salzberg, who proposed widespread Covid-19 vaccinations while Phase 3 trials are ongoing — and then issued a mea culpa — talks with @statnews about the experience.
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is resigning from Moderna’s board of directors amid conflict of interest questions.
Public health advocates across the country trying to halt outbreaks of measles, whooping cough, and now Covid-19 face racist and violent memes, threats, physical attacks, and more from anti-vaccine extremists.
A former FDA commissioner and a former acting CMS administrator suggest four approaches to address rising drug prices in a provocative editorial.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual order amid what he said was a measles "crisis" in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section.
@SGottliebFDA's threat of federal mandates for #vaccines is questionably legal and poor policy.
Russian bots and trolls took to Twitter to sow divisions on the effectiveness of vaccines, researchers say.
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Craig Egan spent his summer chasing the Vaxxed bus across the U.S. to protest its anti-vaccine message. He's not sure he's changed minds. But he's had fun.
India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization has classified more than 200 drug makers as high-risk.
Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala discusses the opioid crisis, kids and obesity, and how the Clinton Foundation stays out of the election.