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Healthcare

The real reason so many people in the US have unhealthy diets

Sorry, RFK Jr.: It's not the dye in Froot Loops—it's a problem you and Trump refuse to acknowledge or address
Healthcare Bruce Mirken -
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The missing 120 beds at Laguna Honda

While hundreds of San Franciscans are shipped out of town for skilled nursing care, why isn't the city fighting harder for the space that's already available?
Healthcare teresa palmer -
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Are Trump and RFK Jr. inviting a new AIDS pandemic?

The administration has implemented draconian cuts to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and foreign aid. We talk to the people on the ground.
Healthcare Bruce Mirken -
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SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

'The worst affront to the equal protection clause since Plessy v. Ferugson,' says longtime trans activist, urging unity.
LGBTQ Marke B. -
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Culture

The media’s dangerous ‘sanewashing’ of RFK Jr.

Bruce Mirken -
He's not a vaccine 'skeptic,' he's a cynic—and mainstream publications are playing a losing game with our health.
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Healthcare

Notes from the road to (health) hell

Bruce Mirken -
In Trumpworld, the unthinkable is now standard operating procedure.
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Healthcare

When fundamentalist religious thought replaces science, we are in serious trouble

Bruce Mirken -
Under RFK Jr, researchers are looking for data that supports their political agenda, not data that seeks the truth.
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Healthcare

Oh Canada! Newsom could tell Trump that the 51st state has free health care

Joel Schechter -
The governor wants to reach out to the right wing. How about offering to import Canada's health-care system?
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News + Politics

Trump’s attacks on trans people and public health escalate into a war on reality itself

Bruce Mirken -
Administration moves to purge scientific facts, stifle essential research, and erase entire populations.
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Medical and public health communities rally to oppose ‘bizarre, unfit’ Trump nominees

Bruce Mirken -
Thousands of professionals speak out against the parade of conspiracy-driving 'skeptics' up for crucial roles.
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Healthcare

The Luigi problem

Tim Redmond -
An alleged murderer has become a folk hero, on all sides of the political spectrum. The Democratic Party remains utterly clueless.
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COVID

Long Covid: The search for answers inches forward

Bruce Mirken -
Is the tide finally turning on research into the chronic illness—and funding at the federal level for prevention and a cure?
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Opinion

Opinion: Is it time for an ACT-UP for Long COVID?

Bruce Mirken -
As the dangers of Long COVID become more recognized, the country's going backwards on preventing new infections.
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Healthcare

UCSF moves to fire staffer who challenged school’s stance on Palestine

Griffin Jones -
Therapist defended renowned doctor who questioned the health impacts of Zionism; now she's facing dismissal.
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UCSF says it will ‘retain and grow’ services at two local hospitals …

Cydney Hayes -
... But nurses who work at St. Mary's and St. Francis are not convinced.
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Healthcare

Singing the insanity of the US healthcare system

Bruce Mirken -
Big Pharma spends a fortune on ads— but hardly anyone can figure out how much the medications really cost (and fewer can afford them).
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Opinion

I just caught COVID—right before essential safety measures expire

Charles Lewis III -
As someone uninsured, I was lucky to get free vax, tests, and Paxlovid. We may be all on our own after May 11
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COVID

Now the anti-vaxxers are resurrecting AIDS denialist lunacy

Bruce Mirken -
Far-right Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fans might want to be careful about clinging to nonsense that got its adherents killed.
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Healthcare

Long COVID has reached the ‘Russian Roulette’ stage in the US

Bruce Mirken -
As the nation seeks to return to a maskless, congregate 'normal,' the brutal virus is still out there, and repeated infections seem linked to longterm health problems.
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