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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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Healthcare

Rainbow Families Action fights for local trans kids with protests, board resolution

Facing federal ban on gender-affirming care, parents of trans kids join with labor and Sup. Chan to stand up to attacks.
Healthcare Marke B. -
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HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

With his influential lies about the cause of AIDS, the quack left a trail of death and doubt that continues to this day.
Opinion Bruce Mirken -
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Optional vaccines? CDC chair’s bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

Vaccine panel head Kirk Milhoan says 'science is what I observe' and questions polio shot, among others.
Healthcare Bruce Mirken -
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The US fails again to fix the real causes underlying poor health

Flipping the food pyramid and banning SNAP for 'junk food' don't address class, race, and other social determinants of health.
Healthcare Bruce Mirken -
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Healthcare

A year of living dangerously: Trump’s war on public health—and how to fight for the future

Bruce Mirken -
MAHA-calypse 2025 saw devastating cuts, wild propaganda, and infectious diseases unleashed. Experts tell us how to move forward.
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Healthcare

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine madness will make America sick again

Bruce Mirken -
The Health and Human Services Secretary's rampage at the CDC this summer exposed the dangers of his ignorance.
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Healthcare

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

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

The missing 120 beds at Laguna Honda

teresa palmer -
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?
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Healthcare

Are Trump and RFK Jr. inviting a new AIDS pandemic?

Bruce Mirken -
The administration has implemented draconian cuts to HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and foreign aid. We talk to the people on the ground.
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LGBTQ

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

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

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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