Healthcare

Politicized federal funding rule could spell disaster for California aid programs

OMB's breathtakingly broad proposal would subject disaster recovery, medical research, healthcare, more to ideological review.

News + Politics Bruce Mirken - June 30, 2026

Looking for trustworthy health info? Here are six sites that cut through the noise

Mass media, caught in a tsunami of cutbacks and misinformation, is dropping the ball on accurate reporting.

Healthcare Bruce Mirken - May 10, 2026

Trump maxes human endangerment with greenhouse gas ruling rollback

Climate change has already killed people. And death is generally agreed to be bad for one’s health.

Environment Bruce Mirken - February 16, 2026

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. - February 2, 2026

Opinion

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

Bruce Mirken - February 1, 2026

With his influential lies about the cause of AIDS, the quack left a trail of death and doubt that continues to this day.

Healthcare

Optional vaccines? CDC chair’s bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

Bruce Mirken - January 29, 2026

Vaccine panel head Kirk Milhoan says 'science is what I observe' and questions polio shot, among others.

Healthcare

The US fails again to fix the real causes underlying poor health

Bruce Mirken - January 14, 2026

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

Healthcare

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

Bruce Mirken - December 19, 2025

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

Healthcare

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

Bruce Mirken - October 2, 2025

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 - August 27, 2025

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

Healthcare

The missing 120 beds at Laguna Honda

teresa palmer - August 19, 2025

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

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

Bruce Mirken - July 24, 2025

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

LGBTQ

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

Marke B. - June 18, 2025

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

Culture

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

Bruce Mirken - June 5, 2025

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 - May 6, 2025

In Trumpworld, the unthinkable is now standard operating procedure.

Healthcare

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

Bruce Mirken - March 30, 2025

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

Healthcare

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

Joel Schechter - March 24, 2025

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

News + Politics

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

Bruce Mirken - February 9, 2025

Administration moves to purge scientific facts, stifle essential research, and erase entire populations.

Healthcare

Medical and public health communities rally to oppose ‘bizarre, unfit’ Trump nominees

Bruce Mirken - January 14, 2025

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

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Healthcare

Politicized federal funding rule could spell disaster for California aid programs

Looking for trustworthy health info? Here are six sites that cut through the noise

Trump maxes human endangerment with greenhouse gas ruling rollback

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

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

Optional vaccines? CDC chair’s bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

The US fails again to fix the real causes underlying poor health

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

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

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

The missing 120 beds at Laguna Honda

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

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

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

Notes from the road to (health) hell

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

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

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

Medical and public health communities rally to oppose ‘bizarre, unfit’ Trump nominees

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