Lever News • Dec 23, 2025
Too Big To Heal
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.
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Scheer Post • Dec 23, 2025
Humanity Is Ending by Design’: Hospitals in Gaza Pushed Past the Point of Failure
By Joshua Scheer Drop Site News reports that Gaza’s health system is on the brink of total collapse, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of life-saving medical aid despite a ceasefire that mandated full humanitarian access. Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a U.S.-based physician who has volunteered in Gaza multiple times and […]
Semafor • Dec 23, 2025
US regulator approves Wegovy weight-loss pill
The oral form of the revolutionary weight-loss drug is almost as effective as the injectable type.
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025
US plans to fund controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau
Washington is sending $1.6 million to a Danish research group “with ties to the US anti-vaccine movement,” reported NOTUS.
Lever News • Dec 22, 2025
Regulatory Ruptures For A Lab-Grown Blood Vessel
Despite controversies and safety concerns, biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators have allowed.
Scheer Post • Dec 19, 2025
Big Pharma Is Making Mexico Sick. Medicine and Supply Shortages Are Rampant.
Mexico manufactures medical devices and medicines, but the majority are exported, leaving residents facing shortages.
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Democracy Now Video • Dec 19, 2025
Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare
Democracy Now • Dec 19, 2025
Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare
The Trump administration on Thursday announced new measures to target hospitals and doctors providing care to trans youth. Under the new rules unveiled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, the government would strip federal funding for any hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. The new rules were announced a day after the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18 and subject providers to hefty fines and prison time. “This is a drastic departure from any concern about science, concern about parents and their rights,” says Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “It is putting hospitals in an impossible situation, and just another example of this administration undermining and threatening all of our health and welfare.” We also speak with Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist who works with transgender youth in New York City. He says the families he works with are “terrified right now,” but vows to continue his work. “I refuse to stop providing this care, knowing that I could potentially face 10 years in prison and a felony charge. I’m willing to go down that route, if necessary.”
Semafor • Dec 19, 2025
Kenya pushes back as US eyes more African health deals
A handful of countries have signed agreements with Washington but a Kenyan court case has raised growing data privacy concerns.
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‘Less lethal’ crowd-control weapons still cause harm – 2 physicians explain what they are and their health effects
The Conversation •
Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
The Conversation •
Confused by the new dietary guidelines? Focus on these simple, evidence-based shifts to lower your chronic disease risk
The Conversation •
Certain brain injuries may be linked to violent crime – identifying them could help reveal how people make moral choices
The Conversation •
Stroke survivors can counterintuitively improve recovery by strengthening their stronger arm – new research
The Conversation •
US exit from the World Health Organization marks a new era in global health policy – here’s what the US, and world, will lose
The Conversation •
RFK’s Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks
Mother Jones •
RFK Jr. Was Raw Milk’s Biggest Fan. Now He Won’t Return Industry Calls.
Mother Jones •
A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses’ daily challenges of patients and their families rolling their eyes, yelling and striking
The Conversation •
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