Medical

retractionwatch.com 8/10 ?

Editors of semantics journal resign, launch new journal after publisher ‘ultimatum’

The entire editorial board of a semantics journal owned by Springer Nature has resigned to launch a new one, citing pressure from the company to increase their annual publication volume by 25%. All 28...

2026-06-05

Dr. Robert Malone 8/10 ?

Friday Funnies: Dog Whistle

versus dog wisdom

2026-06-05

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[World Report] Rik Peeperkorn: health and humanitarianism in Gaza

After 5 years as the WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, Rik Peeperkorn reflects on one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises. John Zarocostas reports.

2026-06-06

Herbal Academy 7/10 ?

Herbal Academy Student Feature: Rae Bellows (@wildoriginsbotanicals)

Rae Bellows (@wildoriginsbotanicals) is the owner of Wild Origins, which creates hydrosols and seed-to-bottle herbal products. Besides distillation, Rae spends her time in consulting and educational o...

2026-06-05

WHO News Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

Africa CDC and WHO launch joint continental Ebola response plan

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a jointcontinental preparedness and response planon the ongoing Ebola outbreak...

2026-06-05

NEJM Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

Obinutuzumab or Tacrolimus in Primary Membranous Nephropathy

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

2026-06-05

Jon Rappoport 7/10 ?

Trump issues Order to align US vaccine schedule with Europe…good news?

Google reports: “President Trump has issued an executive order directing federal health agencies to align the U.S. core childhood vaccine schedule with those of peer, developed countries, supporting a...

2026-06-05

The Lancet Pfizer Sponsored 7/10 ?

[World Report] Hypertension control: a South Korean success story

South Korea is one of the few countries considered to have controlled hypertension thanks to concerted policy over the past 15 years. Faith McLellan reports.

2026-06-06

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[Perspectives] Donald Warne: redressing inequities in Indigenous health

“I love primary care medicine, but my frustration with it was that almost everything I was dealing with was preventable”, recalls Donald Warne, Professor in International Health and Co-Director of the...

2026-06-06

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[Perspectives] Still dying: adverse birth outcomes among Black people in the USA

Khiara Bridges, a lawyer and anthropologist, has long wrestled with inequities in pregnancy outcomes between Black and White people. In her first book on the topic, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of...

2026-06-06

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[Perspectives] The way forward

Although school shootings remain rare, each time one is reported in the media it is met with shock and disbelief. Over the past two decades, school shootings have increased in the USA and have also ha...

2026-06-06

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[Perspectives] Ethical shunts: an old woman in an Italian emergency department

Silvana was an 82-year-old woman living in a nursing home in northern Italy with right-sided weakness and aphasia after a stroke. One evening the medical staff found her on the floor next to her bed, ...

2026-06-06

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[Obituary] Harold Ellis

Surgeon, exceptional educator, and expert in clinical anatomy. Born on Jan 13, 1926, in east London, UK, he died in London, UK, on March 25, 2026, aged 100 years.

2026-06-06

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[Correspondence] Time to integrate pets in One Health surveillance

The increasing risks to human health and society from the triple planetary crisis (ie, climate change, loss of biodiversity, and pollution) underscore the need for a holistic One Health framework to s...

2026-06-06

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[Correspondence] Minocycline for acute ischaemic stroke: limitations of the EMPHASIS trial

The EMPHASIS trial reports a modest increase in 90-day functional outcomes with a 4·5-day minocycline course.1 Although this study helpfully re-examines neuroprotection in the reperfusion era, several...

2026-06-06

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[Correspondence] Minocycline for acute ischaemic stroke: limitations of the EMPHASIS trial – Authors’ reply

We thank Sherief Ghozy and colleagues for their comments on the EMPHASIS trial.1 We agree that neuroprotective strategies in acute ischaemic stroke should be interpreted in the context of statistical ...

2026-06-06

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[Articles] Efficacy and safety of finerenone in patients with chronic kidney disease: an individual participant data pooled analysis (INFINITY)

In the studied populations with CKD, finerenone reduced the risk of CKD progression, including kidney failure alone, and reduced heart failure hospitalisation, cardiovascular death, and all-cause deat...

2026-06-05

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[Comment] Finerenone: kidney protection beyond type 2 diabetes

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes one death every 20 seconds.1 CKD ranks among the fastest growing global causes of death, forecast to become the fifth most common cause of death by 2040. Type 2 dia...

2026-06-05

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[Correspondence] WHO and Africa CDC declare the 2026 Ebola disease outbreak a public health emergency

The 2026 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in DR Congo and Uganda, caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense), represents one of the most consequential epidemic emergencies in Africa. T...

2026-06-05

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[Correspondence] Urgent call for an Ebola truce in DR Congo

The current outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DR Congo and Uganda is not only a biomedical emergency, but a test of whether global health diplomacy can be made operational ...

2026-06-05