Medical science

Scientists expelled by police at diabetes conference as Trump administration accelerates dismantling of biomedical research

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:38:23 GMT

The expulsion of leading researchers from the American Diabetes Association conference by armed police exposes the capitulation of medical institutions to the Trump administration’s fascistic anti-science agenda.

Long COVID affects twice as many Americans as official counts show, new AI study finds

Sun, 31 May 2026 22:48:30 GMT

A new AI study from Mass General Brigham finds that roughly one in six Americans who contracted COVID-19 developed long COVID, more than double the rate captured by official surveillance, exposing the human and economic toll hidden by flawed diagnostic systems.

The crisis of public health in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Arijit Chakravarty

Sat, 23 May 2026 03:25:29 GMT

The WSWS spoke with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty. Dr. Chakravarty is the chief executive officer of Fractal Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that applies mathematical modeling to drug discovery and development, and has headed an interdisciplinary team of volunteers that has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19.

US rural healthcare collapse accelerates under Medicaid cuts and privatization

Tue, 12 May 2026 03:14:48 GMT

One-third of rural hospitals face closure as the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” slashes Medicaid by over $900 billion, gutting healthcare for 60 million Americans to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and a $1.5 trillion military buildup.

BioNTech: Profit takes precedence over health—and 1,860 employees lose their jobs in Germany

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:11:29 GMT

The company which produced the first approved COVID-19 vaccine profited enormously, but not its workers.

War, genocide and the weaponization of healthcare: An interview with Bilal Irfan

Mon, 11 May 2026 05:13:30 GMT

Bilal Irfan is a US‑based medical and bioethics researcher working on Gaza and Palestinian health.

Reckless disembarkation of hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius exposes collapse of public health

Mon, 11 May 2026 01:44:56 GMT

As one of the French passengers repatriated from the MV Hondius developed symptoms mid-flight, the Trump administration announced it will neither quarantine nor test the 17 Americans returning from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

Trump dismisses hantavirus threat as outbreak spreads

Sat, 09 May 2026 05:02:27 GMT

The deepening hantavirus outbreak and the Trump administration’s response to it expose the catastrophic dismantling of US public health and scientific infrastructure six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship exposes the continuing threat of zoonotic spillover

Thu, 07 May 2026 05:04:17 GMT

A lethal hantavirus outbreak aboard the luxury vessel MV Hondius highlights how capitalist encroachment into ecological frontiers and global mobility transform localized zoonotic spillovers into urgent international public health crises.

Federal appeals court issues nationwide ban on telemedicine and mail access to abortion pill mifepristone

Mon, 04 May 2026 01:42:10 GMT

The decision has been appealed immediately to the US Supreme Court, which overturned abortion rights four years ago.

Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens indicted in political witch-hunt

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:06:41 GMT

The Trump administration has brought the indictment to cover up the criminal handling of the COVID pandemic under two administrations, and to legitimize the bogus claim that China deliberately created the coronavirus.

The gutting of the NIH and the capitalist assault on public health

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:55:02 GMT

The dismantling of public health through NIH funding cuts, CDC censorship and Medicaid rollbacks is a deliberate attack on the working class by the capitalist elite, for whom military spending and private profit supersede any concern for the American people.

The Pitt: The medical drama whose social realism and honesty have gripped millions

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:09:58 GMT

The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.

“The agencies have been pummeled down”: A conversation with Dorit Reiss on the state of American public health

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:07:26 GMT

Under assault by Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, his Secretary of Health and Human Services, the public health infrastructure of the United States is being destroyed.

The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:01:19 GMT

In this interview, Daszak responds to the inaugural “Scientific Freedom” lecture held at the National Institutes of Health under the sponsorship of NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, chosen for that position by vaccine denialist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because he opposed any serious public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:09:52 GMT

Stanley Plotkin, the virologist whose RA 27/3 rubella vaccine has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide, has reacted to the ongoing dismantling of public health with undisguised despair. This report traces the science he built, the class forces that made it possible, and the way forward against the ultra-right assault on vaccines.

Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:24:57 GMT

Federal judge delays sentencing of Chinese researcher Youhuang Xiang despite “time served” plea agreement

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:46:57 GMT

A right-wing judge has stalled sentencing to probe fines and finances, extending Xiang’s four- month incarceration amid a DOJ/university witch-hunt of Chinese scientists.

Peter Daszak and the scientific verdict on the origins of COVID-19

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:22:27 GMT

New peer-reviewed studies continue to build an overwhelming case for the natural origin of COVID-19, vindicating the life’s work of Dr. Peter Daszak—the scientist who predicted this pandemic and was then witch-hunted for it.

New AI model reads and generates genetic code across all domains of life

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:44:04 GMT

Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs from every domain of life, the Evo 2 model can predict disease-causing mutations, identify genomic features and generate entirely new genetic sequences.

The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:01:20 GMT

As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastrophe sustained by bipartisan political decisions.

CDC belatedly deploys team to South Carolina amid deepening measles outbreak

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:30:35 GMT

Five months into the worst measles outbreak since 1992, the gutted CDC dispatches three data analysts to South Carolina as measles spreads through ICE detention camps in Texas.

Kennedy deepens assault on the childhood vaccine schedule

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:41:37 GMT

Through mass firings, rigged appointments, and unilateral decrees, HHS Secretary Kennedy is dismantling the federal machinery behind childhood vaccination in the United States, provoking lawsuits from pediatricians and 15 state governments as preventable disease protections are stripped away.

Great Barrington Declaration author Jay Bhattacharya takes control of CDC as measles cases surge

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:59:14 GMT

The Trump administration has placed a Stanford economist who championed mass infection policies during COVID-19 as the single official in charge of both the NIH and CDC.

Kennedy’s attack on science and public health finds a platform on Theo Von’s podcast

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:59:29 GMT

Declaring he was “not scared of a germ” and that “he snorted cocaine off toilet seats,” RFK Jr used Theo Von’s platform to advance mistrust of science and undermine collective public health protections.

The measles vaccine: A product of two centuries of science and public health reform

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:04:52 GMT

For much of the 20th century, measles was regarded as an unavoidable illness of childhood, even as it killed millions of people worldwide each year. The development of a safe and effective vaccine fundamentally changed that reality.

Measles outbreak rips through Dilley child detention center, as nationwide epidemic deepens

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:24:28 GMT

An outbreak of measles being reported at the Dilley children and family detention center in Texas highlights a nationwide resurgence that threatens US elimination status and underscores the collapse of vaccination, surveillance and public health infrastructure.

An assessment of the ongoing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:09:53 GMT

This article examines the state of public health in the United States in January 2026, detailing mass COVID-19 infection, excess deaths, collapsing vaccination coverage, immune damage and the dismantling of institutions responsible for disease prevention.

The Pitt Season 2 and the challenges facing a serious television drama

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:33:01 GMT

The second season of The Pitt is being aired in the midst of historical events that have thrust healthcare workers into the spotlight in an unprecedented manner.

The US withdrawal from the WHO and the assault on public health

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:08:48 GMT

The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization marks a decisive turn toward nationalism and the dismantling of public health.

The death of a maternal health advocate brings mortality crisis of African American mothers into focus

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:55:28 GMT

The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black mothers in America.

The EPA sets the value of human life and health at zero: A further comment

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:16:31 GMT

By assigning zero economic value to lives saved through environmental protection while attributing full value to corporate profitability, the Trump administration is imposing the entire social and biological cost of production on the working class.

Trump’s EPA places a zero-dollar value on human life and health

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:27:51 GMT

The EPA moves to gut the evaluation of the cost of health impacts in regulating toxic industrial emissions.

Public health collapsing as COVID pandemic enters its 7th year

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:11:10 GMT

The systematic dismantling of public health services in the United States, including childhood vaccinations that have saved millions of lives, is a historic crime committed by the US ruling elite.

Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch: A character study of a woman with dementia

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:29:54 GMT

Kathleen Chalfant stands out, as she must, considering the theme of the movie. Now 81 years old, she is known for decades of work in film, television and especially theater.

CDC slashes vaccine schedule: Trump-Kennedy atrocity against children’s lives and health

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:15:36 GMT

The January 5, 2026 decision to revise the US childhood vaccine schedule marks a turning point in the destruction of public health.

Measles infections in Australia reach highest level since 2019

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:28:36 GMT

The rise in cases of the highly contagious, potentially deadly disease, 10 years after it was eliminated, is due to attacks on vaccination and public health, in Australia and internationally.

The anti–public health agenda and the resurgence of measles in America

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:13:19 GMT

The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.

German government’s drug commissioner advocates restricting medical care for the elderly

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:37:35 GMT

Drug commissioner Hendrik Streeck (CDU) has underlined the inhumane and de facto murderous measures the ruling class is prepared to take by proposing drastic cuts to medical care for the elderly.

Retired CDC vaccine expert blasts anti-science policy shift

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:06:43 GMT

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once the premier disease-fighting institution in the US, and even the world, has been taken over by anti-vaccine quacks under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy installs anti-vaccine loyalist, Ralph Abraham, to finish purge of CDC

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:53:07 GMT

Dr. Ralph Abraham, a former Republican congressman with a record of anti-vaccine activism, has been installed as the second-in-command of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signaling an end to any effective public health activity by the agency.

The CDC embraces bogus claims of autism-vaccine links

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:58:13 GMT

At the direction of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has embraced the unfounded claims of right-wing anti-vaxxers that childhood vaccines may be linked to autism.

Vaccines, infections and chronic diseases: A new understanding

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:17:31 GMT

Several new studies show that viral and bacterial infections like COVID-19 are potent drivers of “non-communicable” and especially cardiovascular diseases. This finding underscores why vaccination is now a foundational pillar of prevention of all disease, not just those for which the vaccines are formulated.

US state legislatures seek to destroy the public health apparatus

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:21:42 GMT

A recent Associated Press investigation revealing hundreds of anti-science bills across the United States anchors this analysis of the MAHA movement, whose integration with the Trump administration’s austerity agenda threatens public health, deepens inequality, and endangers the social gains of the working class.

Why the poor die 9 years earlier than the rich: An interview with Dr. Marc Cohen

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:17:45 GMT

Dr. Cohen is co-director of LeadingAge LTSS Center at University of Massachusetts Boston and has long studied the crisis of longevity in the US.

Class divide in US life expectancy reaches 9 years for elderly

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:39:39 GMT

New data on a widening nine-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor retirees demonstrates the devastating impacts of the US' profit-driven healthcare system.

2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for the discovery of Peripheral Immune Tolerance

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:18:03 GMT

The prize honored discoveries that defined peripheral immune tolerance through regulatory T cells (Tregs) and the FOXP3 gene, revealing how the immune system distinguishes self from non-self and opening new paths for autoimmune and cancer therapies.

Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:37:21 GMT

Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.

Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:45:53 GMT

Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:02:28 GMT

Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.