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‘I’m going to hang in until RFK Jr fires me’: Famed US specialist talks to AusDoc about working in Trump’s America
“It is slash and burn for public health,” says Dr Paul Offit. Earlier this year, the rotavirus vaccine co-inventor had been preparing for the annual…
Reaping what RFK Jr helped to sow? Measles is back in the US
There is irony of a dark kind in the fact that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment as US health secretary comes at a time when…
Trump’s ‘biological truth’ of two sexes and the medical mutilation of children
It is worth running the quote in full, so there is no ambiguity. “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing…
So an ‘anti-vax conspiracy theorist’ is now US Health Secretary – what happens next?
Branded an anti-vax conspiracy theorist and science denialist by at least one leading US doctor, Robert F Kennedy Jr has finally been confirmed as the…
Stressed surgeons linked to fewer complications for patients: study
Surgeons, like elite athletes, may produce better outcomes if they are displaying higher physiological stress in the early stages of surgery, a study shows. US…
Surgeons almost ‘come to blows’ when retrieving organs for transplants
A transplant doctor has described how tensions can rise during organ retrievals on dead patients, with surgeons in one case coming close to fisticuffs over…
Trump’s great public health experiment: What happens when you give the car keys to the medically deluded?
The US, despite its vast resources, has long struggled to provide all of its citizens with healthcare in times of need. Vested medical and insurance…
US specialist jailed for 190 years after ‘surreptitiously’ injecting IV saline bags with bupivacaine
An anaesthetist has been given a 190-year prison sentence after injecting bupivacaine, adrenaline and other drugs to IV saline bags, resulting in cardiac emergencies and…
First paediatric case of bird flu reported in the US
Health authorities have reported the first known US case of H5N1 avian influenza in a child. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
