Blood transfusion is one of the cornerstones of modern medicine, used in a spectrum of situations from traumatic injuries to chronic illnesses that impair red blood cell production. About every two ...

Our new Secretary of Health and Human Services wants to change CDC messaging about vaccines to emphasize "informed consent." ...

Will new studies cause large numbers of anti-vaxxers to say "Wow. It turns our vaccines don't cause autism after all. I've ...

"Journalist" Paul Thacker defends Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the Great Barrington Declaration by rehashing the same old ...

An excellent article on the BBC gives a good overview of the continuing controversy over universal lockdowns as a pandemic ...

Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who ...

The many doctors who are just now realizing that misinformation wasn't "COVID hysteria nonsense" have a lot of catching up to ...

What, exactly, is dyslexia? What causes it, how should it be diagnosed, and stemming from that, how should it be treated? We ...

I'm taking a few weeks away from the blog. So today, an open thread with a request for suggestions on topics that you feel have been unexplored by the blog. Let me (and the other contributors) kn ...

Several years ago, Dr. David Gorski coined the phrase “everything old is new again” to describe how contrarian doctors perfectly parroted what “old school” anti-vaxxers said about measles and the MMR.