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Mar 14
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Minerals, deportations, and medicine. Inside Trump’s bilateral health agreements.
The Trump administration signed bilateral health deals with over 30 countries. Public records show who donated, who benefited, and what happened to…
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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A 30% Risk Reduction Sounds Big. The Actual Numbers Tell a Different Story.
A new study says GLP-1 drugs lower breast cancer risk. The real difference? Less than 1 percentage point.
16 hrs ago
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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The $2.5 Billion Reason Kenya Can't Say No
A Kenyan court blocked the Ebola quarantine facility. The government defied the order. Protesters marched. Here's where things stand.
Jun 2
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Who’s Selling You Creatine, and What They’re Not Saying
Hundreds of TikTok creators are selling creatine as a brain supplement. The people most drawn to those claims are the ones most likely to be harmed.
Jun 1
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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The Doctors Are Farming Cassava
USAID funded 70% of health supplies in North Kivu. Then it left. And then Ebola arrived.
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His own country wouldn't take him back.
An American doctor exposed to Ebola in Congo was sent to Prague for quarantine. His grandmother wants to know why.
May 29
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“Act Now Before It’s Too Late”
A doctor on the ground in Congo describes what’s coming if the world doesn’t respond to the Ebola outbreak fast enough.
May 29
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Why the Kenya Ebola Facility May Be Unconstitutional
Why "we won't help you come back" may violate the same rights as "you can't come back."
May 28
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The U.S. Has Tried to Wall Off Disease Since 1878. It Has Never Worked.
From shotgun quarantines in 1905 to airport screening that found 9 cases in 766,044 travelers, the U.S. keeps learning the same lesson and forgetting…
May 27
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The Best Screening Colon Cancer Screening Test Is the One You Actually Get
The American Cancer Society just expanded its recommended options for colorectal cancer screening. Whether your insurance will cover them is another…
May 27
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The people selling you peptides on TikTok are making money off your trust.
Alabama banned doctors from prescribing unapproved peptides. The federal government is moving to make them easier to get. Meanwhile, social media is…
May 27
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The Harder You Push, the Harder They Push Back
From mask mandates to Ebola quarantines, the same psychology drives resistance to public health measures. Coercion triggers the opposite of compliance.
May 26
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Why Citizenship-Based Travel Bans Fail the Precautionary Principle
From HIV to COVID to Ebola: the precautionary principle has been applied more aggressively to foreigners than to citizens for decades.
May 23
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My colleagues and I published op-eds about Ebola this week. Here's where we agree.
Ebola experts published op-eds this week. Different angles, same diagnosis: the response infrastructure was dismantled before the virus arrived.
May 22
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Disease, Borders, and Blame: A Seven-Century Pattern
From the Black Death to Ebola, disease control has been used to sort people by race and nationality. The pattern is centuries old, and it is happening…
May 21
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