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Good riddance to the World Health Organization — more aptly called the Woke Health Oligarchy.

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They offer a more nuanced approach. This shift could improve clinical care, public-health policies and societal attitudes toward obesity, says Elisabeth van Rossum, an endocrinologist at the ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...

The surge in the “medical freedom” movement has thrust the tension between individual liberty and public health into the ...

Public health officials have warned that new mutations of bird flu with human flu could have dangerous consequences.

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