March 6, 2026

05a Health

Royal College of Psychiatrists Lied About Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs on BBC– www.madinamerica.com

pgnewser March 3, 2026

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From Peter Gøtzsche’s Substack: “There is a mental health crisis in the UK where mental health disability has almost trebled in recent decades, and the gap in life expectancy between people with severe mental health issues and the general population has doubled.

Responding to the crisis, the outgoing president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Lade Smith, claimed on BBC radio two weeks ago that the pandemic of mental illness, which affects one in eight people, is clearly distinguishable from the mental health challenges we all experience; that it requires medical treatment because “If you don’t get treated, things get worse;” and that effective psychiatric treatments are available that can prevent the chronicity that leads to people going on benefits.”

The Mirage of ‘Pro-Worker AI’ via Public Policy | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

pgnewser March 3, 2026

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Calls for governments to push “pro-worker AI” sound appealing. The idea is simple: If policymakers deftly guide how the technology develops, they can make sure it helps workers instead of replacing them. What’s not to like?

Here’s your trouble: Technology almost never works that neatly. Its effects on jobs are usually messy, unpredictable, and shaped by millions of decisions from businesses and entrepreneurs—not by a policy plan designed in Washington.

That’s a core point in a recent critique by economist Joshua Gans of a proposal from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson to steer AI toward worker-friendly uses. Gans says the idea runs into a basic contradiction. The proposal defines “pro-worker” technology as something that makes human capabilities and expertise more valuable. But those things are valuable partly because not everyone has them. If a new technology spreads skills more widely, it may help more workers overall—while at the same time reducing the pay advantage of those who once had rare skills.

A 3D-Printed Elephant Inside a Living Cell Signals a Bioengineering Breakthrough– www.discovermagazine.com

pgnewser February 25, 2026

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Developments in bioengineering keep moving the needle between reality and science fiction. From genetic editing with the CRISPR-Cas system and growing functioning organoids in petri dishes to brain cells on microchips — scientists continue to surprise us with cutting-edge inventions.

Now, for the first time, researchers from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, established a method to 3D print microscopic structures inside living human cells. To demonstrate the detail and versatility of the technology, they printed a tiny elephant, alongside other microscopic geometric objects and barcodes for cell labeling, into the interior of a cell.

Study Falsely Claims Abortion is Safer Than Childbirth– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser February 24, 2026

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Abortion bans will expose women giving birth to “44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion,” according to a new study from the University of Maryland and Brown University.

The lead author, Maria Steenland, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, claims, “Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.”

But what is the new evidence their analysis is based on?

Sam Altman Defends A.I. Energy Use With Human Comparison, Spark Debate– observer.com

pgnewser February 24, 2026

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Sam Altman challenged critics of A.I.’s water and electricity consumption. Photo by John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images

Sam Altman is pushing back on mounting criticism over the environmental toll of A.I. The OpenAI chief has dismissed claims about A.I.’s water consumption as “fake” and drawn comparisons between the electricity required to power A.I. systems and the energy it takes to develop human intelligence.

Figures suggesting that tools like ChatGPT consume multiple gallons of water per query are “totally insane” and have “no connection to reality,” Altman said in a Feb. 20 interview with The Indian Express on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. Last year, Altman claimed that ChatGPT uses 0.000085 gallons of water per query—roughly one-fifteenth of a teaspoon—though he did not explain how he calculated that figure.

A.I.’s water footprint largely stems from the need for evaporative cooling systems used to keep data center hardware from overheating. But Altman argued that companies like OpenAI are no longer directly managing such cooling processes. Many A.I. developers, he noted, are shifting toward cooling systems that recirculate liquid rather than continually drawing fresh supplies. Meanwhile, tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon have pledged to replenish more water than they withdraw by 2030.

Scientists Threaten Planet with Pandemic if We Don’t End Global Warming

pgnewser February 18, 2026

A team of Romanian researchers appear to be the tip of the spear of a new climate change content market strategy involving dangerous bacteria. The researchers have discovered bacteria in ice cores from 5,000 years ago that appear immune to most current antibiotics. The researchers warn if global warming continues, the melted ice could release these bacteria, leading to a global, catastrophic pandemic.

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Scientists warn melting ice could release 5,000-year-old superbug that resists 10 modern antibiotics – timesofindia

A team of Romanian researchers has identified a bacterium preserved for roughly 5,000 years inside an underground ice deposit that can already withstand multiple modern antibiotics. The organism, recovered from Scărișoara Ice Cave in north-west Romania, survived frozen conditions for millennia yet showed resistance to drugs routinely used today to treat infections of the lungs, skin, blood and urinary tract. The study, recently published inFrontiers in Microbiology, warns of both the potential risks and scientific value of organisms exposed as warming temperatures reach long-sealed environments, including areas covered by permanent ice such as glaciers, ice sheets, and ice caps, which together cover approximately 10% of the Earth’s land surface.

A microbe preserved in ice

To retrieve this strain, the research team drilled a 25-metre ice core from the cave’s “Great Hall”, representing about 13,000 years of accumulated ice. To avoid contamination, fragments were placed in sterile bags and transported frozen to the laboratory, where multiple bacterial strains were isolated and sequenced.

Researchers drilled a 25-meter ice core from Scărișoara Ice Cave’s Great Hall to isolate microbes/ Daily mail

The most notable organism identified was Psychrobacter SC65A.3, a cold-adapted bacterium belonging to a genus previously associated with infections in humans and animals.“The Psychrobacter SC65A.3 bacterial strain isolated from Scarisoara Ice Cave, despite its ancient origin, shows resistance to multiple modern antibiotics and carries over 100 resistance–related genes,” Dr Purcarea said.

Circular representation of the complete genome of Psychrobacter sp. SC65A.3. From the outermost to the innermost rings/ Frontiers

Genetic analysis showed the strain carries more than 100 resistance-related genes. When researchers tested it against 28 antibiotics from 10 classes routinely used in human medicine, the bacterium proved resistant to 10 of them, including drugs used to treat infections of the lungs, skin, blood, reproductive system and urinary tract such as trimethoprim, clindamycin and metronidazole.“The 10 antibiotics we found resistance to are widely used in oral and injectable therapies used to treat a range of serious bacterial infections in clinical practice,” said Dr Purcarea.The findings also clarify a broader point about resistance itself.“Studying microbes such as Psychrobacter SC65A.3, retrieved from millennia-old cave ice deposits, reveals how antibiotic resistance evolved naturally in the environment, long before modern antibiotics were ever used.”

Why the discovery matters, risk and benefit

Researchers emphasise that ancient microbes do not automatically translate into a coming pandemic, but they do represent genetic reservoirs. If thawing environments release them, their resistance traits could transfer to contemporary bacteria.“If melting ice releases these microbes, these genes could spread to modern bacteria, adding to the global challenge of antibiotic resistance,” Dr Purcarea explained.Antibiotic resistance is already widely linked to overuse of antibiotics, which reduces their effectiveness over time. The new findings indicate some resistance mechanisms did not originate in hospitals or agriculture but were present in nature long before human medicine.Scientists note that warming climates increase the chance of exposure to long-frozen organisms. A frequently cited example occurred in 2016, when a Siberian heatwave thawed permafrost and exposed an infected reindeer carcass, triggering an anthrax outbreak that killed a child and infected at least seven people, the region’s previous outbreak having occurred in 1941.

A possible medical resource, not just a hazard

The same genome that carries resistance traits also contains unexplored biology. Researchers identified 11 genes capable of killing or inhibiting bacteria, fungi and viruses, along with nearly 600 genes whose functions remain unknown.According to the study, cold-adapted strains may act as reservoirs of antimicrobial compounds and enzymes.“On the other hand, they produce unique enzymes and antimicrobial compounds that could inspire new antibiotics, industrial enzymes, and other biotechnological innovations,” said Dr Purcarea.She added that the organisms themselves are scientifically valuable but must be handled carefully:“These ancient bacteria are essential for science and medicine, but careful handling and safety measures in the lab are essential to mitigate the risk of uncontrolled spread.”

from timesofindia.indiatimes.com

WHO Shutdown Continues as member nations fail to come to the rescue

pgnewser February 18, 2026

The World Health Organization (WHO) is shutting down major parts of its operation as it continues to run out of funds. The WHO will be shutting down the Department of Policy, Law, and Human Rights. The WHO and its surrogates continue to appeal to nation-states to rescue it before it’s too late, but so far, there are no takers to that challenge.

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Facing Existential Challenges, WHO Shuts Down its Policy, Law, and Human Rights Unit – madinamerica.com

“The Department of Policy, Law, and Human Rights at the World Health Organization is officially closed,” mental health podcaster and pianist Chad Lawson said in a video posted to Instagram on February 11. “Let that sit for a second.”

Lawson posted the video in response to an email announcing the closure from WHO unit staff Dr. Michelle Funk and Natalie Drew, which began circulating on February 10. The announcement prompted an outpouring of diverse responses from activists, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers around the world.

“I am not sure why I was shocked to see the WHO human rights unit shutting down,” Sera Davidow, co-founder of Roots Up, and who has provided guidance on rights-based support to the United Nations and WHO, told Mad in America via text message. “Yet shock was indeed my first reaction.”

Trump FDA rejects Moderna application for mRNA-based flu vaccine– www.lifesitenews.com

pgnewser February 18, 2026

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(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has notified pharmaceutical giant Moderna that it will not be reviewing its application for a new mRNA-based flu vaccine, continuing the Trump administration’s pivot away from the technology that was introduced to the country with the controversial COVID-19 shots.

Time magazine reports that almost two years ago, Moderna submitted Phase 3 data touting the purported effectiveness of mRNA 1010.6, the first influenza vaccine to use mRNA, and has been in talks with the government ever since. But on February 3, it received a Refusal to File letter from the FDA declaring its application “is not sufficiently complete to enable a substantive review.”

Glossary at Boston U. Teaching Hospital Says ‘Biology’ Doesn’t Define Sex– legalinsurrection.com

pgnewser February 18, 2026

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The glossary is full of exciting, new progressive words and phrases.

Boston U. teaching hospital glossary says ‘biology’ doesn’t define sex

The primary teaching hospital of Boston University’s medical school recently updated its “Glossary for Culture Transformation” to include dozens of ideologically loaded terms, a medical advocacy group found.

For example, Boston Medical Center’s glossary includes entries for “assigned sex at birth,” “LGBTQIA+,” “fatphobia,” “anti-blackness,”

Bacterial strain from 5,000-year-old cave ice shows resistance against 10 modern antibiotics– phys.org

pgnewser February 17, 2026

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Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth’s most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero. Ice caves are just one of the environments hosting a variety of microorganisms that represent a source of genetic diversity that has not yet been studied extensively. Now, researchers in Romania tested antibiotic resistance profiles of a bacterial strain that until recently was hidden in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice of an underground ice cave—and found it could be an opportunity for developing new strategies to prevent the rise of antibiotic resistance and study how resistance naturally evolves and spreads. They reported their discovery in Frontiers in Microbiology.
from phys.org

Canada Horror: Woman Euthanized Without Her Consent– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser February 11, 2026

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… For instance, take Zoraya ter Beek, a 29-year-old, who, in 2024, ended her life via doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands. According to The Guardian, she did so on the “grounds of unbearable mental suffering.”

Such deaths are permitted if a patient has “unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement.” Another such individual is Aurelia Brouwers, a young woman who died in a starkly similar way.

“I’m 29 years old and I’ve chosen to be voluntarily euthanized,” Brouwers said before her death. “I’ve chosen this because I have a lot of mental health issues. I suffer unbearably and hopelessly. Every breath I take is torture.”

These cases are heartbreaking and prove that the slippery-slope alarms sounding for far too long should have been heeded, but, tragically, they have been ignored. And, unfortunately, the chaos doesn’t come from only these mental health loopholes.

Detransitioner’s Lawsuit Victory Sets Precedent Trans Doctors Might not Survive

pgnewser February 10, 2026

At the end of last month a malpractice lawsuit was ruled on that opens the door for more challenges to the medical industry’s rush to push patience into transgender surgeries and chemical “therapies.” The lawsuit awarded a 16-year-old girl $2 million for being hastened into life-altering “therapies.” After a couple of weeks have followed, the ruling appears to be setting off a potential wave of new lawsuits by more detransitioners that could price most transgender treatments out of the market.

More lawsuits could not only bankrupt the programs that have done more than offer transgender therapies to patients, but they also aggressively pushed them in part by not clearly letting their patients know the cost of transitioning, and they lowered the previous standards for determining if this type of treatment is needed after all.

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On January 30, the first-ever verdict in a medical malpractice suit filed by a gender detransitioner was handed down, with a New York jury awarding 22-year-old Fox Varian $1.6 million in damages and $400,000 for future medical expenses. Varian had sued her psychologist and surgeon for uncritically diagnosing her with gender dysphoria and giving her a double mastectomy when she was just 16 years old.

Although the award was less than the $8 million sought by Varian and her attorneys, legal observers say the verdict likely marks a tipping point for the gender-affirming medical industry.

Within days of the announcement, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a statement recommending that surgeons now delay “gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery” until patients are at least 19 years old.

Their conclusion? “Available evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of children with prepubertal onset gender dysphoria experience resolution or significant reduction of distress by the time they reach adulthood, absent medical or surgical intervention.”

AMA Abandons Trans Surgeries for Kids

pgnewser February 4, 2026

The American Medical Association, a bastion of Progmericanism, has conceded the battle against children by announcing it no longer supports transgender surgery for children. The association stated, “the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement…the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

This followed up this comment from the organization in 2021, “The American Medical Association (AMA) today strengthened its established position opposing the governmental intrusion into the practice of medicine that is detrimental to the health of transgender and gender-diverse children and adults. Legislatures in 20 states this year proposed banning physicians and other health care professionals from providing medically necessary gender-affirming care to transgender and gender-diverse youth…”

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The American Medical Association Changes Stance on ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care for Kids – townhall.com

Yesterday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) announced it no longer supported “gender-affirming surgeries” for children under 18 years old. It marked the first major medical organization to shift policy around “gender-affirming care,” and many noted it only happened in the wake of a $2 million malpractice lawsuit that was won by detransitioner Fox Varian, who underwent a mastectomy as a teenager. Varian sued her psychologist and the doctor who removed her breasts.

Now the American Medical Association (AMA) said it agrees with the ASPS about the surgeries.

AI Undermines Medical Education—Trainee Doctors May Never Learn Vital Skills– www.madinamerica.com

pgnewser February 3, 2026

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Will the ubiquity of chatbots lead to a generation of doctors who don’t know their stuff? That’s the danger, according to a new editorial in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

The authors, led by Jacob Hough at the University of Missouri, outline the many ways that AI use can undermine medical education, like automation bias, de-skilling, and providing false information.

“These tools can fabricate sources, encode bias, lead to over-reliance and have negatively disruptive effects on the educational journey. Medical programmes must be vigilant about these risks and adjust their curricula and training programmes to stay ahead of them and mitigate their likelihood,” they write.

Radical Changes Could be Coming to ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’– www.madinamerica.com

pgnewser February 3, 2026

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From CNN. “The American Psychiatric Association announced Wednesday that it is radically reconceptualizing the main manual that clinicians use to make a mental health diagnosis. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will likely get a new name, new voices shaping its content and a new approach that will add more layers to a diagnosis.

The hope is that it will turn what some call “psychiatry’s bible” into more of a guidebook to mental health disorders — one that’s more inclusive, dynamic and educational, so patients will receive more effective treatments.

While APA updates the manual regularly to reflect the most up-to-date science, the last update was 2022. Over the years, the DSM has come under heavy criticism. Some argue it’s not scientific enough, others argue it’s not specific enough, or even practical.

TikTok Deal Officially Closes, and the CCP will be Happy

pgnewser January 28, 2026

The TikTok deal has officially closed, with a “mostly American” investor group mutually led by Oracle and Silber Lake. ByteDance will still have a 20% stake, meaning TikTok will help fund the CCP. The venture will be led by a board that will have a majority of U.S. directors on it.

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Deal for TikTok to Operate in U.S. Officially Closes, Desperate Dems of Course Call for an Investigation – RedState

For years, the fate of social media titan TikTok has hung in the balance, with potential deals falling through which would have overcome concerns about just how safe it was for people in the U.S. to use.

One of the concerns over the platform was that with the parent company ByteDance being based in China, it has entaglements with the authoritarian government and Chinese Communist Party. So, in the waning hours of the Biden administration, Congress passed a law that would ban access to the site unless it sold to a new owner outside China.

The new Trump 47 administration also took it up with the Supreme Court in an amicus brief, but SCOTUS chose not to stand in the way of the ban, something that President Trump delayed several times in hopes of making a deal.

Canadian Man Killed His Wife by Getting a Doctor to Euthanize Her– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser January 28, 2026

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The story of the Canadian woman, known as Mrs. B, who was killed by euthanasia after her spouse experienced care-giver distress, even though she had requested palliative care, has been reported by several media reports.

To provide greater context I went to the original MDRC committee report of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario titled: Navigating Complex Issues within Same Day and Next Day MAiD Provisions. This was the MDRC 2024 – Fourth report.

When examining Same Day or Next Day euthanasia provisions the MDRC report states:

A small proportion (4.8%) of all Track 1 MAiD deaths occurred on the same day or next day of a request for MAiD. In 2023, 65 MAiD provisions (1.4% of Track 1 MAiD deaths) occurred on the same day of a request and 154 MAiD provisions (3.4% of Track 1 MAiD deaths) occurred on the next day of a request.

Political Turmoil Delivers Defeat to French Euthanasia Bill

pgnewser January 28, 2026

The state of French politics has helped defeat an end-of-life bill in their Senate that would have allowed doctors to euthanize patients. The bill was essentially allowed to die in the Senate after it had passed the National Assembly. Unfortunately, the euthanizers still have hope of bringing the bill back to the Senate if the National Assembly can fix the concern by some that, as written, it was too permissive.

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France Senate Kills Horrible Euthanasia Bill – Life News

I have great news. The political deadlock in France has resulted in France’s euthanasia bill, that had passed in the French National Assembly on May 27, 2025 was essentially rejected by the French Senate on January 21, 2026.

Thomas Mangin reported for Euroactiv on January 21 that:

France’s end-of-life bill has become mired in political deadlock, exposing deep ideological divisions over whether doctors should be allowed to provide patients with the means to end their lives, or assist them in doing so.

The impasse deepened on Wednesday evening, when the French Senate rejected Article 4 of the bill, which sought to define the conditions under which patients could access medical aid in dying. In an unusual alignment, conservatives and socialists voted together, albeit for sharply different reasons.

Harm for Profit: Are Nursing Homes Drugging Residents to Avoid Paying for Adequate Staffing?– www.madinamerica.com

pgnewser January 22, 2026

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Long-term care facilities commonly prescribe antipsychotic drugs to elderly service users, often to treat behavioral issues associated with dementia. Despite a lack of evidence that these drugs are effective for older adults, and at least one study finding that antipsychotics exacerbate behavioral problems in nursing homes, prescription rates continue to climb.

While efficacy is questionable, the harmful effects associated with antipsychotic drugs in elderly populations is not. Antipsychotic prescriptions in elderly service users are linked to increased risk of pneumonia, stroke, kidney injury, blood clots, falls, bone fracture, heart attack, heart failure, anticholinergic reactions, parkinsonian events, tardive dyskinesia, orthostatic hypotension, cognitive slowing, and death.

Hospitals Gouge Patients By Gaming Trump’s Order To Post Prices– thefederalist.com

pgnewser January 22, 2026

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Surprise medical bills have bludgeoned most Americans. In fact, about half of insured Americans face unexpected charges every year. In 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act, which banned out-of-network billing rates for some services. It also entitled patients who aren’t using health insurance to a “good faith estimate” of out-of-pocket costs before receiving care. But there’s a catch that stacks the deck against patients and taxpayers: final bills within $400 of the original estimate are legally collectible.

After stinging GOP losses in November, health care “affordability” is all the rage. Voters are frustrated that every other medical appointment brings another unexpected charge and an inevitable battle of wills and wits with the billing department. Christopher Jacobs recently opined in these pages that “Republicans should stop playing into Democrats’ hands and start … reducing the underlying cost of health care.”

17 House Republicans Cave on Subsidies, Avoid Reforms– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser January 22, 2026

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Seventeen House Republicans gave California Democrats a late Christmas present this month when they crossed the aisle to vote for extending enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies for another three years.

Not only did they move these massive handouts one step closer to permanent entitlement status, but they failed to advance reforms that would actually lower health care costs, like closing the Intergovernmental Transfer loophole that has cost taxpayers tens of billions over time.

The Senate should stop this bill in its tracks and—in anticipation of pushback from those who have never seen a government expansion they didn’t like—prepare to argue to the public why propping up a broken system won’t reduce health insurance premiums. As I argued in The Hill, these subsidies just mask the true cost of government distortion.

University incorporates anti-white ideology Marxist Ideology into medical course

pgnewser January 20, 2026

The University of Maryland is teaching its doctors to hate white people through a course called “Decolonizing Medicine: Steps to Actionable Change.” The course claims it covers how “colonial legacies” still affect “global health systems.” It also claims the “concept of the White Body” was the standard for medical training.

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, told The College Fix, “The title of the course as well as the description reflects the ideological view of oppressors (white colonialists) versus the oppressed (people of color), a fundamental anti-white racist view. The statement that modern medicine has been shaped by ‘colonialism’ makes no sense to me … Modern medicine was shaped by scientific advances.

“The purpose of medicine, according to the late Donald Seldin, is to relieve pain, reduce disability, and postpone death. It is not about social reform. Framing medicine through Marxist concepts of oppression is destructive of the art and science of medicine,” Orient added. “Doctors are not called to judge their patients’ worth or to engage in cultural revolution.”

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Physicians are raising concerns over new course offerings at the University of Maryland that incorporate identity politics into various public health and medical programs at the public institution.

“Decolonizing Medicine: Steps to Actionable Change” is a one-credit undergraduate public health course, first taught in the spring of 2025 and offered again this semester.

Designed for students studying medicine, public health, or health policy, it covers how “colonial legacies” impact “global health systems” and the “concept of ‘the White body’” as the standard in medical training, according to the university registrar’s catalog. The “student-facilitated discussion-based” course also is open for registration for the current spring semester as a two-credit elective.

Scientists Reverse Advanced Alzheimer’s in Mice: Why We Must Never Give Up on Patients– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser January 20, 2026

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A recent study published in Cell Reports Medicine demonstrated that, under the right conditions, the brain can repair itself using a compound that restores NAD+ levels.

Although conducted in animal models, this research offers a ray of hope for someday treating Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It serves as a vital reminder that we must never abandon hope or withhold care from anyone, no matter how fragile their medical condition or health.

For decades, AD has long been thought to be permanent and irreversible. Yet, researchers from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland found that restoring proper levels of the critical cellular energy molecule NAD+ not only prevented AD-like pathology in mice but also reversed advanced cognitive decline and brain injury.

Case Studies Contradict Accepted Wisdom About AI Psychosis– www.madinamerica.com

pgnewser January 15, 2026

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More and more people have been experiencing psychosis induced by AI chatbot use. This is concerning since chatbot use is so prevalent, especially among young people and those who are in distress and vulnerable (one recent study found that about a quarter of young adults used chatbots specifically for mental health advice).

Reassuringly, psychiatry’s stance is that anyone who experiences this was already “prone to psychosis”—that the chatbot simply triggered delusions that would have been triggered some other way. Yet there is no evidence to support this explanation, and the case reports of those who have experienced AI psychosis tell a different story.

Contraceptives in China now taxed in reversal of subsidization policy

pgnewser January 14, 2026

For three dedaces, Chinese citizens would not pay taxes on contraceptives, which includes drugs and condoms. Now, Chairman Xi has ordered a 13% value-added tax on contraceptives to discourage fertility. The move comes as the population has dropped for three years in a row, and the drop is only expected to plummet in upcoming years.

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China taxes condoms, contraceptive drugs in bid to spur birth rate – Reuters
from news.google.com

HONG KONG, Jan 2 (Reuters) – China removed a three-decade-old tax exemption on contraceptive drugs and ​devices from January 1 in new steps ‌to spur a flagging birth rate.

Condoms and contraceptive pills now ‌incur value-added tax of 13%, the standard rate for most consumer goods.

The move comes as Beijing struggles to boost birth rates in the world’s second-largest economy. ⁠China’s population fell ‌for a third consecutive year in 2024 and experts have cautioned the downturn will ‍continue.

China exempted childcare subsidies from personal income tax and rolled out an annual childcare subsidy last year, following ​a series of “fertility-friendly” measures in 2024, such as ‌urging colleges and universities to provide “love education” to portray marriage, love, fertility and family in a positive light.

Trump Moves to Reschedule Medical Marijuana: A Christian Wisdom Test– www.standingforfreedom.com

pgnewser January 14, 2026

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The decision to reclassify marijuana for its medical benefits is neither a catastrophe nor a simple victory but is instead a policy shift that allows faithful Christians to reject the cultural chaos of recreational drug use without abandoning those dealing with illness and pain.

A week before Christmas, President Donald Trump reclassified marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, a move that would finally recognize what millions know from experience: Cannabis has legitimate medical applications. “People who struggle with chronic pain, including the elderly, cancer patients, and wounded soldiers, have spent years begging for this change,” Trump told reporters.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s foundation immediately attacked the move as “a win for the weed industry.” In addition, 26 House Republicans warned that it “will send the wrong message to children, worsen addiction issues, and give billions in tax cuts to the weed industry.”

They’re not entirely wrong. But wounded veterans are still suffering.