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Opinion: What should hospitals do when patients demand unvaccinated donor blood?

“You have to understand a person's belief if you want to address it,” Deva Sharma says on the “First Opinion Podcast” about requests for unvaccinated donor blood.

June 1, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: Medical schools diversified. So where are all the diverse doctors?

Why are residency programs disciplining and dismissing trainees in a system funded to train them?

June 1, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: The military’s medical corps has a serious recruitment problem

Congress must incentivize more physicians (and their employers) to join the military medical corps, writes the former attending physician to Congress.

June 1, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: I’m a weight-loss doctor. Here’s why I worry about GLP-1 ‘microdoses’

Long term, we don’t know what tiny doses of GLP-1s for cosmetic weight loss can do, writes a weight-loss doctor.

May 29, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: Ebola at the World Cup? Here’s what we should actually worry about

“Infectious disease threats during the World Cup will almost certainly look much more familiar than frightening headlines suggest,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.

May 28, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart

“This erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation,” writes MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

May 27, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: Sen. Dick Durbin: Trump is letting Big Tobacco target children

“Trump has willingly exposed an entire generation of children to Big Tobacco’s nicotine addiction,” writes Sen. Dick Durbin.

May 27, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: The patients demanding unvaccinated blood transfusions

If you've been vaccinated against Covid-19, some patients might not want your donated blood.

May 27, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: It’s the end of science as we know it, and I feel fine

“Science itself is inherently resilient — that is, after all, why it’s science,” writes Jonathan Jackson.

May 27, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: The Ebola outbreak will lead to devastating violence against women and girls

“Women and girls in eastern Congo will be harmed in predictable, named ways over the next 12 months,” write researchers Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff.

May 26, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: 8 former CDC directors: Reform PEPFAR, don’t dismantle it

A State Department plan scheduled to be implemented June 1 would strip the U.S. of decades of disease defense, write eight former CDC directors.

May 26, 2026 · 1 min read

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Opinion: The innovation trap: How pharma weaponizes a word to extend monopolies

“Just because a company invests does not mean it has invented anything novel,” Tahir Amin and Rohit Malpani write in this excerpt from “Pharma Monopoly.”

May 26, 2026 · 2 min read