Last fall, a man who calls himself Chemical Analyst allowed two New York Times reporters to watch on a secure video call as he packaged ultrapotent synthetic drugs for distribution. These chemicals now flood the modern drug market. Many have psychoactive effects that are much more intense than those of traditional drugs. One newly emerging…
Illicit labs are creating new synthetic drugs at breakneck speed. Dangerous, untested compounds are reaching users long before health agencies know they exist. Older drugs are regularly modified to create novel threats. Ecstasy is a prime example. The party drug MDMA has been illegal since 1985. Its molecular structure can be drawn like this: But…
Case 1:25-cv-11916-BEM Document 291 Filed 03/16/26 Page 30 of 45 51 Milhoan, 50 Dr. James Pagano, Dr. Raymond Pollak, 52 -appear to lack any expertise or professional qualifications related to vaccines or immunization as required by ACIP’s Charter. See ACIP Membership Roster, supra note 16. An additional three of the…
The 5-Day Brain Health Challenge A sharper, more resilient mind starts here. Friday Make 5 Appointments Today, you’re going to do perhaps the single best thing for your brain. When I asked neurologists about their top behaviors for brain health, they all stressed the importance of physical activity. “Exercise is top, No. 1, when we’re…
Ron Curtis, an English professor in Montreal, lived for 40 years with a degenerative spinal disease, in what he called the “black hole” of chronic pain. On a July day in 2022, Mr. Curtis, 64, ate a last bowl of vegetable soup made by his wife, Lori, and, with the help of a palliative care…
Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. The government says they are protected. The government says they are protected. We tested the air at one fire to find out why they are still dying….
Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. The government says they are protected. The government says they are protected. We tested the air at one fire to find out why they are still dying….
For decades, as an activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resisted the scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and necessary to prevent serious disease. Now at the helm of the nation’s health department, he has begun to put his extreme views into practice, ousting veteran scientists and installing allies across the nation’s health agencies to enact…
ADVANCE RESEARCH Vaccine Injury HHS, in collaboration with NIH, will investigate vaccine injuries with improved data collection and analysis, including through a new vaccine injury research program at the NIH Clinical Center that may expand to centers around the country. Water Quality The EPA and USDA, along with other…
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much autonomy the agency’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, had. After all, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk’s signature cost-cutting project, helped drive decisions to cancel…
