Hodgkin’s lymphoma had a 56% survival in the 1970s.
Today, survival rate is 87%.
Thanks to:
Chemotherapies
Scientific research
Biopharmaceutical therapies
Evidence-based medicine
Not:
"Alternative" treatments
Wellness grifting
Defunding research
Undermining oncologists
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Doctors are debunking RFK Jr’s claim that 20 hospitalized measles cases in Texas are there for mainly quarantine. Doctors on the ground say the 20 kids hospitalized are having trouble breathing. Oh and they are all unvaccinated against measles, which RFK Jr neglects to mention.
Last year it was reported that cervical cancer rates in young women had plummeted by over 65% since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in 2006 and I can't stop thinking about how that is probably one of the last major public health achievements we're going to see for long time
So by leaving
the World Health Organization & the Paris Climate Agreement
renewing oil drilling leases in Alaska
adding taxes to fruit and vegetable imports
increasing prescription drug prices,
deactivating health information websites,
we are making America healthy again?
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A child in CA stricken with presumptive bird flu may have potentially contracted via raw milk. "Since announcing recalls of raw milk due to contamination with bird flu, CA public health experts have received reports of illnesses from 10 individuals who reported drinking raw milk”