Budget en péril, réformes en attentes : L’OMS face à ses contradictions

Tout remède sérieux aux difficultés budgétaires de l’OMS doit d’abord réduire les privilèges exécutifs inutiles. L’avenir de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) est plus incertain que jamais. La demande officielle des États-Unis de se retirer de l’organisation le 20 janvier 2025 et de cesser tout financement futur a privé l’OMS de 1,28 milliard de dollars, […]

Government efficiency : yes, thwart medical innovation : no

Across the United States, several emerging policies are putting both medical innovation and patient access to lifesaving drugs at risk. Although these measures are often promoted as efforts to reduce healthcare costs and assert greater national control, they could end up limiting access to new treatments and slowing scienitific progress. Patients have strong reasons to […]

The three words RFK Jr. relies on

It would be a stretch to say that Health and Human Services (HHS) is being led for the first time by someone who is out of their depth, but it’s certainly the case that, for the first time, its chief is deeply suspicious of most modern medicine. Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as HHS […]

Should U.S. Billionaires Dictate Health Policy Overseas?

New York’s former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, known for his obsession with paternalistic policies such as banning Big Gulps, or even just the arrogant statement that sin taxes’ regressive effect on poor people is good because they lack the proper education, has continued being active in the world of public health through Bloomberg Philanthropies. The charity arm of Bloomberg, […]

Infinite scroll and auto-play unjustly under fire

About a year ago, the European Parliament addressed once again the now mainstream concern of the “addictiveness” of social media, claiming that features such as infinite scroll and auto-playing videos are to blame for hocking users to their apps.