Extract below from this week's Offline column by Richard Horton. Full text:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)02001-X/fulltext
'What was even more shocking than a US President telling pregnant women, “Don’t take Tylenol [paracetamol, acetaminophen], don’t take it… fight like hell not to take it”, was watching the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stand approvingly by his side. The White House briefing on Sept 23 was a live seminar in health disinformation...'
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org