Yaakov Ophir

March 12, 2026

271 Teenage Cardiac Reports Buried in a File Labeled “Garbage”

Editor Health Brownstone Institute, Yaakov Ophir, Yaffa Shir-Raz

[The third author of this article is David Shuldman.] Two hundred and seventy-one. That is the number of serious cardiovascular events reported among adolescents in Israel’s national surveillance system in just a few weeks during mid-2021. This is the core finding of our study, published this week in the International Journal of […]

September 19, 2025

Pharma’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

Editor Health Brownstone Institute, Yaakov Ophir, Yaffa Shir-Raz

“I’m approaching this as a doctor, not as a senator… I applaud you [Secretary Kennedy] for joining the president in a call for radical transparency…I believe it that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed. If he had been President Obama, he would have gotten it. But […]