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The World Medical Association is shaping the future of ethical research! 🌍🩺 The BMJ highlights WMA’s role in revising the Declaration of Helsinki for fairness & transparency. Read more: https://buff.ly/3QtkfWI #MedicalEthics #MedSky #ClinicalResearch

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The UN human rights chief warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War Two has never before been under so much strain, calling for an effort to reinforce it or risk suffering the atrocities of the past reut.rs/4hQlbjQ

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Please listen and share. Reflections on the EU and the USA www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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Khaled El Mahmoud argues that the silence surrounding the suppression of #AcademicFreedom in #Germany raises urgent and fundamental questions. He asks: What responsibilities do academics and institutions bear in times of grave #Humanitarian & #LegalCrises? voelkerrechtsblog.org/special-edit...

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"The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats." Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat. #PublicHealth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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In 2025, we continue to advocate for policy based on scientific evidence. This 2020 Editorial, “We need leaders that believe in scientific evidence”, resonates today as loudly as ever: plos.io/34lyl59. PLOS Biology also continues to push for DEI and a diverse scientific community: plos.io/3rzxczU 🧪

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Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️! aspire.science.uva.nl

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Two superpowers opening discussions on the future of a country which one of them is still invading, without that country

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"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK" Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk. More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year. bit.ly/48SAtkf

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Combined childhood social and cognitive deficits impact on GCSE grades. New study results published authors: Michelle Black, Lateef Akanni, Nicholas Kofi Adjei, G J Melendez-Torres, Dougal Hargreaves, David Taylor-Robinson full paper: adc.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Last month, @/ClareMalone wrote about the threat that Kennedy, a skeptic of medical research, poses to public health.

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New Correspondence - Wang et al - Pathogens don’t respect politicians: US federal disruption poses a new threat to global public health https://buff.ly/4hsVANG #MedSky #IDSky #GastroSky #HepSky @pippa-matt.bsky.social @suwang88.bsky.social

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New publication from Dr James Smith "On the quantification of military violence in Gaza". @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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With DOGE, Elon Musk is not only sidelining Congress and threatening to defy the courts; he is also smuggling into our federal bureaucracy the seeds of a new authoritarian regime—techno-fascism by chatbot.

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#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

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Jeez. Now Trump sanctions the International Criminal Court, calls it 'illegitimate!’ The measure places financial and visa restrictions on individuals and their families who assist in ICC investigations of American citizens or allies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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“Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die” Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“The point is not a policy fight, it’s an execution. They are killing one agency to terrify a thousand others.” Susan B. Glasser writes about Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s takeover of the White House, and the dismantling of the U.S.A.I.D.

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“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

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Spot on

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Me, in The National this morning. www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

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Jeez. Trump has signed an EO to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Council. Just think about that

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Musk is sentencing millions of vulnerable people to death. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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A wave of studies and recent regulatory approvals have renewed interest in the health applications of psychedelics. Find out more in a new World Report from Talha Burki: tinyurl.com/ypz8tubr

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Trump’s declaration US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip sparks global condemnation – live

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This is ethnic cleansing. Live Updates: Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ but to Leave Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Webinar tonight on HIV in prisons, with @wetpaint63.bsky.social www.eatg.org/events/hiv-v...

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Elon Musk said on X last night that he is in the process closing USAID with Trump’s blessing.

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“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”

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25 years today, the Lancet retracted the Wakefield paper and I wrote this for @bmj.com. www.bmj.com/bmj/section-...

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Affiliate faculty member @merlinc2.bsky.social says public health has a long history of being used against asylum seekers – from repatriation to segregation, for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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All USAID still halted " PEPFAR was providing HIV treatment to an estimated 680,000 pregnant women, the majority of whom are in Africa. A 90-day stoppage could lead to an estimated 136,000 babies acquiring HIV, according to the amfAR analysis." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Unelected, unaccountable, and unqualified interloper now has access to important government data www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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Dozens of studies in recent years have linked ultra-processed fare to health problems such as high blood pressure and heart attacks, and also to some problems that one might not expect: cancer, anxiety, dementia, and early death.

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This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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A look at recent events from inside the NIH 🧪 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Austerity kills. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Did you know that if a child with #measles walks into a classroom, every unvaccinated child will most certainly get it? Why are measles cases increasing worldwide? And is the measles vaccine safe and effective? Dr Natasha Crowcroft explains on Science in 5. Watch full EP: bit.ly/40RQqoC

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Authoritarian states have always attacked universities and academics. It’s a well-documented pattern of behaviour historically. It’s happening in Trump’s America.

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Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding. NSF: Demonstrated the social determinants of vulnerability to dying from heatwaves in a period of climate change and demographic aging. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Delighted to share our new report 'climate change and health: embedding ethics into policy and decision making' that I have been leading on for the last year at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics: www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publication/...

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Health professionals need to start talking to people as peers, not as patients—something that anti-vaxxers have been doing successfully for years… New Hastings Bioethics Forum Essay by Nathaniel Mamo, READ bit.ly/3Cuo1vq #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #Vaccines #RFK

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Vaccines prevent tens of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of disease each year. Medical experts are concerned that those gains are in jeopardy. The percentage of Americans who consider childhood vaccines important has declined in the past two decades. time.com/7210769/robe...

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The Trump administration has moved to stop the supply of lifesaving drugs for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as medical supplies for newborn babies, in countries supported by USAID around the globe. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

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