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❝One study, Teegarden pointed out, found a correlation between UPF consumption and accidental death—a statistical oddity that likely indicates residual confounding rather than causation. ‘So be careful if you’re eating a candy bar and walking under an air conditioning unit,’ he joked.❞

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Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk? Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus. Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️ 🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social

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A shocking new study has claimed that the human brain is becoming contaminated with growing amounts of microplastics www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

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At the rate Trump, Musk and MAGA are destroying science research, we must prepare to lose access to precious resources like PubMed & ClinicalTrials.gov @hildabast.bsky.social absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...

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1/ RFK Jr.’s book falsely claims that Dr. Fauci orchestrated a “coup” against democracy during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is baseless conspiracy nonsense. Dr. Fauci followed established public health protocols to protect lives. There’s no evidence of a secret takeover.

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Happy Women and Girls in Science Day 🥳 I am really looking forward to today's lecture at the Medical University of Vienna featuring Elisabeth Bik, THE image forensic expert!

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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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Got the symptoms but still testing negative for #COVID? New research shows it’s common for tests to miss early infections, even if you’re symptomatic. Here’s the latest:

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A new #longcovid roadmap has been complied by 36 global experts. Published in The Lancet it delineates key drug candidates, trial design & biomarkers. Now we need ACTION! 🖇️ tinyurl.com/3nwyhd6t

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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

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Decedent brains showed significant accumulation of microplastics, especially in dementia cases, raising urgent health concerns. by Nihart AJ, Garcia MA (...) Campen MJ et 18 al. in Nat Med #MedSky 📖 read the article:

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The current strain of bird flu is spreading from wildlife and livestock to house cats. To keep pets healthy, many virologists and veterinarians say, house cats shouldn’t eat raw food and should be kept indoors. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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As I read yet another story about microplastics:

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This might be of use to my colleagues.

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What could possibly go wrong?

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book. “The world is awash with bullshit, and we are drowning in it.”

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I can confirm through a separate source that this is true. This also includes CDC staff who had manuscripts already accepted to journals and otherwise on the verge of publication — those too have to be retracted.

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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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CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) -- which, since 1990, has tracked high school students' behaviors that can influence health and social outcomes (like smoking, drug use, and dietary habits) -- is now offline

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They removed the HIV Surveillance System website and data from cdc.gov. Just unbelievable

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The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

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What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...

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Working on an article today about TB in Kansas and thought, “I should see if there are any updates in MMWR…” Then I remembered that it’s on hiatus because of… y’know… AAAARGH.

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There is a lot going on in the world, in our country, & in our state right now. Righteous anger & anxiety & exhaustion is justified on so many fronts, but please, remain kind amidst this all? It’s incredibly difficult to do, but this morning, feeling the need to type this out, especially for myself.

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feel like it might be worth pointing out that when we admiringly recommend that someone "be canonized," we are recommending in part that they be dead

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Released #OTD in 1964, "Dr. Strangelove" - "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." - #MovieSky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSof...

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“Over the last five years, my small farm alone has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on biosecurity,” www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person.

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