The World Press Freedom Index dropped this week and America did NOT get a good score.

A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked RFK Jr.’s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule. The American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups sued the Department of Health and Human Services arguing Kennedy’s changes violated federal law. The judge agreed.

Doing, a simple but powerful message #WFOT2026

Ooh - neat app. Shared #WFOT2026

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

MicroRNAs Linked to Long COVID Damage www.thailandmedical.news/news/microrn...

Laura Rice described the co-design of #mHealth app to support fall prevention program for wheelchair users. Findings: people wanted meaningful icons, intuitive navigation, training, search option & help desk, & accessibility. #WFOT2026 @participatorymed.bsky.social

Co-designing a lifestyle-oriented intervention for people with chronic pain: rapid analysis | 1 theme: need for flexible, personalized, hands-on intervention. - Julie Masse #WFOT2026 @participatorymed.bsky.social

Absolutely! #WFOT2026

Free app, 3DADAPT, connects people with disabilities & clinicians/students to find and order small 3D devices. Sara Benham #WFOT2026 #AssistiveTech

“Partnerships start by doing. Start by doing something small. Genuinely co-ownership involves open and honest communication and problem-solving.”-Samantha Shann, WFOT President #WFOT2026 @participatorymed.bsky.social

Grateful to the Society for Participatory Medicine (S4PM) for a travel award to an international occupational therapy conference. S4PM promotes patients' role in collaborative relationships with health professionals to achieve better health and well-being. @s4pm.bsky.social participatorymedicine.org

“If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it.” - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher

AHRQ Webinar: Prepping for the Future: Digital Solutions for Aging Populations Date: Dec. 17, 2025 | 1:30 – 3:00pm ET Register (free) at digital.ahrq.gov/national-web...

AAHD 2026 Scholarship Program, Frederick J. Krause #Scholarship on Health and Disability, is awarded to students with a disability who are pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies related to health & disability. deadline: Mar. 6, 2026. aahd.us/initiatives/...

There has to be more to this. Maybe they are trying avoid the medical costs of the coming purges?

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

Join @NASEM Health & Medicine Div. for a 2-day virtual workshop, Sept. 29-30, addressing personal protective equipment (PPE) to safeguard workers in U.S. farm settings against Influenza A (H5N1) and practices to prevent transmission between livestock & humans. Register: mailchi.mp/nationalacad...

AHRQ National Webinar on Prepping for the Future: Digital Solutions for Aging Populations (free) Wed., Oct. 8, 2025, 2:30 - 4:00 PM (UTC-04:00) ET (US & Canada) ahrqwebinar.webex.com/webappng/sit...

Thanks @atrupar.com for the video clips from today's hearing. Here is one to consider bsky.app/profile/atru...

Research funded by NIH: repeated head impacts from contact sports can cause early and lasting changes in the brains of young- to middle-aged athletes, & these changes may occur years before chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) develops its disease features. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Rhode Island Energy, our state’s utility monopoly, was just caught overcharging state agencies by millions of dollars! I am calling for a complete and thorough audit of RI Energy’s residential and commercial accounts to make sure these kinds of mistakes never cost us again.

Republicans Who Voted Against 9/11 Families Tweeted "Never Forget" Today 3 of them are now running for governor of their state meidasnews.com/news/republi...

The CDC has quietly and drastically scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking the food-borne illnesses estimated to sicken millions of Americans each year.

Breaking News: Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. He could face decades in prison. nyti.ms/4pyzL3Q

HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return. DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.

NEW: Senate Republicans have BLOCKED Schumer's effort to release the Epstein files. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

An SLP, 2 OTs, & 1 physiatrist walk into the Hilton Chicago & .... present: "Clinical Implementation of Cognitive Rehabilitation Best Practices Using the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System" on 10/29/25, 1:15-2:15 pm. Presenters: K. O'Brien, K. Watters, N. Corro, & J. Whyte. #ACRM2025

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Israel killed baby Jouri when they dropped a missile on their home in Khan Younis. Her name was Jouri Lafi, means the rose in Arabic. Jouri was only (4) 💔😪🤬

RFK Jr. will testify before a Senate panel next week. The Finance Committee hearing was in the works before Wednesday’s CDC shakeup.

NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.

The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.

Source: STAT Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push www.statnews.com/2025/08/21/s...

President Trump said he would work to get rid of mail-in ballots and sign an executive order “to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” The Constitution makes it unlikely he can change voting rules unilaterally.

New Study Uncovers How a Little-Known SARS-CoV-2 Protein Hijacks Human Cells www.thailandmedical.news/news/new-stu...

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

James Madison was elected in 1812 during the War of 1812. Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1864 during the Civil War. FDR was elected in 1944 during WWII. JBJ & Nixon were elected in 1964 & 1972 during the Vietnam War. George W. Bush was elected in 2004 during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The multimillion-dollar settlement came as President Donald Trump continued to make false claims about voting machine fraud.

The decisions made by the White House can have unexpected knock-on effects. In the past week, OpenTable reported that restaurant bookings have plunged by 27 percent since Trump began his push to federalize DC’s police. We dig deeper on #playbookpod: ow.ly/1i4850WHwFE

Texas in 2025.

Breaking news: The Justice Department will begin sharing records related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, the House Oversight Committee chairman said in a statement.

Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.

"People with #LongCovid — those who have new or persistent symptoms lasting three months past infection— have experienced worse financial & employment outcomes, lasting up to three years after their initial infection, compared with people who haven’t had the disease" www.politico.com/newsletters/...