Dengue: Brazil suspends rollout of new vaccine after two deaths

Trump: ADA president elect resigns after US doctors are ejected from diabetes meeting

Teen social media use for more than two hours a day linked to a raised risk of depressive symptoms, Australian study finds

Ebola: Outbreak cases are “tip of iceberg,” says Africa CDC official at centre of epidemic

Bit of a weird opening even my this newsletter’s standards?

Nicotine as a wellness product? The smoking alternatives being pushed by big tobacco

Will AI do more harm than good to the UK's mental health?

Study finds sharp decline in Black, Hispanic researchers receiving NIH funding buff.ly/vp2Pxh1

Trump administration proposes political review of all research grant proposals www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Trump: Diabetes doctors ejected from conference for handing out paper criticising US administration

Trump fact check: Did the president's health check show “extreme intelligence”? www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Snakebite: Climate change propagates risk as landmark study maps all 508 venomous species

Measles: Bangladesh and Pakistan outbreaks near 30 000 cases with over 170 deaths of children

Six ways Gavi will continue to immunise half the world's children amid vaccine backlash and a funding crisis

Wow www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Peanut allergy in adults: how is treatment changing?

Ebola: What you need to know and what to do about suspected cases

UK drug treaty with Trump will be challenged in court over NHS drug pricing

Ebola: Three vaccines rushed into development for Bundibugyo outbreak www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Designer peptides for wellness: are they safe?

India heatwave: Brutal temperatures highlight Modi's climate scepticism

Ebola: What you need to know and what to do about suspected cases | The BMJ

Ebola: Three Red Cross workers die as more than 1000 cases and 200 deaths reported www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Cuba: Hospitals on brink as oil runs out, causing 20 hour blackouts

NHS Online: What we do and don’t know about the bold new plan to revolutionise care

Who will be the next leader of the beleaguered WHO?

WHO should declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts say www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Amsterdam becomes first capital to ban ads for meat and fossil fuel based travel

Yale School of Medicine discriminates against white and Asian students, claims US justice department

Ozempic generic approved in Canada after Novo Nordisk doesn't pay $250 government fee

Sexually transmitted infections are surging across Europe, with syphilis and gonorrhea rates reaching record levels in 2024, according to figures published today.

www.ft.com/content/ec6f... The crisis in Japan’s love affair with plastic Great read

Ebola outbreak: 139 dead as WHO warns of “scale and speed” of spread in central Africa buff.ly/zQZ81HX

Marco Rubio’s comments on Ebola show he doesn’t understand what the World Health Organization does, the agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested today.

Ebola: WHO declares emergency as strain with no vaccine kills 100 in DRC and Uganda www.bmj.com/content/393/...

An American doctor exposed to the Ebola virus in Uganda will be admitted to a Prague hospital today.

Wrote about my 10 years at Disney. Mostly focused on their mismanagement of the FiveThirtyEight brand with more detail than I've spoken about publicly before. Not gonna lie, this felt kind of cathartic. Original post

Nicotine pouches: WHO calls for stricter regulation as tobacco industry targets young people

UK drug agreement with Trump faces legal challenge over changes to NICE www.bmj.com/content/393/...

You know you’re tired when you skim a press release and misread “UKHSA receives from Japan doses of the antiviral Fafnir for hantavirus”

Hantavirus: Quarantined British passengers are discharged to home isolation buff.ly/3qZvuDB

Tedros saying Malaysia Boleh was not on my bingo card

Medical negligence: Heirs can be sued for compensation, India’s Supreme Court rules

Norovirus: 50 cruise passengers fall ill with viral gastroenteritis in France

WHO fails to agree final part of pandemic agreement

Abortion: Mifepristone access hangs in the balance as US Supreme court considers sweeping restrictions

Struck-off doctors are finding jobs in other EU countries, investigation finds

AI: “Deepfake doctor” chatbot is hit with lawsuit in US

OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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