What causes drug shortages? Sometimes it is obvious. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Increased demand= shortage. tribune.com.pk/story/256895...

What happens to drug use after shortages?...New study examining 2010 to 2024 in multiple countries of Europe and North America www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Leucovorin...far be it from historians to predict the future, but can we not forsee yet another shortage coming that will impact cancer patients everywhere? theconversation.com/what-is-leuc....

Former student (Qmeds 1995) serving in Gaza. 6 min BBC interview. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x8mow...

“Tests by two foreign laboratories show that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned before his death in an Arctic penal colony last year, his wife said” www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

Very informative reporting on the resurgence of Typhus is Texas. All infectious diseases seem to have sensed the abandonment of science and public health measures and are seizing the moment. This is not the type of job secure I want 🫠 www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

Gov'ts still pour 💵 into policies that undermine sustainable development. Can this ever be reversed? For Mark Halle, who launched the Global Subsidies Initiative, change often feels impossible—until, suddenly, it isn’t. 🔎 https://bit.ly/4pchV6l #20YearsGSI

In Ontario, criminal vigilantism works and will influence gov't policy. Keep that in mind.

Doug Ford is barking up the wrong tree with a ban on animal research. Nobody likes the idea of cute little puppies being killed. But populist pandering to emotion is anti-science rhetoric that serves no one, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

⚡️Russian drones force Kyiv children to hide in metro as school year begins. The air alert, triggered by Russian drones, began at 9:20 a.m. local time and lasted over three hours, catching many children on their way to school before classes could start.

Graham Greene, a Canadian actor who belonged to the Oneida First Nation and portrayed Indigenous characters in “Dances With Wolves” and other Hollywood blockbusters, died on Monday in Ontario. He was 73. nyti.ms/425In7L

Happy to see this out in the world. This review gives me arranging credit but it's really all Brian Kay, whom I've known since he was in high school, and who is a tremendously creative musician and talented performer. Lots of musicians, lots of fun. Enjoy! www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles...

Every American MSM article I’ve read or segment I’ve watched blames the loss of tourism on Trump’s tariffs. While that is part of it, the bigger part is your immigration policies. We don’t want to end up at Alligator Alcatraz, Honduras or Uganda The U.S. detained a Canadian toddler FFS

Gov. Pritzker: “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump…asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’ Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’”

This... rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

"Tangerine Tyranny" When a lifelong Republican wakes up and turns on the GOP

Rasmussen on the Executive Order: "Improving" Oversight of Federal Grantmaking. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

This: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

I'm ride or die for aluminum salt adjuvants open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

A long life but sorry to hear this news. He was simply brilliant! apnews.com/article/tom-...

Je vois que cet article attise les passions. Je ne l'ai pas lu (comme la majorité des gens qui en commentent le mauvais chapeau). Mais Perez semble ici faire juste référence au concept de pathocénose que Mirko Grmek a développé, notamment, dans son Histoire du sida. #PetitFil

Shout this!

Excellent essay by Emily K. Abel here -- toadstool millionaires indeed. open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

US Republican members of Congress vote to repeal US climate actions then complain a week later that wildfire smoke is ruining their summers. Wonder who they blame for unprecedented floods ruining Texas campers’ summers. So many children who will never have another summer. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

This: www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...

Okay, this isn't hitting quite like I hoped it would, maybe because people are tired of hearing about the death of American science. So how about this: I also go into combat mode at Bhattacharya & his clown car of minions' efforts to destroy virology. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gain-of-fi...

SCOOP from me: CDC staffers tell me the agency’s full Congressionally-approved budget is months late. They’re running out of time to be able to send out the grants that state and local health departments rely on. They say this amounts to impoundment of CDC’s funding. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

#ProudBlue This is what true leadership looks like. You lead with compassion & empathy. You comfort & heal. Not the hateful BS happening right now. I miss Biden’s leadership. He wasn’t perfect, but he is a good man & a true leader. These pics don’t fit their narrative of him being unfit.

The proposed recommendation to stop using the MMRV vaccine for young kids is the opening salvo in an attack on all childhood vaccines. The result will be dead children. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/tiny-coffi...

When will we see some HCW protest action in Alberta? This province literally wants you to sicken yourself. HCWs are roughly 80% female and a significant number are racialized migrants, which is often overlooked. PSW, RNs, RTs and others are being treated as disposable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

So dangerous! edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Two weeks before the US election, Kamala Harris gave a three-minute warning about everything Trump would do if he were president. So far, exactly all of that has come to pass. The video is in English original

Raw truth about raw milk jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/the-raw-tr...

Oh my God, it gets worse by the minute

How lovely! #EarlyModern

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) voted this past week "to eliminate diversity programs and partnerships as criteria when it grades the performance of medical schools that confer "MD" degrees to students."

immigrants underpin our healthcare delivery system. now add in the devastating cuts to medicaid that will close healthcare facilities that serve everyone. the cuts to science funding, and the sabotage of fda review of medications the outlook is bleak

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.