A little louder for the folks in the back: The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Helsinki started with a big #homelessness problem and solved it. Toronto can do it too, by learning lessons from Finland. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor... via @thestar.com #sdoh #HousingFirst

Cases of whooping cough in Ontario highest since 2007 www.thestar.com/news/cases-o... via @torontostar

Coalition for Gun Control Welcomes Action by the Government of Canada to Implement New Regulations for Bill C-21 financialpost.com/globe-newswi...

“One born every minute”? www.bbc.com/news/article...

World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

This is the most important chart published in America this week. (By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

What’s Killing Kids? Shockingly high childhood mortality rate in U.S. driven by #GunViolence, motor vehicles, drugs, #drowning and #COVID19, by Emily Baumgaertner www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b... via @nytimes.com

I’ll just leave this….. right here 🤣😭

Grace Hospital's ER saw nearly double patient capacity in overcrowding 'catastrophe,' doctor says Winnipeg ER had 52 active patients Sunday, despite 30-patient capacity: Dr. Doug Eyolfson www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.

He, like others in the MAHA gang including Calley and Casey Means & RFK Jr., don’t understand, care about, or want to improve health. Read more ⬇️ news.immunologic.org/p/the-congre...

As media rumors that Marty Makary might be head of FDA: he lies about health topics. He claims pancreatic cancer has doubled in the last 20 years: WRONG. In 1992, the rate of pancreatic cancer diagnoses was 11.1 per 100,000 people. In 2021, 30 years later, the rate was 13.2 cases per 100,000. 1/

Best tips on how to motivate oneself to go in for an overnight shift when these two faces are starring at you?Aaaaand… Go! 👇🏾

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

What in the wild wild US of A is going on? I didn’t think it could get any worse… but it did! 🫣🫣 Someone make it stop!

Scientific American on Dr. Oz in 2021: “Dr. Oz Shouldn’t Be a Senator—or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/dr-o...

We are being conned on a mass scale. “A digital marketing firm abroad ran two of the largest anti-vax, pro-trucker groups, feeding disinformation into the movement while posing as grassroots supporters. Foreign propaganda is threatening our democracy.”

Emergency Dept. Closures Plague Canada’s Emergency Medical Care ACEP Now By Larry Beresford | on November 6, 2024 www.acepnow.com/article/emer...

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

You can now watch our press conference on climate and health at #COP29. unfccc.int/event/climai... Tobacco regulations curtailed smoking ads and lobbying. We need similar refs applied to the fossil fuel industry. Treat fossil fuels like Big tobacco.

Looking for the 🇨🇦 side of #medsky to follow? Start here! DM me to be added or removed go.bsky.app/NZ6xgkH

As a rural ER doctor, I feel guilty cutting back my hours. But it's the only way for me to keep working After working for years in an understaffed hospital, I've hit a wall of burnout www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

www.instagram.com/p/DCPRYRQPtc... Cases are on the rise. Here are some of the most common questions I have received from parents about Mycoplasma Pneumonia answered🦠

Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New to this app… want to connect with more science nerds like me 👩🏻‍⚕️🩺 Looking to make science fun again! 🙏🏽💙