Respiratory infections like CoViD & flu awaken metastatic breast cancer lesions so they start growing rapidly. Wearing a mask in crowded places like airports, church, buses makes good sense - remember the main reason to mask is to protect the vulnerable from ourselves www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cannabis Use Disorder associated with a tripling of oral cancer in 5-year study at six Univ. of California academic centers. Smoking cannabis or tobacco similarly damage the mouth's lining. Not all that new - just strongly confirms the earlier reports of risk. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No link between autism and the use of aluminum in vaccines to boost their efficacy - this from up to 30 years of follow-up of over 1.2 million Danish two-year olds. Hope RFK Jr. reads this. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Boy or girl? Study of 58K women with ≥ 2 singleton births found gender of babies is not a coin toss. Women have SNPs (benign mutations) which push towards female-only (NSUN6 gene) vs. male-only (TSHZ1 gene) offspring. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So tragic. Children living downstream from nuclear waste storage site on Coldwater Creek near St. Louis, had 5x greater risk of thyroid cancer. All the radiation-sensitive cancers (thyroid, breast, leukemia, basal cell skin cancer) were increased. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

CT or "CAT" scans come with some cost. Of the 93 million CT examinations performed in 62 million US patients in 2023 were projected to result in approximately 103,000 future cancers. CT-associated cancers could soon account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Turns out >50,000 cancer cases could be prevented if our water suppliers were better at removing chromium, arsenic, and nitrates. One to three of these contaminants exceed health standards in 82% of U.S. community water systems. Time to call the water district? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Randomized controlled trial comparing semaglutide (aka Ozempic & Wegovy) to tirzepatide (aka Zepbound & Mounjaro). Tirzepatide won hands down with 20.2% weight loss and waist down 18.4 cm. vs semaglutide with 13.7% weight loss and waist down 13.0 cm. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Children are now dying of starvation in Nepal thanks to the Felon cutting off USAID grant for peanut paste supplements. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

A breathtaking advance in the cancer fight. Instead of removing your T-cells and modifying them to recognize your cancer and re-infusing them - these investigators made a lipid bubble that carries mRNA to your T-cells instructing them to make the anti-cancer targeting antibody or CAR.

The Felon's tariffs are driving up US healthcare insurance premiums by 2.2%-3.6% because insurers have to pay for more expensive imported drugs and devices. UnitedHealthcare is notifying state regulators of the premium hikes. www.kff.org/quick-take/t...

Shingles is reactivation of the chickenpox virus (Herpes Varicella Zoster (HVZ) virus) in a nerve fiber as your immune defense weakens with time against it (largely because we don't get continued exposure to kids with chickenpox). It awakens in a nerve with blisters and severe pain called shingles.

If you want dementia, then don't get the shingles vaccine. 20% fewer seniors got dementia if they got the shingle vaccine in the UK! Now also shown in the USA. The more potent Shingrix is the shingles (HVZ) vaccine to get starting at age 50 - 2 doses 2 months apart! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efficacy & safety data just keeps getting better for vaccines. FDA 1st approved the RSV vaccine in 2023-2024 and 1 year later it was 75% effective against infection, ER visits & hospitalizations in 60+ year olds. The Felon should resign for appointing Brainworm Bobby. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Young adults ages 40-49 are getting colon cancer at increasing rates. (I suspect microplastics.) This study just showed that testing your stool for iron reduced colon cancer deaths. I'd start screening at age 40 especially if you have a family history of colon cancer. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

OpenEvidence.com has been a game changer for me (a doctor) to find correct medical information. It is free and does not hallucinate/confabulate. Will save you from needing to call the doctor's office 90% of the time. openevidence.com

The key message in Phillips Payson O'Brien's Atlantic piece is that OUR tanks, planes and ships are defenseless against drones. Ukraine proved it by destroying 1/3 of Russia's Tu-95 bombers. Cost $1m for a few hundred drones destroyed $ multibillion in Russian aircraft. substack.com/redirect/b5f...

Soon Google will have to remove their dotted line and reunite Crimea with Ukraine. www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/e...

this is insane! Slava Ukraini!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fxm...

Wow, the Ukrainians just destroyed or heavily damaged 40-plus high value Russian aircraft at four different airbases—this is 1/3 of their bombers. This is a crushing blow to Russian strategic airpower and is Ukraine's most successful operation yet. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

Ignoring Brainworm Bobby what do the medical societies say re: COVID vax in pregnancy? The American College of ObGyns recommends COVID vaccination in pregnancy because pregnancy raises risk of severe COVID. Vax reduces risk of death & adverse perinatal outcomes. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36649624/

We know that cryptocurrency's key value is hiding illegal $. But did you know that "wrench crimes" are named because with a $5.00 wrench you can beat someone with a crypto account into giving up their password then transfer their crypto account, untraceably, to you! www.usnews.com/news/technol...

When people lose Medicaid, they die. We now have a huge New England Journal of Medicine study of almost 1 million dual Medicare-Medicaid (so old and poor both) who lost Medicaid from 2015-2023. They die because they couldn't afford their medicines. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The Felon gaslights us with fake expressions of disappointment with Putin, but a Senior Republican speaks on how brilliant it would be to sell weapons to Ukraine to help defend democracy (and stimulate our economy). phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/a-senior-r...

Just to be clear about when gas prices dropped. Under Biden. Before Trump took office. Don’t let the disinformation fool you.

Fascinating 2-year study of gray wolves found that they rarely eat cattle - which were only 3% of their consumed food, based on scat analysis. And even that 3% might have been from wolves scavenging dead cattle carcasses. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Obesity increases risk for many types of cancer. Weight loss from bariatric surgery decreases obesity-related cancer (ORC) risk by 40%. Now we know that GLP1RA drugs do too! This Israeli study began in 2010 in obese diabetics with 1st-gen GLP1's. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

(Bloomberg) Xi Jinping’s decision to stand his ground against Donald Trump could hardly have gone any better for the Chinese leader. "This is arguably the best outcome that China could have hoped for- the US backed down,” said Trey McArver, co-founder Trivium China. finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-defi...

>20% weight loss in 72 weeks on Mounjaro/Zepbound vs <15% weight loss on Ozempic/Wegovy in randomized controlled trial. Both drugs are game changers but Eli Lilly wins over NovoNordisk. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Persistent poverty, or living where ≥20% of people live below the poverty level over 30 years, was associated with a 26% higher cancer risk in children. Poor children were 15% more likely to die from their cancer, including leukemia & solid tumor cancers both. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Company CEOs can't plan b/of unpredictable economic policy zigzags, so aren't ordering more inventory, hiring, or investing. Decline in inbound ships to the Port of LA below. CEOs of Walmart & Target have warned the Felon that shelves may be empty soon. volumes.portoptimizer.com?utm_source=s...

Overdiagnosis & overprescription of stimulants for ADHD - see NYT article today - prompting me to re-read the 2020 NEJM review. ADHD studies found Ritalin (methylphenidate) and Adderall (amphetamine) benefit in year one, but no benefit at all by year three. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Lovely video of CDFW's first two translocations restoring beaver to the Sierra Nevada. Sad it took them 12 years from our 2012 publication proving they were historically native to the Sierras. Their absence today was simply from overhunting in the California Fur Rush. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RH...

Parker Posey's brilliant portrayal of lorazepam-addicted Victoria Ratliff in White Lotus prompted me to look up benzodiazepine abuse. Study finds 20% of those on Xanax (alprazolam), Ativan (lorazepam), Valium (diazepam), etc. are "misusing" them i.e. abusing. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Kakistocracy - a government of the stupidest. The conservative American Enterprise Institute says: "the formula the administration relied on [to set the tariffs] has no foundation in either economic theory or trade law" & worse, the Felon couldn't even get his math right. www.aei.org/economics/pr...

Large survey of US adults prescribed stimulants (amphetamines like Adderall & methylphenidate (Ritalin)), 25.3% reported misuse & ~10% reported addiction (Prescribed Stimulant Use Disorder). Women had the highest increase in use of 42% from 2019 to 2022. Yikes jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Great article on the The Nature Conservancy's huge payout to Pt. Reyes cattle ranchers to get them to leave. Pt. Reyes is a national treasure as one of two parks in the world with both breeding land and marine megafauna (tule elk and elephant seals). www.thewildlifenews.com/2025/03/28/p...

Early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) is people under age 50. The average age for EOCRC is 45 years old so the guideline experts dropped the screening age to 45. But this misses half the EOCRC patients all younger than 45. This never made sense to me. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I read Paul Krugman every day. He's a famous applied economist who resigned from the NYT when the editors started censoring?/editing his works. Today I highly loved his discussion with Stanford Economist Brynjolfsson who things that are free are not counted in productivity, paulkrugman.substack.com

If you live near a measles outbreak or area with high % of anti-vaxxers (or likely both) & you have an infant, probably shouldn't wait until age 15 months for first (of two measles vaccinations). You can ask for 1st shot at 6 months of age, and it kicks in within weeks, www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The measles, mumps, rubella MMR vaccine has been around 50 years & is safer than measles infection. Serious adverse events are rare and include anaphylaxis (2-14 cases per million doses), febrile seizures (1 in 3,000), and thrombocytopenic purpura (1 in 30,000). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

There are multiple instances of people being burned alive in Teslas - when they catch fire and the electronic doors do not open. Four people burned alive in Toronto in Nov 2024, the fifth person escaped when a bystander smashed the window so she could escape. philkoopman.substack.com/p/people-are...

Tattoos triple risk of skin cancer & lymphoma in the Danish Twin Tattoo Cohort. Turns out the ink particles migrate to & accumulate in the lymph nodes. About 40% of women and 30% of men get tattoos by 25 years of age in Denmark (US data similar). bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Phase II clinical trials of new cancer drugs only reached FDA approval 16% (1 in 6) of the time from 2012-2015. Much better than Phase I cancer drug success at 1.2%. The key is to find experts & study hard to find the Phase II trial with the best chance of success. academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...

Don't believe the Trump/RFK anti-science campaign. HPV vaccination reduced cervical precancer incidence 79% and higher-grade precancer incidence by 80% in 20–24 year old women, the age group most likely to have been vaccinated from 2008–2022. Huge benefit. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Early-onset breast cancer (EOBC) keeps increasing for unclear reasons. In 25-39 year olds with EOBC from 2001 to 2020, the increase was 0.50% per year in 21 states, while remaining stable or decreasing in the other states. That's a 10% increase over 20 years. www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Geogra...

Fascist candidate for Romanian President's race, Calin Georgescu, also a Putin fan, was raided by police and in bodyguard's home they found €900,000 in cash and plane tickets to Moscow. At least one bribed politician is now caught. euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/26/r...

Two COVID vaccine shots reduced risk of Long-COVID syndrome in children ages 5–17 by 57%-73%! Long-lasting post-COVID symptoms in children are uncommon, affecting 1%-3%, but can be severe. More evidence that mRNA vaccines produce NATURAL immunity! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The European countries economies may not be growing much lately but make no mistake, they are rich countries - much wealthier than Russia. And if Germany's new leader, Merz, is good on his pledge to help UKR it will be bad for Russia. Russia's GDP is only half that of Germany!

Germany's Kiel Institute for the World Economy shares that Europe has indeed given more aid to Ukraine than the USA, and has pledged twice what the USA has pledged in total.