For those of you following the Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B vaccine: The Danish researchers have posted their updated protocol (called version 1.5). They still propose giving a lifesaving vaccine to only half of newborns and withholding it from others. www.bandim.org/wp-content/u...

“The reason the state of our hospitals, schools and other essential services are getting worse is that, while Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, our governments act as if we are poor.” - Dr Richard Denniss Read the full article: https://theaus.in/3NnGHCh

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social

Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet

1. #CDC posted new #flu data today. A 🧵 Another pediatric death was reported in the 2024-25 flu season, making it the deadliest flu season for kids since CDC started collecting this data point 20 years ago. 2024-25 has surpassed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. 9 kids have died from flu so far this year.

“This is a seismic, long-awaited correction of the scientific record,” said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan… “It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe…People have developed cancers, and people have died because of this scientific fraud.”

More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical “When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”

Victorian Government faces massive fight over VicHealth bombshell www.croakey.org/victorian-go... #publichealth

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035. Zero (0) cervical cancer cases were diagnosed in Australian women under 25 in 2021 - the first time since records began. Put simply, Vaccines Work.

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Will anyone be held accountable for this?? The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Some former employees speak of the company like refugees of a once-great city, grief-stricken and a little bewildered by how it all came undone. They point to moments — a clinical trial result, an election outcome, the selection of a presidential Cabinet member — that could have changed everything”

How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war “I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals, the relentlessness of the repeated attacks, the indifference to the consequences of the attacks for patients and staff” - Len Rubenstein www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com

This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis? I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will begin publishing public health alerts in the coming month. www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes @thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NEW in InSight+ University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time, writes Associate Professor Daniel Demant Read more: buff.ly/iNituWK

Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is (slowly) narrowing: www.abc.net.au/news/health/... Original research article via @mja.com.au: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025... #genderequity

Very proud to have curated this Special Issue in the @mja.com.au on #gender & health. Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations. www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

📢 New publication alert! This came out last week while I was off in conference land. “Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection”, published in MJA www.mja.com.au/doi/10.5694/...

Honoured to be named on this paper just published in MJA, brilliantly led by Dr Kade Booth at UON. We articulate the urgent need to address inequity in cervical cancer prevention for trans Australians 🌈🎓

Cells swapping their #mitochondria - this sounded like science fiction 🧪 when the first studies started coming out! But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!

However bad you think things are at the CDC they are worse. That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team. Must-read. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

We need a circling of the wagons (journals) to support #CDC & against the weaponising of public health. As we did when medical journal editors worldwide condemned the first Executive Orders. It’s tempting to think this destruction is only a US problem - but the underlying currents are everywhere.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Editorial published today by the Editors-in-Chief of the @agu.org journals: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer." This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...

Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture theconversation.com/australia-ha...

Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money theconversation.com/paramedics-a... Also see the original research article in @mja.com.au: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...

This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"

Today published in the @thelancet.com , our overview of medical consultation related to woud care over 2024 in Gaza, lot of trauma cause by explosive weapons that don't belong in Urban settings. Proud of our teams. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The former vaccine panel members wrote in a commentary that Kennedy — a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before becoming the U.S. government’s top health official — and his new panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation. apnews.com/article/vacc...

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

Scrolling EPA’s research newsletter. Huge impact everywhere. Take this example of EPA showing common household cleaners may affect kids’ brain development 🧠 Now we won’t have that 🤷🏼‍♂️ www.epa.gov/sciencematte...

For the third time, Vinay Prasad reportedly overrules scientists and evidence-based policies

“lived experience must be considered a form of expertise” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Responses to the Sounding Board piece by Prasad and Makary are now posted: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Had I known that character limits would be so liberal I would have submitted a response, but these replies hit on all the key points.

This headline blames women & defines declining fertility as a problem. A smaller global population & footprint on the planet benefits the environment. There is also more individual freedom, women's economic empowerment & less adolescents giving birth. www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...

New @mja.com.au paper out now: Am I on the list? Clinician-reported reasons for non-waitlisting in kidney transplantation This is the first national analysis of the reasons why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aren't activated on the waitlist. Read more: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

“This is a dramatically powerful tool,” says Sharon Lewin, former president of the International AIDS Society. But cost, access, and policy remain the biggest hurdles to bringing the full benefits of antiretroviral HIV prevention drug lenacapavir to those who need it most. http://satpa.pe/A6Qj52w