Pete Hesgeth removed a vaccine mandate for military recruits who are at high risk of infection as they live in close quarters- now following a large outbreak tragically 4 young people have died. Vaccine is now being reinstated but this was a needless risk that was taken.

Vital that refugee stories like these get told so that people don’t just disappear behind the demonization and misrepresentation that is now so widespread

Dr Abu Safiya ran a hospital under bombs in Gaza. He saved the lives of newborns – he is now detained & reportedly tortured in an Israeli prison without charges. I just signed a global call for the release of him & his colleagues – please join me click here secure.avaaz.org/campaigns/fr...

"Looking after older, multimorbid patients is what we trained for as GPs." Frail patients are most in need of our attention as GPs, but in many cases they receive less and less of it, writes @helensalisbury.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Doctors have demanded an end to the ‘rationing of healthcare’ which orders GPs to make compulsory requests for advice from secondary care rather than having a right to refer.

GPs are spending too much time dealing with minor issues online instead of looking after our frailest patients. As a profession, we need to ask ourselves where we can do the most good? and then prioritise our efforts in that direction. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @johnswinney.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social The BBC has been covering the Israeli invasion of Lebanon but barely mention Gaza. It's systemic suppression @rosatkins.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social

Isn't it great to read some truly good news for once? 😃 Solid, irrefutable proof that vaccines work, and that science is worth pursuing. Congratulations and thanks to all those behind this! 👏👏👏👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At the protest agaisnt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being given a platform at the Oxford Union

A true hero in chains. 💔Pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is still held without charges. #freehussamabusafiya #humanrights #kamaladwanhospital #justice #standwithgaza_palestine

The most important slides at NHS ConfedExpo were these ones delivered to a group of GPs in a small meeting room Focus on Access means less continuity But less continuity reduces access Patients suffer Can’t see a GP blame MPs @skinnock.bsky.social @nhsconfed.org

We need more articles that go beyond the economic losses the UK has incurred through #Brexit, and more on how Brexit has undermined values like human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights in this country. Just think dirty water www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨The recent images of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya are shocking evidence of Israel's abuse against Palestinian detainees.

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

“Legitimate Concerns”

We all know that what Israel is doing is barbaric. How could we not. The divide is between those who want to shine a spotlight on its actions and those who want to turn that spotlight off.

I hope we're going to see many charges for incitement to racial hatred, incitement to violence and incitement to riot, all of which have been happening blatantly and prolifically on social media. Or will two-tier policing in the UK, favouring the right and the far right, prevail yet again?

The US and Israel have destroyed Iran's largest water dams and backup water tanks, including EVERY backup water tank in ALL of Southern Iran. The people who die of thirst and hunger (Iran's agriculture relies on water tanks) as a result of these war crimes will never be mentioned in the death toll.

There's a problem with 'ghost' patients in GP but cleaning up GP lists means loss of capitation payments and lower budgets - which means fewer appointments for the patients who are there. bmj.com/cgi/content/...

🚨HORRIBLE: Since the ceasefire began, Israel has continued destroying entire neighborhoods across Gaza without pause. This documentation from yesterday comes amid the latest expansion of the so-called “yellow line,” which is now pushing deeper into densely populated residential areas.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @thenewsagents.co.uk We need a press that will report and a govt that will NOT appease.

No one should be making profits from vulnerable children. Yet £1 out of every £5 paid to private providers of children’s social care is taken out in profit. Time to end this scam! Add your name now. weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-p... #ToriesGone701

Seeing our frail, complicted, older patients, who often need home visits, should be the bread and butter of GP work but is being squeezed out by the requirement for limitless online access. (We told you this would happen) 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This beautiful fungus sprang up overnight on a pile of compost at the allotments. Half expecting to meet a character from one of Lang's fairy books.

👀 TheyWorkForYou tracks MPs' voting records and found that Nigel Farage has missed 77 votes in Parliament in a row. He last voted against draft regulations for the Employment Rights Act 2025 on the 18th of March. https://votes.theyworkforyou.com/person/26352/votes/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

As featured on BBCRadio4 now. Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The health gap between Republican and Democrats started in the 2010s and has been widening ever since. At first it was happening because college grads were moving Left and everyone else was moving Right. Education predicts health bc of better information and access as well as income. My latest.

“This is censorship...This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

She came from the private health sector (Operose Health) so her committment to a publicly provided NHS was always in doubt, but this smacks of corruption.

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants. These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque and downgrade the input of independent peer review. They... TAT: [Attacking science]

'When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.' Sarah Kendzior

My latest on Streeting legacy: Failed to tackle social care reform Postponed hospital rebuilding In thrall to the tech bros Accepted ££££ donations from private health Massive reorganisation paralysing NHS management bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

@drdavidnicholl.bsky.social & I argue that Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk is entirely within his rights to block the Met Police Palantir deal in our letter in The Times. Not obvious that his critics have read the legislation or understood the highly questionable process used here.

I just signed the campaign calling on the new Health Secretary to get Palantir out of our NHS! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/to-the-n...

At least 750 cases of Ebola and 177 deaths so far in the DRC which struggling to manage due to severe cuts in aid and conflict. Researchers in Oxford are rushing to create a vaccine but won’t be ready for some time

If AI can't count coffee beans, why are some people still confident it can replace doctors?

Starbucks is abruptly scrapping its AI inventory tool for repeatedly miscounting and mislabeling items, just months after rolling it out at stores nationwide. It's the latest warning that the widely-hyped "AI revolution" could be a bubble that's going to burst.

elon musk had his brain melted by right wing twitter slop and illegally shut it down. six figure body count plus a new strain of ebola is ravaging africa as we speak. the discourse is about whether they hired enough conservatives to justify not torpedoing the agency. illegally, i might add

Important explanation that these headlines were not based on any science but are essentially the opinions of well connected people. open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):

Why am I not surprised? I will not be using this technology - and the lack of safety testing before rollout is shocking. www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...