Big COVID news: the FDA just approved Xocova (ensitrelvir), the first oral antiviral shown to help prevent symptomatic COVID-19 after exposure. In the Phase 3 SCORPIO-PEP trial, it reduced the risk of symptomatic infection by 67% when started within 72 hours of household exposure. #BlueSky #Covid19

Big COVID news: the FDA just approved Xocova (ensitrelvir), the first oral antiviral shown to help prevent symptomatic COVID-19 after exposure. In the Phase 3 SCORPIO-PEP trial, it reduced the risk of symptomatic infection by 67% when started within 72 hours of household exposure. #BlueSky #Covid19

🚨 COVID BREAKTHROUGH: For the first time, an antiviral pill cut post-exposure symptomatic COVID from ~9% to ~3% in household contacts. For transplant patients, care-home residents and high-risk families, this could be massive. #COVID #PublicHealth #Medicine #Science #Health

🚨 COVID BREAKTHROUGH: For the first time, an antiviral pill cut post-exposure symptomatic COVID from ~9% to ~3% in household contacts. For transplant patients, care-home residents and high-risk families, this could be massive. #COVID #PublicHealth #Medicine #Science #Health

BREAKING: New bat coronavirus discovered with a ready-made key to human lungs. Scientists say it is only a matter of time. The next pandemic may already be in the air. #Pandemic #Science #MedSky #Vaccines #Health #Bluesky

This is incredible. A simple vaccine during pregnancy cutting newborn hospitalizations from RSV by around 80% is exactly the kind of quiet breakthrough that changes lives. Protecting babies from day one is huge. Science at its best. #MedSky #Vaccines #Science #BlueSky

A pill that cuts your COVID risk by 67% after exposure is genuinely wild. That’s science working exactly as it should. 🔬 #Covid19 #ScienceSky #MedSky

A pill that cuts your COVID risk by 67% after exposure is genuinely wild. That’s science working exactly as it should. 🔬 #Covid19 #ScienceSky #MedSky

We may have been counting COVID deaths wrong. A new study suggests many deaths labeled as heart disease or pneumonia were likely COVID, especially early on. Not a conspiracy. Just messy data. If the toll was higher than reported… what else are we sure about that isn’t true? #MedSky #Covid19

🚨 VIRUS ALERT: You likely carry JC virus (JCV) right now. Up to 70–90% of adults do. Usually harmless, but if immunity drops it can reactivate and cause PML, a rare, often fatal brain disease. #Bluesky #Science #Health #JCvirus #MS #Lupus #Neurology

Exciting Nature study shows microbiome-driven gut inflammation disrupts vagus nerve signaling to the hippocampus, accelerating cognitive decline. In mice, restoring gut–brain signaling reversed memory loss. Happy to have new therapeutic targets to pursue! #AgingResearch #Longevity #MedSky

Flu: trashes your lungs, then leaves. COVID: trashes your lungs and quietly rewires your brain, with persistent inflammation, microvascular injury, and monoamine pathway disruption weeks after clearance. Stop calling that ‘the flu.’ #MedSky #Covid19

A matched cohort study using OpenSAFELY data on 3.46M adults 50+ in England found the Autumn 2022 bivalent BA.1 mRNA boosters cut COVID hospitalisation and death risk by about half, with similar effectiveness for Pfizer and Moderna (waning over time)👊💉😀#MedSky #Vaccines #Covid19

Imagine training your whole life just for a casting director to stare at you and say, “You’d make an excellent shrub for Bad Bunny #BadBunny #ArtSky #MusicSky

The U.S. men’s cross-country ski team met the press in Tesero this week, masked up and ready to race 🇺🇸🎿 Even at the Olympics, staying healthy matters. Masks aren’t politics, they’re performance protection. 🦠💪 #TeamUSA #WinterOlympics #COVIDAware #MedSky

A tiny antibody just exposed the coronavirus’s secret weak spot — and crushed it. 🧬 This could be the start of a universal coronavirus shield. #ScienceBreakthrough #COVID19 #Biotech #Antibody #FutureOfMedicine #ViralScience #MedSky

Reminder as flu season clobbers everyone: 1 “nose-first” paper worth bookmarking 👇 Intranasal Neosporin paper: flips on nasal innate antiviral genes (ISGs) and reduced flu/SARS-CoV-2 in animals, with a small human pilot. Interesting signals, still waiting on human trials #Flu #BlueSky #MedSky

Aronia berry juice vs. a high-fat diet: in a humanized mouse model, a single daily shot of this polyphenol bomb helped preserve gut bugs, boost barrier-supporting metabolites, and temper metabolic fallout, especially when donors had a more inflamed microbiome #GutHealth #MedSky #NutritionScience

Aronia berry juice vs. a high-fat diet: in a humanized mouse model, a single daily shot of this polyphenol bomb helped preserve gut bugs, boost barrier-supporting metabolites, and temper metabolic fallout, especially when donors had a more inflamed microbiome #GutHealth #MedSky #NutritionScience

The injustice is real #FunnyDogs #Art #Bluesky 🎄🐶🎅🏻

Stranger Things is fiction, but the Upside Down is built on real physics ideas like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum events split reality into countless branches. No portals yet, but the math still works #StrangerThings #QuantumPhysics #SciComm #Science #Art

What video games were released the year you were born? #VideoGames #Art #Birthdays #NewYear

What video games were released the year you were born? #VideoGames #Art #Birthdays #NewYear

Stranger Things is fiction, but the Upside Down is built on real physics ideas like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum events split reality into countless branches. No portals yet, but the math still works #StrangerThings #QuantumPhysics #SciComm #Science #Art

The injustice is real #FunnyDogs #Art #Bluesky 🎄🐶🎅🏻

This study shows that a very common gene variant (MTHFR C677T) plus routine blood chemistry can help identify which people are more likely to get very sick from COVID, moving risk from “random bad luck” toward something we can measure and eventually modify #COVID19 #LongCOVID #BlueskyScience #MedSky

Virologist Chris Buck just brewed the world’s first “vaccine beer” by engineering yeast to make BK polyomavirus proteins—self-testing pints in his own kitchen while skirting the usual FDA path and freaking out bioethicists, antivaxxers, and regulators alike #ScienceNews #Bioethics #Vaccines

COVID-19 does more than hit the lungs — a massive US claims study of 1.9M adults 50+ found a 15–24% higher risk of shingles after COVID, and 21% higher if hospitalized with COVID 🔥🦠 #MedSky #Bluesky #COVID19 #HerpesZoster #VZV #Vaccines #PublicHealth

Every winter, thousands don’t die *from* the flu — they die *because* of it. Flu infections can trigger heart attacks and strokes. A flu shot isn’t just protection from a virus — it’s protection for your heart. ❤️💉 #HeartHealth #PublicHealth #Vaccines #InfluenzaAwareness #MedSky

This is not “just a cold” season, it’s a policy failure: not many Coloradans have gotten a flu shot while a more severe strain rips through and fills hospital beds. Wear a mask in crowded indoor spaces, get your vaccine, and stop giving the virus a free ride to grandma’s house #Flu #MedSky #Art

🔥 BIRD FLU JUST LEVELED UP 🦠 New research shows some avian flu viruses can keep multiplying even at fever temperatures, meaning one of our key defenses might no longer stop them. If this version ever jumps efficiently to humans, we are in serious trouble. #BirdFlu #H5N1 #MedSky #GlobalHealth

Scientists just dropped a legit warp drive model in a peer-reviewed journal, no exotic negative energy, just real-physics spacetime bubbles bending their way toward the stars. #WarpDrive #StarTrek #Physics #SciFi #Space #STEM #ScienceNews #Futurism #Art

Scientists just dropped a legit warp drive model in a peer-reviewed journal, no exotic negative energy, just real-physics spacetime bubbles bending their way toward the stars. #WarpDrive #StarTrek #Physics #SciFi #Space #STEM #ScienceNews #Futurism #Art

🚀 A shelf-stable, oral COVID vaccine was already a big swing 💊🦠 Now it’s got a new engine 🔥: a partner-investor stepping in 💰🤝 and giving the program real momentum again 📈⚡️ $VXRT $DVAX #Vaccines #Biotech #COVID19

🚀 A shelf-stable, oral COVID vaccine was already a big swing 💊🦠 Now it’s got a new engine 🔥: a partner-investor stepping in 💰🤝 and giving the program real momentum again 📈⚡️ $VXRT $DVAX #Vaccines #Biotech #COVID19

New study: people who like bitter tastes (think black coffee, dark chocolate, tonic water) score higher on antisocial traits and everyday sadism than those who don’t. 🤯 So… how many of your friends just got VERY quiet reading this? #Coffee #Psychology #MedSky #Art #BlueSky

Smart hackers at Kawaiicon just beat ‘con crud’ with REAL-TIME CO2 monitors in every room! Scan QR codes on posters for live air quality dashboards—green=safe, red=mask up & move. This is the ultimate anti-virus. Who’s next? #AirQuality #HealthSafety #PublicHealth #MedAky #Art #TechHealthHack

Camel TEARS may hold POWER to NEUTRALIZE venom from 26 DEADLY snakes! Scientists in Dubai reveal an INCREDIBLE natural antidote that could change snakebite treatment forever! 🐪💧 Who knew the desert beast’s tears pack such a punch? #CamelTears #SnakeBiteCure #MedicalMiracle #ScienceNew

Columbia researchers unveil mRNA vaccine platform beyond COVID-19, tailorable within weeks for flu, RSV, or new pandemics. Rapid response pipelines now real, prepping global defense. Future outbreaks, meet your match. #mRNAvaccine #PandemicPreparedness

Weekly at-home injections to slow early #Alzheimers? FDA just okayed subcutaneous Leqembi maintenance dosing, letting patients stay in the early stage longer with fewer infusion visits. Neurodegeneration is finally on defense. #BrainHealth #Dementia

Wegovy in a pill is coming. Oral semaglutide 25 mg delivered injectable-like weight loss plus better sugars, triglycerides, CRP, even when weight loss was <15%. Same GLP-1 power, no needles. #Metabolism #GLP1 #Health #MedSky

Denied by your insurer? Don’t accept NO! Challenge with independent external reviews—forcing them to pay for lifesaving care. Most skip this secret weapon: APPEAL & FIGHT BACK! Your health demands it! #HealthInsurance #Healthcare #InsuranceDenial #Medicare #HealthJustice #AppealNow #MedAky #Health

US projections Apr’24-Apr’25: ~814K #COVID hospitalizations, 54K deaths—same as last year. Universal vax recs save thousands more lives vs high-risk only. Burden’s here; shots blunt it. #MedSky #COVID19 #PublicHealth #bsky

New UK study of 13.9M children: COVID-19 infection raises rare vascular/inflammatory risks (clots, myocarditis, thrombocytopenia) 2-10x higher—and longer (up to 15 months)—than vaccination. Infection far riskier for kids’ hearts/vessels than shots. #COVID19 #Pediatrics #MedSky #bsky

Scripps launches remote RCT: tirzepatide (GLP-1) vs placebo for #LongCOVID relief in 1K pts—fatigue, cognition, PEM via wearables/app. Clinician signals promising (60-90% better); first formal test. Enroll now! #COVID19 #MedSky #bsky

Phase 2 RCT: ensitrelvir matches Paxlovid for viral clearance (2.9x faster by day 3) & symptom resolution in early #COVID19 outpatients. Low rebound, no severe dz. Oral alternative in play? #MedSly #COVID19 #EpiSky #bsky

New RCT in adults with established #LongCOVID: 26 weeks of colchicine showed no benefit vs placebo on functional status, respiratory measures, or inflammation at 1 year. Another reminder that prevention and early treatment still matter 😷💉💪 #COVID19 #MedSky #WearAMask #bsky

Metformin started soon after #COVID19 infection linked to ~50% lower risk of long COVID or death at 6 months, echoing prior RCT signals. Cheap, generic, worth a hard look. #LongCOVID #EpiSky #MedSky #bsky

🚨 Big news: 1st-in-human trial of retinal stem cell–derived RPE cells for dry #AMD found no serious safety signals and worst-seeing eyes gained +22 ETDRS letters at 12 months. Early days, but this is huge. #Ophthalmology #MedSky #Art #StemCells #CellTherapy