I Love My Naturally Aging Face www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

Something funny is happening in Alberta. Albertans are following the law—and it’s driving the government bonkers. People using new referendum and recall laws exactly as written are triggering chaos the province didn't anticipate. @cfrangou.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/malicious-compli...

CDC Gives Danish Researchers $1.6M to Study Hep B Vaccine Birth Dose in Africa www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

What to Know About the New H3N2 Flu Strain url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Lindsey Vonn and Philip Rivers show what can happen when athletes keep competing into their 40s, by Sally Jenkins. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Journalists and consumers of journalism: I'm looking to put together a reading list of features. Could be published anywhere. Preference for stories under 1,000 words and/or multimedia; fun and appeal to a younger audience. Could be published anywhere: newspaper, TikTok, Substack, etc.

The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country. You want to read this series. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...

A large national trial of about 46,000 women, 40 to 74 years old, found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.

Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:

When Words Disappear—How Banning Words Imperils Health Care Communication. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Do We Know Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines Are Safe? www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them. Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Longevity supplements are sold as helping prevent ageing. But there's no evidence these supplements have meaningful benefits for humans. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...

Writing in the @thestar.com, Steven Guilbeault gives his take on the MOU, or the "grand bargain that feels like a fire sale." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Will All Newborns Still Receive Hepatitis B Shots? A Committee’s Vote Will Tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...

Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

An 80-year-old diabetic Calgarian received a $100 bill for her COVID-19 vaccine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA: former FDA commissioners call out Dr. Prasad's departure from previous standards in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

BREAKING: Alberta Health Services CEO who took over after a controversial firing in January is now himself out. AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair. Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.

The best science and nature books of 2025, from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.”— Ronald Purser www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

as a person who reads a lot and has been yelling for months about writers who don’t read, I wholeheartedly endorse Casey’s excellent advice—this bit especially. go to bookstores! go to the LIBRARY!

One of my favourite stories in women's health from 2025: The pelvic floor is a problem, by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social for @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

Ashwin Maharaj calls himself a general surgeon. Ontario’s doctor watchdog says he’s not qualified to use that title — and patients feel misled. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Alarming new allegations emerge as more patients say they were harmed by Toronto anorectal doctor. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

She Was Born Without an Immune System. Gene Therapy Saved Her Life. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

Tonight, I have the honour of speaking with @kelsiesnow.bsky.social about loss, love, legacy and hope, as she steps into her new role at the ALS Society of Alberta. the-als-society-of-alberta.givecloud.co/ALSABevents/...

An investigation by The Guardian found influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births on mothers, many of whom lost their babies or experienced devastating complications. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Tatiana Schlossberg, cousin of RFK Jr., was diagnosed with leukemia at 34, immediately after giving birth to her daughter. But the health system, the clinical trials, the research funding on which her life depends are being dismantled. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay, writes Katherine J. Wu. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

At least half a million Canadians left emergency departments before being seen by a doctor in 2024, according to a data analysis by CBC’s Marketplace. In some provinces, it was as high as 12 -14 per cent of people who'd come to emerg. www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...

Cervical cancer cases in Canada have plateaued after years of decline, and now more women are being diagnosed with advanced disease. It's a warning sign that the country may not meet its goal of eliminating the disease by 2040. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Union launches "Axe the Vax Tax" campaign in Alberta axethevaxtax.ca @cupescfp.bsky.social

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country 📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj 🧵6 findings in thread

A Lot of Influencers Talk about the News. Not All of Them Are Journalists. In my latest op-ed for @thetyee.ca, I encourage my fellow journalists to take a risk, show some personality, and hop on these platforms. We have a responsibility to meet Canadians where they’re at — or someone else will:

“Some of us view social media as another tool to flex the reporting muscles we’ve carefully honed with our journalism degrees and years of reporting experience, others have come armed with nothing but a surplus of confidence and a dearth of critical thinking skills.” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Heath Canada has approved lecanamab, a drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease in some patients. It's the first drug in Canada approved to slow Alzheimer's. investors.biogen.com/news-release...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

Alberta’s new tax on “high value wine” from British Columbia marks the latest clash in the two provinces’ long-running wine war. @cfrangou.bsky.social, The Walrus regional correspondent for Western Canada, reports on the fallout: thewalrus.ca/the-wine-wars-ar...

"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...