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“One in every four Flemings [residents of Flanders in Northern Belgium] cycled to work in 2024, which is twice as many as 20 years ago. Figures for Brussels too are astounding!” “Cycling infrastructure in Flanders has improved significantly over the past 20 years, that's where it starts.”

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

In the hospital, when a patient dies and they have graciously agreed to donate their organs, HCW's often line up as their bed is rolled to the operating room. We call this the "Honor Walk". I can't imagine anyone wearing a baseball cap during this.

"There were women whose deaths reopened arguments — figures who collided with power, scandal and reckoning. 100 Years of Women Who Changed History #WomensHistoryMonth www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This 22-minute documentary film pulls no punches! "The deadly disparity in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes among male and female heart patients" myheartsisters.org/2019/07/15/a...

Whoah! "What Jesus teaching does Donald Trump and MAGA fight for?" 😮

Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day. n.pr/40PPmk6

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

A national embarrassment. Have all the 'screwy' researchers lost their medical licenses by now? "Juurlink was in Scotland for a conference when a colleague asked him why nobody had noticed that his friend’s screwy Canadian paper was nonsense..."

Ew... ☠️ Can a man be a world-famous chef and a completely out-of-control jerk at the same time? Apparently, Redzepi can. . .

"Gartner predicts that by next year, half of the companies that fired workers for AI are going to hire them back. Also, 9 months ago, Microsoft…proclaimed that 30% of their code was written by AI, and since then, we've seen some of the worst software issues at the company in its history." 1/2

What #NPR says ...

When heart attack symptoms disappear - & then return: "In my (mistaken) stereotype of what a female heart attack looks like, I had pictured sudden chest-clutching agony that became swiftly worse until you keeled over, unconscious and/or dead. Here's the reality: myheartsisters.org/2019/02/24/h...

Yoiks! “It’s a fictional case portrayed as real and its scientific underpinnings have collapsed, yet it perpetuates them...” warns Dr. David Juurlink. This study published in 'Paediatrics & Child Health', the journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, "should obviously be retracted."

The Sitting-Rising Test: what's your score? And also: why do women make up over 40% of the Clinimex Programa de Exercício Supervisionado cardiac rehab program in Rio de Janeiro - compared to low female attendance at our North American cardiac rehab classes? myheartsisters.org/2015/01/04/s...

The book I looked for (but couldn't find) when I was a freshly-diagnosed and overwhelmed heart patient in 2008... So I had to write it myself. . . myheartsisters.org/the-book/

In medicine, the opposite of kindness is not cruelty. It's dismissal. "Kindness: an Underrated Currency” in the #BMJ lists six types of professional kindness that can improve outcomes for patients: myheartsisters.org/2025/04/27/i...

Why does your arm hurt during a heart attack? "You might not even describe this symptom as “pain”. Instead, you may feel it as electrical, tingling, pins-and-needles, dull ache, weakness, heaviness, fullness, or a crushing feeling in either left or right arm." myheartsisters.org/2013/07/10/a...

So important... How a perceived lack of safety dysregulates the nervous system ❤️ "While my mind had dissociated from overwhelming emotional pain, my habitual strategy of figuring out what was wrong and how to fix it created an obsessive loop, which not only exhausted me but increased chronic pain.."

Maybe change your reservations if you've booked the Royalton Splash Riviera hotel in Cancun...

How misinformation about COVID-19 Vaccines Cost the United States $2 Billion from Hospitalizations in 2021. Misinformation was rampant for COVID-19 vaccines, where a large portion of the US population believed in vaccine misinformation and refused vaccination. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

"I had a late diagnosis of my ‘widow-maker’ heart attack because an Emergency physician missed my heart attack symptoms (central chest pain, nausea, sweating and pain down my left arm) & then confidently misdiagnosed these as acid reflux before sending me home" myheartsisters.org/2024/09/15/g...

So important... How a perceived lack of safety dysregulates the nervous system ❤️ "While my mind had dissociated from overwhelming emotional pain, my habitual strategy of figuring out what was wrong and how to fix it created an obsessive loop, which not only exhausted me but increased chronic pain.."

In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site: www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

Canada🇨🇦 vs Czechia 🏒

I wish Olympic slopestyle snowboarding event broadcasts would come with subtitles that translate the jump names. . . Love the enthusiasm and insiders' perspectives of the play-by-play broadcasters...

A new systematic analysis of intermittent fasting from 22 randomized trials shows no advantage for weight loss or other outcomes compared with regular diet advice www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Travelling with babies who aren’t vaccinated for #measles is not problematic- it’s dangerous.

Carolyn's jargon-free, patient-friendly #HeartSisters glossary of weird cardiology terms (all 9,200+ words!) is also part of my book “A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease“ (Johns Hopkins University Press) myheartsisters.org/2011/01/25/c...

" One doctor’s own mother fell for a fake video featuring her daughter. Many scammers deliberately target older patients, who already have a harder time distinguishing authentic content from AI-generated fabrications..." www.statnews.com/2026/02/17/d...

Does that seem fair to you?

"The crux of Canada’s headlight brightness problem is we’ve handcuffed ourselves to U.S. regulations. The philosophy in North America, driven primarily by the United States, has been that more light is always better. There's really no emphasis on glare control.” www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

This is the most honest, empathetic comfort I have heard from a politician. Those of us who have grieved deeply can recognize all this. Prime Minister Carney continues to surprise…

"After my heart attack, I worried that I was never going to feel like my old self, my real self, my fun self, my crazy-busy self again. I went online to seek input from the #WomenHeart cardiac support group I’d just discovered - and found this very funny helper... myheartsisters.org/2017/10/08/l...

myheartsisters.org/81127-2/ Why I'm no longer writing my 'HEART SISTERS' blog (after publishing new posts every Sunday morning since 2009) but still over 900 accessible (& free!) articles specifically for women living with heart disease. You can leave comments at any post!❤️ www.myheartsisters.org

How a simple typo in the British Medical Journal back in 2002 started this idea that taking an aspirin every day would be "appropriate" for most of us. A correction swiftly issued by the BMJ noted that final word should have in fact been “inappropriate”. myheartsisters.org/2009/09/18/a...

Some of the biggest "doctor" pages online are not human. An @indicator.media investigation uncovered more than two dozen Instagram, TikTok and YouTube pages feature AI-generated fake doctors, with many still active despite being reported. Could you tell the difference? #AI #Deepfakes #FakeDoctors

BRONZE FOR CANADA 🇨🇦 Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, in their third Olympics together, finally get their moment. With a memorable free dance, a season’s best score, Piper and Paul have won Olympic bronze. What moment for them.

Congrats Piper and Paul! Canada wins bronze in Olympic Ice Dance! 💕 🇨🇦 💕 globalnews.ca/video/116642...

When are cardiologists going to start talking about depression? "When I was at Mayo Clinic after my heart attack, I was shocked to learn there that up to 65% of heart patients experience significant depression, yet fewer than 10% are appropriately identified..." myheartsisters.org/2017/11/26/d...

Although COVID is transmitted through the respiratory system, much of the pathology unfolds in the vascular system, the common denominator in the lungs, heart, kidneys and brain.

A publicist for Bad Bunny confirmed to NPR that the little boy in a blue bunny hat detained by ICE in Minneapolis last month did not participate in the Super Bowl halftime show. n.pr/46gnrNJ

This documentary film is a triumph! 22 stunning minutes on the deadly disparity in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes among male and female heart patients... myheartsisters.org/2019/07/15/a...

Though not fully recovered from neurosurgery, I’ll do today’s chores without any fear of being grabbed, beaten or detained because of Canada’s democracy and our rule of law - we should never take it for granted and fight for all that keeps us safe. This is the way. #Never51 @brittlestar.com

The important little documentary film called “A Typical Heart“ is a triumph. It’s about the deadly disparity in diagnosis, treatment and outcomes among male and female heart patients, packed into 22 stunning minutes. myheartsisters.org/2019/07/15/a...

People seem to have a happiness set point. Generally speaking, in the weeks and months after a significant positive or negative life event, you tend to return to the level of happiness you had before that event..." Dr. Art Markman myheartsisters.org/2024/10/13/d...

False hope vs. real hope for patients: “Although doctors intuitively appreciate the potential therapeutic benefit of hope, concern about taking away hope is a common reason for delaying conversations about a poor prognosis" myheartsisters.org/2025/09/28/f...

Wallowing is viewed as a negative response to coping with despair (eg. hearing a frightening diagnosis with your name on it). Aren’t we supposed to keep smiling, think positive, just get over it? “NO!” says Dr. Tina Gilbertson https:/myheartsisters.org/2025/03/16/constructive-wallowing-diagnosis/