Tuesday’s congressional hearing on vaccine safety included a moment when audience members applauded the idea that vaccines are a crime against humanity comparable to the Holocaust.

Yesterday's congressional hearing on vaccine safety relied on a study that was never published—or even submitted to a journal—to trot out the old myths about vaccines causing chronic illnesses. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🦠 🧒 🧪 US State Vaccine Requirements for School-Age Children

@henryfordhealth.bsky.social please dm me I am a journalist with @theguardian.com seeking comment for a story. I have emailed as well.

Has anyone ordered personalized badges or patches? We want to make a “Mass Spec Expert” badge for when my lab members master MS maintenance! 💪 Pls reski

Two private equity backed companies have dominated prison healthcare for years. High level investigators, like the Department of Justice, have accused both of violating inmates' constitutional rights. Facing mounting lawsuits, both filed for bankruptcy. Both are still in business.

In a divided decision, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration allowing it to eliminate NIH grants to any organization that doesn't follow administration priorities by not eliminating DEI or not eliminating recognition of trans people. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

"These private equity firms have a ton of political power, and prisoners are the most vulnerable. The political power dynamics are about the worst they can be."

If there's a link to that story in this post, I couldn't find it. So here it is, for anyone else looking: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great for @cwebbonline.com to be sharing @greennoise.bsky.social reporting. Here’s a link www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Profit Over Patients: Private equity turns prison healthcare into a death sentence. A 57-year-old woman in a Santa Barbara jail begged for help, screaming that her guts were twisted. Instead of sending her to the ER, Wellpath medical staff dismissed her as just another opioid withdrawal case. 🧵

Since 2014, in eight cases involving these two private equity-backed healthcare companies, investigators from the DOJ, NYC DOI and other local investigators found negligence so severe that it violated inmates’ eighth amendment rights protecting them from substantial risk of harm

Our second story in a series by @greennoise.bsky.social that looks at how victims got some justice in an unlikely place after two private equity-backed healthcare companies accused of neglect went bust www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When Casey Norred attempted suicide in a Florida jail, health staff didn't send her to the ER. Instead, they strapped her to a chair—for 24 hours. Once she was free, she tried again. Her mother sued. Bankruptcy almost killed the case. But it wasn't over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Early one morning, screams echoed in the halls of a Santa Barbara jail. An inmate was moaning and hyperventilating. Her “guts are all twisted up”. Staff ignored her pleas to go to the hospital. She died. And nobody got more than a slap on the wrist. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our first in a two part series about the big business of providing healthcare to inmates. by @greennoise.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The field of AI safety is also closely linked with neuroscience, because understanding how human neural networks create bias can also help us understand how AI networks create bias."

In July, Colombia opened its second safe injection site in nearly as many years. @greennoise.bsky.social reports on how these organizations foster trust to ensure client safety, paving the way for a new approach to overdose prevention in Latin America.

The goal of Trump's new "AI Action Plan" is to ensure that the US continues to dominate when it comes to AI. But federal funding cuts to NIH, NSF and other agencies that have fostered the foundations of AI will make that impossible. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My dog has very strong reactions to minimalist music.

Hours after this story went up, Trump issued an executive order requiring a new director to oversee each agencies grants to ensure they are in line with Trump’s ideology

“The Trump administration is, for the first time in history, substantially intervening inside NIH to bring it under political control,” according to a senior NIH official who spoke on condition of anonymity. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sometimes you realize your worst fears were true and your anxiety just disappears

Scientists who receive NIH funding, anyone want to share your thoughts on the recent White House whiplash? I'm working on a story about it for The Guardian. DMs are open. 🧪

Here’s the lawsuit: ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul... ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

Congratulations to Bogota and Cali for opening Latin America’s first officially sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers. There are around 200 OPCs around the world and they have saved countless thousands of lives — which is why Trump is attacking the three that exist in the US.

My first story for @thinkglobalhealth.org is about South America's first safe injection sites, where staff monitor clients as they inject drugs in case of overdose. These sites are possible thanks to Colombia's 2023 drug policy, which prioritizes health. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/colo...

We are opening up our fourth 24/7 free Narcan distribution site next week and I’m so stoked about it!

“In general, our surveillance data for the opioid crisis is awful. And it’s about to get worse.” CDC Overdose prevention funding is now coming in monthly increments of uncertain amounts, making it very difficult for public health workers to plan. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you can give yourself Narcan you don’t need it because you’re not having a fentanyl overdose

Eugenics but make it polyamorous

Looming Medicaid cuts could make it much harder for prescription opioid victims to access treatment. So it's extra urgent to look at cases where prescription opioid settlement money is going to the government, rather than prescription opioid victims. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

My drug of choice is sleep.

🤖🩺 Trusting AI too much? A new study finds people over trust medical advice from AI – even when it is inaccurate – often rating it as more trustworthy and thorough than doctors’ answers. 🧪 Risky responses still felt 'valid' to users. 🔗 doi.org/10.1056/AIoa... #AI #HealthTech #SciComm

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

Anyone have novel recommendations about growing up bi and mixed? I have only ever found one, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, and it’s still my go to when being a bi mixed Asian kid feels lonely. (Also it’s amazing, read it whatever your background is.)

Yesterday, The Guardian published my investigation showing that TPG, one of the world’s richest private equity firms, was seeking a bankruptcy deal that could prevent thousands of personal injury claimants from getting their day in court. Today, that deal fell apart.

An update following an investigation published by us yesterday by @greennoise.bsky.social www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

When a company files for bankruptcy, all lawsuits against it are automatically frozen. What does this mean when 1000s of people have filed personal injury claims against that company? My first special investigation for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In her latest for the Guardian, @greennoise.bsky.social takes a deep look at the bankruptcy of Exactech, the medical device maker, and what the company's financial issues has meant for people who have tried to sue the group and its private equity owner, TPG: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Is your life overshadowed by dread and fear as you await your next Pap-smear appointment? Does every five years feel like way too often? Fear no more! www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...

As cannabis rescheduling continues to stall, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Dina Titus have introduced a new bill that would, at the very least, allow the federal government to research the impacts of state level weed legalisation. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of [white Afrikaners] to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitution democracy” —South Africa’s foreign ministry

wonder if the "Other White" thing is related to the recent successful pressure from Middle Eastern groups to get broken out of the "white" category on the census www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

What the actual fuck with these FAFSA form race categories. How do they decide who gets to check a box and who has to type out their country of origin?

An org I’m familiar with has offered undergrads with zero experience and a weekend orientation the opportunity to suture.

New research finds that leading podcasters, like Joe Rogan and Russell Brand, are increasingly serving up misinformation about climate change and the impact of eating meat. @jesslsr.bsky.social reports: