Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

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.
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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

Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized COVID-19 deaths recorded as other causes of death in the United States A machine learning approach suggests that COVID-19 deaths were undercounted unevenly across sociodemographic groups in 2020–2021.

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

You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.

🚨 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

Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline - Nature Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this g...

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

Frontiers | Characterization of subchronic lung and brain consequences caused by mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A infection of C57BL6 mice IntroductionSARS-CoV-2 and, to a lesser extent, influenza A can lead to long-term complications in the respiratory and nervous systems. However, the mechanis...

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

Effectiveness of bivalent BA.1 mRNA booster vaccines during the autumn 2022 COVID-19 booster programme in adults aged 50+ in England: observational matched cohort study using OpenSAFELY Estimate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of booster vaccination with bivalent original/omicron BA.1 mRNA-1273 (Moderna) and original/o…

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

Topol’s wellness advice: don’t buy wellness stuff.

Also Topol: please buy my wellness book right here stacked behind me. 🤝😂

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 Crushed the Coronavirus’s Secret Weak Spot Llama antibodies clamp the coronavirus shut at its weakest spot—leaving the virus powerless to mutate or infect.

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

Can it run Doom?

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Intranasal neomycin evokes broad-spectrum antiviral immunity in the upper respiratory tract Respiratory virus infections in humans are a significant global health concern, causing a wide range of diseases with substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. This underscores the urgent need for effective interventions to reduce the burden of ...

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

Frontiers | Metabolic impact of polyphenol-rich aronia fruit juice mediated by inflammation status of gut microbiome donors in humanized mouse model Background: The Aronia melanocarpa fruit is emerging as a health food owing to its high polyphenolic content and associated antioxidant activity. Antioxidant...

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

Frontiers | Metabolic impact of polyphenol-rich aronia fruit juice mediated by inflammation status of gut microbiome donors in humanized mouse model Background: The Aronia melanocarpa fruit is emerging as a health food owing to its high polyphenolic content and associated antioxidant activity. Antioxidant...

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

There’s still time
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'Punching down': Comedian Jon Stewart under fire as mockery falls flat with progressives Comedian Jon Stewart is under fire over his decision to "punch down" at COVID-cautious people still choosing to wear a mask.During a Dec. 11 episode of "The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart," the comedian...

Mixed. Jon Stewart mocking people who still mask isn’t edgy, it’s lazy. When your jokes target the medically vulnerable instead of the powerful, that’s not satire, it’s punching down.

Two-panel cartoon of a golden retriever. In the first panel the dog looks annoyed and says, ‘I’m not allowed to bring sticks inside.’ In the second panel, the same dog stares at a fully decorated Christmas tree and says, ‘but apparently entire trees are ok.

The injustice is real

#FunnyDogs #Art #Bluesky

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Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers.

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

Are we living in a parallel universe? The strange physics of Stranger Things Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers.

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

Two-panel cartoon of a golden retriever. In the first panel the dog looks annoyed and says, ‘I’m not allowed to bring sticks inside.’ In the second panel, the same dog stares at a fully decorated Christmas tree and says, ‘but apparently entire trees are ok.

The injustice is real

#FunnyDogs #Art #Bluesky

🎄🐶🎅🏻

Manifesting both knockouts and the right outfit. Preparedness is fashion’s true superpower

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

He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

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

Increased Risk of Herpes Zoster in Adults ≥50 Years Old Diagnosed With COVID-19 in the United States AbstractBackground. Case reports have described herpes zoster (HZ) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, this constitutes low-qual

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