BC’s Free Contraceptives Program Has Been Hugely Successful. More people are using IUDs and hormonal implants now that cost isn’t an issue, by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/04... via @thetyee.ca
Labatt family donates $40-million to make mental-health services more accessible to youth. Money will go to Thriving Minds, a program for children and adolescents run jointly by SickKids and CAMH, by @brownoftheglobe.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Also one of my favourite parts of research is spending hours reading... it makes me both a better writer and greatly improves my subject matter knowledge. I would never want to outsource the reading process.
As someone who has done research on birth control misinformation and heard how Casey Means has discussed birth control in the past, this absolutely does not surprise me
3 times the cost and undoubtedly less effective.
The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
"1000% safe" 🙄
"The study was halted because it raised critical questions on the ethics of the trial, he said, adding: “The way the study was designed was a big challenge.”" Props to all the journalists, scientists, ethicists and doctors that sounded the alarm on this study! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
“Covid vaccines administered last fall sharply decreased the risk of emergency department and urgent care visits in children… [cutting] the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent in children under 4, and 56 percent in children 5 to 17.”
List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
“I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,” Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.
words, what do they mean
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
It's such an unscientific statement to be sent by an exec at FDA. If I wrote "unlikely/probable/possible" in a paper in graduate school I would get a bad grade... no scientific rigor whatsoever.
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
New study finds that a one-week social media detox led to meaningful mental-health improvements, reducing anxiety by 16.1%, depression by 24.8%, and insomnia by 14.5%.
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A research letter titled "Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health," discusses the impact of grant terminations on clinical trials, noting study methods, results, and discussions.
Between February and August 2025, 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials lost grant funding, affecting over 74,000 participants, with disproportionate impact on prevention, infectious disease, and behavioral trials. ja.ma/4i4tSYx
Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
The title has been changed now to "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?" 🙄
Ah yes the first lesson in epidemiology, "do the studies to make the proof"
If she has a baby in her placenta, she has bigger problems.
Does he have literally any evidence that there is a large group of people who "don't know they had insurance" lol
Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death Baby born early, with congenital measles after mother contracted virus, province says Jennifer Lee · CBC News · Posted: Oct 02, 2025 2:23 PM MDT | Last Updated: October 2
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough, the State’s First Pertussis Death in 13 Years Heather Harrison by Heather Harrison September 30, 2025
Second child dies of measles as Texas outbreak worsens 6 April 2025 Madeline Halpert BBC News, Texas
British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall This article is more than 1 month old Infant’s mother had not been vaccinated against the highly infectious disease, which affects the lungs and airways
Babies and young children are now paying the price for creeping anti-vaccine rhetoric that began long before they were born.
These childhood diseases are preventable and, until recently, had been heavily suppressed, if not virtually eradicated, by widespread vaccination.
Jane Goodall understood better than most the impact humans have had on the planet. Having witnessed so much environmental deterioration during her lifetime, she was as much an activist as a scientist.
Read our piece from 2024 on the legendary primatologist. 💚
The hardest part of making sourdough (in my humble opinion) is knowing when the bulk fermentation is done, it requires knowing what the dough should look like, understanding the dough ratios and the environment (temp, humidity etc.). You can get real nerdy with this stage of sourdough making.
These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask
- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?
Massive walkout underway at CDC.
RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Birth control access for over 800,000 Americans is in jeopardy due to Trump illegally withholding Title X funding.
15 public health organizations are suing the Trump administration to ensure low-income families get the care they need.
