Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 Nearly half of U.S. teens (46%) say they're on the internet almost constantly. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used by teens.

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A little louder for the folks in the back:

The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind.

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Toronto can end tents in parks: Here’s a city that solved street homelessness — and how we can do it too Helsinki started with a big homelessness problem and they've effectively solved it. Experts say their model could be adapted for Canada's largest city, if we're ready to be bold.

Helsinki started with a big #homelessness problem and solved it. Toronto can do it too, by learning lessons from Finland. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor... via @thestar.com #sdoh #HousingFirst

Cases of whooping cough in Ontario highest since 2007 More than 1,400 cases of whooping cough have been reported in Ontario so far this year. The figures show the highly contagious disease is particularly affecting youth ages 10-14.

Cases of whooping cough in Ontario highest since 2007 www.thestar.com/news/cases-o... via @torontostar

Coalition for Gun Control Welcomes Action by the Government of Canada to Implement New Regulations for Bill C-21
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Influencers selling fake cures for polycystic ovary syndrome Influencers posing as medical experts are exploiting the lack of easy solutions for PCOS by selling fake cures.

“One born every minute”?
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World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless…

World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

This is the most important chart published in America this week.

(By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

What’s Killing Kids? We explore America’s childhood death rate.

What’s Killing Kids? Shockingly high childhood mortality rate in U.S. driven by #GunViolence, motor vehicles, drugs, #drowning and #COVID19, by Emily Baumgaertner www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b... via @nytimes.com

I always felt that way too! But then realized it’s because the wall always helped me out. 😂😂

I’ll just leave this….. right here 🤣😭

Grace Hospital's ER saw nearly double patient capacity in overcrowding 'catastrophe,' doctor says
Winnipeg ER had 52 active patients Sunday, despite 30-patient capacity: Dr. Doug Eyolfson
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One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful

It’s a different kind of troll.

The Congressional "American Health and Nutrition Roundtable" was an egregious display of anti-science disinformation Legislators platforming pseudoscience personalities under the guise of "health advocacy" is an insulting distraction from REAL issues that impact people's health.

He, like others in the MAHA gang including Calley and Casey Means & RFK Jr., don’t understand, care about, or want to improve health.

Read more ⬇️
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As media rumors that Marty Makary might be head of FDA: he lies about health topics.

He claims pancreatic cancer has doubled in the last 20 years: WRONG.

In 1992, the rate of pancreatic cancer diagnoses was 11.1 per 100,000 people. In 2021, 30 years later, the rate was 13.2 cases per 100,000.

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Best tips on how to motivate oneself to go in for an overnight shift when these two faces are starring at you?Aaaaand… Go! 👇🏾

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.

I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

What in the wild wild US of A is going on? I didn’t think it could get any worse… but it did! 🫣🫣 Someone make it stop!

Dr. Oz Shouldn't Be a Senator--or a Doctor His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse

Scientific American on Dr. Oz in 2021:

“Dr. Oz Shouldn’t Be a Senator—or a Doctor
His brand of misinformation has already tarnished medicine. In the halls of Congress, he’d do much worse.”
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Pierre Poilievre’s rage-baiting and empty slogans aren’t what Canada needs Canada risks electing dubious Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre based on little more than catchy slogans and voter fatigue.

We are being conned on a mass scale.

“A digital marketing firm abroad ran two of the largest anti-vax, pro-trucker groups, feeding disinformation into the movement while posing as grassroots supporters. Foreign propaganda is threatening our democracy.”

Emergency Dept. Closures Plague Canada’s Emergency Medical Care - ACEP Now ACEP Now offers real-time clinical news, news from the American College of Emergency Physicians, and news on practice trends and health care reform for the emergency medicine physician. ACEP Now is an...

Emergency Dept. Closures Plague Canada’s Emergency Medical Care
ACEP Now
By Larry Beresford | on November 6, 2024
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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

You can now watch our press conference on climate and health at #COP29.

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Tobacco regulations curtailed smoking ads and lobbying. We need similar refs applied to the fossil fuel industry.

Treat fossil fuels like Big tobacco.

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As a rural ER doctor, I feel guilty cutting back my hours. But it's the only way for me to keep working
After working for years in an understaffed hospital, I've hit a wall of burnout
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Cases are on the rise. Here are some of the most common questions I have received from parents about Mycoplasma Pneumonia answered🦠

A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease CAR-T therapy is generating excitement for lupus, scleroderma, and other conditions as clinical trials expand

Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful

A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

New to this app… want to connect with more science nerds like me 👩🏻‍⚕️🩺 Looking to make science fun again! 🙏🏽💙