Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen It wasn't the first time the surgeon cut out the wrong organ.

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BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS.

The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.

Retracted Randomized Clinical Trials From Authors With Multiple Retractions This cohort study evaluates the author and publication characteristics of retracted randomized clinical trials.

Retracted Randomized Clinical Trials From Authors With Multiple Retractions url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Top C.D.C. Official Delays Report on Covid Shot’s Effectiveness

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

Texans Have Waited 15 Years for This State Park. We Took a Sneak Peek Before the Grand Opening. Palo Pinto Mountains boasts unique hills and junipers, but it’s the fishing that will reel me back in.

Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, which celebrates its grand opening April 10, boasts miles of hiking trails among unique hills and junipers. 🏃🌳 www.texasmonthly.com/travel/palo-pinto-mounta...

Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records - KFF Health News The administration is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.

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The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works People are buying helmets, face masks, vests and beds that emit long-wavelength light. Beneath the hype, there is some interesting biology.

The surprising science behind red-light therapy — and how it really works www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Should You Need to Prove Citizenship to Vote? Ask Kansas.

A Kansas law required a passport, a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship to register, but it was struck down after a court found that around 31,000 eligible voters had been blocked. [Free] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.

This is an internet pandemic. arstechnica.com/security/202...

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds #Medsky www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n... via @statnews.com

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.

On Monday, the Trump administration announced its newest approach to its goal of blocking the development of offshore wind: pay companies to walk away from lease sites they had paid for under the Biden administration. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes — Inside Climate News As warning lights flash, U.N. Secretary Gen. António Guterres calls out a global climate emergency.

“Earth is being pushed beyond its limits while every key climate indicator is flashing red. Earth’s energy imbalance, the gap between heat absorbed and heat released, is the highest on record. Our planet is trapping heat faster than it can shed it.”
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138 Case Reports in a Pediatric Medical Journal Turned Out to be Fake | The Scientist Over the past 25 years, a Canadian medical journal has been publishing fictional clinical case reports but framing them as real cases.

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Pregnant Georgian took an abortion drug. Now she’s in jail on murder charge. — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A woman who allegedly told hospital staff she'd taken abortion medication and wanted her baby to die could become the first criminal case involving Georgia's abortion law.

Pregnant Georgian took an abortion drug. Now she’s in jail on murder charge. apple.news/AksRW2whqSdO...

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

Corpus Christi is about to run out of water due to poor planning. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

RFK Jr has 'unreviewable' authority to reshape vaccine policy, DOJ lawyer tells judge A lawyer for the Trump administration told a judge on Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such broad authority over vaccine policy that he could even ​scrap re...

The chutzpah shown by the HHS attorney is astounding. #Medsky www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This could be a really big deal.

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.

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4 Things You Didn’t Know About the Plummeting U.S. Birthrate

More on the declining birthrate. Millennial women, like their boomer counterparts, had an average of two children, but have delayed parenthood by ~10 years. If Gen Z will follow is an open question. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm" See Editorial page 825

Cover of current issue of The Lancet

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A timeline of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s first year as head of the $1.7 trillion U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Scientific American compiled a nonexhaustive listing of notable events related to U.S. public health policy since Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s confirmation hearings in January 2025. spklr.io/6006DUjAg

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This will have terrible consequences. #Medsky

UT Regents To Vote on Sweeping Teaching Restrictions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

UT System Board of Regents to vote on new teaching restrictions. This is part of a continuing plan to crush academic freedom and limit what and how it can be taught. Texas A&M is already blocking teaching about Plato. Democracy needs unfiltered access to knowledge. aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...

Pregnancy Cravings for Prime Numbers? Fake Paper Scams Predatory Publishers Irritated by predatory journals and fake conferences, one mathematics researcher decided to submit an obviously AI-generated manuscript, revealing their exploitative behavior.

I average about eight predatory journal submission requests a day currently. I began to block all of the messages requesting submissions and yet they still keep coming. In the case of one predatory publisher, I vibe-coded an app to (try to) block them. #Medsky www.the-scientist.com/pregnancy-cr...

WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical" CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

Fortunately, someone is calling the Trump/RFK Jr cabal on their delusional view of vaccines, the scientific method, and ethical research. #Medsky arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

US judges may speak out against 'illegitimate' criticism, ethics panel says U.S. federal judges may advocate for greater security and defend colleagues against "illegitimate" attacks and criticism that risk undermining judicial independence or the rule of law, according to a new judicial ethics opinion released on Thursday.

US judges may speak out against 'illegitimate' criticism, ethics panel says reut.rs/4kzd51b

Levetiracetam prevents Aβ production through SV2a-dependent modulation of APP processing in Alzheimer’s disease models Levetiracetam prevents Aβ production by reducing synaptic vesicle cycling and restoring APP nonamyloidogenic processing.

Levetiracetam may reduce the rate of A-beta production leading to the delay or prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease #Medsky doi.org/10.1126/scit...

One major rule anchored U.S. climate policy. The EPA just threw it out The Trump administration rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks

Well, who really benefited from a cleaner environment anyway? www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-...