UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese delivers her latest report on how apartheid Israel tortures Palestinians in every single aspect of life. Member states have an obligation to act to stop Israel's apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide, for Palestine, for all of humanity #FreePalestine

The final hours: An Irish Cancer Society night nurse on the quiet privilege of end-of-life care As Daffodil Day approaches, Richard Keane shares what it means to care for patients and families through the last hours of life.

End of life care: As Daffodil Day approaches, night nurse Richard Keane shares what it means to care for patients and families through the last hours of life.

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FAI Boycott Israel Games! Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree

Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie

Trump revokes legal basis for US climate laws, calling climate change 'a scam' Legal challenges are expected to follow swiftly.

The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” was paired with the immediate elimination of greenhouse gas standards on automobiles.
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James Van Der Beek’s Death Underscores Early-Onset Colorectal Cancers The actor James Van Der Beek, who died on Wednesday at 48, was among a growing number of adults under 50 diagnosed with the disease.

The actor James Van Der Beek, who died on Wednesday at 48, was among a growing number of adults under 50 diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The disease is now the leading cause of cancer-related death in adults in this age group, surpassing lung and breast cancer.

Stop a Canadian company harvesting seaweed from Irelands west coast - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Re-open train line Cork-Midleton-Youghal I just signed the petition to re-open train line Cork-Midleton-Youghal, so that people living in the area have access to reliable public transport. Can you sign too?

This needs to happen - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/re... @uplift.ie

Hallmarks of cancer—Then and now, and beyond Hanahan revisits the evolving framework of cancer hallmarks, synthesizing 25 years of conceptual refinement into a multidimensional view of tumor biology. This review highlights how aberrant capabilit...

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End the use of Counselling notes in sexual offence trials I am calling on the Minister for Justice to immediately implement a complete and unconditional ban on the use of counseling records in sexual offense trials. Can you sign and share the petition too?

I am calling on the Minister for Justice to immediately implement a complete and unconditional ban on the use of counseling records in sexual offense trials. Can you sign and share the petition too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/en... @uplift.ie

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US govt response to ICE shooting 'propaganda', says Walz The Governor of Minnesota has called the administration of US President Donald Trump a "propaganda machine" for its response to the killing of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis in which...

The Governor of Minnesota has called the administration of Donald Trump a "propaganda machine" for its response to the killing of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis in which it accused her of "domestic terrorism".

JAMA viewpoint article titled "Abstract Factory—Research Culture Harming Medical Education" by Samer Al Hadidi et al., published online December 18, 2025. The article discusses the impact of mass abstract submissions on medical education.

💬 Viewpoint: Mass abstract submissions in #MedEd have led to inflated metrics, less meaningful research, and misaligned incentives for trainees and institutions.

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TAKE ACTION: Tell Basketball Ireland our Women's Team should not play against genocidal Israel Send an email in a couple of clicks

🚨 TAKE ACTION: Tell Basketball Ireland our Women's Team should not play against genocidal Israel
#BDS #BanIsrael
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Israel would 'lose all US support' if West Bank annexed US President Donald Trump has said Israel would lose its crucial backing from the United States if it annexes the occupied West Bank.

US President Donald Trump has said Israel would lose its crucial backing from the United States if it annexes the occupied West Bank

Israeli gymnasts not able to take part in world championships as appeal over visas rejected Indonesian authorities denied Israeli gymnasts entry visas for the championships later this month.

Israel's gymnasts will not be able to compete at the upcoming world championships in Indonesia after sport’s highest court today rejected requests from the Israeli federation to 'guarantee the participation' of its team
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IARC Evidence Summary Brief on Alcohol: A Major Preventable Cause of Cancer - IARC - OncoDaily IARC Evidence Summary Brief on Alcohol: A Major Preventable Cause of Cancer - IARC / cancer, IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health

IARC Evidence Summary Brief on Alcohol: A Major Preventable Cause of Cancer

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#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #IARC

Israel kills five journalists in strike on media tent near Gaza Hospital Prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed alongside four of his colleagues in the Israeli strike yesterday.

Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in what the network has described as a “targeted assassination” by Israel outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital
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Use chapter VII and get the aid into Gaza!! We the under signed people support the recent calls made by Irish President Michael D Higgins to the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres to use Chapter VII powers to establish an ...

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Hertha Sponer in the lab. Credit: Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo.

A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics. go.nature.com/41mjQuJ #WomeninSTEM ⚛️ 🧪

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation * Middle East crisis – live updates At least 798 people have been killed while seeking food at distribution points operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and other humanitarian convoys since the end of May, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday. The GHF, proposed by Israel as an alternative to the UN aid system in Gaza, has been almost universally condemned by rights groups for its violation of principles of humanitarian impartiality and what they have said could be complicity in war crimes. Continue reading...

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

Let Them Play Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine

Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie

🦠 New research shows obesity disrupts dendritic cell responses to viruses by impairing cytokine production & metabolism - helping explain higher infection risk.

📖 Read the open-access study: https://bit.ly/40kBiiH

By @andrea-woodcock.bsky.social‬ et al.

#Immunology

Biological Sex Influences Human Bystander CD8+ T Cell Activation CD8+ T cells isolated from male donors exhibit greater IL-15–driven bystander activation, NKG2D expression, and cytotoxicity than female CD8+ cells. This study reveals a sex-based difference in innat....

'Male CD8+ T cells stimulated with IL-15 exhibited greater bystander activation, including increased NKG2D expression and greater antigen-independent cytotoxicity against tumor cells compared with female CD8+ T cells.'
#immunology #immunosky

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BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights.

Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia grad detained for 3+ months. The judge said his arrest appears to be unconstitutional retaliation for pro-Palestinian speech. Khalil hasn’t been charged with a crime.

Wow, incredible: we were 110 000 drawing a #redline for #Gaza in Brussels today! ✊🏽🇵🇸
More than about time for the Belgian government and the EU to take concrete actions! @oxfameu.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be
#SpeakUpForPalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow

Hundreds of Thousands form 'Red Line' Around the Hague | Common Dreams The red line the government has failed to set.

"Protesters walked a 5-kilometer loop around the city center of The Hague to symbolically create the red line that the government has failed to set."

"Organisers described it as the country's largest demonstration in two decades."
#Netherlands #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Israeli military kills 41 people in Gaza, medics say Israeli gunfire and airstrikes have killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (...

Israeli gunfire and airstrikes have killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation More than 20 people were killed on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies. Witnesses told the Associated Press that Israeli forces had opened fire on people as they headed toward the aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There were many martyrs, including women,” the 40-year-old resident said. “We were about 300 metres away from the military.” Continue reading...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says