Retired Coast Guard officer with decades of public health experience is Trump’s pick to lead CDC | CNN The president named Dr. Erica Schwartz on Thursday to run the embattled agency, which has been without a permanent director since Dr. Susan Monarez’s ouster in August.

🧪🧪 Retired Coast Guard officer with decades of public health experience (and Pro-Vax) is Trump’s pick to lead CDC

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Municipal water fluoridation, adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study | PNAS We investigate associations between community water fluoridation (CWF), adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course using representative da...

🧪 🧪 Municipal water fluoridation, adolescent IQ, and cognition across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study -- "we find no evidence that community water fluoridation is negatively associated with adolescent IQ or adult cognitive functioning."

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A ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Is Coming to TV. Here’s What You Need to Know.

A ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Is Coming to TV. Here’s What You Need to Know. -- “The Testaments” focuses on a younger generation coming of age inside Gilead, the religious regime first imagined in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian thriller.

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Toxic dust from California's shrinking Salton Sea is harming children's lung growth - UPI.com The Salton Sea in California is shrinking and releasing toxic dust from its lake bed that is harming the lung growth of children, researchers found.

🧪🧪 Dust from California's shrinking Salton Sea is harming lung growth -- New research from epidemiologists at USC and UC Irvine, shows that blowing dust is impeding the lung growth of children in the region - especially those living closest to the Salton Sea.
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Long COVID and risk of incident cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study using the Multimorbidity Integrated Registry Across Care Levels in Stockholm (MIRACLE-S) cohort Long COVID is associated with increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease, particularly cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and coronary artery disease. These findings underscore the need for sy...

🧪🧪 In a study population of 1,217,693 individuals, long COVID (0.7% of the study population) is associated with increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease, particularly cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and coronary artery disease.

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MOSI hosts Artemis II launch party in Tampa The Museum of Science and Innovation is celebrating the launch of Artemis II with a launch party, Wednesday.

MOSI hosts Artemis II launch party in Tampa www.wfla.com/glance-at-th...

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

🧪🧪 How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins -- Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

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MRI providers keep eye on rising helium prices amid war in Iran Helium is essential to running an MRI machine. | Qatar’s exports of natural gas and helium—the latter essential for MRI scans—were effectively halted after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and attacke...

🧪⚕️ MRI providers keep eye on rising helium prices amid war in Iran -- "Helium is essential to running an MRI machine. ...prices have been upended in recent weeks as the war in Iran spreads across the Middle East and cuts off key supply routes and production facilities."

No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

🧪🧪 "No such thing as a shark?" Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree - Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

🧪🧪 Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper

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The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

🧪🧪 The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by -- An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

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Whoops. Slight typo. It should read "273"! :)

🧪🧪 Did anyone else notice their publication count change on Pubmed? Last week I had 275 publications indexed and today it is 237.

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Billy Idol - Billy Idol Should Be Dead (Official Trailer) YouTube video by Billy Idol

🎸 Official Trailer for "Billy Idol Should Be Dead", the definitive feature length documentary

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Children’s Hospital in Tennessee Renamed to Honor Dolly Parton In an exclusive new video, the president and CEO of East Tennessee Children’s Hospital reveals it will be renamed to Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital to honor the queen of country. “When we come toget...

🎸 A Tennessee Children’s Hospital Has Been Renamed After Dolly Parton

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🧪🧪 The science of safety: adverse effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists as glucose-lowering and obesity medications

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Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function This prospective cohort study investigates whether coffee and tea intake are associated with dementia risk and cognitive function in female participants from the Nurses’ Health Study and male particip...

🧪🧪 Study: Greater consumption of caffeinated coffee and tea was associated with lower risk of dementia and modestly better cognitive function, with the most pronounced association at moderate intake levels.

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I agree with your views. I use them as tool to help transform the way my lab conducts research from generating code/checking code, extracting discrete data from unstructured sources, synthesizing literature, etc. They are a means to an end.

In that case, I am also a shill for the Student's t-test, Fisher's exact test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, principal component analysis, logistic regression, Kaplan-Meier curves, Classification and Regression Trees, adaptive regression splines, LASSO....to name a few. ⌨️🖥️

Rural cancer patients do just as well as urban patients when having surgery close to home, study finds - The Cancer Letter Adults living in rural communities often travel long distances when seeking treatment for cancer, but distant travel may not always be necessary to receive high-quality surgical care. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site […]

Rural cancer patients do just as well as urban patients when having surgery close to home, study finds
https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20260213_9b/

The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media.

🧪 🧪The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation -- Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media. 👏👏👏👏

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 My favorite moment to date on Bluesky was when I was called a "shill" for large language models. Is this even a thing? 😂😂😂

Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Acting Legend, Dies at 95 Robert Duvall, who died Sunday at his home in Virginia, became a household name as Tom Hagen in Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather."

Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Acting Legend, Dies at 95

#RIP

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Metformin for patients with metastatic prostate cancer starting androgen deprivation therapy: a randomised phase 3 trial of the STAMPEDE platform protocol We did not find significant evidence of an overall survival benefit of adding metformin to standard of care in the overall population of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. The...

🧪🧪 No evidence of an overall survival benefit of adding metformin to standard-of-care in the overall population of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: Results from the randomised phase 3 trial of the STAMPEDE platform protocol

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NIH’s Bhattacharya acknowledges absence of causal link between vaccines and autism - The Cancer Letter Pressed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he is not aware of any study pointing to a causal link between vaccines and autism. “I have not seen a study that...

🧪 🧪 NIH’s Dr. Bhattacharya acknowledges absence of causal link between vaccines and autism

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Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss Biopsies from human embryos fertilized in vitro enabled testing of factors that influence risk of abnormal chromosomal number.

🧪🧪 Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss -- Genetic data from 139,416 human embryos were used to characterize chromosomal abnormalities, called aneuploidies, that underlie many cases of pregnancy loss.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

🧪🧪 Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

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