Long COVID, leaky gut, and menopause share a bigger connection than most people realize.🤔 Breaking down the newest science in this week's issue of the Dr. Ruth Report 👇 #medsky

Ruth Ann Crystal@drruth.bsky.social · 18h ago

🚨 COVID levels remain high in the South & West. This week's Dr. Ruth Report: 🔹Updated fall vaccine guidance (Flu, COVID, RSV) 🔹COVID vax lower Long COVID & heart risks 🔹Gut microbiome shifts linked to Long COVID 🔹Menopause & leaky gut link Trusted science breakdown: buff.ly/2FPgUCU #medsky #IDsky

Canada’s universal healthcare, despite needing constant improvement, is a national treasure.

Rebecca 🦋@rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 16h ago

🚨 COVID levels remain high in the South & West. This week's Dr. Ruth Report: 🔹Updated fall vaccine guidance (Flu, COVID, RSV) 🔹COVID vax lower Long COVID & heart risks 🔹Gut microbiome shifts linked to Long COVID 🔹Menopause & leaky gut link Trusted science breakdown: buff.ly/2FPgUCU #medsky #IDsky

Dr. Ruth Report, 9/6/26

COVID high in South & West; Fall Vaccine Recommendations (Flu, COVID and RSV); Gut microbiome and Long COVID; COVID vaccines protect against Long COVID and CV complications; Menopause and leaky gut.

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Just a friendly reminder

Ruth Ann Crystal@drruth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Measles are contagious. Measles cause 1 in 4 people to be hospitalized. Measles can be deadly especially in children. Measles can cause blindness & deafness. Measles can cause brain damage yrs later. Measles can cause "immune amnesia". Measles are preventable with MMR vaccine. #medsky #IDsky 🛟 😷🧪

New Zealand's kakapo just had its best breeding season on record: A bumper crop of rimu berries, their favorite food, triggered a rare mating frenzy that added 90 chicks and pushed the critically endangered parrot's population to 325. buff.ly/Sse1f0Z

Critically Endangered Parrots Enjoy Baby Boom After Mating Frenzy (Gift Article)

There are now 325 kakapos in New Zealand, the largest population of the giant, flightless parrot species in decades, conservationists said.

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Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatric hospitalist running as a Democrat for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina. Her goal if she wins is to oust lunatic RFKjr. Let's hope she gets elected!👇

Ousting RFK Jr. Among the Priorities for This Doctor Running for Senate

South Carolina pediatrician also calls for a public option and to end extreme abortion bans

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Some beautiful dahlias (Creme de Cassis?) to brighten your day! #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens

Brilliant disaster prep idea: Japanese vending machines are designed to switch into free emergency supply hubs during major earthquakes. Running on emergency batteries or hand cranks, they provide immediate relief before official aid arrives. Read more: buff.ly/Xh3TOa2

Japan's vending machines become free emergency supply stations during disasters

Special vending machines have been installed in Ako City, in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture, that convert into free emergency supply stations during a major earthquake, according to a Minute Mirror report.

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Wow! Imagine detecting cancer or HIV using just your smartphone and a device small enough to fit in your pocket. UIUC’s new VPodDuo fluorimeter matches expensive lab equipment accuracy at point-of-care detecting HIV, Zika, MSSA, & lung cancer. 🔗 buff.ly/XZ4cx8o #medsky #innovation

Handheld Device Accurately Detects Cancer, HIV Without Lab

A fluorimeter the size of an AirPod case replicates gold-standard lab assays and can deliver portable diagnostic testing for Staph infection, HIV, cancer, and more.

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Vaccines really are amazing scientific accomplishments. The shingles vaccines reduces risk of heart disease. The HPV vaccine has made cervical cancer virtually obsolete. We’re close to an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Science for the win! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does the shingles vaccine cut heart-disease risk? Mounting evidence suggests a link

Large study finds that people who received the ‘recombinant’ vaccine for the viral condition had a lower risk of cardiovascular problems.

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5 infectious disease stories NOT to miss this week: ⬆️ COVID wave 🧬 Long COVID: new immune clues 🐄 Live H5N1 in lab bovine serum ⚠️ 2 measles-associated deaths in PA 💉 New COVID shots What do these signals tell us? 👀 📰 Dr. Ruth Report 8/30/26 buff.ly/p17FHl8 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth 😷 🧪

Yikes! Her son fed goats at a petting zoo. Now he has to get rabies shots. | NBC 8/31/26 buff.ly/QLUv7Kg 4 baby goats at a petting zoo tested positive for rabies. h/t @renefoxdoe.bsky.social @gaffa.bsky.social @cc1025.bsky.social

Her son fed goats at a petting zoo. Now he has to get rabies shots.

Three baby goats at a North Carolina petting zoo tested positive for rabies, sparking a statewide effort to track down everyone who interacted with them.

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⚠️Did you know that COVID is on the rise, again? The summer COVID wave continues and is expected to peak around #LaborDay (September 7) Here are the facts from @drruth.bsky.social drruth.substack.com/p/dr-ruth-re... #medsky #idsky #publichealth

Dr. Ruth Report, 8/30/26

COVID wave increases, new COVID boosters, COVID changes blood stem cells, H5N1 found in fetal bovine serum (FBS), 2 measles deaths in Pennsylvania, and more.

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5 infectious disease stories NOT to miss this week: ⬆️ COVID wave 🧬 Long COVID: new immune clues 🐄 Live H5N1 in lab bovine serum ⚠️ 2 measles-associated deaths in PA 💉 New COVID shots What do these signals tell us? 👀 📰 Dr. Ruth Report 8/30/26 buff.ly/p17FHl8 #medsky #IDsky #publichealth 😷 🧪

Long COVID researchers, the bat signal is up. Nearly 60,000 RECOVER clinical trial biosamples are available. We review applications every week. Apply or send this to the investigator friend who needs to see it. The samples aren't going to science themselves.

Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · last wk.

'Biosamples from RECOVER clinical trials offer expanded opportunities for Long COVID research' 'Nearly 60,000 biosamples collected from more than 3,000 clinical trial participants will provide valuable information to researchers...' recovercovid.org/news/biosamp...

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

Covid-19 Cases Surge—Here’s What’s Different This Summer That Will Help buff.ly/snx3pvU Excellent article written by @drjudystone.bsky.social on the summer COVID wave, when the next vaccines will be available, and what medicines can reduce the risk of severe COVID and Long COVID. #medsky 😷🛟🧪

Covid-19 Cases Surge—Here’s What’s Different This Summer That Will Help

As Covid again increases, these will help you weather or prevent infection: vaccines, masks, Paxlovid, metformin, azelastine, some antihistamines, and Ensitrelvir.

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2 unvaccinated Penn. residents have died of measles amid a 400+ case outbreak- the state's 1st measles deaths in 35 years. Gov. Shapiro blamed RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine rhetoric for fueling the outbreak. RFK Jr. shot back, saying the deaths may have been "fabricated." buff.ly/XX5BlxK #medsky #pedsky

RFK Jr. says Shapiro’s office may have fabricated measles deaths

After reporting two deaths, Pennsylvania's governor said the health secretary wasn't helping to control the disease's spread.

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Meta agrees to pay $18 Billion to settle claims from 29 states that it designed Instagram/Facebook to addict kids and violated child privacy laws. buff.ly/ip4x5cb Deal includes platform changes like daily time limits for teens. Meta denies wrongdoing. #pedsky #medsky

Meta settles landmark state child harm claims for $18 billion and promises changes to its platforms | CNN Business

Meta said Wednesday it has agreed to pay about $18 billion as part of a settlement to resolve a multistate lawsuit claiming that it intentionally designed addictive platforms that harmed young people’...

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🌊Summer COVID wave hits, espec Gulf South + West. 🤯1 in 20 Texans infected now. Also this week: 🔹Gut microbes predict Long COVID 🔹Imprinting leaves variant gaps for kids 🔹Scans show Long COVID damages retina and brain Read & share👉 buff.ly/L1mvm5f

Dr. Ruth Report, 8/23/26

Summer COVID wave. Long COVID with abnormal retinal blood vessels, brain perivascular spaces, and gut microbiome signatures during acute infection.

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Hello Beautiful! #dahlia #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling

Hello Beautiful! #dahlia #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling

"Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis | Lancet 7/19/26"

Every week there is a new study about the safety and effectiveness of #RSV vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It was my privilege to write this blog post about preventing this infection in newborns. #MedSky + #ObGynSky via @nfidvaccines.bsky.social. www.nfid.org/vaccines-dur...

Vaccines During Pregnancy: Maternal Immunization Guide

NFID’s Kevin Ault, MD, explains how maternal immunization helps protect newborns from RSV, flu, COVID-19, and whooping cough during their first vulnerable months.

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Consumer Reports just tested 13 electric scooters. buff.ly/odTeVwY 🛴 👉They recommend NONE of them! Standing riders have a higher center of mass and often fall headfirst. Even CR's own testers got injured testing them, while wearing safety gear. #medsky #pedsky #EDsky

Meet Aletta: The first FDA approved robotic blood draw device buff.ly/uMw4zbk The Aletta blood drawing robot has been used for 2 years in Europe and now is FDA approved in the U.S. #medsky

Meet Aletta: The first FDA approved robotic blood draw device

The FDA has approved Vitestro’s Aletta as the first standalone robotic device in the U.S. designed to draw blood without the need for hands-on human help.  | The FDA has approved Vitestro’s Aletta as ...

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Ad a pediatrician, things I would never buy for my kids: a trampoline (leg breaker machine) or an e-bike (brain breaker machine)

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3w ago

“We've seen so many catastrophic TBIs — traumatic brain injuries — in children who are riding or being hit by these things, or being hit by a car because they're riding in high-speed traffic and they don't know the rules of the road,” said Dr. Cornelia Griggs, a pediatric surgeon”

GOOD NEWS!🎉 A study of in over 1,100 people with high-risk melanoma shows that a new treatment combining a personalized Moderna mRNA vaccine based on mutations found in the patients’ tumor, plus Keytruda, lowered the chance of the cancer coming back or spreading. buff.ly/se4UaIf #medsky #oncsky

4th Long COVID International Conference 2026 - Patient Sign-Up 12-13 November 2026 ~$50 USD virology.eventsair.com/4th-long-cov...

The study I can’t stop thinking about: Gut biopsies from people with Long COVID showed persistent SARS-CoV-2. The immune system could detect the virus and respond with inflammation, but it could not clear it. And that’s only one of this week’s important updates. 👇 #medsky

Ruth Ann Crystal@drruth.bsky.social · 3w ago

This week's Dr. Ruth Report 📈 COVID wave increasing esp West + South 🦠 LC gut biopsies show persistent virus, inflammation, immune dysfunction 🧠 Long COVID EEG signature 👁️ COVID's long term hits on Eyes, Bones, Thyroid 📋 EO misinformation on childhood vaccines Read👉 buff.ly/vzk5I2x #medsky #IDsky