Arsonists ask why firefighters are so bad at their jobs these days.

I think about this chart a LOT

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 7d ago

An example of what humankind is capable of, if we set our minds to it A century ago, over a third of children did not live to see their fifth birthday Now, nearly 97% of children grow up to celebrate their 5th! ourworldindata.org/grapher/chil...

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as health secretary RFK Jr. has proposed, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/h...

Kennedy’s Vaccine Plan Could Cause Surge in Hepatitis B, Study Finds (Gift Article)

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as the health secretary has recommended, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent, a team of researchers reported.

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So this was wrong?

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The end of acute infection is not necessarily the end of the disease”. I very much appreciate this comment in Nature highlighting the role of infectious disease in the development or exacerbation of chronic disease. Vaccines can prevent chronic diseases, which is often overlooked.

Remember that “national infertility training center” the Trump administration announced last year? The $4M grant is going to an organization with ties to the Heritage Foundation and an anti-abortion doctor group that sued the FDA 👇🏼

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · last mo.

SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:

the tech industry is about to invent books

Parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns has increased by 57% in 2026 alone. This puts their babies at risk for brain and GI bleeds. Rate of refusal is higher for girls than boys, as some hospitals won’t circumcise male infants unless they’ve had the shot. RFK Jr. caused this.

🍁 17-year-old Gurnoor Kaur from Kitchener just won Best Innovation at the Canada-Wide Science Fair — for fixing a 35-yo flaw in pulse oximeters that made them less accurate on darker skin. A teen made medicine more equitable for everyone. That’s the Canada we love.🇨🇦 - EH! Canada’s Social Network ❤️

Makary, Prasad, and Hoeg learned it was totally fine to “question” vaccines. Just not flavored vapes.

Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS@bethlinas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“At any other time in history, this would be a major scandal that would lead to congressional hearings and resignations of leadership, and I hope that’s what happens next.”

The same people who have been screeching for years about corporate capture of public health agencies are actively selling off our public health agencies to corporate interests. They’ll make money while your kids will die.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 6mo ago

Bird flu spreading, hantavirus popping up, measles spreading, public health systems gutted, and Trump appoints Don Jr.’s turkey-hunting buddy to oversee the FDA. What could possibly go wrong?

A troubling reason you might not get CPR? Breasts. Bystanders less likely to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation if you have breasts. Using an automated external defibrillator (AED) makes things worse, by @alisonmotluk.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: One troubling reason you might not get CPR? Breasts

People need to get comfortable performing lifesaving chest compressions on female bodies, and training on breasted manikins needs to reinforce this

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BC’s Free Contraceptives Program Has Been Hugely Successful. More people are using IUDs and hormonal implants now that cost isn’t an issue, by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/04... via @thetyee.ca

BC’s Free Contraceptives Program Has Been Hugely Successful | The Tyee

More people are using IUDs and hormonal implants now that cost isn’t an issue.

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Labatt family donates $40-million to make mental-health services more accessible to youth. Money will go to Thriving Minds, a program for children and adolescents run jointly by SickKids and CAMH, by @brownoftheglobe.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Labatt family donates $40-million to make mental-health services more accessible to youth

According to research gathered by SickKids, mental illness afflicts 20% of young Canadians, but only 1 in 5 receives what they need

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As someone who has done research on birth control misinformation and heard how Casey Means has discussed birth control in the past, this absolutely does not surprise me

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH@rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 9mo ago

Casey Means now getting asked abt her (negative, counter-to-FDA) stated views on birth control. Equivocating on risks & benefits, claiming how many medical visits don't include "informed consent," & focusing on rare side effect as if commonplace. Discussion on SSRIs in pregnancy has similar angle.

3 times the cost and undoubtedly less effective.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 9mo ago

Exclusive: After pulling out of WHO, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build, which will cost about three times as much.

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

Christina Jewett@by-cjewett.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

"The study was halted because it raised critical questions on the ethics of the trial, he said, adding: “The way the study was designed was a big challenge.”" Props to all the journalists, scientists, ethicists and doctors that sounded the alarm on this study! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled

$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

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Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

“Covid vaccines administered last fall sharply decreased the risk of emergency department and urgent care visits in children… [cutting] the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent in children under 4, and 56 percent in children 5 to 17.”

Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported

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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

words, what do they mean www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

New study finds that a one-week social media detox led to meaningful mental-health improvements, reducing anxiety by 16.1%, depression by 24.8%, and insomnia by 14.5%. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health

This cohort study evaluates the outcomes of a 1-week social media detox intervention on behavior and mental health symptoms.

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Between February and August 2025, 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials lost grant funding, affecting over 74,000 participants, with disproportionate impact on prevention, infectious disease, and behavioral trials. ja.ma/4i4tSYx

Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC

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Ah yes the first lesson in epidemiology, "do the studies to make the proof"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

If she has a baby in her placenta, she has bigger problems.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Babies and young children are now paying the price for creeping anti-vaccine rhetoric that began long before they were born. These childhood diseases are preventable and, until recently, had been heavily suppressed, if not virtually eradicated, by widespread vaccination.