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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The head of the WHO on Tuesday expressed concern over the scale and speed of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola known as Bundibugyo in eastern Congo, where authorities reported 134 suspected deaths and more than 500 suspected cases. apnews.com/article/cong...

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WHO chief concerned over 'scale and speed' of Ebola outbreak as Congo reports 134 dead

The World Health Organization director-general has expressed concern over the rapid spread of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo.

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WHO @who.int · 15/05/2026

Nicotine pouches, flavoured and appealing, are designed to hook young people. And these products evolve rapidly. WHO is calling on governments to regulate them now. Read WHO’s Global Nicotine Pouch Report 👉 bit.ly/4nymmbk #TobaccoExposed

WHO graphic with the text “No smoke does not mean no harm”. Image shows colourful AI-generated tins and sachets representing flavoured nicotine pouches, surrounded by fruit (orange, watermelon, blueberries, mint) and ice cubes, highlighting flavour appeal. Small text reads: “AI-generated representations of nicotine pouches.”

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2026

The maker of Canvas, the software used by thousands of schools and universities around the world, said that it had reached a deal with the hackers that recently breached its systems for the return of stolen data and the destruction of any copies.

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Instructure Strikes Deal for Hackers for Return of Canvas Data

Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

RFK Jr. singlehandedly blocked a proposed FDA rule to ban people under 18 years of age from using tanning beds. Using tanning beds does not improve your health, it increases your risk of skin cancer. Glad to see a quote by my former colleague Dr. Curiel-Lewandrowski on why this is bad.

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RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists

Indoor tanning is associated with a 75% increase in melanoma risk. A proposed FDA rule intended to protect children is now gone.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Today, I was back in court, standing up against this Administration’s attempts to silence me, millions of other veterans, and all Americans. Our vets deserve leaders who stand up for their rights, not try to take them away. That’s why I’m not giving them an inch.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

During the most recent week, 71 per 100,000 ER visits were due to tick bites, compared to the average of about 30 per 100,000 ER visits for this time of year, more than double from what is typical this time of year. abcnews.com/Health/weekl...

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Weekly ER visits for tick bites reach highest level in nearly a decade. Will this season be worse?

Weekly visits to emergency rooms for tick bites are at the highest level since at least 2017. Will this tick season be worse than previous years?

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's not just gas prices: Some U.S. water utilities are reporting the Middle East war is disrupting their ability to maintain recommended fluoride levels in the drinking water. Fluoride is used in water systems as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay. abcnews.com/Health/wireS...

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Iran war has some US water utilities facing a fluoride shortage

Some U.S. water utilities are reporting that the Middle East war is disrupting their ability to maintain recommended fluoride levels in the drinking water

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Thinking of visiting Everest? Sherpas were poisoning climbers as part of fraudulent insurance schemes that were elaborate enough to involve people at every level. Hospitals even faked admissions. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

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Everest guides accused of poisoning foreign climbers to force fake rescues

Investigators say more than 4,700 climbers affected by the scandal between 2022 and 2025

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Menstrual products have become more expensive over the past few years, in part due to rising inflation and new tariff policies. The average price of those products — which includes tampons and sanitary pads — has risen nearly 40%. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/m...

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The price of menstrual products is skyrocketing from inflation, tariffs

With rising inflation and changing tariff policies, menstrual products have seen a drastic rise in price over the past few years.

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Random thoughts while studying psych today: Did Othello have schizophrenia? Is Iago a hallucination? Who can we get to make this modernization? At the very least, Othello had jealous type delusional disorder. However, it would be much more interesting if Iago weren't really there.

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NPR @npr.org · 01/03/2026

She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy. n.pr/4bfTTCp

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A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions

She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s CDC removed influenza from the list of recommended vaccines for children

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Scientists have created a new protein-based gel that can regenerate damaged tooth enamel. The material mimics a natural process to regrow enamel mineral structure inside holes and cracks. This technology could prevent decay and treat sensitive teeth. www.healthday.com/health-news/...

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New Bio-Inspired Gel Helps Tooth Enamel Grow Back

THURSDAY, Dec. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dental appointments may get easier and less painful soon. Scientists have developed a revolutionary gel that can repa

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Trump's spent more time sleeping, vacationing, profiting off the presidency, and naming things after himself than actually doing anything for Americans. What disgusting sycophants. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I think he really doesn't know how people get oil, and he thinks it's like one giant reservoir that we access with giant straws that Venezuela is somehow blocking. I don't know how people can be this dumb and get elected.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

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American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr

Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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NPR @npr.org · 14/12/2025

Indoor tanning is trending among Gen Z. A new study finds tanning bed users not only have a much higher risk of melanoma, they also have DNA damage linked to cancer across nearly their entire skin. n.pr/4qcoLss

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Tanning bed users are at higher risk of skin cancer, especially in unusual places

Indoor tanning is trending among Gen Z. A new study finds tanning bed users not only have a much higher risk of melanoma, they also have DNA damage linked to cancer across nearly their entire skin.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

As I noted a few weeks ago, my colleagues and I identified the area of Arizona where the measles outbreak has exploded as a region of low vaccination coverage a decade ago. There is no question that undervaccinated areas are dangerous, and we can predict where outbreaks will grow.

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US exceeds 1,900 measles cases as outbreaks expand

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block

Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Let's also promote the real resources and not just say RFK has run the CDC into the ground. I love the work being done at CIDRAP's Vaccine Integrity Project. #cidrap www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

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Vaccine Integrity Project

CIDRAP provides an initiative dedicated to safeguarding vaccine use in the U.S, so that it remains grounded in the best available science.

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

For your daily dose of irony, here's a CDC chart showing what happened when the infant dose of hep B vaccine was introduced in 1991. RFK and ACIP are doing harm.

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I have been getting my information from WHO and CIDRAP since RFK Jr. was put in charge of the CDC. I like the Vaccine Integrity Project, too. This is a decision that will increase Hep B cases, and I'm wondering how quickly we'll see issues obtaining the vaccine. www.cnn.com/health/live-...

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Live updates: CDC advisers to vote on hepatitis B vaccine practice | CNN

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New review finds no evidence to support delaying universal hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination Analysis of over 400 studies ahead of ACIP mtg reveals no evidence that delaying the universal hepatitis B vaccine birth dose improves safety or effectiveness www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I could not choose certain medical schools because I am a first gen student from a low income family. New limits will make medical education even more unattainable for students like me, creating a more rigid American caste system. But maybe that's the point?

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, but don't want to support Tesla, here's a new alternative.

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NPR @npr.org · 25/11/2025

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.

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'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Finally. A decent candidate in AL, who actually lives in AL. Doug Jones would have my vote.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/11/2025

I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Five people have now died in the Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Ethiopia near the border with South Sudan. A total of 53 suspected cases have been tested so far. MVD is a hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, with a case fatality rate that has been reported to range from 25% to 90%.

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Death toll from Ethiopia’s Marburg outbreak rises to 5 - Namibia Daily News

ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 24 -- The death toll from Ethiopia's Marburg virus disease outbreak has risen to five, the country's Ministry of Health has said. In its latest update issued late Saturday, the minis...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

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Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges

Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This bill has no exceptions. So, women who are dying from complications of pregnancy will die, regardless of whether a fetus is even viable, and young girls raped by family members will be expected to give birth. SC is trying to be TX, and no one wants that. abcnews.go.com/Health/south...

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South Carolina lawmakers debate abortion bill that could imprison people who receive the procedure

South Carolina lawmakers are holding a hearing on a near-total abortion ban that removes exceptions and could send pregnant people who receive an abortion to prison.

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The Art of Medicine was tonight, an event where medical students can perform or display their art. I read one of my poems, "Needing a Bit of Hocus POCUS". And I appreciated my biggest fan, recording me, just as I've recorded her for her whole life.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New test promises faster, more accurate #Lyme disease diagnosis, researchers say The test had 91% sensitivity in detecting Borrelia burgdorferi. www.cidrap.umn.edu/d... Photo: James Gathany / CDC

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Una Bella Niente @unabellaniente.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"And much lesser things, things that take place in the home, they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say 'this was a crime, see,' so now I can't claim 100%," Trump said. 🤬 🤬🤬 abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

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Trump questions whether 'lesser' crimes such as domestic violence should count toward DC crime statistics

Trump said "things that take place in the home" prevent crime from going down.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Single-dose #malaria treatment as effective as multi-dose regimen, trial shows At day 28, 93% of recipients of the single-dose therapy were free of parasites in their blood, compared with 90% of multiple-dose recipients. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: Ken Doerr / Flickr cc

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NPR @npr.org · 14/11/2025

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL

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She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave

Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.

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