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Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms in Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction
Iftekhar Ahmed, Tanzil Ebad Chowdhury, Biggo Bushon Routh, Nafisa Tasmiya, Shadman Sakib, Adil Ahmed Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09493

Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms in Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction
Kidneys are the filter of the human body. About 10% of the global population is thought to be affected by Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), which causes kidney function to decline. To protect in danger patients from additional kidney damage, effective risk evaluation of CKD and appropriate CKD monitoring are crucial. Due to quick and precise detection capabilities, Machine Learning models can help practitioners accomplish this goal efficiently; therefore, an enormous number of diagnosis systems and…

🤠 Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/deforestation-and-disease-spread-as-nicaragua-ignores-illegal-cattle-ranching/

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market for meat despite calls for better oversight of the industry. Now, the country is feeling the consequences, as disease spreads through the unchecked movement of livestock. Cases of New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), or NWS, a fly that feeds […]

AgenticAD: A Specialized Multiagent System Framework for Holistic Alzheimer Disease Management
Adib Bazgir, Amir Habibdoust, Xing Song, Yuwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08578

AgenticAD: A Specialized Multiagent System Framework for Holistic Alzheimer Disease Management
Alzheimer's disease (AD) presents a complex, multifaceted challenge to patients, caregivers, and the healthcare system, necessitating integrated and dynamic support solutions. While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising avenues for intervention, current applications are often siloed, addressing singular aspects of the disease such as diagnostics or caregiver support without systemic integration. This paper proposes a novel methodological framework for a comprehensive, multi-agent system…

"I share Alfred Nobel’s conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second." --Peter C. Doherty, from his Nobel Prize biography https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1996/doherty/facts/
I believe floods (…

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996 was awarded jointly to Peter C. Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China #China

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China
China’s Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease underscores how climate change, urbanization, and global travel are fueling mosquito-borne threats.

Travel Bans vs. Social Distancing: A Mathematical Analysis
Christian Borgs, Karissa Huang, Geng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08895 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Travel Bans vs. Social Distancing: A Mathematical Analysis
As the world grows increasingly connected, infectious disease transmission and outbreaks become a pressing global concern for public health officials and policymakers. While policy interventions to contain and prevent the spread of disease have been proposed and implemented, there has been little rigorous quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of such interventions. In this paper, we study the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) infection process on a dynamic network model that models two …

The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials (Sahil Pandey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar

Modeling the joint effects of genetic drift, mutation, and selection on loci that contribute to disease risk suggests that variation at many such loci is shaped more by their pleiotropic effects on non-disease traits than by their contribution to disease risk
https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaf22…

SAM2-3dMed: Empowering SAM2 for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Yeqing Yang, Le Xu, Lixia Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08967 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08…

SAM2-3dMed: Empowering SAM2 for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Accurate segmentation of 3D medical images is critical for clinical applications like disease assessment and treatment planning. While the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable success in video object segmentation by leveraging temporal cues, its direct application to 3D medical images faces two fundamental domain gaps: 1) the bidirectional anatomical continuity between slices contrasts sharply with the unidirectional temporal flow in videos, and 2) precise boundary delineation, …

🫁 Decades-old asthma theory challenged: Newly discovered molecules may be real drivers of disease
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-decades-asthma-theory-newly-molecules.html

Decades-old asthma theory challenged: Newly discovered molecules may be real drivers of disease
For decades, scientists have thought they understood the biochemical machinery that causes asthma—inflammation in the lungs that constricts airways and makes it hard to breathe.

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/
> When Goldman compared both populations, the results were shocking: Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70 percent more …

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic.

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? https://news.keckmedicine.org/can-a-retinal-implant-reverse-macular-degeneration/ using a stem cell-derived patch. A Phase IIb randomized, multicenter trial of subretinal CPCB-RPE1 in advanced dry AMD …

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person become obscured by blurry, dark or blind spots.Now, a novel clinical trial offers hope for patients...

Happy to see resolution for this case of anti-health, anti-vax, quackery and grifting.
I believe most farmers are ethical and understand that disease within their flocks and herds can and do cause disease in other domestic and wild populations and those diseases are often what causes pandemics in humans.
Avian flu is a danger. Millions of birds have died because of it, and have been culled on other farms to try to control it.
Ostriches are no different.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394

Support for measles (a potentially deadly or disabling disease) vaccination drops amid growing confusion about the disease, US poll shows:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/support-measles-vaccination-drops-amid-growing-confusion-about-disease-us-poll-shows

🎤 Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stethoscope-ai-doctors-hidden-disease.html

Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they're a clinician. This medical device has been around for more than 200 years and remains a staple in the clinic despite significant advances in medical diagnostics and technologies.

🦠📈 Ein Vierteljahrhundert Daten zeigt, dass die Übertragung von #Wildtier-#Malaria in Nord-Europa ist stark angestiegen.
Der Treiber ist der #Klimawandel. Bei

Some of the nation’s top health officials and Donald Trump have cast doubt on a vaccine that doctors call lifesaving.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life,
arguing that the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and sharing needles.
But the virus can also pass from mother to child at birth.
In September, Mr. Trump said that he thought children …

Hepatitis B Vaccine, Once a Public Health Win, Is Under Threat From RFK Jr.
Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. An influential panel is scheduled to vote Thursday on eligibility for the vaccine.

Macular degeneration:
Groundbreaking New Treatment Is the First to Halt This Common Eye Disease
https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-new-treatment-is-the-first-to-halt-this-common-eye-disease/

Nick Mangold, All-Pro center for Jets, dies at age of 41 after bout with kidney disease https://www.nfl.com/news/nick-mangold-dies-all-pro-center-jets-age-41-kidney-disease

A Gluten Free Podcast
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Depeche Mode:
🎵 Shake The Disease
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://sebastianoiozziadj.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-shake-the-disease
https://open.spotify.com/track/0a1SoGdF8U1PNHtfKRAx91

> M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.
> You’re replacing $3-5/week kerosene spending with a $0.21/day solar subscription (so with $1.5 per week half the price of kerosene) that’s cheaper AND gives you better light, phone charging, radio, and no respiratory disease.
climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

"Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns
The 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that climate inaction and continued dependence on fossil fuels is resulting in an immense human cost, with millions of lives lost each year due to heat, air pollution, disease spread, and worsening food insecurity.

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.GN/new
[1/1]:
- A network-driven framework for enhancing gene-disease association studies in coronary artery disease
Gutama Ibrahim Mohammad, Johan LM Bj\"orkegren, Tom Michoel

On (generative) AI:
"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease."
https://framapiaf.org/@bbbhltz/115646412773089943

High school program that produced this was rugpulled by Trump admin as "DEI."
Mind-boggling.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-may-have-come-up-with-new-way-to-detect-treat-lyme-disease-60-minutes-transcri…

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

Dear @…, thank you so much for this podcast. It makes me think very carefully about the narratives that I am trying to write. But let me in turn urge you to reject the thought that 'there is no alternative' to money.
Money is the vector which transmits the disease of capitalism.
Accidental Gods: Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas…

Getting vaccinated against shingles could protect you from getting dementia, or slow the progression of the disease
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/shingles-vaccine-dementia
Very good vaccine even without this benefit, but nice "side effect."
Fl…

A dementia vaccine could be real, and some of us have taken it without knowing | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Getting vaccinated against shingles could protect you from getting dementia, or slow the progression of the disease, says a new study.

Fungal Spores in Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Lung Disease
Mice exposed to fungi spread by wildfires developed symptoms,
exposing a potential health hazard to humans that has been understudied.
“It was really an unknown that there were living microorganisms in wildland fire smoke.
I think most people assumed that it was sterile because it comes from a hot fire,”
said Phinehas Lampman,
a former wildland firefighter,
coauthor on the study,
and wi…

Fungal Spores in Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Lung Disease
Mice exposed to fungi spready by wildfires developed symptoms, exposing a potential health hazard to humans that has been understudied.

Report: Land carbon sinks lag while rising temperatures spread disease and threaten incomes
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-carbon-lag-temperatures-disease-threaten.html

The US FDA says it will limit regulation of non-medical wellness wearables and AI software, provided they don't make claims about disease diagnosis or treatment (Puyaan Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar

They have a great “big” point here about incrementalism but also: fiber, water, and even minimal activity specifically are great first steps towards feeling better.
I suspect that a lot of us 1st-worlders feel lousy in part because we’re each paving our own way to T2D, colon cancer, and heart disease. @…

Trump's Midcycle Gerrymandering Disease Spreads to North Carolina (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trumps-midcycle-gerrymandering-disease-spreads-to-north-carolina
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p161#a251014p161

https://resist.bot/petitions/PKPBCM

Vaccine Rollbacks Fuel New Disease Outbreaks, Remove RFK Jr
Text SIGN PKPBCM to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Long-term effects of forty-hertz auditory stimulation as a treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Insights from an aged monkey model study https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529565123 Supports potential as a

Nick Mangold dies at 41: Jets legend, seven-time Pro Bowler had lengthy battle with kidney disease

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nick-mangold-dies-at-41…

Vultures don't spread disease, and they don't circle because they're waiting for things to die -- they're just riding thermals
https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/why-do-vultures-circle

Why do vultures circle?
Circling vultures aren't waiting for you to die, and seeing them should be a welcome sight because of the benefits they bring, experts say.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/115639996967532512
Concentration camp conditions. Little food/water/cleanliness, rampant disease, inhumane treatment of people who for the most part have committed no crime and are in the US legally and were c…

Live im Westwerk, Osnabrück:
PHANTOM CORPORATION
FLESHWORKS
AEON OF DISEASE
BEAST
07.02.2026
via @…
https://fediverse.stee…

Post by Münster, @muenster@steelfeed.de
**Waking The Ghouls II** 07.02.2026 [Osnabr?ck / Jugendzentrum Westwerk](https://steelfeed.de/event/ebc425e3cb19949843d00987bc6dc62d/noprev) #JugendzentrumWestwerk #Osnabruck #WakingTheGhoulsII #SteelFeed

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease #health

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease
Microplastics—tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues—may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes to weight or cholesterol.

I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
https://

The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix
The hiQ ruling erased legal protections against commercial scraping, leaving infrastructure providers to absorb escalating costs. Without federal action defining data misappropriation, a free-rider AI economy could undermine open networks, investment, and long-term data integrity.

Not to mention that available foods may not be suitable.
The one time my wife and I had to use a food bank during COVID, we queued for a couple of hours, constantly derided for being shiftless and poor by the Baptist volunteers who ran the bank.
At the end, we were told to be thankful for what we received: a couple of pieces of fruit that would’ve killed my wife (anaphylactic allergies) and pasta, pasta sauce, and bread, all containing gluten (she has coeliac disease).

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

"After a century of putting genetics on a pedestal, the geneticists have some surprising news for us: The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes." #Parkinsons
https://ww…

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic.

Ah yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…

Ah yes, the government of #ProLife & #FamilyValues & #Christianity strikes again, demonstrating their sense of mercy, compassion and common sense.
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health de…

Domestic Hot Water (#DHW) periodic #pasteurisation of storage to prevent #Legionnaires' disease is hard to do with a heat pump (getting up to ~60C), so I do something a bit differerent:

Eddi Solar PV Diverter Top-up Dataset
Various stats for PV diversion and low-carbon-grid top-up of Sunamp Thermino. #heatBattery #microgen #dataset

Get your shots, people.
https://wapo.st/4osPgsh

#Measles On The Rise Across Globe As #Vaccination Rates Decline...Third World Has Highest Spike, But #USA in The Mix As Well Now.

#DaylightSavingTime & Health - A Systematic Review of Beneficial & Adverse Effects: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.25324086v2 -> "The apparent benefits of DST during summer months on mortality, DST-Offset on sleep duration and mortality, and Standard Time during winter months on sleep duration argue in favour of keeping transitions. If kept, adverse effects of transitions should be mitigated in individuals susceptible to myocardial infarction or exacerbations of disease" -> Zu Sinn und Unsinn - Uhrenumstellungen aus der Sicht der Chronobiologie und Epidemiologie: https://idw-online.de/de/news860363

“Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex” An interview on reconstruction risks by @…: https://www.

Interview: On data protection risks with medical research data
Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex. An interview on reconstruction risks.

"famine, overwhelming injuries, a collapsed healthcare system, and outbreaks of disease fuelled by the destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure.
"On top of that, [there is] restricted access to humanitarian aid. This is a very fatal combination, so that makes [the situation] catastrophic and beyond words."
"If you take the famine and combine it with a mental health problem which we see is rampant, then the situation is a crisis for generations to come…

Gaza health crisis will last for 'generations', WHO chief warns
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells the BBC far more aid is needed to start tackling mounting problems in Gaza.

Nick Mangold, former All-Pro center for the Jets, dies at 41 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6751296/2025/10/26/nick-mangold-jets-obituary-kidney-disease/

Disease agency sounds alarm over Europe’s thin pipeline of new antibiotics | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/news/disease-agency-sounds-alarm-over-europes-thin-pipeline-of-new-antibiotics/

A federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B,
a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
The vote was a victory for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought for decades to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule.
But the divisiveness and dysfunction of the committee in making the decision raises questions about the r…

C.D.C. Vaccine Committee Ends Recommendation That All Newborns Receive Hepatitis B Shots
In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus.

⚠️ Alternative sweetener sorbitol linked to liver disease
#sorbitol

Alternative sweetener sorbitol linked to liver disease
Sweeteners such as aspartame, found in Equal packets, sucralose (Splenda), or sugar alcohols are often seen as healthier alternatives to food with refined sugar (glucose). But that assumption is being challenged with new research, including the recent finding that the sugar alcohol sorbitol is not as harmless a sugar substitute as once thought.

We’re at a point where these sorts of simple genetic disorders are going to be falling to CRISPR-Cas9 treatments one after another in an accelerating fashion until we run out of targets.
They raise troubling questions about access to care and cost. Ask why we still have people with active Sickle Cell disease, years after the CURE was demonstrated.
The reason is that no one is stepping up with the megabuck per patient. @…

Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns #environment

Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns
The 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that climate inaction and continued dependence on fossil fuels is resulting in an immense human cost, with millions of lives lost each year due to heat, air pollution, disease spread, and worsening food insecurity.

Until trials can prove a negative, we can't really use science to suggest anything about the effectiveness of medicine or the causes of disease.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-loathesome-edits-cdc-websit…

RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

"Improving indoor air quality might save your life"
#AirQuality #AirPollution
https://…

Improving indoor air quality might save your life
Cost-effective ways exist to improve your indoor air quality that will reduce your COVID and flu risk, lower your cancer and lung disease risk, and eliminate headaches and sleepiness caused by poor ventilation.

ILD-VIT: A Unified Vision Transformer Architecture for Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease from Respiratory Sounds
Soubhagya Ranjan Hota, Arka Roy, Udit Satija
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11458

ILD-VIT: A Unified Vision Transformer Architecture for Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease from Respiratory Sounds
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) represents a group of restrictive chronic pulmonary diseases that impair oxygen acquisition by causing irreversible changes in the lungs such as fibrosis, scarring of parenchyma, etc. ILD conditions are often diagnosed by various clinical modalities such as spirometry, high-resolution lung imaging techniques, crackling respiratory sounds (RSs), etc. In this letter, we develop a novel vision transformer (VIT)-based deep learning framework namely, ILD-VIT, to detec…

TopROI: A topology-informed network approach for tissue partitioning
Sergio Serrano de Haro Iv\'a\~nez, Joshua W. Moore, Lucile Grzesiak, Eoghan J. Mullholand, Heather Harrington, Simon J. Leedham, Helen M. Byrne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12772

TopROI: A topology-informed network approach for tissue partitioning
Mammalian tissue architecture is central to biological function, and its disruption is a hallmark of disease. Medical imaging techniques can generate large point cloud datasets that capture changes in the cellular composition of such tissues with disease progression. However, regions of interest (ROIs) are usually defined by quadrat-based methods that ignore intrinsic structure and risk fragmenting meaningful features. Here, we introduce TopROI, a topology-informed, network-based method for par…

Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bc49e334-776b-41d0-a9be-fb0c29c54853

"it appears Trump underwent a noninvasive cardiac CT scan to determine if he has any coronary artery disease"
'Something happened': Cardiologist keys in on Trump's secret battery of tests - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-health-2674841840/

🎶 Focused sound energy holds promise for treating cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases
https://theconversation.com/focused-sound-energy-holds-promise-for-treating-cancer-alzheimers-and-other-diseases-262622

Focused sound energy holds promise for treating cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases
Ultrasound is perhaps best known as an imaging technique to monitor pregnancy or disease. When these sound waves are highly concentrated, however, they can be used to treat a host of diseases.

In the US, men who smoke are around 21 times more likely to die from lung cancer than men who have never smoked.
But the damage doesn’t stop there:
smoking also increases the risk of other cancers,
including mouth, throat, bladder and pancreatic cancer,
in addition to other health conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
heart disease, and diabetes.
Why does one habit harm so many organs?
Cigarettes carry a mixture of carcinoge…

Smoking increases the risk of death from many causes
Most of us have heard that smoking damages the lungs. The chart drives this home: in the US, men who smoke are around 21 times more likely to die from lung cancer than men who have never smoked.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

#MAHA
US could lose its measles elimination status within months, experts say | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/us-could-lose-its-measles-elimination-status-within-months-experts-say

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TomasHajzler/115552444795284744
This is even worse than it looks. These people are hungry, they have no way to get warm of dry, they are **still** being bombed. Disease will spread very fast.
If you can help folk in …

The Trump administration is dismantling the last of the public commons.
It’s cutting billions to state programs tracking disease,
repealing emissions and drinking water regulations,
revoking hundreds of millions in funding for life-saving research,
canceling local food programs for schools and food banks,
rolling back vaccinations,
and shutting down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Commi…

“Make America Healthy Again” Aims to Make Public Health Your Private Responsibility
The message coming from the Trump administration is: “Take care of yourselves — because we won’t.”…

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging.
Rocked by pandemic politics, the nation’s shield against infectious disease is shrinking.
Look up where your school stands.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/measles…

As U.S. vaccination rates fall, see how your school compares
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.

"Sea urchin species on brink of extinction after marine pandemic"
#Oceans #SeaUrchin

Stem-cell based retinal implant: Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? #AMD

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person become obscured by blurry, dark or blind spots.Now, a novel clinical trial offers hope for patients...

There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024. 
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands. 
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

Cases of Victorian-era whooping cough soar in Florida amid plummeting vaccine rates
Cases of a Victorian-era disease have soared in Florida over the past year amid state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's declaration to end all vaccine mandates for children.

Former Jets star center Mangold dies at age 41 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46732108/nick-mangold-former-jets-star-center-dies-age-41

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/all-new-roads-lead-to-increased-deforestation-in-ecuadors-indigenous-territory/

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory
Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. The disease is preventable with access to safe drinking water and timely treatment. But these two conditions are absent in Taisha, one of the poorest five cantons in Ecuador and the one with […]

🎛️ A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down
#molbio

A new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down
For decades, synthetic biologists have been developing gene circuits that can be transferred into cells for applications such as reprogramming a stem cell into a neuron or generating a protein that could help treat a disease such as fragile X syndrome.

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a microbiologist at Mount Sinai’s medical school who wasn’t involved with the study, called the work
“a good vaccine to have ready in case of any outbreaks with this virus”
However, he thinks this approach may fall short in tackling human influenza.
“H5 changes in multiple directions, so a central antigen makes sense,
while in the human flu or human SARS-CoV-2,
the central antigen moves with time.”

One shot to rule them all in the fight against H5 influenza
New bird flu vaccine design could help preparations against an evolving potential pandemic virus 

🍯 Changing sweet taste in diet does not affect sugar cravings or health, study suggests
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-sweet-diet-affect-sugar-cravings.html

Changing sweet taste in diet does not affect sugar cravings or health, study suggests
Changing the amount of sweetness in a person's diet has no impact on their liking for sweet foods, the results of a new trial suggest. The results also showed no difference in indicators of cardiovascular disease or diabetes risk between people who increased or decreased their intake of sweet-tasting foods over a six-month period.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States.
Since researchers first established the link between #diet, #cholesterol and #heart #disease

How C-reactive protein outpaced ‘bad’ cholesterol as leading heart disease risk marker
C-reactive protein – a marker of inflammation – is as easily measured with blood work in a doctor’s office as cholesterol.

"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
is a stark, scientifically grounded "travelogue of the near future"
detailing the catastrophic, cascading effects of climate change beyond just rising seas and temperatures,
including widespread famine, refugee crises, disease, and extreme weather,
while also exploring how these changes will transform politics, culture, and technology,
serving as an urgent call for immediate…

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Book — Non-fiction. By David Wallace-Wells. 2019. 320 pages. This book raises the alarm over the Earth's climate crisis and demands radical action to save human civilization as we know it.

🧬 HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-hiv-mystery-uncovered-virus-reprograms.html

HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration.
Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/health/trump-…

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.

Dozens of coal miners and their families are protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building,
arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease,
an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust.
They have been waiting months for the government to enforce federal limits on silica dust,
a carcinogen that has led to a recent spike in the disease.
But mining industry groups have sued to block the rule,
and the T…

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.

Denmark recommends routinely vaccinating all children against just 10 diseases.
In the U.S., the immunization schedule calls for routine universal vaccination against 16 diseases.
-- It was 17 diseases until last week, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially dropped the recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B.
But Denmark has created its immunization schedule in a very different context than that of the U.S., notes Dr. Sean O'L…

Measles is often seen as a routine childhood illness
— a fever, a rash, and recovery
— but complications are common.
Even when it doesn’t kill,
measles can cause lasting damage.
It weakens the immune system,
making people vulnerable to other infections for months or years.
That means children who seem to recover may still face serious health risks long after the illness is gone.
In some countries, measles has re-emerged in recent years,
…

Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years
Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.

Dr. Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns.
Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/controversial-louisi…

Controversial Louisiana surgeon general tapped for CDC leadership role
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham — a vocal supporter of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement and a harsh critic of Covid shots — has been named principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sickle cell disease, sleep disorders and lung cancer:
these are just a few of the medical issues that were under investigation in
at least 383 clinical trials that have had research grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health since February.
That’s about 1 in 30 of all the clinical trials
—tests of medical interventions in human volunteers
—funded by the federal agency,
which has a
$48-billion research budget,
according to a JAMA Inte…

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

Doctors made a custom CRISPR therapy to treat an infant with a rare genetic disease
A baby, named KJ, was born with a deficiency in carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1).
This deficiency means his liver couldn’t convert ammonia
– which is made naturally when the body breaks down proteins
– into urea, damaging his brain and liver.
Babies born with CPS1 deficiency often end up staying in the hospital until they’re eligible for a liver transplant.
They h…

What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies. 
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…

Trump signs executive order launching "Genesis" mission to expedite scientific discovery using AI
A White House official called Genesis "the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program."

On Thursday, 11 of the UK's leading oncologists, economists and medical ethicists will meet at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London
to make a decision that will have consequences for millions of men.
The National Screening Committee (NSC) will issue a recommendation on whether to launch the first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.
Celebrities, sports stars and politicians, including Sir Chris Hoy and David Lammy, have campaigned for the greater us…

NHS could start prostate cancer screening — which men are eligible?
The National Screening Committee is expected to recommend the first-ever screening programme for the disease next week, but only for those at the highest risk

“This is the first time we’ve tested this kind of triple-action therapy for head and neck cancer patients whose disease has returned after treatment. Amivantamab is a smart drug that not only blocks two key cancer pathways but also helps the immune system do its job.
“Unlike many cancer treatments that require hours in a hospital chair, amivantamab is given as a simple injection under the skin. This makes it faster, more convenient, and potentially easier to deliver in outpatient clinic…

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.

Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
announced the appointment of two prominent scientists
who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.
Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California’s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX).
In August, Monarez was fired by the Trump administration less than a month in…

Norovirus, also known as the
“winter vomiting disease,”
is a highly contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea from acute gastroenteritis, according to the CDC.
Gastroenteritis occurs when the stomach and intestines are inflamed
—and the health authority reports that norovirus is the leading cause of vomiting and diarrhea illnesses caused by acute gastroenteritis among people of all ages across the country.
🔥Cases of

We've seen some big news in outbreaks over the weekend with Marburg in Ethiopia and H5N5 in Washington, US.
See more on both below👇.
https://bsky.app/profile/altcdc.altgov.info/post/3m5rjz67als2a

Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info)
🦠Marburg in Ethiopia Ethiopia confirmed its first-ever outbreak, with 9 cases in Southern Ethiopia. Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever; it's in the same family as Ebola. It primarily spreads through contact with body fluids. There are no vaccines. https://africacdc.org/news-item/africa-cdc-statement-on-confirmed-marburg-virus-disease-in-jinka-southern-region-ethiopia/

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in histor
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
Officials have reversed more than half of the about 1,300 layoff notices sent to staff members at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
sparing personnel who were leading the response to measles outbreaks in the United States and an Ebola outbreak abroad.
But …

Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.