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"Can a ‘sustainable’ fungicide save France’s vineyards from climate-driven disease?"
#France #Climate #ClimateChange

Meet the scientist determined to save the wine industry from mildew
France’s wine crisis is being rocked by a surge of powdery and downy mildew, but a plant-based fungicide could save the day.

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.

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

Selten hat der Song so gut gepasst, wie zu den jetzigen Zeiten.
"Greed and jealousy, each equal, all your days now dark"
"Monsters rule your world, are you too scared to understand?"
"We put our faith in maniacs, the triumph of the will
We kill for money, wealth and lust, for this we should be damned
We are disease upon the world, brotherhood of man"

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…

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. @…

🍯 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.

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.

This Is the Vaccine Story RFK Jr. Doesn't Want You to Hear (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-vaccine-story-rfk-jr-doesnt-want-you-to-hear-meningitis-meningococcal-disease
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p49#a260126p49

"Air pollution may be linked to increased risk of motor neurone disease, our new study indicates"
#Pollution #AirPollution #Health

Air pollution may be linked to increased risk of motor neurone disease, our new study indicates
A new study from Sweden links long-term air pollution exposure to higher risk of motor neurone disease and faster progression.

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

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

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.

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…

When one state took strong measures against chronic wasting disease in deer, the pushback was fierce • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/01/26/deer-wasting/

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

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.

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…

“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.

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm ) like daylight https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight - Scientific Reports
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensi…

Escaping the clutches of the US federal government
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5703447-who-gavin-newsom-california/

California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization…

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…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ben Lee:
🎵 Catch My Disease
#NowPlaying #BenLee
https://benleenwr.bandcamp.com/track/catch-my-disease
https://open.spotify.com/track/18qiraxE3JznGhJyx5J28Y

🤠 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 […]

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/

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

"In Bangladesh, thousands of volunteers are battling climate-fueled disease at its source"
#Bangladesh #Environment
h…

In Bangladesh, thousands of volunteers are battling climate-fueled disease at its source
As mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya, Bangladesh Clean volunteers are taking public health into their own hands.

"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.

Et tu, Fastned?
Fastned, one of the larger North-Western European CPOs, is one of the last to switch to the discriminatory pricing model, the German disease.
https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/20/fastned-app-users-now-get-10-ev-charging-discount/<…

Fastned app users now get 10% EV charging discount - electrive.com
Fastned is introducing a new price offer for registered app users. Effective immediately, there is now a ten percent discount per kilowatt-hour on all

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.

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

Caliway CBL-514 combined with GLP-1 therapy reduced visceral fat by 367.4% more than GLP-1 monotherapy alone
CBL-514 is a first-in-class small-molecule injectable drug developed by Caliway Biopharmaceuticals. It acts as a lipolysis agent that induces adipocyte apoptosis (programmed cell death). While primarily investigated for aesthetic localized fat reduction and rare adipose disorders (Dercum’s disease), recent data suggests it may offer systemic metabolic benefits when combined with GLP-1 receptor agonists, specifically by targeting visceral fat and preventing weight rebound.
https://www.rapamycin.news/t/caliway-cbl-514-combined-with-glp-1-therapy-reduced-visceral-fat-by-367-4-more-than-glp-1-monotherapy-alone/23139

"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.

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

California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5703447-who-gavin-newsom-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p78#a260123p78

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/3]:
- Optimizing Text Search: A Novel Pattern Matching Algorithm Based on Ukkonen's Approach
Xinyu Guan, Shaohua Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16927 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115762062326187898
- SpIDER: Spatially Informed Dense Embedding Retrieval for Software Issue Localization
Shravan Chaudhari, Rahul Thomas Jacob, Mononito Goswami, Jiajun Cao, Shihab Rashid, Christian Bock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762248476963893
- MemoryGraft: Persistent Compromise of LLM Agents via Poisoned Experience Retrieval
Saksham Sahai Srivastava, Haoyu He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16962 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762140339109012
- Colormap-Enhanced Vision Transformers for MRI-Based Multiclass (4-Class) Alzheimer's Disease Clas...
Faisal Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16964 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762196702065869
- Probing Scientific General Intelligence of LLMs with Scientist-Aligned Workflows
Wanghan Xu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16969 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762050529328276
- PAACE: A Plan-Aware Automated Agent Context Engineering Framework
Kamer Ali Yuksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16970 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762054461584205
- A Women's Health Benchmark for Large Language Models
Elisabeth Gruber, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762049873946945
- Perturb Your Data: Paraphrase-Guided Training Data Watermarking
Pranav Shetty, Mirazul Haque, Petr Babkin, Zhiqiang Ma, Xiaomo Liu, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17075 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762077400293945
- Disentangled representations via score-based variational autoencoders
Benjamin S. H. Lyo, Eero P. Simoncelli, Cristina Savin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17127 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762251753966702
- Biosecurity-Aware AI: Agentic Risk Auditing of Soft Prompt Attacks on ESM-Based Variant Predictors
Huixin Zhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17146 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762318582013305
- Application of machine learning to predict food processing level using Open Food Facts
Arora, Chauhan, Rana, Aditya, Bhagat, Kumar, Kumar, Semar, Singh, Bagler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17169 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/115762302873829397
- Systemic Risk Radar: A Multi-Layer Graph Framework for Early Market Crash Warning
Sandeep Neela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17185 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinRM_bot/115762275982224870
- Do Foundational Audio Encoders Understand Music Structure?
Keisuke Toyama, Zhi Zhong, Akira Takahashi, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762341541572505
- CheXPO-v2: Preference Optimization for Chest X-ray VLMs with Knowledge Graph Consistency
Xiao Liang, Yuxuan An, Di Wang, Jiawei Hu, Zhicheng Jiao, Bin Jing, Quan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17213 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762574180736975
- Machine Learning Assisted Parameter Tuning on Wavelet Transform Amorphous Radial Distribution Fun...
Deriyan Senjaya, Stephen Ekaputra Limantoro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115762447037143855
- AlignDP: Hybrid Differential Privacy with Rarity-Aware Protection for LLMs
Madhava Gaikwad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17251 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762396593872943
- Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving and Byzantine-robust Federated Learning
Baolei Zhang, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Biao Yi, Peizhao Zhou, Yuan Wang, Tong Li, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762402470985707
- Verifiability-First Agents: Provable Observability and Lightweight Audit Agents for Controlling A...
Abhivansh Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17259 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/115762225538364939
- Warmer for Less: A Cost-Efficient Strategy for Cold-Start Recommendations at Pinterest
Saeed Ebrahimi, Weijie Jiang, Jaewon Yang, Olafur Gudmundsson, Yucheng Tu, Huizhong Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17277 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/115762214396869930
- LibriVAD: A Scalable Open Dataset with Deep Learning Benchmarks for Voice Activity Detection
Ioannis Stylianou, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Nauman Dawalatabad, James Glass, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762361858560703
- Penalized Fair Regression for Multiple Groups in Chronic Kidney Disease
Carter H. Nakamoto, Lucia Lushi Chen, Agata Foryciarz, Sherri Rose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17340 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/115762446402738033
toXiv_bot_toot

"Low-level exposure to bisphenol A before birth can permanently alter metabolism, immunity, and disease risk in sex-specific ways."
Common Plastic Chemical Found To Feminize Males and Masculinize Females
https://scitechdaily.com/common-plastic-chemical-found-to-feminize-males-and-masculinize-females/

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.

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
[1/1]:
- Robot joint characterisation and control using a magneto-optical rotary encoder
Yunlong Guo, John Canning, Zenon Chaczko, Gang-Ding Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17608 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115609561523131866
- Comprehensive Multimodal and Multiscale Analysis of Alzheimer Disease in 5xFAD Mice: Optical Spec...
Solanki, Apachigawo, Khan, Maity, Alharthi, Nasim, Poshtiri, Sweety, Xiao, Khan, Pradhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18320 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot/115609269625501897
- Stable multipole solitons in defocusing saturable media with an annular trapping potential
Xiaoli Lang, Boris A. Malomed, Liangwei Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18356 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinPS_bot/115609515016328541
- High-Accuracy Material Classification via Reference-Free Terahertz Spectroscopy: Revisiting Spect...
Mathias Hedegaard Kristensen, Pawe{\l} Piotr Cielecki, Esben Skovsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18572 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsappph_bot/115609324247942112
- Observation of Dicke cooperativity between strongly coupled phonons and crystal-field excitations...
Fangliang Wu, Xiaoxuan Ma, Zhongwei Zhang, Motoaki Bamba, Jian Sun, Yuan Wan, Shixun Cao, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18862 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115609901666309913
- Strong Energy Dependent Transition Radiation in a Photonic Crystal
V. Gareyan, Zh. Gevorkian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18863 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsaccph_bot/115609494674308155
- 3M-TI: High-Quality Mobile Thermal Imaging via Calibration-free Multi-Camera Cross-Modal Diffusion
Minchong Chen, Xiaoyun Yuan, Junzhe Wan, Jianing Zhang, Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115610498715181168
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Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/xai-co-founder-yang-leaves-musk-s…

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.

I think I'm okay with Warhammer banning AI Slop, with the possible exception of the technomages of Nurgle, the Chaos God of Decay and Disease
... Seems like Nurgle might be into it

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 …

🎤 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.

Neuromodulation through multisensory stimulation for visual field deficits in the subacute stage of disease (MULTICAMPO) https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07358832 using "spatio-temporally congruent, cross-modal audio-visual stimuli",

"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"

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

#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

Raiders GM John Spytek honors late daughter through National CMV Foundation and My Cause My Cleats https://www.raiders.com/news/john-spytek-raiders-general-manager-my-cause-my-cleats-national-cmv-foundation

A Gluten Free Podcast
Do you have coeliac disease or are you gluten free for other health reasons? You've come to the right place...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-gluten-free-podcast/

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 […]

'lifestyle and the environment is 10 times more likely to explain early death than genetics'
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/

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

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.

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.

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.

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

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
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

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…

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…

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

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.

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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...

🫁 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.

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

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Vaccine Rollbacks Fuel New Disease Outbreaks, Remove RFK Jr
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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."

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/

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…

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

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. @…

“How can one mutation cause such different effects?”
Pera explained. “It comes down to genetic background.
Each strain has a unique genetic makeup that can either protect against or magnify the impact of that mutation.”
To confirm these findings in living organisms, Pera introduced the same mutations into live mice from the same eight strains.
Remarkably, the neurons in the brains of these mice phenotypically matched what he had seen in the petri dish,
providin…

What stem cells tell us about autism and other developmental brain disorders
By pairing stem cell technology with genetic diversity, JAX researchers uncover why identical mutations can lead to severe disease in some—and no symptoms in others.

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

(PDF) Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025…

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

⚠️ 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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

"Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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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.

"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/

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…

🎶 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.

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/

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

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.