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add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".

Spoiler: it's not by increasing GST
Australia’s health system is in intensive care
#Health

Australia’s health system is in intensive care
GST revenue is failing to keep up with the demands of our health system. There is a simple solution if government is brave enough to take it.

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-research-lead-mental-health-quietly-depar…

A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.

New evidence throws light on exactly how much of a wanker David Cameron is:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer

Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer - Harvard Health
Research into the connections between sexual activity and prostate cancer....

What Pocket Health, Amazon Prime Vision's new tool, teaches us about QBs, OL and defenses https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916237/2025/12/24/pocket-health-insights-amazon-prime-vision/

Donald Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the Affordable Care Act as a “disaster,”
is considering backing an extension of insurance subsidies tied to the health law that are set to expire at the end of the year,
according to a senior White House official.
“Until President Trump makes an announcement himself, any reporting about the administration’s health care positions is mere speculation,” said Kush Desai, a White House spokesman.
Extending the subsidies was at the …

Trump Is Considering a Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies
President Trump has not made a final decision. But he is under pressure to address the cost of health care, which for many Americans will jump if the subsidies expire.

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. @…

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

Gesundheitsakte & Co: Warken verspricht Betriebsstabilität und Ausfallsicherheit
Warken verspricht auf der Digital Health Conference nicht nur eine bessere Stabilität von E-Rezept und Patientenakte, sondern auch digitale Souveränität.

"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.

This is a good example of survivor bias:
https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/david-cameron-interview-prostate-cancer-kmtc2zj78

Trump's emerging health care plan could put GOP leaders in a bind (Mike Lillis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5621146-trump-health-care-plan-gop-leaders/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p26#a251125p26

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

For years, this man didn’t knew of the dangers that drinking energy drinks might cause. While doctors confronted to his extremely high blood pressure didn’t bother to ask.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/man-shocks-docto…

"U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization: Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster."
I guess this was expected. It's the continuation of a series of self-inflicted stupidity.
The US is now so anti-science & anti-health that helping the world (and themselves by proxy) could never be allowed to stand. Even from a soft-power, self-interest perspective, this seems remarkably dumb.

U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster.

WTF? Why don't you go like a good sized portion of the civilized world and dump the 'for profit' health care model? Of course the GOP, billionaires, companies that own hospitals and drug companies will scream... Tell them to take a very long off a short pier at the top of a 1,000 metre cliff.
https://flip.it/3sMmr6

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".

National Diabetes Month: 65% Of Americans Open To Preventative Plant-Based Diets https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/diabetes-americanspreventative-plant-based-diets/

National Diabetes Month: 65% Of Americans Open To Preventative Plant-Based Diets
Sixty-five percent of Americans would be open to adopting low-fat, plant-based diets to help control blood sugar or prevent type 2 diabetes

White House to pitch a Trump Obamacare extension with limits - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/white-house-to-propose-new-health-care-framework-00666701

“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.

Public health groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency ( #EPA ) over its approval of a #PFAS “forever chemical”
#insecticide
that industry research found likely
reduces testicle size,
lowers sperm coun…

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/health-l59qepnvz/-/a-OHlE21szQRCCXJYoHuGtxQ:a:3199720-/0
Louis Armstrong called it his "antidote for racism" — might that explain the rise in use?

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -

On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review
Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality

Opinion | The Health Care Debate We Really Need - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/opinion/health-care-aca-cost-insurance.html ""...decades’ worth of research shows that, even though employers pay most of workers’ premiums, t…

Opinion | The Health Care Debate We Really Need
The high cost of health care in America is suppressing wages, driving job losses and fueling inequality.

California to join WHO health network in rebuke of Trump (Brock Hrehor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/california-to-join-who-health-network-in-rebuke-of-trump-00745350
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p107#a260123p107

There is video. Please take care of yourself and your mental health. And please hold space in your heart this morning for the person who was shot, for their loved ones, for those who witnessed it.

2/3 of 16,500 domain names used by Dutch authorities, health care, schools and vital companies are coupled to at least one US cloud service https://nos.nl/l/2599601

Nederland hangt aan Amerikaans tech-infuus: 'We zitten in de houdgreep'
Twee derde van de overheden, scholen, vitale bedrijven en zorginstellingen gebruikt Amerikaanse clouddiensten, blijkt uit data-onderzoek van de NOS. De bezwaren daartegen nemen toe.

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 63 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

"Niets aan de hand" volgens Trump. 😉
Trump says heavy bruise on his left hand came after he ‘clipped it on the table’ | CNN Politics https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/hand-bruising-trump-health

Trump says heavy bruise on his left hand came after he ‘clipped it on the table’
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the large bruise on his left hand came after he bumped it on furniture in Switzerland.

I’m London ON for some family health stuff.
We ended up at The Bombay Vibes https://thebombayvibes.ca - in a little strip mall next to / inside of an indian grocery store.
I had panj puri for the first time, aloo tikki chaat, samosas, and paneer tikka masala with rice and garlic naan.
Very good!

More than 25,000 cases of vaccine preventable whooping cough were recorded this year
-- higher than pre-pandemic levels
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/25000-cases-whooping-cough-recorded-year-higher-pre/story?id=127831021

More than 25,000 cases of whooping cough recorded this year, higher than pre-pandemic levels: CDC
Deaths from whooping cough have been recorded in Louisiana and Washington.

Merry Christmas to my followers!
This year, we're celebrating in the Alps and this is our view 🤩
Have some nice days with people you love. I wish all of you an upcoming year of good health.

Memo: Sydney Morning Herald Editor Bevan Shields resigns after four years to "focus on my health", to be replaced by Chief Reporter Jordan Baker early in 2026 (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

Trump was going to roll out a health care plan. Then Republicans weighed in. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/trump-health-care-subsidies-backlash-00667751
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p118#a251124p118

Hey nurses! Did you vote for Trump?
Well, congratulations! You're no longer classified as having a 'professional' degree... meaning you're no longer eligible for various types of GOVERNMENT AID.
You did this.
https://www.

Pro-Trump Nurse Shocked He Removed Career From ‘Professional’ Degree List
Under the revamped definition of “professional" degree programs, nursing and other key health care jobs were excluded.

Meet Dr. Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science at CHAOSS. She helps teams improve open source strategy, governance, and contributor health. Get to know @…: https://youtu.be/DDcLkjSX1Qg<…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115777711174761352
"Prasad used incomplete information and that a Dec. 5 internal FDA memo set the pediatric death toll from covid shots somewhere between zero and seven. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Emily Hillia…

👨🏿‍🌾 Traces of old farm chemicals contaminate water across the US
#chemicals

Traces of old farm chemicals contaminate water across the US
Even though it delivers airtight data and analysis essential for understanding and managing the risks industrial societies pose to water, land, and health, the US Geological Survey is a federal science agency that rarely attracts public notice.

Cowboys leader named Community MVP for work spotlighting mental health https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/21/cowboys-dt-solomon-thomas-nflpa-community-mvp-week-12-me…

One thing that influenced my decision to use the iPhone with the Apple Watch as my main device instead of the Pixel with GrapheneOS for health reasons is this: I feel absolutely, ABSOLUTELY bad about it!
On the one hand, of course, because of the data protection issue, but since Trump, I also have the problem that most Europeans have: that you are becoming dependent on a big tech company from the US. A country that is clearly drifting toward fascism, where fundamental rights are being …

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

Federal Judge Orders Education Dept To Reinstate $1 Billion In Mental Health Grants Across 16 Blue States - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/federal-judge-orders-education-dept-to-reinstate-1-billion-in-mental-health-grants-across-16-blue-states/

when you’re an AI bro and you’re horny for chatbots disenfranchising people from health care but it’s fucking 1949

U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p88#a260123p88

Chargers' Denzel Perryman suspended 2 games after illegal hit vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911839/2025/12/22/denzel-perryman-suspended-chargers-health-safety-violations/

Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/health-sta

This former Eli Lilly exec just raised a $52 million seed round from family offices to build a new healthcare AI startup.
Thirty Madison's former president is launching her own healthcare AI startup without a drop of VC funding.

"Poland’s Ministry Of Health Pledges Plant-Based Meals For Schools And Nurseries"
#Poland #Food #Education

Poland's Ministry Of Health Pledges Plant-Based Meals For Schools And Nurseries
Poland is expected to introduce plant-based meals in schools and nurseries after it pledged to update its draft nutrition guidance

Not surprised. I found stuff that looked great. I am fairly experienced at baking and part of them didn't turn out. Going over them afterwards I should have clued in on the temperatures for the candies. I have made fudges and candies for decades and thought maybe they knew something that I didn't. They turned out to be almost as runny as cold syrup and will be used as a topping for fruit cake with ice cream.

Methyl bromide pesticide still widely used in California, raising health concerns #California

Methyl bromide pesticide still widely used in California, raising health concerns
In a new study of the continuing use in California of the pesticide methyl bromide, a known developmental, neurologic and respiratory toxin, researchers from UCLA and UC Irvine found that the compound is still in widespread use across the state, from San Diego and Los Angeles counties northward through the Central Valley.

Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers (Reed Abelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/health/health-insurers-obamacare-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p144#a260122p144

Fisherman Creates First Program that Let’s Doctors Give Angling Prescriptions for Anxiety – Now Wins King’s Award https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fisherman-creates-first-program-that-lets-doctors-give-angling-prescriptions-f…

Fisherman Creates First Program that Let's Doctors Give Angling Prescriptions for Anxiety – Now Wins King’s Award
After fishing cured his own mental health struggles, he started an angling program, Tackling Minds, that is now prescribed by doctors.

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…

ChatGPT Health: OpenAI startet KI-Gesundheitsassistent
OpenAI führt ChatGPT Health ein, das unter anderem Apple-Health-Daten auswertet. Die EU, Schweiz und Großbritannien bleiben vorerst außen vor.
https://www.…

Congress leaves town until 2026
with no health care deal,
forcing premium hikes
Four Republicans teamed up with Democrats to require a vote to revive ACA funds in early 2026.
But Senate Republicans tell NBC News that bill is dead on arrival across the Capitol.

Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes
The Republican-led House and Senate adjourned Thursday until the new year with no solution on expiring health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, meaning insurance premiums for about 22 million Americans will rise next month.

‘Congress is in a coma.’ Former lawmakers sound alarm on health of the House
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/21/g-s1-101741/congress-is-in-a-coma-former-lawmakers-sound-alarm-on-health-of-the-house

Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/funct…

Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Function, which offers blood testing and medical imaging services, recently raised $298 million in a Series B round led by Redpoint Ventures at a valuation of $2.5 billion.

US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/us-stiffs-who-hundreds-of-millions-as-it-officially-withdrawals/

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Ultra-processed foods damage health in ways that calories don’t explain, new study says #nutrition

Ultra-processed foods damage health in ways that calories don't explain, new study says
Ultra-processed foods may harm health because of what they contain but also how they are manufactured to promote overconsumption and maximize profits.

Trump set to propose framework to fix Obamacare subsidies (Jake Traylor/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-health-care-plan-obamacare-aca-subsidies
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p63#a251123p63

"Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals"
#FossilFuels #Cliamte #ClimateChange

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

An older adult with underlying health conditions is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu,
but Washington state health officials said on Friday the risk to the public is low.
The person – from Grays Harbor county, about 78 miles (125km) south-west of Seattle – had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds.
The person was treated for the H5N5 bird flu strain after becoming seemingly the first known human infected…

The Most Powerful Man in Science (Michael Scherer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/rfk-jr-public-health-science/684948/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p71#a251123p71

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 350 nodes and 984 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

Meta Hid Evidence of Social Media Harm, Court Filings Claim | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/meta-research-mental-health/2025/11/22/id/1235682/

"A momentous pivotal moment for the United States." #ice

"A momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
Alex Pretti, 37, was a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.

Perryman loses appeal, to miss Chargers' final 2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47402784/denzel-perryman-appeal-upheld-miss-chargers-final-2

The internal dispute that could derail the GOP's 2026 agenda (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/gop-reconciliation-bill-health-care-00704698
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p6#a251224p6

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines #Myanmar

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines
Twelve million people in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta face serious long-term health risks from the harmful substance, arsenic, in their drinking water.

Eli Lilly, the maker of hugely popular weight loss drugs, has reached $1 trillion in value, becoming the first publicly traded company in health care to hit the milestone.
The second-most valuable health care company, Johnson & Johnson, is worth about half a trillion dollars.
Lilly’s stock has surged in large part because of the company’s success in seizing the biggest potential market in the history of the drug industry:
the class of weight loss medicines known as GLP-1…

Eli Lilly, Drug Maker of Zepbound and Mounjaro, Reaches $1 Trillion in Value
The 150-year-old drugmaker is the first company in health care to hit the milestone.

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/health/milhoan-vaccines-optional-polio.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p67#a260123p67

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".

GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/11/20/ge-healthcare-…

GE HealthCare to buy Intelerad for $2.3B
The move expands GE HealthCare into outpatient enterprise imaging.

I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble. (Rachael Bedard/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/opinion/children-health-defense-kennedy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p36#a251125p36

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/whos-cancer-research-arm-finds-atrazine-is-probable-human-carcinogen-2025-11-21/…

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer found today that atrazine, the second most widely used pesticide in the United States, is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The cancer designation was determined by a working group of 22 expert cancer researchers from 12 different countries. The researchers identified evidence from human epidemiological studies, animal studies, and laboratory assessments of whether atrazine exhibits key characteristics of a c…

Trump Is Considering a Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/politics/trump-obamacare-subsidies-health-care.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p123#a251124p123

Concerns over Trump’s health are coming to light once again after pictures of the 79-year-old felon showed new dark and crusty bruises on his left hand during his recent visit to Davos, Switzerland
-- different from ones that had previously been captured in his right hand.
https://bsky.app/profile/irishstar…

IrishStar.com (@irishstar.com)
Concerns over President Trump’s health are coming to light once again after pictures of the 79-year-old president’s hand showed new dark and crusty bruises on his left hand during his recent visit to Davos, Switzerland, different from ones that had previously been captured in his right hand. https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/trumps-hand-more-bruised-ever-36597641?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1769106965

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president's unusual behavior in 2025 (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-mental-health-speech-address-2025-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p60#a251224p60

AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/11/20/repub/ai-vs-ai-patients-deploy-bots-to-battle-health-insurers-that-deny-care/

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.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".

Nearly 47 million Americans live near hidden fossil fuel sites #America

Nearly 47 million Americans live near hidden fossil fuel sites
A nationwide analysis has uncovered how sprawling fossil fuel infrastructure sits surprisingly close to millions of American homes. The research shows that 46.6 million people live within about a mile of wells, refineries, pipelines, storage sites, or transport facilities. Many of these locations release pollutants that may affect nearby communities, yet mid-supply-chain sites have rarely been studied. The findings reveal major gaps in understanding how this hidden network affects health.

Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals #climate

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar - KFF Health News
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year,
affecting some 74,000 participants
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/halted-nih-clinical-trials-li…

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

After nearly 80 years of membership, the U.S. is officially no longer part of the World Health Organization (WHO). 
Donald Trump initiated the removal process in an executive order on, the first day of his second term.
https://myfox8.com/news/politics/us/un

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."

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts (Hannah Harris Green/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/rfk-jr-saturated-fats
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p30#a251025p30

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

US completes withdrawal from World Health Organization (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/world-health-organization-trump-b6e0be566c7db9aece0334e987d516f1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p36#a260123p36

Senate Republican Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) has said that
the U.S. “can’t afford” to implement Donald Trump’s proposal
to send out $2,000 checks to supposedly offset costs of tariffs
— just days after the president wined and dined some of the richest people on the planet at an extravagant black tie dinner in the White House

Ron Johnson Says US “Can’t Afford” $2k Checks as Trump Feasts With Billionaires
The statement comes after the GOP traded millions of Americans’ health care for more tax cuts for the rich.

White House circulates a plan to extend Obamacare subsidies as Trump pledges health care fix (Seung Min Kim/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-affordable-care-act-proposal-subsidies-democrats-dcbd606d8c35f403136b9547d88e0449
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p101#a251124p101

After courting coal miners during his campaign,
Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
Many miners in Appalachia thought they would finally see a commitment to solving the issue of black lung.
Last year, on April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final rule,
"Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection",
which aimed to reduce miners’ exposure to an airborne co…

Coal Miners Were Poised to Win Key Safety Protections. Then Trump Showed Up.
After courting coal miners during his campaign, Trump has left a trail of broken promises.

The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-…

Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/health/hepatitis-b-vaccine-africa-study.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p142#a260122p142

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.

Protecting public health abroad benefits Americans.
In a globalized world, diseases and their social and economic impacts do not stay within national boundaries.
Increased rates of untreated HIV in any part of the world increase the risk of transmission for U.S. citizens.
Changes made in the first year of Trump’s second term to address the global HIV epidemic won't keep Americans safe.
In September 2025, the U.S. Department of State announced its "America First…

HIV knows no borders, and the Trump administration’s new strategy leave Americans vulnerable – an HIV-prevention expert explains
The America First Global Health Strategy aims to secure US interests but may instead undermine it by design.

Congressional negotiators are expected to release a
bipartisan health care package
as soon as today
that revives major parts of a deal that was torpedoed in late 2024 by Elon Musk and then President-elect Trump.
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities like
— an overhaul of the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers — the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurers
— and new controls on how hospitals bill for outpatien…

Scoop: Bipartisan health package likely moving forward
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities but no extension of Obamacare subsidies.

NY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills

NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4505
Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label.

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.
Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for insurance premiums — or for most health related necessities such as baby formulas or toothbrushes
HSAs are tax shelters for the rich, masquerading as healthcare insurance.
Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to …

Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums - KFF Health News
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.