Tootfinder

Turquoise Health, which offers a healthcare pricing and payments platform, raised a $40M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $95.3M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/…

Exclusive: Turquoise Health raises $40M for health care pricing
With premiums continuing to rise, Turquoise hopes a new product will resonate in markets rife with misaligned incentives.

🫖 Freshly brewed tea may support long-term health, research shows
#tea

Freshly brewed tea may support long-term health, research shows
If green tea is already part of your daily routine, you may be giving your health a boost without even realizing it.

Trump and Rubio blackmailing the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/zambia-hiv-aid-minerals-trump.html

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

Watch: Raiders host American Heart Health Month event https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-raiders-host-american-heart-health-month-event

We are screwed
Jay Bhattacharya, a top Trump administration health official and an outspoken critic of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,
will lead the CDC on an acting basis, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel moves.

Bhattacharya, who will continue his role as director of the National Institutes of Health, replaces Jim O’Neill, who had served as the CDC’s acting directo…

White House taps Jay Bhattacharya, CDC critic, to lead agency for now
The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation’s leading public health agency.

Oh for the love of
https://sahanjournal.com/health/ice-detains-mounds-view-couple/

#Sigh - but not stunned at #GavinNewsom proposals that balance the budget on the backs of the lower income populations.
‘Vital’ state farmers market program on the chopping block | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

State farmers' market program faces existential threat
Market Match is on the chopping block two years after it was threatened with cuts.

#Sigh - but not stunned at #GavinNewsom proposals that balance the budget on the backs of the lower income populations.
‘Vital’ state farmers market program on the chopping block | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

State farmers' market program faces existential threat
Market Match is on the chopping block two years after it was threatened with cuts.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
HEALTH:
🎵 UNLOVED
#HEALTH
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/unloved-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3cNDJqEYJXrgHH1QKGYRq0

We often plan ahead for our wealth and health during retirement. We need to start planning for something else: Mattering.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/the-retirement-crisis-no-one-warns-you-about-mattering-380873b2?st=pxrN1…

En kommentar til den seneste udvikling i vores forhold til USA. Artiklen er i Ÿvrigt flere år gammel, men jeg tænker stadig aktuel. #USPol https://worldmhc.org/

'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week (Erika Edwards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/south-carolina-measles-outbreak-cases-double-vaccines-quarantine-rcna253989
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p137#a260116p137

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".…

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/mass-pilot-whale-stranding-in-indonesia-raises-questions-about-ocean-health/

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health
Villagers in central Indonesia rescued 34 short-finned pilot whales following a mass stranding on March 9, but despite their overnight efforts were unable to save 21 others. Mongabay Indonesia’s Ebed De Rosary reports that residents first discovered the pod in the shallow waters off Deranitan village, in East Nusa Tenggara province, at approximately 3:30 p.m. […]

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.…

Any health care tech hiring PMs? Asking for a friend

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/french-govt-issues-report-urging-people-to-eat-less-meat-for-sake-of-health-climate
"country of steak frites" 🤨

French govt issues report urging people to eat less meat for the sake of health, climate
Not everyone in the country of steak frites is thrilled. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
Here’s so many technologies that are actually helpful and amazing and I’m exited about, here’s some more:
- e-paper
- health tracking that alerts to possible conditions
- safety features in vehicles
- new vaccines
- those soundboards for pets allowing them to form sentences
- 3D printing
- LED lights
- new, less dangerous battery technologies
And so much more

This year has been the most difficult health-wise for me. I am extremely grateful to all you Fediverse Friends who have helped me in any way.
Offering advice or wishing me well, helping with weird code or computer things, sharing your blogs do I can distract myself from the pain.
I love this Fediverse thing we’ve created. ❤️

"Investing in planetary health could unlock $20 trillion a year by 2070, says UN report"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/03/12/qualified-health-s…

Scoop: AI evaluation startup Qualified Health raising roughly $100M Series A
The funding would come as a gold rush in health care AI ushers in demand for better ways to implement and evaluate the tools.

"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of

I've just been reading up on the municipality of Vega, in #Norway:
"Vega Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities."
Population of Vega? 1,208
Why can't mainland

Vega Municipality - Wikipedia

Mission Dog Ziva ist bei der Deutschen Seemannsmission Stade - hier gerade als Fotomotiv für einen Seemann aus Myanmar.
Auch das tut gut für Mental Health der Seeleute

Stronger Bolder Wiser
We're talking about the things women are actually experiencing: hormones, health, alcohol, stress, identity shifts, and the quiet reinvention happening behind the scenes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/strong

👨‍🚀 Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
#space

Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in "super handy" during the medical crisis.

Streeting and Starmer, 2 sides of the same coin. It's just that one is probably more competent.
Streeting allies call for unity amid reports Cabinet colleagues want him sacked
https://nation.cymru/news/streeting-allies-call-…

Streeting allies call for unity amid reports Cabinet colleagues want him sacked
Allies of Wes Streeting have called for unity within UK Government, amid reports Cabinet ministers are urging the Prime Minister to sack his Health Secretary. Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing calls within the Cabinet to remove Mr Streeting from his post, amid what they see as his public pronouncements of outspoken opinions, according to […]

NYC hospital permanently axes transgender treatment program for kids following Trump's threat to yank funding (Emily Crane/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/nyu-langone-health-axes-transgender-treatment-for-kids-following-trumps-threat-to-yank-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p99#a260218p99

There are two kind of people who want AI:
The ones who don't understand what “one can never hold an AI responsible for anything” means for whatever they ask an AI to do for them¹, and the ones that fully understand “one can never hold an AI responsible for anything” and want it to be used for exactly this reason.²
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¹and the impact this can have on themselves from their bank account to their health
²for the impact that can have on their bank account, and especially…

A federal judge in Boston on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.,
saying the Trump administration had likely violated the law. 
Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel,
and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January,
were likely illegal.
Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated…

Federal judge stalls health secretary RFK Jr.’s overhaul of vaccine policy
Breaking: A federal judge on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute a t Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

Federal Judge strikes down RFK Jr's COVID and childhood illness vaccine decisions, stating that science was not used in making them.
#covid #rfkjr #vaccines

Judge Strikes Down RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policies in Blow to Trump’s Health Agenda
Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

Indoor track run. Debated running outside, but the wind started to pick up, and rain was in the forecast (plus random ice and ICE). I figured out the foot pod, so the Garmin is tracking my track runs inside now, somewhat accurately it seems.
Hoping to get back to 5 days of running in a week (probably not this one, lol), my health is not doing so great; cholesterol and BP are high, and asthma and chronic pain have been a bit of a struggle. I weigh more than I have ever weighed in my lif…

Unhinged Health Scare
#EvilCompanyNames
#HashTagGames

Health Canada: How new labels can help smart shoppers
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadas-new-food-labelling-system-extremely-effective-expert-says/
Kijk toch eens wat eenvoudig en duidelijk!
(Via @… )

Meine wichtigsten IT- und KI-Themen der vergangenen Tage – von Aleph Alpha bis Apple, von Microsoft bis Doc Sam, also ChatGPT Health. Dazu ein bissiger Kommentar zum Mythos KI als Heilsbringer. Diese Ausgabe von #Kuratiert. kbehandelt nur Themen aus #IT und

Aleph Alpha, Apple, Microsoft, Doc Sam: Ernüchternde Momente in IT und KI
Meine wichtigsten IT- und KI-Themen der vergangenen Tage – von Aleph Alpha bis Apple, von Microsoft bis Doc Sam, also ChatGPT Health. Dazu ein bissiger Kommentar zum Mythos KI als Heilsbringer. Die…

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata

Gesundheit und Sport: Apples Fitness weiter auf Prüfstand, Health verschoben?
Apple ist offenbar weiter unsicher, wie es mit dem hauseigenen Sportdienst weitergeht. Pläne für einen Gesundheitsbezahldienst liegen nun angeblich auf Eis.

The fight over transgender rights in America has entered a new phase (Rachel Cohen Booth/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/policy/482762/transgender-lgbtq-trans-rights-kansas-health-care-bathroom-bans-sports?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjVjaWJuUFdpZHEiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS80ODI3NjIvdHJhbnNnZW5kZXItbGdidHEtdHJhbnMtcmlnaHRzLWthbnNhcy1oZWFsdGgtY2FyZS1iYXRocm9vbS1iYW5zLXNwb3J0cyIsImV4cCI6MTc3NDk1NjU5NiwiaWF0IjoxNzczNzQ2OTk2fQ.GR4VUR2vmfs_ZngkPiAVR5pozs4Js9L1VPquDkoB_Dk&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p43#a260317p43

I see that Texas's Office of Hostile Foreign Adversaries is holding sway with the governor's office or something.
Governor Abbott Directs State Health Agencies to Address Potential CCP-Connected Cybersecurity Risks
https://go…

Governor Abbott Directs State Health Agencies to Address Potential CCP-Connected Cybersecurity Risks

"I am the programming equivalent of a home cook."
I have talked about it for programming and making, this idea that it can be for personal enrichment, and even mental health, and always thinking about the things you produce in a capitalist/consumer context can be... not great.
https://www.robinsloan.com/…

An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.

Eleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.

Zayed Sustainability Prize Honours Global Pioneers Advancing Progress - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. US$5.9M awarded to 11 organisations and high schools from the UAE, Brazil, Canada, Nepal, Switzerland, Uganda and across six sustainability categories From AI-enabled diagnostics to Cooling-as-a-Service, this year’s winners deliver locally adapted innovations that empower millions In 18 years, the ... [continued]

The hidden health impact of Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy grid: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/the-hidden-health-impact-of.html

The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has a grim forecast of what's going to happen next https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-debt-scientist-psychosis "If the use of AI chatbots does indeed cause cognitive debt, we are likely in dire straights."

The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next
Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard has a grim warning about the "cognitive debt" accrued by scholars who use AI.

How do #autistic people age — and what does it mean for their health? #autism
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00471-6

"RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are ‘Better’ And ‘More Efficient’"
#Animals
https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/rfk-jr…

RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are 'Better' And 'More Efficient'
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) has said that he is working to wind down animal testing in the US

Yet another example of the endless, ever-descending spiral stairs to hell that is #infosec...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/…

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times

I have many ranty thoughts about this, but I don't have the energy to express it all right now.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677104/trump-administration-letter-terminating-addiction-mental-health-grants

Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds #environment

Sunscreen produces persistent free radicals when exposed to light, study finds
Research from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences explores how common sunscreen ingredients behave under light exposure. Led by associate professor Eric Vejerano, the team tested seven commercially available sunscreens (including four mineral-based formulas) and found that every sample produced persistent free radicals (PFRs) when exposed to artificial light. The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, provides new insight into sunscreen photochemistry and ma…

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-revives-plan-smart-…

Meta Revives Plan for Smart Watch, Targets 2026 Launch
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved ...

Digital Health: E-Rezept jetzt auch für die Bundespolizei
Seit 2026 können Bundespolizistinnen und ‑polizisten Rezepte als E‑Rezept erhalten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Digital-Health-…

Trump is using ICE and health care as weapons of a war against his own country #nevertrump

The president of the United States is at war with his own country
Paul Waldman: If you support Trump, he likes you. If you don’t, you’re his enemy.

The State Department is considering 🔥withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic ⚠️ to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to the country’s critical minerals.
“We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale,”
a draft of a memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio by the department’s …

No H.I.V. Aid Without More Access to Minerals: U.S. Ponders ‘Sticks’ Against Zambia
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”

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".…

Trump jettisons the GOP's corporate allies in health care plan (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/trump-health-plan-insurance-pharma-obamacare-00732557
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p34#a260116p34

"Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, research shows"
#Cars #Vehicles #Pollution

Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, research shows
The small, spongy black beads used as fill material in most artificial turf fields are called crumb rubber, which has long been touted as a major win for recycling. However, conflicting studies have alternately identified crumb rubber as either safe for people to play atop or dangerous to human health.

🛡️ Nanoplastics in water help bacteria form stronger, disinfectant-resistant biofilms
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-nanoplastics-bacteria-stronger-disinfectant-resistant.html

Nanoplastics in water help bacteria form stronger, disinfectant-resistant biofilms
Human health risks from direct consumption of toxic nanoplastics are already scary, but researchers have confirmed that nanoplastics in water give rise to an additional threat: They strengthen bacteria.

Fathers’ tobacco use linked to metabolic changes in their children #health

Fathers’ tobacco use linked to metabolic changes in their children
A new study in mice suggests that a father’s nicotine exposure could influence the metabolic health of his children. Researchers found that when male mice consumed nicotine, their offspring showed changes in how their bodies handled sugar, including differences in insulin and glucose levels and altered liver function. These shifts may be linked to a higher risk of diabetes and related metabolic diseases.

Watch: Trump touts investments in rural health at White House roundtable (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5692302-watch-live-donald-trump-rural-health-roundtable/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p64#a260116p64

A study found OpenAI's ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/chat…

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study
ChatGPT Health — OpenAI’s new health-focused chatbot — frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine

A 31-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Kingsland has been charged with attempted murder,
the first time that a mother has been charged under Georgia’s restrictive abortion law.
The arrest comes two months after Alexia Moore was rushed to the emergency room in Camden County, pregnant and in extreme pain.
Doctors at the Southeast Georgia Health System hospital delivered a severely premature baby girl who lived for approximately two hours, according to police.  
On March 4, …

H.H.S. Reverses Decision to Cut $2 Billion for Mental Health and Addiction Services - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/health/samhsa-funding-cuts.html

KI-Update: Grok auf Abwegen, Suizid durch KI?, ChatGPT Health, SleepFM, CES-KI
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Explores what really affects sperm health and male fertility, and what men can actually do about it, hosted by Alex Hardy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mens-fertility-nutrition/…

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s #health

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, water, and even household dust—could trigger inflammation and damage in the brain through multiple biological pathways. Scientists estimate adults may consume about 250 grams of these particles each year, and some can accumulate in organs including the brain.

"Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health"
#Plastic #Plastics

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health
Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in developing countries than previously thought, raising serious environmental pollution and public health concerns for individuals, families and communities. That’s according to a new global study that surveyed more than 1,000 “key informants,” including researchers, […]

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/health-insurance-startup-alan-reaches-e5b…

Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation | TechCrunch
French health insurance startup Alan is now valued at €5 billion — approximately $5.83 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 2024.

Trump administration letter wipes out addiction, mental health grants : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677104/trump-administration-letter-terminating-addiction-mental-health-grants

Obama Took On Recession, Health Care and Iraq. What He Didn't See Coming Was Trump. (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/obama-trump-oral-history.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p11#a260217p11

Trump's EPA decides climate change doesn't endanger public health—the evidence says otherwise #UnitedStates

Trump's EPA decides climate change doesn't endanger public health—the evidence says otherwise
The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America's climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026, when it moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding—a formal determination that six greenhouse gases that drive climate change, including carbon dioxide and methane from burning fossil fuels, endanger public health and welfare.

Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/alaffia-health-raises-55m-expand-agen…

Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE
Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE

OpenAI und Anthropic vertiefen Interesse an Gesundheitsdaten
Nach ChatGPT Health übernimmt OpenAI eine Gesundheits-App. Anthropic bietet nun ebenfalls Claude for Healthcare an.
https://www.

Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-moderna-vaccine
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p24#a260217p24

Since November, a total of 35 people across California have been poisoned by mushrooms,
leading to three people receiving liver transplants
in addition to the three deaths.
Health officials in Sonoma County reported the latest death last week.
Michael Stacey, Sonoma’s interim health officer, attributed the cases and deaths to
an extraordinary boom in the prevalence of death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides),
noting that in an average year the state sees…

Wild mushrooms keep killing people in California; 3 dead, 35 poisoned
Officials have linked the poisonings to the death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides).

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11…

The Trump health care policy red and blue states are embracing (Kelly Hooper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/trump-health-policy-both-parties-bullish-on-00813177
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p50#a260315p50

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".

Digital Health: DMEA findet ab 2027 in München statt
Ab 2027 findet die DMEA nicht mehr in Berlin, sondern in München statt. Sie soll internationaler werden.
https://www.heise.de/news/Digi…

RFK Jr.'s battle with the public health establishment has turned to trench warfare (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/rfk-health-secretary-maha-vaccines-food-00776630
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p31#a260215p31

America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
staked his political career on the false belief that vaccines cause autism,
and has used his power to force federal agencies to support his bonkers position:
The CDC’s website now says,
“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
Thanks to Kennedy and others, measles outbreaks are happening all over the country after the disease was declared officially eliminated in th…

The Cynical, Gullible American Man
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This Startup’s Clever Way To Cut Health Costs Helped It Hit A $1.4 Billion Valuation
Garner Health uses data to identify the country’s best doctors based on quality and cost, then gives its customers’ employees financial incentives to go to them — which can save 12% on healthcare costs.

"The programs slated to be cut are in CA, CO, IL & MN. The funds are administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They include grants given to states for a variety of purposes, including hiring staffs, modernizing data systems and managing disease outbreaks. Some programs are aimed at the needs of specific communities."
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/trump-public-health-cuts-california.html

White House reverses $2 billion cut to mental health, addiction grants (Sandhya Raman/Roll Call)
https://rollcall.com/2026/01/14/hhs-cuts-2-billion-in-mental-health-addiction-grants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p24#a260115p24

Digital Health: Erwartungen zum geplanten Digitalgesetz
Ein weiteres Digitalgesetz für das Gesundheitswesen ist in Arbeit. Anwender wollen nutzerfreundliche Systeme, die Industrie einen besseren Datenzugang.
https://…

HHS Reverses $2 Billion in Cuts to Mental-Health, Substance-Abuse Groups (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/hhs-reverses-2-billion-in-cuts-to-mental-health-substance-abuse-groups-f5916317
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p104#a260115p104

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, initially available to a small group (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/chatgpt-health-tab-apple-fitness-apps

OpenAI adds ChatGPT Health for medical questions
OpenAI's new feature brings in medical records and data from Apple Health and MyFitnessPal.

Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social :
“These politicians want a Christian nation
— unless it means providing health care to the sick.
Or funding food assistance for the hungry.
Or raising the minimum wage.
It seems like they want to base our laws on the Bible…
until they read the words of Jesus.”
h…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “These politicians want a Christian nation— unless it means providing health care to the sick. Or funding food assistance for the hungry. Or raising the minimum wage. It seems like they want to base our laws on the Bible… until they read the words of Jesus.”

OpenAI says 40M Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an "ally" for health care (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca

Exclusive: 40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT for health care
OpenAI's new report shows how chatbots can help navigate health care.

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0
-- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars
-- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
https://…

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced legislation on Wednesday seeking to
reverse the Trump administration's new childhood vaccine schedule that has alarmed health experts.
The measure, an amendment to an appropriations package currently under consideration by Congress,
would prohibit any funds going to the Health and Human Services Department from being used to implement the changes,
which removed the HPV, RSV, Rotavirus, COVID-19, Flu, Hepatitis A & B and Men…

ICE Has Been Detaining Native Americans In Minnesota

Trump Cuts $2 Billion in Federal Funding for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (Jan Hoffman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/health/samhsa-funding-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260114/p168#a260114p168

A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care (Reed Abelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/health/health-costs-cutting-back.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p4#a260312p4

The United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.
That’s the practical result of the Trump administration’s yearlong parade of regulatory rollbacks,
capped on Thursday by its killing of the “endangerment finding,”
the scientific determination that required the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases because of the threat to human health.
“The U.S. no longer has em…

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.

Trump announces outlines of health care plan he wants Congress to consider (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-care-insurance-congress-savings-accounts-b7b4caae9ad14fda4646c42d3858202b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p75#a260115p75

Pomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

This CEO’s $1.7 Billion Health Startup Began With Moms. Now She Wants To Expand To All Women.
Former Flatiron Health exec Marta Bralic Kerns raised $92 million to expand her virtual care model to women at all stages of their lives.

Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; it was previously only available on the app for One Medical (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/amazon-launches-its-healthcare-ai-assistan…

Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app | TechCrunch
Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments, and more.

EPA says it will stop calculating health care savings from key air pollution rules (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/epa-air-pollution-health-benefits-trump-771218fb0059f4c1b07981755d3453a1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p97#a260113p97

Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-mental-health-therapists-quit-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p27#a260312p27

Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a 'scam' (Seth Borenstein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-health-deaths-heat-sickness-scam-5b7492660d7dad1c324f2bbbe6163f1c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p111#a260212p111