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".…
"Staff who provide data to the vaccine panel have been pushed aside, according to health officials, raising doubts about the availability of coronavirus and other vaccines."
RFK Jr's vaccine panel overhaul sparks chaos, uncertainty about access - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/13/rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-overhaul/
Three of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy
took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines,
public records show.
In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Monday,
Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a “rubber stamp” on approving …
"ChatGPT Psychosis": Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
"Of course I want to go live in the AI world, because the choice is between God on a pedestal or vanilla."
AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other emotive, anthropomorphic chatbots — and health experts are taking notice.
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"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…
fascinating episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's #StarTalk on the gut-brain connection: #podcast #health
Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422334122
"If every city increased the extent of its bicycle network to the level of Copenhagen, Denmark, our simulations indicate reductions in p…
Checked in at Take Out Shack. Health food for lunch.
Surprised no one in my timeline highlighted this source probs, maybe the majority of the fedi collectivity shrugs? https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW
Heute war wieder Termin bei der Hämatologie. Wert war ok, also keine Sitzung notwendig. 😁
#Health
Nach 18 Jahren vergeblichen Kinderwunschs wurde ein Paar mithilfe von #KI schwanger.
Das Columbia University Fertility Center nutzte die neue STAR-Methode, um in einer #Samenprobe mit #Azoospermie
Pam Ayres
At last, we have a cure for all!
Ailments large and ailments small,
Good health is not beyond my reach,
If I inject myself with bleach.
Radiant, I’ll prance along,
Every trace of limescale gone,
With disinfectant as my friend,
Like him,
I’m clean around the bend.
Majority of Voters Oppose Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill,”
With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending,
and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.
https://truthout.org/articl…
With militaries: amateurs focus on weapon systems like tanks & planes. Professionals focus on logistics.
kegseth is a drunk amateur misusing & abusing our soldiers.
“…snafu is…slapdash mission where…welfare of troops has not been…priority…service members described inadequate living conditions at…Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, on…outskirts of Los Angeles…soldiers are sleeping outside on cots…Others cited intermittent issues with food & fuel supplies.”
An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies
- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos
- People who only engage with fully o…
CBD, ingen evidens för att det gör något bra som tillskott, men massor av reklam och rekommendationer från influensers då de tjänar en fin summa per försäljning.
Och folk tror till sist det fungerar för "alla influensers säger ju att det hjälper mot x, y och z" 🤷🏼♂️
Low doses of CBD may cause harm to the liver, FDA study finds
A Topic Modeling Analysis of Stigma Dimensions, Social, and Related Behavioral Circumstances in Clinical Notes Among Patients with HIV
Ziyi Chen, Yiyang Liu, Mattia Prosperi, Krishna Vaddiparti, Robert L Cook, Jiang Bian, Yi Guo, Yonghui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09279
China’s ultra-high-voltage transmission reduced coal use and air pollution, improved health https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325004967 @…
"This so-called big, beautiful bill pushes 16 million people off of health care and literally takes food from the mouths of hungry children. An enormous tax cut for the very wealthiest is the definition of an immoral bill," said Sen. Coons, a Presbyterian and graduate of Yale Divinity School.
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/samsung-acquiring…
14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.
Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
http…
Unmasking inequility: socio-economic determinants and gender disparities in Maharashtra and India's health outcomes -- Insights from NFHS-5
Sharmishtha Raghuvanshi, Supriya Sanjay Nikam, Manisha Karne, Satyanarayan Kishan Kothe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08206
Stoller: “Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors”.
Here in Canada, the home of single-payer free-for-residents healthcare, we’ve also had financiers rolling up a variety of healthcare operations and we should do like Oregon.
https://www.
Doesn't seem controversial. 'Palantir (inclusive of any associated companies) is an unacceptable choice of partner to create a Federated Data Platform for the NHS. It recognises that this partnership threatens to undermine public trust in NHS data systems'
Turns out that everyone in the Netherlands has more PFAS 'forever chemicals' in their blood than the health limit - test on 2016-2017 blood samples. https://nos.nl/l/2573446
Major medical organizations are suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services
over actions they call a “public health emergency that demands immediate legal action and correction.”
“He’s doing everything he possibly can to undermine vaccine confidence,”
said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association,
one of the organizations joining the lawsuit.
“Quite frankly, we’ve had e…
The depth of the damage to the USA by the Republican party and this administration is catastrophic, especially in the long term.
Hundreds or thousands of incredibly damaging actions have been taken this year with seeming dozens more every week.
It is impossible to keep track of the destruction being done to the rule of law, our economy, human rights, our health...
Det här lär inte bli godkänt utan data som visar på minskad sjukdom. Men potentiellt ordentligt positivt i fall man kan börja ta fram vaccin mot influensan med en snabbare metod.
"The current flu shots primarily rely on growing strains the of the virus in eggs, which is slower to make compared to the mRNA vaccines."
A Bayesian Multisource Fusion Model for Spatiotemporal PM2.5 in an Urban Setting
Abi I. Riley, Marta Blangiardo, Fr\'ed\'eric B. Piel, Andrew Beddows, Sean Beevers, Gary W. Fuller, Paul Agnew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10688
Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. #AnimalRights
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
The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research.
Its funding has sparked countless medical breakthroughs
— on cancer, diabetes, strokes
— and plays a fundamental role in the development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Scientists compete vigorously for a slice of the more than $30 billion that the agency doles out annually;
they can spend years assembling grant applications that stretch thousand…
Balanced Area Deprivation Index (bADI): Enhancing social determinants of health indices to strengthen their association with healthcare clinical outcomes, utilization and costs
Mohammad Amin Morid, Robert E Tillman, Eran Halperin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08131
Supreme Court ruling puts some vaccines at risk
Public health advocates won a big case in the Supreme Court on the last day of this year’s term
-- but the victory came with an asterisk.
The decision ended one threat to the no-cost preventive services
— from cancer and diabetes screenings to statin drugs and vaccines
— used by more than 150 million Americans who have health insurance.
⚠️ But it did so by empowering the nation’s foremost vaccine skeptic: …
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".…
Defend Public Health
is an all-volunteer network of public health researchers, healthcare workers, advocates and allies
fighting to protect the health of all.
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/
How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…
On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…
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".…
In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division,
to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.
Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/omada-shares-open-at-23-in-na…
The proportion of the U.S. population who are Latino or Asian American is expected to rise to 33% by 2050,
and will number over 135 million people.
Understanding rates of Age Related Macular Degeneration, #AMD, in these groups is imperative,
so that clinicians can have better insight into who is most at risk for developing this disease and health policy-makers can use this information to he…
The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses -- is the latest blow -- to national defense, former health security officials said.
They warned that the U.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic.
“The administration’s actions are gutting our deterrence from biological threats,” said Beth Cameron, a senior adviser to the Brown University Pandemic Center
"we are…
The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years,
hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia.
The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease
as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
What's Medicaid called in each state (thread)?
Alabama, Medicaid
Alaska, DenaliCare
Arizona, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas, Health Care
California, Medi-cal
Colorado, Health First Colorado
Connecticut, HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware, Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)
Florida, Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Program (SMMC), Managed Medical Assistance (MMA) Program, Long-term Care (LTC) Program
Robert F Kennedy Jr, promoted a company whose meals contain ultra-processed ingredients – which he has repeatedly railed against
– on his “Make America healthy again” tour.
The US health secretary appeared at an enormous food plant in Oklahoma for a company called "Mom’s Meals",
which makes 1.5m
“medically tailored” meals each week and ships them all over the country.
Companies including Mom’s Meals have been criticized for hijacking the “food is medici…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to 🆘 investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the U.S. government.
Rubio signed off on a recommendation to the Treasury Department last month to open an investigation,
which experts and former Treasury officials said was 👉an unusual attempt from a cabinet secretary to target a domestic entity for sanctions enf…
Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill that would strip funding from health centers operated by the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider.
In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Planned Parenthood said the provision was unconstitutional,
and its clear purpose is to prevent its nearly 600 health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
House Republicans who voted to pass Donald Trump’s tax bill last week
💥know it’s going to slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion
🔥and kick millions of people off of their health care.
But that sounds bad.
And people already hate this law.
So instead of saying that,
Republicans are trying out a new way of talking about the bill they all voted for:
👉They just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid spending!
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