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https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/rfk-jr-s-health-department-calls-nature-junk-science-cancels-subscriptions/

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions
The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals “corrupt.”…

Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget
Davin Choo, Yohai Trabelsi, Fentabil Getnet, Samson Warkaye Lamma, Wondesen Nigatu, Kasahun Sime, Lisa Matay, Milind Tambe, St\'ephane Verguet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00135…

Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget
As part of nationwide efforts aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3 on Universal Health Coverage, Ethiopia's Ministry of Health is strengthening health posts to expand access to essential healthcare services. However, only a fraction of this health system strengthening effort can be implemented each year due to limited budgets and other competing priorities, thus the need for an optimization framework to guide prioritization across the regions of Ethiopia. In this pape…

OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress in the next 120 days, including routing conversations to GPT-5-thinking (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/chatgpt-openai-mental-health-teens

OpenAI to safeguard ChatGPT for teens and people in crisis
The company says parents will soon be able to link their accounts to those of their teens.

Job, UK with Medact:
"The Campaign and Programme Lead: Climate & Health supports health workers to campaign for just and proportionate action on climate change."
Vacancy: Campaign & Programme Lead – Climate & Health (parental leave cover) - Medact

Vacancy: Campaign & Programme Lead – Climate & Health (parental leave cover) - Medact
Medact is looking for an experienced campaigner to lead our Climate Programme.

Get Real: Talking Mental Health & Disability
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/get-real-talking-mental-health-disability/

On Sunday, group chats around the capital lit up with a 31-tweet-long thread by a crypto investor named Adam Cochran alleging that Trump was in ill health.
This morning, the press corps was kept about 100 yards from the president.
The speculation wasn’t helped by a series of strange answers J.D. Vance gave in a USA Today interview last week,
where he said he was ready to be president if needed:
“I've gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the last 200 day…

It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health
Six questions worth digging into more.

Republicans now own America's broken health care system (Dylan Scott/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/health-care/418431/big-beautiful-bill-lose-medicaid-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p137#a250701p137

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".…

Mediterranean heat wave triggers health alerts and wildfire fears across region #Europe

Mediterranean heat wave triggers health alerts and wildfire fears across region
Southern European countries braced Friday for a punishing weekend heat wave, with temperatures predicted to hit up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and beyond, prompting health warnings and fears of wildfires.

"US children are 80 percent more likely to die before adulthood than children in peer nations. Causes range from lax gun laws to privatized health care. What connects them is a corrosive culture of individualism that makes child safety parents’ private business."
The American Child Death Toll Is Mortifying
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/us-child-deaths-health-safety/

Low-intensity brain stimulation may restore neuron health in Alzheimer's disease https://spie.org/news/low-intensity-brain-stimulation-may-restore-neuron-health-in-alzheimers-disease

Political alignment correlates with self-reported mental health. I hate this.
I wonder how much of the correlation is actual mental health as opposed to willingness to admit when it’s bad.
(source: https://www.natesilver.net/p/sbsq-21-why-young-men-do…

SBSQ #21: Why young men don't like Democrats
Plus, the New York City mayor’s race — and whether win probability models are broken.

If there are two things Americans love, it’s vaccines and flossing. #sarcasm https://flipboard.com/@health/the-latest-health-news…

Future vaccines could be delivered by dental floss
Researchers tested the new method on lab mice teeth. Hypodermic needles remain the most common method of administering lifesaving vaccines, but that doesn’t mean receiving the jab has gotten more pleasant over time. Now, biomedical engineers are exploring a new approach that could ditch shots …

Trump Is Dismantling the VA to Privatize Veterans’ Health Care https://ground.news/article/trump-is-dismantling-the-va-to-privatize-veterans-health-care?utm_medium=extension&utm_source=rollingstone&utm_campaign=none

20-Year Study Confirms: People Who Do This Live Many Years Longer - Inspire My Mantra
https://inspiremymantra.com/20-year-study-confirms-people-who-do-this-live-many-years-l…

20-Year Study Confirms: People Who Do This Live Many Years Longer - Inspire My Mantra
What if I told you that the happiest kids often die youngest?

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
Dorian Peters, Fernanda Espinoza, Marco da Re, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti, Rafael A. Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01719

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
There is justifiable interest in leveraging conversational AI (CAI) for health across the majority world, but to be effective, CAI must respond appropriately within culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. Therefore, we need ways to address the fact that current LLMs exclude many lived experiences globally. Various advances are underway which focus on top-down approaches and increasing training data. In this paper, we aim to complement these with a bottom-up locally-grounded approach bas…

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

"Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers’ health and just create plastic pollution – they should be banned"
#Plastic #Plastics #Pollution

Cigarette filters do nothing for smokers’ health and just create plastic pollution – they should be banned
Cigarette filters are one of the biggest sources of plastic pollution and they serve no purpose.

MythTriage: Scalable Detection of Opioid Use Disorder Myths on a Video-Sharing Platform
Hayoung Jung, Shravika Mittal, Ananya Aatreya, Navreet Kaur, Munmun De Choudhury, Tanushree Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00308

MythTriage: Scalable Detection of Opioid Use Disorder Myths on a Video-Sharing Platform
Understanding the prevalence of misinformation in health topics online can inform public health policies and interventions. However, measuring such misinformation at scale remains a challenge, particularly for high-stakes but understudied topics like opioid-use disorder (OUD)--a leading cause of death in the U.S. We present the first large-scale study of OUD-related myths on YouTube, a widely-used platform for health information. With clinical experts, we validate 8 pervasive myths and release …

Cowboys' defensive success relies heavily on health at one position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-defensive-success-relies-heavily-health-secondary

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…

Trump administration announces new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. This initiative aims to make accessing health records and monitoring wellness easier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to discuss this at an event with leaders from companies like Google and Amazon. The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. While officials say patients must opt in and data will be secure,…

Trump Teases 'Announcement' After Days of Health Speculation (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-trails-announcement-after-days-of-health-speculation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p12#a250902p12

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".…

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations #health

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations
A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations.

MoE-Health: A Mixture of Experts Framework for Robust Multimodal Healthcare Prediction
Xiaoyang Wang, Christopher C. Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21793 https://

MoE-Health: A Mixture of Experts Framework for Robust Multimodal Healthcare Prediction
Healthcare systems generate diverse multimodal data, including Electronic Health Records (EHR), clinical notes, and medical images. Effectively leveraging this data for clinical prediction is challenging, particularly as real-world samples often present with varied or incomplete modalities. Existing approaches typically require complete modality data or rely on manual selection strategies, limiting their applicability in real-world clinical settings where data availability varies across patient…

Erst der Papst und jetzt Trump?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-says-hes-ready-to-be-president-if-donald-trumps-health-fails/

State of New Mexico Dept. of Health issues order maximizing availability of the COVID vaccine, in defiance of the the idiot running the HHS.
Fellow Californians: Scream at your state reps to do the same!
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nmdoh-issue

NMDOH issues health order to maximize COVID-19 vaccine access
The order comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccine formulas, but with new limits on who could qualify for them.

Yes, please, Minnesota gov and every state: take matters into your own hands. I want my 2025 fall COVID booster. Show us what you’re made of. Get it done.
https://newrepublic.com/article/199853/trump-cdc-pritzker-public-health

Why are Dutch kids the world’s happiest? A teenager weighs in.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/health/dutch-kids-happiest-essay-wellness

Why are Dutch kids the world’s happiest? A teenager weighs in
Freedom for kids to move through the world on their own may be the key to the Netherlands’ top spot in childhood happiness.

source: #USpol

"more than half of the world’s food production will be at risk of failure in the next 25 years"
#ClimateEmergency
https://www.

I'm always wary about using environmental (or health) arguments in favor of going #vegan, mostly because veganism is about animal rights, not about benefits for us and thus you can only go plant-based for those reasons, not vegan, though for some veganism may follow more easily after having abstained from the use of animals.
Apart from this disclaimer, an amazing 10min talk.
OXFORD UNIVER…

Apples neuer Gesundheitsdienst: Was "Health " können soll
Schon seit längerem arbeiten Apple-Teams an bezahlten Gesundheitsdiensten. Diese Auswertungen könnte "Health " ab nächstem Jahr ermöglichen.

Most health insurers give you ten percent off if you drink a litre of gravy daily.

What a huge bunch of gaping assholes. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lsw3zs7e7s2b

Mental Health During the War: When Bread Wins Over Bombs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/mental-health-during-the-war.html

Unter diesem Regime ist es sowas von unwahrscheinlich, dass diese Daten missbraucht werden.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-health-trackers-id-recommend-to-anyone-and-why-they-make-such-a-big-difference/

Bison grazing in Yellowstone boosts grass nutrition and biodiversity while preserving soil health. Research shows the importance of restoring bison movement for ecosystem balance and cultural renewal. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Bison grazing boosts grass nutrition without harming soil
Bison in Yellowstone improve grassland health by boosting nutrients, biodiversity, and resilience through natural grazing.

White House asks for steep cuts to HHS budget
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5329525-white-house-hhs-budget-nih/

It's time to have a serious conversation about Trump's health (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-to-have-a-serious-conversation-about-trump-s-health
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p39#a250901p39

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces that it is shutting down following the loss of federal funding (CPB)
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding…

Love how no one is wearing masks, not even in medical offices https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/07/30/flu-covid-sleeping-cancer-cells/85418692007/

I feel like this is a bit relevant here too...
https://youtu.be/bIBUGQ0aYnc
I feel like this is the most mentally healthy of social media and I still feel like my mental health is much better when I'm not here or when I minimize my interaction.

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles,
saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus
-- no matter where they’re going.
U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway.
But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks.

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks. Last week, the CDC updated its guidance to call for vaccinations for travelers goi…

California leads state lawsuit against White House sharing health data amid ICE raids (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/california-immigrant-health-data-lawsuit-00435701
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p164#a250701p164

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/02/shhh-republicans-are-trying-repeal-obamacare-again-sort/

5 Powerful Habits To Stay Healthy And Plant-Based In A Junk Food World #health

5 Powerful Habits To Stay Healthy And Plant-Based In A Junk Food World
Struggling to stay plant-based in a fast food world? These five simple habits could transform your health and mindset for good.

Almost 200 countries guarantee children’s rights.
Why doesn’t the US?
The US never signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which experts say paves the way for cuts to federal funding for children’s health coverage
https://www.

Inferring Effects of Major Events through Discontinuity Forecasting of Population Anxiety
Siddharth Mangalik, Ojas Deshpande, Adithya V. Ganesan, Sean A. P. Clouston, H. Andrew Schwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21722

Inferring Effects of Major Events through Discontinuity Forecasting of Population Anxiety
Estimating community-specific mental health effects of local events is vital for public health policy. While forecasting mental health scores alone offers limited insights into the impact of events on community well-being, quasi-experimental designs like the Longitudinal Regression Discontinuity Design (LRDD) from econometrics help researchers derive more effects that are more likely to be causal from observational data. LRDDs aim to extrapolate the size of changes in an outcome (e.g. a discont…

Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care
#MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2020/addiction-among-indie-musicians-tips-to-hel…

Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Palantir not signed up for the new US health data system?
https://www.cms.gov/health-tech-ecosystem/early-adopters/data-networks

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
A. Ali Heydari, Ken Gu, Vidya Srinivas, Hong Yu, Zhihan Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Akshay Paruchuri, Qian He, Hamid Palangi, Nova Hammerquist, Ahmed A. Metwally, Brent Winslow, Yubin Kim, Kumar Ayush, Yuzhe Yang, Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A. Xu, Jake Garrison, Amy Aremnto Lee, Jenny Vafeiadou, Ben Graef, Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy, Erik Schenck, Andrew Barakat, Javier Perez, Jacqueline Shreibati, John Hernandez, Anthony Z. Faranesh, Javier L. Prieto, Conn…

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
Health is a fundamental pillar of human wellness, and the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven the development of a new generation of health agents. However, the application of health agents to fulfill the diverse needs of individuals in daily non-clinical settings is underexplored. In this work, we aim to build a comprehensive personal health agent that is able to reason about multimodal data from everyday consumer wellness devices and common personal health records, …

"Report: NHS England could reap £1.4bn cost savings from building retrofit"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Health

A US jury finds Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the health data of women via the period tracking app Flo (Margaret Attridge/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-violated-pr…

Millions of low-income Americans could experience
🆘 staggering financial losses
under the domestic policy package that Republicans advanced through the Senate on Tuesday,
💥which reserves its greatest benefits for the rich while threatening to strip health insurance, food stamps and other aid from the poor.
For many of these families, the loss of critical federal support is likely to negate any improvements they might have seen as a result of slightly lower taxes, expe…

Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Trump’s Big Bill
Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

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

White House asks for steep cuts to HHS budget (Associated Press)
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5329525-white-house-hhs-budget-nih/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p141#a250602p141

Trump Launching a New Private Health Tracking System With Big Tech's Help - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/2232230/trump-launching-a-new-private-health-tracking-system-with-big-techs-help

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Portuguese Hospitals to Offer More Plant-Based Foods in “Groundbreaking” Program #nutrition

Portuguese Hospitals to Offer More Plant-Based Foods in "Groundbreaking" Program - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Four major hospitals in Lisbon, Portugal, are set to provide more plant-based meals in their cafeterias under ProVeg Portugal's Sustainable Meals program,

It’s been a dramatic week at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In the space of seven days,
the agency’s head was sacked and replaced by an interim head,
four senior staff members resigned,
and existing staff took to the streets to express support for their ousted leaders.
To understand how everything unfolded and what it could mean for the health of Americans, science editor Ian Sample hears from health reporter Melody Schreiber and form…

RFK Jr and the chaos at the CDC
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 09/02/2025 · 18m

Pharmaceutical company Eversana acquires Waltz Health, which provides drug price-comparison software to insurance companies, creating an entity valued at $6B (John Tozzi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama's Mistakes (Tom Bartlett/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/09/maha-lets-move-kennedy-michelle-obama/684067/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p54#a250901p54

GOP bill would ban gender-affirming care for veterans in "broader effort to worsen" VA health care - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/gop-bill-would-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-veterans-in-broader-effort-to-worsen-va-health-care/

CDC bars expert groups from advising on vaccines (Associated Press)
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5433074-cdc-bars-expert-groups-from-advising-on-vaccines/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p125#a250801p125

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 170 nodes and 432 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rabies-outbreaks-rising-us-deaths-vaccine-rcna227771
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p102#a250831p102

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future.
He must resign.”
That’s how U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member #Bernie #Sanders (I-Vt.) began a New York Times op-ed on Sa…

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.

Prominent critic of RFK Jr. blocked from FDA vaccine committee (Rachel Roubein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/02/paul-offit-vaccine-fda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p127#a250902p127

CDC sources say its funding is coming at 'eyedropper' pace, hurting states and cities : Shots - Health News : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5442689/cdc-trump-layoffs-public-health-rescission

The Health Benefits Of Kidney Beans – And 8 Recipes To Try #plantbased

The Health Benefits Of Kidney Beans - And 8 Recipes To Try
Find out the health benefits of kidney beans and try these eight plant-based, high-protein recipes full of nutrients.

Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It's Easy to Find. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/health/trump-covid-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.pcI2.nLihT862ds8s
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p107#a250902p107

Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots (Christina Jewett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/health/fda-covid-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.DowY.PpRk7raKlBxY&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p96#a250702p96

An mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine from Moderna was 27 percent more effective at preventing influenza infections than a standard flu shot, the company announced this week.
Moderna noted that the new shot, dubbed "mRNA-1010", hit the highest efficacy target that it set for the trial,
which included nearly 41,000 people aged 50 and above.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive either mRNA-1010 or a standard shot and were then followed for about six months du…

Moderna says mRNA flu vaccine sailed through trial, beating standard shot
Moderna hailed the results, but the shot’s future under RFK Jr. is murky.

HHS further constrains certain vaccine advisers to the CDC, limiting their input in evidence reviews (Brenda Goodman/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/01/health/hhs-liaison-acip-vaccine-advisers-cdc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p136#a250801p136

USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say (Aria Bendix/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/usaid-cuts-lead-14-million-deaths-five-years-researchers-say-rcna216095
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p160#a250630p160

President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise. (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/politics/trump-health-bruise-conspiracies.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p121#a250902p121

Former directors of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday
rebuked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
for his decision to fire its director, Susan Monarez.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/

Donald Trump To Make Televised Announcement at White House: What to Know (Khaleda Rahman/Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-announcement-health-speculation-2122977
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p71#a250902p71

To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works (Bram Sable-Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/keep-medicaid-mom-caring-disabled-adult-son-may-soon-need-prove-works-rcna216025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p136#a250630p136

Montana ranked second worst in the country in terms of prevalence of mental illness and access to care, according to the non-profit Mental Health America.
Two-thirds of adults in Montana also lived in homes with guns, the highest rate in the country, according to a 2016 study from RAND, a thinktank.
The owner of the Firefly Café in Anaconda told the Associated Press that she locked up her business after a friend alerted her to the shooting.

“We are Montana, so guns are not new to…

Donald Trump's bruised hands mocked by California governor in Instagram video bringing together some of the president's most embarrassing moments (Joe Sommerlad/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gavin-newsom-trump-health-trolling-b2817861.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p49#a250901p49

You can count on Trump to fight for his people: the rich and famous.
$200 million for a new White House Ballroom? No problem!
Need health care? Tough luck.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lvbyxoq2qc2e

Doctors have found a drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks and strokes, in a discovery that could transform health guidelines worldwide.
Now a new study, presented at the world’s largest heart conference, has found that #clopidogrel,
a commonly prescribed blood thinner, is more effective
– and with no extra risk.

The calamitous Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires in Los Angeles in January show we need a new way of thinking about fire:
as not only natural disaster,
but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health.
The ramifications of toxic contamination in large areas of Los Angeles for public safety and health are likely to be significant.
Consider the spike in both heart and lung disease reported after the 2023 Lahaina fire on Maui.
And then …

Opinion | Los Angeles Wildfires Left the City With a Toxic Mess
Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.

DOJ announces takedown of record $14.6B in health care fraud (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5377228-doj-health-care-fraud-takedown-dan-bongino/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p115#a250630p115

Former Republican strategist and operative Rick Wilson
called out Bob Kennedy as a
“heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths”
who’s dedicated to replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists.”
And why would Kennedy be doing this?
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
— one of the top scientists and physicians who quit the CDC in protest over the anticipated replacementof Dr. Susan Monarez with an anti-vax cra…

MAHA Madness: Bob Kennedy’s Cruel New Gospel of ‘Fitness’”
If we let Bob Kennedy, MAHA madness, and his billionaire patrons redefine America as a place where only the strong survive, we will lose not just our health but our souls.

There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.

No rain forecast as crews battle Flin Flon wildfire
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and healthcare professionals. So far, the wildfires have displaced over 17,000.

Many are closely watching to see whether Representative
David Valadao, Republican of California
and one of the most politically vulnerable Republicans in the country,
votes to advance the procedural rule.
Almost no other member serves a district that relies as heavily on Medicaid as his,
where nearly two-thirds of the population depends on the program for health care.
This bill was always going to bring about a tough vote for Valadao,
and earlier th…

Live Updates: Trump’s Policy Bill Faces Final House Vote After Senate Approval

Trump Administration Blocks Funding for CDC Health Programs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-cdc-funding-freeze-79e7090f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p107#a250801p107

Senate Republicans Pass Trump's Bill to Strip Health Care From Millions (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/senate-republicans-pass-big-beautiful-bill-cut-medicaid-1235376609/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p153#a250701p153

Watch live: Trump to deliver remarks on health technology (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5428203-trump-health-tech-initiative/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p107#a250730p107

Sanders pressures RFK Jr. to resign as Health chief after CDC chaos (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5479097-sanders-pressures-rfk-jk-resign-health-chief-cdc-chaos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p15#a250831p15

Why are American kids getting sicker? (Anna North/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/life/421703/rfk-jr-kids-health-maha-autism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p31#a250731p31

Trump Demands That Drugmakers Lower Some of Their U.S. Prices by September (Rebecca Robbins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/health/drug-prices-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p118#a250731p118

Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/gender-surgery-childrens-hospitals-trump-282c4cbb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p98#a250630p98