Bryan Cobo
@bryancobo.bsky.social
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📍 Boston, MA
Eye Health, Medicine, healthy skepticism, and Civil Rights advocacy.
Views = own
https://substack.com/@bryancobo
📍 Boston, MA
Eye Health, Medicine, healthy skepticism, and Civil Rights advocacy.
Views = own
https://substack.com/@bryancobo
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Reposted by Bryan Cobo
You want to talk about government efficiency? Every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the US returns a savings of $11, thanks to preventing illnesses, and saving millions of lives.
June 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
You want to talk about government efficiency? Every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the US returns a savings of $11, thanks to preventing illnesses, and saving millions of lives.
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.”
- Santayana
- Santayana
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.”
- Santayana
- Santayana
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Anecdotal reports suggest drugs like Ozempic may curb not just appetite but also impulsive or addictive behaviour, hinting at links between metabolic health and our brains
What do GLP-1 drugs really tell us about the brain's reward system?
Anecdotal reports suggest drugs like Ozempic may curb not just appetite but also impulsive or addictive behaviour, hinting at links between metabolic health and our brains
www.newscientist.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Anecdotal reports suggest drugs like Ozempic may curb not just appetite but also impulsive or addictive behaviour, hinting at links between metabolic health and our brains
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A nutrition program that fights obesity in kids is cut. This isn't MAHA. This is the opposite of MAHA.
This is Dr Mati from the St Louis DOH. She told me cuts have eliminated a nutrition program for lower-income kids in St. Louis. She is pleading with @SecKennedy to reverse course. She believes in MAHA and says this is the opposite of that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwD...
St. Louis Health Director to Sec. Kennedy: "This Won't Make America Healthy Again"
YouTube video by Why Should I Trust You?
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A nutrition program that fights obesity in kids is cut. This isn't MAHA. This is the opposite of MAHA.
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🧪 Concerns grow as NIH cuts funding for several research areas, including mRNA vaccine projects. 🩺 🛟
NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow?
Concern rises among researchers after agency officials ask for a list of projects funded to study the jabs.
www.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🧪 Concerns grow as NIH cuts funding for several research areas, including mRNA vaccine projects. 🩺 🛟
Great read!
"The real crisis is not that public health — which is fundamentally about policies dictating the distribution of
resources required to protect human life — has been politicized. It is that it has not been politicized nearly enough."— @ericreinhart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
resources required to protect human life — has been politicized. It is that it has not been politicized nearly enough."— @ericreinhart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Great read!
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Once-a-year injection to protect against HIV is safe and shows promise as a long-acting prevention medication, phase 1 study finds.
Explore the research 👉 tinyurl.com/bduenm99 #MedSky
Explore the research 👉 tinyurl.com/bduenm99 #MedSky
March 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Once-a-year injection to protect against HIV is safe and shows promise as a long-acting prevention medication, phase 1 study finds.
Explore the research 👉 tinyurl.com/bduenm99 #MedSky
Explore the research 👉 tinyurl.com/bduenm99 #MedSky
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I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS.
I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS.
I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
I feel that this is more relevant today than ever before
Vaccines. Fluoride. Public trust.
RFK Jr.’s anti-science health claims aren’t just misleading—they could reshape public health as we know it. Here's how his leadership could threaten evidence-based policy.
📰 Dive in 👇 #EpiSky
RFK Jr.’s anti-science health claims aren’t just misleading—they could reshape public health as we know it. Here's how his leadership could threaten evidence-based policy.
📰 Dive in 👇 #EpiSky
The Perils of Anti-Science Leadership: Examining RFK Jr.'s Health Claims and Their Public Health Implications
How RFK Jr.'s health policies could undermine evidence-based medicine.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I feel that this is more relevant today than ever before
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Are blue light filters really protecting your eyes or just another tech-age myth? 🤔 Dive into the science, debunk the claims, and discover what really works to protect your eyes and sleep.
Read here 👇
#BlueLightFilters #EyeHealth #Optometry
Read here 👇
#BlueLightFilters #EyeHealth #Optometry
Do Blue Light Filters Really Work? Separating Myths from Science
Unveiling the truth about blue light and its impact on your eyes, sleep, and screen time habits.
open.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Are blue light filters really protecting your eyes or just another tech-age myth? 🤔 Dive into the science, debunk the claims, and discover what really works to protect your eyes and sleep.
Read here 👇
#BlueLightFilters #EyeHealth #Optometry
Read here 👇
#BlueLightFilters #EyeHealth #Optometry
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To overcome vaccine hesistancy, we must do a better job of explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects
Really important & timely @plosglobalpublichealth.org
commentary by Dr Peter Hotez
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Really important & timely @plosglobalpublichealth.org
commentary by Dr Peter Hotez
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
January 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
To overcome vaccine hesistancy, we must do a better job of explaining the risks of illness vs vaccine side effects
Really important & timely @plosglobalpublichealth.org
commentary by Dr Peter Hotez
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Really important & timely @plosglobalpublichealth.org
commentary by Dr Peter Hotez
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Carbon monoxide cannot be seen, smelled or tasted, and poisons tens of thousands in the US every winter so make sure you have working carbon monoxide detectors
If you are one of the 60 million people in the path of the storm, and own a portable generator, make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms.
One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. Carbon monoxide can kill in minutes.
www.nbcnews.com/weather/wint...
One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. Carbon monoxide can kill in minutes.
www.nbcnews.com/weather/wint...
Major winter storm threatens much of the U.S. with intense cold, snow and ice
As the storm moved east Sunday, around 60 million people, across 30 states from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic, were under weather alerts.
www.nbcnews.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Carbon monoxide cannot be seen, smelled or tasted, and poisons tens of thousands in the US every winter so make sure you have working carbon monoxide detectors
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After reading the recent @economist.com article about RFK Jr. I can’t help but be disappointed. Highlighting RFK Jr.’s “sensible ideas” risks legitimizing his broader anti-science rhetoric, which has caused real harm. Here I break down why some of these takes are incredibly misleading. 🧵 1/
RFK junior is half right about American health care
What would have to happen for the anti-vaxxer-in-chief to do more good than harm
www.economist.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
After reading the recent @economist.com article about RFK Jr. I can’t help but be disappointed. Highlighting RFK Jr.’s “sensible ideas” risks legitimizing his broader anti-science rhetoric, which has caused real harm. Here I break down why some of these takes are incredibly misleading. 🧵 1/
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I wish my first blog of 2025 was not about the tidal wave of disinformation and anti-science that we will witness this year
Books by Fauci, Hotez, @adamratnermd.bsky.social, @joho.bsky.social & @pauloffit.bsky.social can help us understand & cope
communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...
Books by Fauci, Hotez, @adamratnermd.bsky.social, @joho.bsky.social & @pauloffit.bsky.social can help us understand & cope
communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...
Want to better understand the growing anti-science and anti-public health movement? These books can help!
2025 promises to be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health. Thankfully, American physicians and scientists have published books that can h...
communities.springernature.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I wish my first blog of 2025 was not about the tidal wave of disinformation and anti-science that we will witness this year
Books by Fauci, Hotez, @adamratnermd.bsky.social, @joho.bsky.social & @pauloffit.bsky.social can help us understand & cope
communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...
Books by Fauci, Hotez, @adamratnermd.bsky.social, @joho.bsky.social & @pauloffit.bsky.social can help us understand & cope
communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...
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🧵In 3 studies that included predominantly Puerto Rican and Black youths with #asthma, a nasal transcriptomic profile consistent with the T2HIGH profile was least common across all studies.
#MedSky
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#MedSky
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January 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🧵In 3 studies that included predominantly Puerto Rican and Black youths with #asthma, a nasal transcriptomic profile consistent with the T2HIGH profile was least common across all studies.
#MedSky
ja.ma/402KbwE
#MedSky
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🌍 H5N1: Should We Be Worried? 🦠
Bird flu is back in the headlines, and for good reason. With its spread across species and mutations that could bring it closer to human transmission, experts like Dr. Fauci are raising alarms. Could this be the next pandemic?
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #H5N1 #Influenza
Bird flu is back in the headlines, and for good reason. With its spread across species and mutations that could bring it closer to human transmission, experts like Dr. Fauci are raising alarms. Could this be the next pandemic?
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #H5N1 #Influenza
H5N1 Influenza: A Growing Threat or a Contained Risk?
46 Cases Across Six States. Is H5N1 the Next Pandemic Threat?
bryancobo.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🌍 H5N1: Should We Be Worried? 🦠
Bird flu is back in the headlines, and for good reason. With its spread across species and mutations that could bring it closer to human transmission, experts like Dr. Fauci are raising alarms. Could this be the next pandemic?
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #H5N1 #Influenza
Bird flu is back in the headlines, and for good reason. With its spread across species and mutations that could bring it closer to human transmission, experts like Dr. Fauci are raising alarms. Could this be the next pandemic?
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #H5N1 #Influenza
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Having the worst deja vu seeing this chest x-ray of whited out lungs from a novel zoonotic infection
Report in NEJM describing the first critically ill adolescent with #H5N1 D1.1 (aka #BirdFlu) in North America.
A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT.
Scary stuff.
📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A 13 yo rapidly progressed from mild symptoms to respiratory & renal failure. She survived thanks to IMV + ECMO + CRRT.
Scary stuff.
📄 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
January 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Having the worst deja vu seeing this chest x-ray of whited out lungs from a novel zoonotic infection
Misinformation spreads faster than truth, and the stakes are higher than ever.
But here’s the thing: fighting it isn’t just for researchers or policymakers. It’s on all of us.
The internet thrives on engagement. Let’s make it count for truth.
What’s one way you combat misinformation in your life?
But here’s the thing: fighting it isn’t just for researchers or policymakers. It’s on all of us.
The internet thrives on engagement. Let’s make it count for truth.
What’s one way you combat misinformation in your life?
December 31, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Misinformation spreads faster than truth, and the stakes are higher than ever.
But here’s the thing: fighting it isn’t just for researchers or policymakers. It’s on all of us.
The internet thrives on engagement. Let’s make it count for truth.
What’s one way you combat misinformation in your life?
But here’s the thing: fighting it isn’t just for researchers or policymakers. It’s on all of us.
The internet thrives on engagement. Let’s make it count for truth.
What’s one way you combat misinformation in your life?
🎙️ My first podcast episode is live! 🎉
In this episode, I dive into RFK Jr.’s controversial health claims and how misinformation about vaccines, fluoride, and more threatens public health.
Listen now and join the conversation!
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedSky
In this episode, I dive into RFK Jr.’s controversial health claims and how misinformation about vaccines, fluoride, and more threatens public health.
Listen now and join the conversation!
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedSky
The Perils of Anti-Science Leadership
Podcast Episode · The Public Eye · 12/29/2024 · 19m
podcasts.apple.com
December 30, 2024 at 2:57 AM
🎙️ My first podcast episode is live! 🎉
In this episode, I dive into RFK Jr.’s controversial health claims and how misinformation about vaccines, fluoride, and more threatens public health.
Listen now and join the conversation!
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedSky
In this episode, I dive into RFK Jr.’s controversial health claims and how misinformation about vaccines, fluoride, and more threatens public health.
Listen now and join the conversation!
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedSky
Vaccines. Fluoride. Public trust.
RFK Jr.’s anti-science health claims aren’t just misleading—they could reshape public health as we know it. Here's how his leadership could threaten evidence-based policy.
📰 Dive in 👇 #EpiSky
RFK Jr.’s anti-science health claims aren’t just misleading—they could reshape public health as we know it. Here's how his leadership could threaten evidence-based policy.
📰 Dive in 👇 #EpiSky
The Perils of Anti-Science Leadership: Examining RFK Jr.'s Health Claims and Their Public Health Implications
How RFK Jr.'s health policies could undermine evidence-based medicine.
open.substack.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Vaccines. Fluoride. Public trust.
RFK Jr.’s anti-science health claims aren’t just misleading—they could reshape public health as we know it. Here's how his leadership could threaten evidence-based policy.
📰 Dive in 👇 #EpiSky
RFK Jr.’s anti-science health claims aren’t just misleading—they could reshape public health as we know it. Here's how his leadership could threaten evidence-based policy.
📰 Dive in 👇 #EpiSky
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Omega-3 fatty acids might hold the key to tackling dry eye syndrome and improving overall eye health. This thread dives deep into the science, clinical trials, and the challenges of leveraging omega-3s for better vision. Curious about the connection? Read on! 👁️💧👇 #EyeHealth
Dry eye syndrome (DES) affects millions globally, causing discomfort, vision problems, and reduced quality of life. 🌍 Recent research suggests omega-3 fatty acids may play a significant role in preventing and treating this condition. Let’s explore the science behind it! 🧵 1/
November 11, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Omega-3 fatty acids might hold the key to tackling dry eye syndrome and improving overall eye health. This thread dives deep into the science, clinical trials, and the challenges of leveraging omega-3s for better vision. Curious about the connection? Read on! 👁️💧👇 #EyeHealth