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Bryant Furlow
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I cover health care, public health policy, and medical research for The Lancet news desks and others. Investigative journalist and ProPublica LRN alum.

#ElderCare #NursingHomes #AssistedLiving

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move
Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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rmcarpiano.medsky.social
Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...

A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
www.bmj.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
bryantfurlow.bsky.social
This week, the Trump administration repealed safe minimum staffing rules for nursing homes—and the CMS requirement that nursing homes have, well, a nurse (an RN on-site 24/7).

My 2023 report on the nursing home staffing crisis in New Mexico:

nmindepth.com/2023/everywh...
‘Everywhere you go is short staffed’: New Mexico nursing homes in crisis - New Mexico In Depth
New federal staffing standards meant to improve the care of millions of Americans in nursing homes could go into effect in as soon as two years. New Mexico’s nursing homes aren’t ready. Not even close...
nmindepth.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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ground.news/article/us-a...
US appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to halt grants for school mental health workers
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health worker...
ground.news
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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madhupai.bsky.social
Why is science under assault and what forces are behind it?

My review @thelancet.com of “Science under Siege” by @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/callback?red...
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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spun.earth
What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15

8️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi extend root systems up to 100 times their normal reach, enabling plants to access hard-to-reach nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen.

See the top 10 list (www.spun.earth/articles/top...) and follow for new fungal facts.
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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www.science.org/content/blog...
The myth of academic indoctrination
www.science.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
There's a big divide in how Americans are thinking about vaccines:
♦️83% of Republicans don't want an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
🔷64% of Democrats want to get or have already received an updated vaccine.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
Chart showing A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine. In the new survey, 26% of Americans say they do want an updated vaccine. Another 13% say they already got one as of late October 2025. An overwhelming majority of Republicans and Republican leaners (83%) say they don’t want an updated vaccine. In contrast, 44% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say they want an updated vaccine, and 20% say they already got one. A quarter of Americans ages 65 and older say they already got an updated vaccine – larger than the shares in younger age groups. Older Americans are among the groups most at risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Yet older Republicans and older Democrats have sharply different views on the vaccine. About four-in-ten Democrats ages 65 and older say they already got one, and 43% say they want to get one. But 76% of Republicans ages 65 and older say they don’t want an updated vaccine.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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citydesk.org/2025/11/24/a...
‘Alarm bells of the highest order’: APD chief's testimony reveals years of deleted police texts to avoid public records - City Desk ABQ
Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina testified under oath that he and other high-ranking APD officials have been routinely deleting text messages about official business since 2018, violating state ...
citydesk.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
💥 🍃 🧬 🧪 Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
How exciting!

CRISPR reversed chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer, making tumors more responsive to chemotherapy. Eventually this tool can be applied to other types of cancers.

CRISPR has so many applications.

🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
CRISPR unlocks a new way to defeat resistant lung cancer
Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ed...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools
2016 19%
2019 20%
2023 42%
2025 47%
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪
Chart showing that since 2016, a vast majority of U.S. adults have said healthy children should be required to get the vaccine to attend public school because of the potential risks for others when children are not vaccinated. But support for school MMR requirements dropped from 82% in 2019 to 69% in 2025. This decline is largely because of a steep slide in support among Republicans. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, 79% of Republicans said healthy children should be required to get the MMR vaccine to attend school. This share sunk to 57% in 2023, then to 52% in 2025. In contrast, Democrats’ views on school MMR requirements have remained stable, with solid majority support.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Who should have a major role in making childhood vaccine policy decisions?
💉Democrats are most likely to say medical scientists 🧪
💉Republicans are most likely to say parents

www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
Chart shows far more Republicans than Democrats say parents with young children should have a major role in policy decisions about childhood vaccines Previous Center work has found that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to support scientists playing an active role in policy debates about scientific issues. Similarly, a much larger share of Democrats (85%) than Republicans (62%) say medical scientists should have a major role in decisions about childhood vaccine policy. Views are reversed when it comes to the role of parents with young children. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say parents of young children should have a major role in policy decisions about childhood vaccines (71% vs. 46%). There are smaller partisan differences for the other groups we asked about. For example, 44% of Republicans say the general public should play a major role, compared with 30% of Democrats. And small shares in both parties say health insurance company leaders should have a major role (14% Republicans and 18% Democrats).
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Another reason RFK jr should resign
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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pestilence4all.bsky.social
Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.

“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
Inducing immunity against cancer via the gut
Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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www.science.org/content/arti...
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus
Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells to promote pathogenic antinuclear T and B cell responses in lupus.
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.

For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
pfriedling.bsky.social Pierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social · Nov 13
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
Global fossil CO₂ emissions
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Joan Meyer died of a heart attack shortly after police raided her home trying to identify the newspaper’s sources. U.S. police academies need to start making sure officers have read the Constitution to which they all swear an oath.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Police raided a Kansas newspaper. Now they have apologized and will pay millions.
A Kansas county apologized and agreed to pay over $3 million to a small-town newspaper after police raided it in 2023.
www.usatoday.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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atrupar.com
Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New: Sens. King, Shaheen, Hassan led negotiations on a deal that will have enough Democratic support to pass in the Senate, I'm told. This is the package: - CR thru Jan 30 - A vote on a ACA bill by a December, on a DEM bill - Minibus WHICH INCLUDES reversal of shutdown RIFs and back pay and protections against them happening in the future PLUS SNAP is funded through the fiscal year 26
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM