Christina Frangou
@cfrangou.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, teacher. Likes bikes and books. www.christinafrangou.com
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Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
I Love My Naturally Aging Face www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
Opinion | I Love My Naturally Aging Face
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December 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I Love My Naturally Aging Face www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
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Something funny is happening in Alberta. Albertans are following the law—and it’s driving the government bonkers. People using new referendum and recall laws exactly as written are triggering chaos the province didn't anticipate. @cfrangou.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/malicious-compli...
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Something funny is happening in Alberta. Albertans are following the law—and it’s driving the government bonkers. People using new referendum and recall laws exactly as written are triggering chaos the province didn't anticipate. @cfrangou.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/malicious-compli...
CDC Gives Danish Researchers $1.6M to Study Hep B Vaccine Birth Dose in Africa www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
CDC Gives Danish Researchers $1.6M to Study Hep B Vaccine Birth Dose in Africa
'I don't see that as America First,' one researcher says
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December 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
CDC Gives Danish Researchers $1.6M to Study Hep B Vaccine Birth Dose in Africa www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
What to Know About the New H3N2 Flu Strain url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
What to Know About the New H3N2 Flu Strain
This Medical News article discusses a new H3N2 influenza strain, called subclade K, that may lead to a more severe flu season.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What to Know About the New H3N2 Flu Strain url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Lindsey Vonn and Philip Rivers show what can happen when athletes keep competing into their 40s, by Sally Jenkins. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
A Lesson in False Limits
Lindsey Vonn and Philip Rivers show what can happen when athletes keep competing into their 40s.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Lindsey Vonn and Philip Rivers show what can happen when athletes keep competing into their 40s, by Sally Jenkins. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Journalists and consumers of journalism: I'm looking to put together a reading list of features. Could be published anywhere. Preference for stories under 1,000 words and/or multimedia; fun and appeal to a younger audience. Could be published anywhere: newspaper, TikTok, Substack, etc.
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Journalists and consumers of journalism: I'm looking to put together a reading list of features. Could be published anywhere. Preference for stories under 1,000 words and/or multimedia; fun and appeal to a younger audience. Could be published anywhere: newspaper, TikTok, Substack, etc.
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The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
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You want to read this series.
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American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
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December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country.
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
You want to read this series.
www.statnews.com/american-sci...
Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...
Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit
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December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...
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A large national trial of about 46,000 women, 40 to 74 years old, found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.
Risk-Based Screening Works as Well as Yearly Checks After 40 in Finding Breast Cancers
A study of more than 45,000 women found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A large national trial of about 46,000 women, 40 to 74 years old, found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.
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Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:
December 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:
When Words Disappear—How Banning Words Imperils Health Care Communication. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
When Words Disappear
This Viewpoint discusses the negative repercussions that banning certain words and mandating shifts in shared language by the federal government can have on health care.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When Words Disappear—How Banning Words Imperils Health Care Communication. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How Do We Know Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines Are Safe? www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
How Do We Know Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines Are Safe?
An explainer on vaccine adjuvant science and safety
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December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
How Do We Know Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines Are Safe? www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
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Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
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Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
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Exclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Acting CDER Director Tracy Beth Høeg is not wasting any time ensuring that babies are as vulnerable as possible to preventable diseases that kill them.
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Now she's going after preventive RSV meds based on unverified claims from an anti-vax blogger.
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Longevity supplements are sold as helping prevent ageing. But there's no evidence these supplements have meaningful benefits for humans. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Longevity supplements are sold as helping prevent ageing. But do they have any long-term benefits or increase lifespan? | Antiviral
Much of the enthusiasm for these ‘anti-ageing’ products is based on animal studies, mostly involving rodents
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December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Longevity supplements are sold as helping prevent ageing. But there's no evidence these supplements have meaningful benefits for humans. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
Writing in the @thestar.com, Steven Guilbeault gives his take on the MOU, or the "grand bargain that feels like a fire sale." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
I quit Mark Carney’s cabinet. This is what I hope happens next
Canada is giving up too much for the sake of this grand bargain.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Writing in the @thestar.com, Steven Guilbeault gives his take on the MOU, or the "grand bargain that feels like a fire sale." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
'We will never fucking trust you again' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Will All Newborns Still Receive Hepatitis B Shots? A Committee’s Vote Will Tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
Will All Newborns Still Receive Hepatitis B Shots? A Committee’s Vote Will Tell.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Will All Newborns Still Receive Hepatitis B Shots? A Committee’s Vote Will Tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
An 80-year-old diabetic Calgarian received a $100 bill for her COVID-19 vaccine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
80-year-old diabetic Calgarian shocked to receive $100 bill for COVID-19 vaccine | CBC News
A Calgary senior with diabetes and heart disease is fighting back after being billed for her COVID-19 vaccine despite being eligible for a free shot. Sharon Mason, 80, received her COVID vaccine in ea...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
An 80-year-old diabetic Calgarian received a $100 bill for her COVID-19 vaccine. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA: former FDA commissioners call out Dr. Prasad's departure from previous standards in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJM
Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA: former FDA commissioners call out Dr. Prasad's departure from previous standards in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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BREAKING: Alberta Health Services CEO who took over after a controversial firing in January is now himself out.
AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair.
Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.
AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair.
Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
BREAKING: Alberta Health Services CEO who took over after a controversial firing in January is now himself out.
AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair.
Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.
AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair.
Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.
The best science and nature books of 2025, from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
The best science and nature books of 2025
From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick
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December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The best science and nature books of 2025, from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...