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Scores of American scientists are seeking to flee the country (and become "science refugees")
U.S. politicians are allowing this brain drain to happen under their watch
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
U.S. politicians are allowing this brain drain to happen under their watch
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
Small Investment, Big Returns: Why This NIH Center Matters
The Fogarty International Center within the National Institutes of Health has had a huge global footprint and impact, but it's on the chopping block.
www.forbes.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Scores of American scientists are seeking to flee the country (and become "science refugees")
U.S. politicians are allowing this brain drain to happen under their watch
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
U.S. politicians are allowing this brain drain to happen under their watch
www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...
Papers don't get retracted just because they don't mesh with your conspiracy theory... www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
Aluminum in Vaccines Study Won't Be Retracted, Journal Says
Large Danish study evaluated risks of autism, asthma, and other disorders in 1.2 million children
www.medpagetoday.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Papers don't get retracted just because they don't mesh with your conspiracy theory... www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
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In what may be a Canadian first, a human rights tribunal has affirmed the right of an immunocompromised person to seek workplace accommodations.
Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.
pressprogress.ca/human-rights...
Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.
pressprogress.ca/human-rights...
Human Rights Tribunal Affirms Immunocompromised Worker’s Right to Seek Workplace Accommodations
Disability advocates praise the BC decision as broadening the concept of accessible workplaces
pressprogress.ca
July 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In what may be a Canadian first, a human rights tribunal has affirmed the right of an immunocompromised person to seek workplace accommodations.
Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.
pressprogress.ca/human-rights...
Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.
pressprogress.ca/human-rights...
Why is the US so hell-bent on killing off their people and making it as awful as they can in the process? www.statnews.com/2025/07/22/m...
The quick return of medical debt to credit reports is another blow to cancer patients
“Worsening a patient's credit can prevent them from getting a job, renting an apartment, or even paying their outstanding medical bills,” writes @llsusa’s chief medical officer.
www.statnews.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Why is the US so hell-bent on killing off their people and making it as awful as they can in the process? www.statnews.com/2025/07/22/m...
My friend Medgine, an amazing person and poet... so excited for her and the City of Edmonton! www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
‘An incredible gift’: Medgine Mathurin named Edmonton’s 11th poet laureate
The City of Edmonton named Medgine Mathurin as its new poet laureate on Wednesday.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My friend Medgine, an amazing person and poet... so excited for her and the City of Edmonton! www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Really?
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
www.politico.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Really?
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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🆕 @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social "Public Health On Call" #podcast!
🎧 Join Past IAS President Chris Beyrer for a critical episode exploring, "On Going Backwards”: A New #HIV/AIDS Epidemic?"
🎧 Join Past IAS President Chris Beyrer for a critical episode exploring, "On Going Backwards”: A New #HIV/AIDS Epidemic?"
Public Health On Call: 893 - “On Going Backwards”: A New HIV/AIDS Epidemic?
About this episode: In 2003, George W. Bush’s President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was the largest commitment to a single disease in U.S. history. Renewed under every subsequent preside...
johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🆕 @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social "Public Health On Call" #podcast!
🎧 Join Past IAS President Chris Beyrer for a critical episode exploring, "On Going Backwards”: A New #HIV/AIDS Epidemic?"
🎧 Join Past IAS President Chris Beyrer for a critical episode exploring, "On Going Backwards”: A New #HIV/AIDS Epidemic?"
Does anyone else see Mark Carney in Phil Dunphy or vice versa? Especially when dancing to Down With Webster... Just me?
April 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Does anyone else see Mark Carney in Phil Dunphy or vice versa? Especially when dancing to Down With Webster... Just me?
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So you wanna buy Canadian? I got your list for you right here!
canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/
canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/
Buy Canadian, Buy Union
A directory of Canadian union-made products and services.
canadianlabour.ca
April 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So you wanna buy Canadian? I got your list for you right here!
canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/
canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/
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I refer to growing up in the acid rain/ quicksand/impending nuclear conflict era as being "classically trained" in generalized anxiety
April 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I refer to growing up in the acid rain/ quicksand/impending nuclear conflict era as being "classically trained" in generalized anxiety
"The news is not going over well with some labour activists and workers." Uh... no kidding www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Hudson's Bay managers will get up to $3 million in bonuses, but workers get no severance | CBC News
The beleaguered Hudson's Bay Co., which plans to close most of its 96 stores by the end of June, will pay up to $3 million total in retention bonuses to 121 managers and executives — but will not pay ...
www.cbc.ca
March 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"The news is not going over well with some labour activists and workers." Uh... no kidding www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
In case anyone thinks I'm overreacting by saying we shouldn't visit the US for a while... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In case anyone thinks I'm overreacting by saying we shouldn't visit the US for a while... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Labour has a history of turning nasty when it gets desperate. If it does so again, under renewed pressure from the far right, would anyone be surprised if voters decide they prefer the original to the copy, and choose Reform?’
Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Short Cuts: Labour’s Immigration Policy
Having ruled out any large-scale redistribution of wealth, Labour should be putting its changes to workers’ rights,...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
‘Labour has a history of turning nasty when it gets desperate. If it does so again, under renewed pressure from the far right, would anyone be surprised if voters decide they prefer the original to the copy, and choose Reform?’
Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
What's with the Krispy Kreme resurgence? Alberta friends - consider Doughnut Party instead. Canadian, local, and very very good. I rarely even eat doughnuts!
March 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
What's with the Krispy Kreme resurgence? Alberta friends - consider Doughnut Party instead. Canadian, local, and very very good. I rarely even eat doughnuts!
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An urgent argument for the #HPV vaccine. The vaccine can prevent six types of cancers -- cervical, oropharyngeal, anal and more -- but continues to be underutilized, by Lisa Doggett www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social
An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
An urgent argument for the #HPV vaccine. The vaccine can prevent six types of cancers -- cervical, oropharyngeal, anal and more -- but continues to be underutilized, by Lisa Doggett www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social
For-profit healthcare always creates (un?)intended consequences www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored (Gift Article)
The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
For-profit healthcare always creates (un?)intended consequences www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Never underestimate the importance of giving blood... www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
Australian blood donor who saved millions of babies thanks to rare antibody dies at age 88 | CBC News
James Harrison, who according to the Australian Red Cross was the world's most prolific blood and plasma donor, has died at age 88.
www.cbc.ca
March 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Never underestimate the importance of giving blood... www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
Two things close to my heart! www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/02/25/c...
Clapton CFC x DKMS: Help us tackle blood cancer at match - Clapton Community FC
We’re proud to have two members who have donated stem cells, giving others a second chance at life. And one of our own, Sukhdev, is alive today thanks to a stem cell transplant.
www.claptoncfc.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Two things close to my heart! www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/02/25/c...
Privatizing healthcare, even partially, always costs us more. Why else would these for-profit providers get involved? They cherry-pick the easiest cases while "bringing value" to shareholders and not really alleviating the strain in the rat of the system 🙄
February 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Privatizing healthcare, even partially, always costs us more. Why else would these for-profit providers get involved? They cherry-pick the easiest cases while "bringing value" to shareholders and not really alleviating the strain in the rat of the system 🙄
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Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls for Premier to fire Health Minister over allegations of high-level corruption in awarding of medical contracts, by @reportrix.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls for Premier to fire Health Minister over scandal
The allegations surrounding high-level corruption in medical contracts, which have not been tested in court, are contained in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit filed this week by Athana Mentzelopoulos
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls for Premier to fire Health Minister over allegations of high-level corruption in awarding of medical contracts, by @reportrix.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Paper out on digitally-driven stress, strain, and suffering in UK GP
To harness tech’s benefits, practices need to be *change-ready*: have strong working relations, time and resource to make informed decisions RE what tech and when (for the local staff/patient context) and the capacity to implement
To harness tech’s benefits, practices need to be *change-ready*: have strong working relations, time and resource to make informed decisions RE what tech and when (for the local staff/patient context) and the capacity to implement
“People just left because they just couldn’t cope with the stress.”
Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
Digitalised work offers some benefits, but, in the current pressurised climate of UK general practice, drives workplace stress, suffering, and strain on working relationships doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PrimaryCare
Technostress, technosuffering, and relational strain: a multi-method qualitative study of how remote and digital work affects staff in UK general practice | British Journal of General Practice
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Paper out on digitally-driven stress, strain, and suffering in UK GP
To harness tech’s benefits, practices need to be *change-ready*: have strong working relations, time and resource to make informed decisions RE what tech and when (for the local staff/patient context) and the capacity to implement
To harness tech’s benefits, practices need to be *change-ready*: have strong working relations, time and resource to make informed decisions RE what tech and when (for the local staff/patient context) and the capacity to implement