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NEW: Formaldehyde poses a threat to public health that’s unlikely to be managed any time soon.

In a new analysis, ProPublica found that no matter where you live, you’re exposed to levels of the chemical that put you at elevated risk of developing cancer.
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Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to reckon with formaldehyde have been repeatedly thwarted by the companies that rely on it. If the past is any guide, even modest steps toward reform are all but guaranteed to hit a dead end under Trump.
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December 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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A systematic review of 24 randomized trials for #LongCovid
www.bmj.com/content/387/... open-access
No drug, diet, or device intervention has supportive evidence for efficacy. CBT, rehab provided some relief of symptoms (moderate certainty).
We're still in desperate need for a validated treatment!
November 27, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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The journal Nature asked 6 biomedical scientists to briefly comment on what should be a U.S. priority going forward.
Here's mine.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 25, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 25, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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This will be the first of 6 essays I wrote about RFK Jr. In this first piece, I describe a conversation I had with him about 20 years ago, which marked the beginning of his anti-vaccine activism. Is this the man we want to be in charge of our health?

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Twenty years ago, I had a one-hour conversation with RFK Jr. In his current campaign for president, he has referred to that conversation during public appearances. It’s time to set the record straight
open.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Vaccines save lives and reduce healthcare costs. Those are facts. It is dangerous that RFK Jr., a political figure with no medical or public health training, is the choice to take the nation’s most powerful and important public health job.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Excellent discussion by Daniel Park of 3 recent papers on the Novavax SARSCoV2 vaccine. Better durability and cross reactivity and milder side effects than RNA vax.

That's the way it appeared from early data, but it's good to see that confirmed.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/18576...
Thread by @Daniel_E_Park on Thread Reader App
@Daniel_E_Park: A trio of Novavax preprints, showing 1) remarkable durability >6 months, 2) cross protection against newer variants, and 3) low reactogenicity (side effects), supporting NVX as an exce...
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November 17, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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Informative special issue in Science Translational Medicine with the latest research on long COVID:
www.science.org/toc/stm/16/773
November 18, 2024 at 4:37 PM