Marc Sala, MD
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Physician, pulm/crit, Northwestern University
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The Trump administration has put forward a plan to roll back rules that require corporations to disclose the amount of greenhouse gases they release. If approved, the change would prevent both the government and the public from knowing the scale of emissions contributing to climate change.
September 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Trump administration has put forward a plan to roll back rules that require corporations to disclose the amount of greenhouse gases they release. If approved, the change would prevent both the government and the public from knowing the scale of emissions contributing to climate change.
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"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs."
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"[When] the CDC recommended the vaccine for high-risk newborns... The number of perinatal infections stayed stubbornly high.
But hepatitis B infections plummeted after the CDC began recommending a universal dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 1991."
But hepatitis B infections plummeted after the CDC began recommending a universal dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 1991."
Some people say we don't need to vaccinate every baby at birth against hepatitis B, and should target vaccinations at moms who test positive for the virus. That strategy was tried and failed. But universal vaccination has lowered infection rates by 99 percent.
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Newborn hepatitis B vaccine under fire as RFK Jr. and GOP Senators question immunization
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel is set to discuss and possibly vote on the vaccine at a meeting next week.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"[When] the CDC recommended the vaccine for high-risk newborns... The number of perinatal infections stayed stubbornly high.
But hepatitis B infections plummeted after the CDC began recommending a universal dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 1991."
But hepatitis B infections plummeted after the CDC began recommending a universal dose of hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 1991."
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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now
Meanwhile...
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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
February 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
Nice perspective on our persistent intrigue on what constitutes a Self with Severence and The Substance. Of course, this has been considered deeply long before the 1700s (as referenced in this Opinion). Maybe the most contrasting to our views coming from Buddhism.
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Opinion | ‘Severance,’ ‘The Substance’ and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves (Gift Article)
Cleaving a consciousness off one’s own is the trope of the season. Why?
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January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Nice perspective on our persistent intrigue on what constitutes a Self with Severence and The Substance. Of course, this has been considered deeply long before the 1700s (as referenced in this Opinion). Maybe the most contrasting to our views coming from Buddhism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...