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thelancet.com
Can small changes in physical activity make a major difference?

A new meta-analysis suggests that just five extra minutes of moderate physical activity a day is associated with a 10% reduction in all deaths in the majority of adults.

Find out more 👉 spkl.io/63322AWCa8
Research in context panel for Lancet paper "Deaths potentially averted by small changes in physical activity and sedentary time: an individual participant data meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies". Copyright: 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
January 14, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Malaria cases surge in Zimbabwe largely due to abrupt cut in USAID that affected mosquito net provision and surveillance measures. The Zimbabwean government trying to step up but can’t make up for the damage the sudden cessation. Climate change further increases mosquito burden too
Malaria ‘back with a vengeance’ in Zimbabwe as number of deaths from the disease triple
Withdrawal of USAID funds threatens decades of progress, say experts, with cuts to research and shortage of mosquito nets putting thousands at risk across the country
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July 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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epiellie.bsky.social
“Ancient miasma theory” as if this is just some sort of old-fashioned common-sense idea instead of the equivalent of believing in fairies or witches. 🤦🏼‍♀️
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jun 14
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
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June 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
stormmoon196.bsky.social
"everything is a conspiracy if you don't know how the world works" never rings truer (context: all the rackets around the recent COVID alert and the Indonesian M72 vaccine trial)
June 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
stormmoon196.bsky.social
Not another office-friendship heartbreak ❤️‍🩹
May 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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There's a high-level meeting focused on NCDs and mental health in September where countries are slated to make political commitments. There's a working draft in circulation — which some say has glaring holes.
Noncommunicable disease political declaration needs ‘more teeth’
Noncommunicable disease political declaration needs ‘more teeth’
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May 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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epiellie.bsky.social
The second installment in my series on How Vaccines Work is here.

Today I talk about the different types of impacts a vaccine can have and why sometimes it might feel like a vaccine didn’t work, even if it did.
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Scientists Say 'Vaccines Work' but How??
Welcome to the second installment of How Vaccines Work. Last time, I wrote about the different ways epidemiologists describe and measure the effects of vaccines:
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May 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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drjacekdebiec.bsky.social
"I’m a dentist from India. The fluoride debate in the U.S. horrifies me.. Fluoride is not an ideological question. It is a practical intervention that can reduce the burden of oral disease, which in turn is linked to systemic conditions..diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and pregnancy complications"
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · May 25
“I believe the United States has an opportunity to lead — not by abandoning fluoride, but by anchoring the discussion in data, equity, and empathy. We must not allow policy to be shaped by those with the loudest voices at the expense of those with the greatest need.”
I’m a dentist from India. The fluoride debate in the U.S. horrifies me
While debates in the U.S. rage about potential overexposure to fluoride, people worldwide still lack basic access to it.
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May 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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jehadabusalim.bsky.social
When the Napalm Girl photo showed a child fleeing napalm in Vietnam, it fueled outrage and changed history. Today, the world watches Palestinian children burn on live stream as Israel’s final solution unfolds in Gaza, yet the west remains silent, inept, and indifferent.
May 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
stormmoon196.bsky.social
Indonesia is reassigned from WHO South-East Asia region to Western Pacific. Will anyone care to enlighten me on what implications this will bring? What will be different?
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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cooperstreaming.bsky.social
"Still punk as fuck" I whisper to myself as I gently repeat the stretches my physical therapist gave me for mobility.
April 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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thelancet.com
🌍✨ The pursuit of #GenderJustice in global health is not simply an aspiration—it’s a necessity for 📈 health outcomes & addressing inequities.

Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0
Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health
Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...
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April 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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lindsaynicolle.bsky.social
(me, every morning, looking at my phone): idk seems bad.
February 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I’ll cry because it’s over and because it happened. Cause that’s just the kind of person I am
February 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A cautionary tale from @helenbranswell.bsky.social

"They intended for their work to be the subject of academic discussion...Instead, it has exploded online & become a parable for the ways in which the internet is being used to weaponize basic vaccine research."

www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/p...
A small study on Covid vaccine safety sparks an online tempest
A small study on Covid vaccine safety has sparked an online tempest — and highlighted the conundrum faced by some scientists.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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astrokatie.com
This is really extremely bad: withholding urgent public health studies because they’re not convenient for the president’s political narrative.
alexander-a-tin.bsky.social Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · Feb 8
It's not just that officials have blocked CDC from publishing bird flu studies

Scientists were ordered to come up with studies on health risks of wildfires instead

That came as the president was criticizing the California governor's handling of fires

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
February 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away.

It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.
To all personnel: At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025. Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership. Further guidance will be forthcoming.
February 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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dianamonkey.bsky.social
" Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option."
risk and must firmly resist. The science is clear that efforts to expand health insurance coverage-notably the ACA and Medicaid expansion-improve outcomes, but the new administration is expected to end ACA subsidies and to find ways to limit Medicaid coverage and enrollment. The courts will soon rule on Braidwood Management Inc v Becerra, which challenges the constitutionality of the US Preventive Services Task Force and would eliminate ACA-mandated coverage of preventive services. If the plaintiffs win, patients will lose free access to mammography screenings, colonoscopy screenings, immunizations, and contraceptives. This would disproportionately affect low-income populations, lowering immunization coverage, increasing unwanted pregnancies, delaying detection of cancer and other diseases, and increasing mortality. The proper stance of the profession on these policies should be obvious. The science is clear that racial and ethnic health disparities are real, that they cost lives, and that they are perpetuated by structures and institutions in society that systematically disadvantage racial and ethnic minoritized populations. Elections and culture wars do not change that reality. Policies that deny the very existence of racial and ethnic disparities, prohibit the mention of racism by name, or ban efforts by the government, health care, and the private sector to reduce disparities will predictably increase morbidity and mortality and should be very existence of racial and ethnic disparities, prohibit the mention of racism by name, or ban efforts by the government, health care, and the private sector to reduce disparities will predictably increase morbidity and mortality and should be opposed by the profession. Wherever one stands on abortion, the science is clear that restricting access to reproductive health services worsens outcomes. The science is also clear that sexual and gender identity are distinct from biological sex, that neither are matters of personal choice, and that discrimination against the LGBTQ population harms physical and mental health. Policies that recognize only biological sex or that oppose gender-affirming care or efforts to protect LGBTQ populations, such as the highly vulnerable transgender youth population, should be opposed as vigorously as threats to any population. The science is clear that certain environmental agents are harmful. The profession must oppose efforts to lift regulations on industries that manufacture or emit these agents because they will increase public exposure and risk of diseases. The science on climate change could not be clearer, and evidence of its adverse health consequences increases daily. The profession cannot stand idly by as the new administration puts oil industry executives in charge, expands fossil fuel production, and actively opposes renewable energy alternatives. interference with independent scientific inquiry and decisions on research funding. The profession must oppose the censorship of data released by government agencies and any manipulation of the membership and findings of the scientific advisory committees on which policymakers and the public rely. In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear. At the bedside, respect for the freedom of patients to make their own decisions does not excuse physicians from the obligation to present adequate information to make informed choices and to advise against options that the physician believes will do more harm than good. The duty to the population is no different. Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option.
February 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH¹ Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online January 31, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.1218 D uring the transition period following the November 2024 presidential election, a lingering question was whether the controversial proposals floated during the campaign were merely rhetoric or serious policy intentions. The first week of the new administration erased any doubts that the candidates meant what they said. A flurry of executive actions sent shock waves through the scientific, medical, and public health communities. The president withdrew the US from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement on climate; froze federal hiring; terminated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs; and formally rejected gender/sexual identities other than biological sex.¹ Federal websites went dark, notably those concerning reproductive health, DEI, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) rights.2 Publication of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was paused, and the Food and Drug Administration removed information from its website intended to encourage enrollment of racial and ethnic minority individuals in clinical trials. 3.4 President Trump revoked Biden-era executive orders on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Health (NIH) canceled study sections and advisory council meetings and rescinded job offers. 5 Incoming political appointees made plans to strip "ideology" from the NIH research portfolio, reorganize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, and screen scientific reports before their release. All this in the first week. The profession-scientific, medical, and public health societies, journals, academic institutions, and advocacy organizations-must quickly decide how to respond or whether to respond. The profession is diverse. Some in the profession voted for Trump and undoubtedly support at least parts of this agenda, and their response to recent developments may be a thumbs-up. Many institutions will stay silent, feeling a responsibility (or statutory obligation) to remain nonpartisan. Some in the profession view current challenges as an opportunity for positive change. Their plan is to find win-win issues that attract bipartisan support and to propose compromise solutions that both sides of the aisle can get behind, such as addressing the opioid epidemic and chronic diseases, promoting children's health, and closing the revolving door between government and industry. Some programs plan to fly under the radar by not attracting attention, dropping "objectionable" language and acronyms (eg, DEI) from websites and documents, and redressing projects in politically palatable However, is there a bridge too far, a point where it is no longer appropriate for medicine and public health to accede? Under what conditions must the profession stand its ground and vocally oppose problematic policies or disinformation? The scientific community is expected to respect diverse viewpoints, but in the final analysis, all share a professional responsibility to oppose policies that threaten the health of patients or the population. To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health-or to remain silent and look away-is to be complicit in putting population health at risk. How do we know where to draw the line, and when it is time to resist? The touchstone must be science, the evidence from rigorous, published, peer-reviewed research. We must draw the line when the science is clear that a policy will increase the risk of disease, complications, or premature death. For example, the science is clear that childhood vaccines save lives. 6 Before vaccines, thousands of children died each year from infectious diseases such as poliomyelitis. In one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century, immunizing children virtually eradicated these diseases. Physicians now rarely encounter vaccine-preventable diseases, but they know from the science that outbreaks will return and claim lives again if the pediatric population loses herd immunity.
February 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
A dark day for transparency in science.
CDC offline to comply with executive order
February 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
February: I'm the shortest month.
February 2025: I SHALL LAST FOR 10,000 YEARS.
February 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO: A #GlobalHealth crisis in the making www.bmj.com/content/388/... via @bmj.com @jmeddings.bsky.social
The US withdrawal from the WHO: a global health crisis in the making
In a major blow to global health, the US administration has announced plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Kent Buse and colleagues propose urgent actions for the international commun...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Palestina desak semua negara menolak rencana relokasi secara terbuka - https://www.antaranews.com/berita/4613034/palestina-desak-semua-negara-menolak-rencana-relokasi-secara-terbuka
Palestina desak semua negara menolak rencana relokasi secara terbuka
Palestina pada Selasa (28/1) mendesak semua negara untuk secara terbuka menolak relokasi warga Palestina keluar dari Jalur Gaza."Kami mendesak ...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM