Liz Highleyman

“This was the deepest community of chemosynthetic life ever discovered.”

Same here. In Florida it was car-to-door to minimize time in the heat. In S.F., I walk everywhere now.

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave Scientists record longest streak of temperatures higher than 30C in region in records going back to 1961

Wow… I experienced a heatwave near the Arctic Circle in Noway in 2003, but it only lasted a few days. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an effort toward military readiness (which these days doubles as a domestic force) or a way to save health care costs. Whatever the reason, though, improving kids' fitness -- ideally in a way that carries over into adulthood -- is a good thing.

The left shouldn't cede fitness to the right, the way they have with armed self-defense.

I hated & sucked at sports as a kid -- worsened by mid-day PE in the Florida heat -- though I did manage to get the patch one year. That bad experience put me off fitness until my 40s. Let's do this in a non-competitive way that encourages all kids to get fit to the level of their ability.

My guess is military readiness (which these days is also a domestic force).

Can a city as creative as San Francisco actually solve the enduring problems of homelessness and addiction?

Listen to Episode 1 of “No Easy Fix,” the new miniseries from "Radio Atlantic," wherever you find your podcasts: https://theatln.tc/qLUPKHTn

The Short Political Half-life of a Medical Contrarian In early May, I wrote about the surprising FDA appointment of Dr. Vinay Prasad to lead the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.  Prasad is a UCSF hematologist-oncologist known for his v...

Prasad’s tenure at the FDA was brief--appointed for his contrarianism, dismissed for doing what we say we want regulators to do: demand evidence and protect us from harmful medical interventions. Unfortunately, politics, not medicine, may have driven both decisions. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Another sex toy gets thrown onto the court during Golden State Valkyries game A sex toy was tossed onto the court during a WNBA game for the second time this week.

What do you bet this will become a viral tradition & dildos will be tossed at all Valkyries — maybe even all WNBA — games?

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Pretty much…

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

Seems like they’re just in an extortion racket now. They managed to get $$$ & concessions from Columbia & Harvard, so why stop now?

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Good — & depressing — point.😕

The ballroom cost wouldn’t make much of a dent in Medicaid or ACA subsidies, but still a useful message.

U guys are actually delusional. Anyone advocating that the U.S. government, which has spent the past year attempting to criminalize speech against war crimes, should replicate China’s extreme censorship of online speech and that will somehow be better for marginalized ppl needs to stfu w all respect

Jay Bhattacharya once studied health disparities. As NIH director, he’s allowed such research to wither Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

NEW STAT special report:

Jay Bhattacharya has researched “vulnerable populations”

But he’s written off some health disparities work as ideological - leaving the nih, researchers, and a federal court confused

W/ @usha.bsky.social & @ericboodman.bsky.social

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This week’s #GlobalHealthWatch covers the EMA’s rec of injectable #lenacapavir for #PrEP, a whistleblower memo on the unlawful foreign aid freeze, #NIH's quiet shift that could slash future research grants + new threats to the USvPreventive Services Task Force. Read more: avac.org/blog/global-...

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

We saw this with processed food & infant formula. Technological innovations are first adopted by the wealthy, then become widely available, then affluent people go back to the "boutique" time-intensive old ways.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025

Let them eat cake.

raphic with a background of a map of Easter Island, one of the island’s famous statues showing a human face in the center, a colorful depiction of a molecule on the left, and a sheet of green pills on the right. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Clinical trials are testing cancer drug rapamycin for Long COVID and ME. By Felicity Nelson.”

Key points you should know: Two clinical trials are currently underway in the U.S. to evaluate the effect of rapamycin on Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) — one at Mount Sinai’s Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness and another at Simmaron Research. Rapamycin, also known as sirolimus, is a powerful immunosuppressant used to prevent organ-transplant rejection and to treat cancer. Mechanistic studies suggest that rapamycin can restore autophagy and mitochondrial function in people with ME.

Key points you should know: A few physicians prescribing low-dose rapamycin off-label for Long COVID and ME report positive effects for a subset of patients and no severe side effects. People taking rapamycin for Long COVID and ME report a range of experiences, including sustained responses, miraculous improvements followed by relapse, and side effects that lead them to discontinue the drug.

Two clinical trials are currently underway in the U.S. to evaluate the effect of rapamycin on #LongCOVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). People who have tried the drug off-label in low doses report a range of experiences. Read more from @frogsandstars.bsky.social: bit.ly/4l9zHUP

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What does this mean -- they want to increase the overall budget but allow current grants to remain frozen or terminated? I guess researchers could re-apply, but that's a lot of hassle & delay.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

👍"Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the NIH on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending." @jonathanwosen.bsky.social reports for @statnews.com.

That's been a mystery to me for a long time. I assume it's pro-business & anti-regulatory sentiment, but the tide appears to be changing.

Ulonivirine Shows Promise for Weekly Oral HIV Treatment Study was halted early but the novel NNRTI is now being tested with a lower dose of islatravir.

"Ulonivirine, an experimental non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, has the potential to be a component of once-weekly oral #HIV treatment, according to Phase II study results presented at #IAS2025 in #Rwanda."

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This isn’t really GOP’s doing. Biden’s COVID-era expanded ACA subsidies were set to expire at end of 2025 regardless. It’s the exorbitant prices set by insurers — when the government was paying, there was no ceiling. In turn due to high health care & especially drug costs.

This isn’t really GOP’s doing. Biden’s COVID-era expanded ACA subsidies were set to expire at end of 2025 regardless. It’s the exorbitant prices set by insurers — when the government was paying, there was no ceiling. In turn due to high health care & especially drug costs.

Age is the real determining factor here. At 62, I’m looking at a 400% hike, according to KFF.