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W.H.O. Warns of Sharp Increase in Drug-Resistant Infections The U.N. health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics.

The UN health agency found that one in six infections worldwide was resistant to the most commonly available antibiotics. “Antibiotic resistance is widespread and threatening the future of modern medicine,” one WHO official said.

Tim Curry’s Memoir “Vagabond” Recalls an Exciting Career Interrupted by Illness A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.

A 2012 stroke has largely kept Tim Curry from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Reclaiming Our Lions: On Womanhood in a Country of Men When men say that women were happier before we had any choices, they’re wrong. We weren’t happier—we were voiceless.

open.substack.com/pub/galek/p/...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

We should be able to hold that what happened to Charlie Kirk is horrible AND that Charlie Kirk was a horrible person. Both are true, and acknowledging one doesn’t negate the other.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

France will recognize an independent state of Palestine in September at the U.N. General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said.

“The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety.

It's our job.

protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

I think we’ve found the source of the violence

So I’m working on an anti microbial resistance project (living lab feasibility)… AMR is evolution in real time… guess where the control group (the populations not receiving interventions) will be located?

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens

NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens

UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported

Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.

One in three NHS doctors so tired their ability to treat patients is affected, survey finds Exclusive: Medics more sleep deprived now than during Covid crisis amid staff shortages and surging demand One in three doctors in the NHS are so tired that their ability to treat patients is impaired, according to a report that reveals medics are more…

One in three NHS doctors so tired their ability to treat patients is affected, survey finds

“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...

My latest @bmj.com on why an experienced workforce is necessary for safety and productivity www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Happy child in arms of woman with man's head partially in the image. Smaller image of healthcare worker with older woman. Health Innovation Network Local change, National impact. Impact Report 2023-24. With logos of NHS, Office for Life Sciences and Accelerated Access Collaborative

A new report outlines how local change involving England’s 15 health innovation networks (HINs) led to national impact benefitting patients, addressing NHS challenges and supporting economic growth. #HealthInnovationWorks
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Powerful convening of health and care innovation leaders from across Cheshire and Merseyside at the Bluecoat in Liverpool today 💚