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Americans trust vaccines, school mandates, rejecting Trump agenda, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Public health experts have said weakening school vaccine mandates would result in more children being sickened by preventable diseases.

A bipartisan majority of Americans believe that vaccines are safe and that children should receive them to be allowed to attend school.
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I only occasionally drop in to watch but I must admit they're doing a great job.

Exactly
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Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

We have had SO MANY #retirements at our #medical center over the past 12 months. #Doctors, critical #supportstaff. I feel like it is a 500% increase from previous years
Gee, I wonder why.
If you think #healthcare is in a crisis now…

"I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid."
-- ICE terrorist when a cyclist followed him

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#neurosky #academicchatter

Frontiers | Characterization of subchronic lung and brain consequences caused by mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A infection of C57BL6 mice IntroductionSARS-CoV-2 and, to a lesser extent, influenza A can lead to long-term complications in the respiratory and nervous systems. However, the mechanis...

Comparison of Covid vs flu in the experimental model:
Only Covid showed persistent brain inflammation
Repair of lung tissue impaired with Covid vs flu
www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Casey Means’ confirmation hearing is over.

My impressions:

Means has zero understanding of or concern for the most vulnerable Americans.

Means will absolutely not promote vaccination or in any way push back on RFK Jr.

Means doesn’t understand public health at all.

Grrrrr. An edit button please!!!

There's nothing LIKE a little backlit Common Loon first thing in the morning to get your day started right.

Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026

📷 #birds #MarineLife #loon #COLO #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

This is Bruegger. He learned a highly advanced new trick, demonstrating excellent use of both free will and spatulas. 13/10 (TT: maddmaddmad)

Vote may shorten term of Miami mayor by a year As Miami voters head to the polls this summer, they could shorten Mayor Eileen Higgins’ current term as part of a push to align city elections with statewide and countywide ballots, boosting turnout a...

Vote may shorten term of Miami mayor by a year

www.miamitodaynews.com/2026/02/25/v...

#MiamiTodayNews #MiamiMayor #MiamiElections #VoteMiami #MiamiToday

New FDA Proposal Aims to Help Patients With Hard-to-Treat Diseases TUESDAY, Feb. 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials are proposing a new way to develop and approve custom-made treatments for people with rare and h

The FDA wants to make it easier to create custom treatments for super rare diseases. The plan could help patients with conditions that are too rare for large studies. Public comments will be accepted for 60 days before changes are finalized.
www.healthday.com/health-news/...

It would be good if we could object to this on a basis other than total obvious hypocrisy.

'Fear of Flying Clinic' helps anxious travelers back into the skies For 50 years, a San Francisco-based group has created a space where fearful flyers can get supported exposure to air travel.

Fear of flying affects about 25 million Americans. That's where the Fear of Flying Clinic comes in: over four days, participants are able to get slow exposure to the flying experience, as well as training and support from mental health and aviation professionals.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Panics When Asked if Flu Vaccine Is Safe Casey Means, who has no active medical license, wants to become the nation’s top doctor.

Anyone else want to just fucking scream?

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Panics When Asked if Flu Vaccine Is Safe

BTW, the correct answer is YES!

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smart glasses that can detect faces and find data about the person it detects should be banned. it only has bad and evil applications

Falling measles vaccination rates can have terrifying consequences for families | Letter Letter: Karen Ford’s granddaughter became seriously ill, highlighting just how important it is for communities to have herd immunity

Falling measles vaccination rates can have terrifying consequences for families. One family's granddaughter became seriously ill with measles, highlighting just how important it is for communities to have herd immunity.
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One of the vaccines Makary, Hoeg, Kulldorff, Bhattacharya, and RFK want to get rid of...

New health products only save lives if they reach those who need them.

In a new @plosglobalpublichealth.org article, Unitaid’s Janet Ginnard and co-authors examine how market shaping expanded access to HIV, TB, malaria, hepatitis C and Ebola products.

Learn more: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

This lying liar is arguing to ban birth control because doctors might not tell women all the medical risks.

Well, good thing that, thanks to a law that already exists, birth control is required to come with a giant pamphlet listing every possible risk.

Which she knows. She's a lying liar.

I never believed anyone actually got 72 vaccines. Absolutely no one would do that.

Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Alters the Gastrointestinal ... : Shock via the brain-gut axis, and systemic insults such as trauma or traumatic brain injury (TBI) may alter the gut microbiome. The objective of this study was to evaluate the gut microbiome in a preclinica...

Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Alters the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in a Time-Dependent Manner
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Irregular sleep schedules are associated with altered brain structure in youth Many teenagers sleep in on weekends to catch up on rest. New research associates this irregular schedule with differences in the physical structure and internal communication of the developing brain, which may relate to cognitive growth.

Irregular sleep schedules are associated with altered brain structure in youth #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #SleepHealth #BrainDevelopment #YouthWellness

https://www.psypost.org/irregular-sleep-schedules-are-associated-with-altered-brain-structure-in-youth/

New clinical trial
Effectiveness and Feasibility of a Home-Based Exergame Rehabilitation Protocol for Upper Limb Function in Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

#ClinicalTrials #MultipleSclerosis #MSchat #Neurology

Superager Brains Grow Twice as Many New Neurons as Other Healthy Older Adults Deep in the hippocampus of an 83-year-old woman whose memory rivals that of someone half her age, something quietly extraordinary is happening. New

Superager Brains Grow Twice as Many New Neurons as Other Healthy Older Adults #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #Superagers #Neuroplasticity #HealthyAging

https://scienceblog.com/superager-brains-grow-twice-as-many-new-neurons-as-other-healthy-older-adults/

Scientists Found a Protein That Could Keep Your Brain From Growing Old As we age, neuron production declines in the human brain, but scientists just identified the protein key to regenerating neural stem cells.

#Scientists Found a #Protein That Could Keep Your #Brain From #GrowingOld

www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.

“How #Covid Quietly Rewires the #Brain
Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of #SARS-CoV-2.

Jason Gale”
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Why doctors are losing the health care culture war A physician argues that public health institutions are being politically captured and that doctors are losing the information war by bringing evidence to a narrative fight, calling for new tactics.

This is worth reading...