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Small Investment, Big Returns: Why This NIH Center Matters The Fogarty International Center within the National Institutes of Health has had a huge global footprint and impact, but it's on the chopping block.

Scores of American scientists are seeking to flee the country (and become "science refugees")

U.S. politicians are allowing this brain drain to happen under their watch

www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Aluminum in Vaccines Study Won't Be Retracted, Journal Says Large Danish study evaluated risks of autism, asthma, and other disorders in 1.2 million children

Papers don't get retracted just because they don't mesh with your conspiracy theory... www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Human Rights Tribunal Affirms Immunocompromised Worker’s Right to Seek Workplace Accommodations Disability advocates praise the BC decision as broadening the concept of accessible workplaces

In what may be a Canadian first, a human rights tribunal has affirmed the right of an immunocompromised person to seek workplace accommodations.

Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.

pressprogress.ca/human-rights...

and for a lot of people, it's a good idea to see somewhere other than your own hometown for some different perspectives on things

The quick return of medical debt to credit reports is another blow to cancer patients “Worsening a patient's credit can prevent them from getting a job, renting an apartment, or even paying their outstanding medical bills,” writes @llsusa’s chief medical officer.

Why is the US so hell-bent on killing off their people and making it as awful as they can in the process? www.statnews.com/2025/07/22/m...

Who mentioned Democrats?

‘An incredible gift’: Medgine Mathurin named Edmonton’s 11th poet laureate The City of Edmonton named Medgine Mathurin as its new poet laureate on Wednesday.

My friend Medgine, an amazing person and poet... so excited for her and the City of Edmonton! www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

"invasives"? Are you talking about bindweed? Ya best not be talking about human beings

RFK Jr fires entire US vaccine committee The US health secretary, a vaccine sceptic who has been criticised by health experts, said the panel was 'plagued' with conflicts of interest.

Wow.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

Really?
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Public Health On Call: 893 - “On Going Backwards”: A New HIV/AIDS Epidemic? About this episode: In 2003, George W. Bush’s President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was the largest commitment to a single disease in U.S. history. Renewed under every subsequent preside...

🆕 @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social "Public Health On Call" #podcast!

🎧 Join Past IAS President Chris Beyrer for a critical episode exploring, "On Going Backwards”: A New #HIV/AIDS Epidemic?"

Does anyone else see Mark Carney in Phil Dunphy or vice versa? Especially when dancing to Down With Webster... Just me?

Buy Canadian, Buy Union A directory of Canadian union-made products and services.

So you wanna buy Canadian? I got your list for you right here!
canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/

I refer to growing up in the acid rain/ quicksand/impending nuclear conflict era as being "classically trained" in generalized anxiety

Hudson's Bay managers will get up to $3 million in bonuses, but workers get no severance | CBC News The beleaguered Hudson's Bay Co., which plans to close most of its 96 stores by the end of June, will pay up to $3 million total in retention bonuses to 121 managers and executives — but will not pay ...

"The news is not going over well with some labour activists and workers." Uh... no kidding www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

In case anyone thinks I'm overreacting by saying we shouldn't visit the US for a while... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Daniel Trilling · Short Cuts: Labour’s Immigration Policy Having ruled out any large-scale redistribution of wealth, Labour should be putting its changes to workers’ rights,...

‘Labour has a history of turning nasty when it gets desperate. If it does so again, under renewed pressure from the far right, would anyone be surprised if voters decide they prefer the original to the copy, and choose Reform?’

Daniel Trilling: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thanks! I wasn't going to, because who needs more diversions, but here we are. Enjoying it so far and not wasting too much time ;-)

Right??

What's with the Krispy Kreme resurgence? Alberta friends - consider Doughnut Party instead. Canadian, local, and very very good. I rarely even eat doughnuts!

An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.

An urgent argument for the #HPV vaccine. The vaccine can prevent six types of cancers -- cervical, oropharyngeal, anal and more -- but continues to be underutilized, by Lisa Doggett www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social

Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored (Gift Article) The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

For-profit healthcare always creates (un?)intended consequences www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Australian blood donor who saved millions of babies thanks to rare antibody dies at age 88 | CBC News James Harrison, who according to the Australian Red Cross was the world's most prolific blood and plasma donor, has died at age 88.

Never underestimate the importance of giving blood... www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

Ah but he wears a t with a blazer or sport jacket - that's a techbro suit

Clapton CFC x DKMS: Help us tackle blood cancer at match - Clapton Community FC We’re proud to have two members who have donated stem cells, giving others a second chance at life. And one of our own, Sukhdev, is alive today thanks to a stem cell transplant.

Two things close to my heart! www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/02/25/c...

Privatizing healthcare, even partially, always costs us more. Why else would these for-profit providers get involved? They cherry-pick the easiest cases while "bringing value" to shareholders and not really alleviating the strain in the rat of the system 🙄

Trump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagree | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that his country subsidizes Canada with hundreds of billions of dollars every year has become a key plank in his argument for annexing the country. But do his numbe...

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls for Premier to fire Health Minister over scandal The allegations surrounding high-level corruption in medical contracts, which have not been tested in court, are contained in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit filed this week by Athana Mentzelopoulos

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi calls for Premier to fire Health Minister over allegations of high-level corruption in awarding of medical contracts, by @reportrix.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com