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WHO adds GLP-1 drugs for diabetes, others to essential medicines list reut.rs/45PsEfr
05.09.2025 13:25 — 👍 39 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
The first report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission, released last week, appears to be rife with errors, including some studies that don’t exist.
29.05.2025 20:57 — 👍 226 🔁 92 💬 43 📌 13
Pls raise awareness on substandard and falsified medicines! Here is my chat w/ Oksana Pyzik, Fight the Fakes Alliance; Rutendo Kuwana, WHO; and Dr Obaidullah, Pakistan, revealing governance challenges & big business interference. People need medicines they can trust. youtu.be/j4WTHwx17J4
26.05.2025 08:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great curtainraiser #WHA78 6 key issues to watch at the 78th World Health Assembly www.devex.com/news/6-key-i...
16.05.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trust forms the impact of #vaccines! 🌟
“WHO is a scientific organization. We are committed to following evidence and using evidence for policy and programme decisions."
Dr. Kate O Brien explains how vaccines are developed using gold-standard processes.
#VaccinesWork!
Promising new antibiotic is one of first viable #gonorrhea drug candidates since 1990s. Rates of the sexually transmitted infection are rising globally, including in Canada, by Jennifer Yang www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #STIs
15.04.2025 01:58 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
WHO's rapid assessment of the health system disruptions in March-April 2025 as a result of ODA cuts. What a sobering press release.
10.04.2025 22:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0My review of Anthony Duncan and Michel Janssen’s excellent two volume history of quantum mechanics is now out in the (belated) latest issue of the British Journal for the History of Science:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#physics
#philsci
#histsci
TL;DR? We should be cautious about where we replace humans with AI in science.
#philtech #philsci #AI
March 14, 2025. World Health Organization
#COVID19DeathsCumulative
7,090,776 +517
increase on previous 7 days
Reported COVID-19 deaths
World, 7 days to 23 February 2025
{https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths?n=o}
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21.03.2025 19:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WHAT IS #misinformation?
AND WHO DECIDES?
-by "Thinking Is Power" with Melanie Trecek-King
💡Be sure & check out Thinking is Power's WWW site too! 👇
thinkingispower.com
Video 👇
youtube.com/shorts/-r0-j...
Looked for and found the intw with David Spiegelhalter on communicating statistics. The point about chasing #trust vs being trustworthy gives ideas on where we need to put our efforts when we want to achieve high impact #globalhealth #communication #advocacy💡
open.spotify.com/episode/5xZe...
It is a privilege to access a wide number of views but how much of it brings value and is worth the time we spend on. And remember their social
media value is different, many extreme views can be better circulated, engaged. #philsky #communication
In the age of social media we are exposed to every personal opinion maximised. Many opinions are based on self-centred and limited views. #philsky #communication
22.02.2025 08:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“LLMs aren’t going away. Our students will use them (our students are using them). Our colleagues will use them (our colleagues are using them). We need, therefore, to figure out what we ought to think, and what we ought to do, about them”
#GenAI 🧪
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/t...
"What the world needs now is love, sweet love."
Check out this amazing "love grant" opportunity via the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center (and shared with me by the amazing Katherine Reynolds Lewis)!
🧪❤️
ggsc.berkeley.edu/what_we_do/m...
#medsky #Science
11.02.2025 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With America’s CDC compromised, you can find solid information from the World Health Organization.
www.who.int
UNICEF and the World Health Organization warned back in July of 2024 that low immunization coverage was “already driving measles outbreaks.”
www.thewhig.com/opinion/immu...
Sharing with this platform that WHO Board is in session and it's open for all to watch! It's countries representing people talking about our common business that is: saving, protecting lives!
📢 Follow the #EB156 LIVE: bit.ly/4glQLo5
#ProudToBeWHO thank you to all of you supporters out there.
27.01.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RFK Jr confirmation hearing with Senate Finance scheduled for Wednesday at 10AM
www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Press Release: Leaving the WHO is a Threat to US Security
“The United States withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) poses significant risks to public health, national security, and global stability.”
www.cugh.org/blog/press-r...
Germany will try to persuade the US to remain in the World Health Organization, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said today.
21.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 207 🔁 28 💬 26 📌 8Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions
21.01.2025 02:21 — 👍 24876 🔁 4083 💬 536 📌 187Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
The US is now the only country in the world besides Liechtenstein to not be a member of the organization.
RIP - um ma ni bad mi hum 🙏So many people are thankful for his work for eliminating diseases that affect the most impoverished people.
Will we ever see another top politician to champion such causes.
#JimmyCarter showed how to shine the light in the darkness - thank you ❤️
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