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Apgar scores came from a woman. m&NA vacinces came from a woman. CRISPR gene editing came from a woman. Modern nursing came from a woman. Hospital sanitation standards came from a woman. Leukemia chemotherapy drugs came from a woman. Malaria treatment breakthroughs came from a woman. Hormone blood tests came from a woman. Disposable medical syringes came from a woman. Antifungal antibiotics came from a woman. DNA structure imaging came from a woman. Genetic "jumping genes" came from a woman. Stem cell isolation came from a woman. Medical statistics in hospitals came from a woman. Pediatric anesthesia safety came from a woman. Life-saving vaccine research came from a woman. Cells used for modern medical research came from a woman. Breakthroughs in human genetics came from a woman. You came from a woman. Women in Medicine

Belated happy international women’s day!

Could Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Enhance Brain Waste Clearance and Modify Neurodegenerative Risk? A Perspective on Sleep-Dependent CSF–Lymphatic Pathways Abstract. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is linked to cognitive decline and is increasingly implicated in neurodegenerative trajectories. Continuous positiv

Reasons those with Long Covid should have a PSG.

Could Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) Enhance Brain Waste Clearance and Modify Neurodegenerative Risk? A Perspective on Sleep-Dependent CSF–Lymphatic Pathways url: academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...

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Flyer, summarized in post. Picture background shows the C19 memorial in Louisiana

Join us for this virtual town hall event. We will discuss the results of a survey of >2,000 respondents in the C19 Cautious community.

This includes our dashboard survey from early 2025 and follow up survey in 2026.

Share widely.🔁

Register (direct link): events.zoom.us/ev/AmuF5JDQN...

Excerpt from City News post We're going to burden the health-care system that's already buckling. We're going to put even more strain on first responders. Why? Because we're going to see a dramatic increase in fatigue-related accidents. We're going to see greater health-care utilization rates, because when we burn the candle at both ends, when we don't anchor our circadian rhythms and get the sleep, we're designed to get... we accelerate aging and cognitive decline. This

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Doctor highlights major health concerns as B.C. changes clocks for last time Most people in B.C. have changed their clocks for the last time after the province announced the permanent switch to Daylight Time.

Doctor highlights major health concerns as B.C. changes to permanent daylight time

"Think of an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cancer"

vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/03/09/d...

Long COVID taste loss tied to reduced expression of key taste genes The study identifies molecular changes in taste receptor cells as a potential cause of persistent taste dysfunction in long COVID-19, impacting quality of life.

Long COVID taste loss isn’t always obvious on standard tests. New research found people can lose all sense of sweet, umami, or bitter while scoring normally overall. The cause appears to be reduced expression of taste-receptor genes, not structural damage to taste buds. #LongCOVID

Saviez-vous que…?

Les enfants peuvent aussi présenter des palpitations après Covid, parfois associées à fatigue ou difficultés scolaires.

#CovidLong #CovidLongPediatrique
#LongCovidAwareness
#LongCovidHeartBeats
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
#LongCovidAwarenessMonth #ApresJ20

Despair (1894), Edvard Munch: A person is standing looking down, they appear sad. They have brown hair, and are wearing a brown sweater. They are leaning on a fence and appear to be on a bridge walkway. There is a group of people in the distance. In the background is a sunset with orange, yellow, and blue colors that is set over dark blue water, with a green hillside lining the waterway. The text reads, “The Sick Times. My child and I both have Long COVID. Even in COVID-aware spaces, we are excluded because of their pre-existing disability. By eZme Fern, aka MadMaskedMxma.”

Medical facilities have handled Long COVID the same way they have the ongoing pandemic: ignore it and hope it goes away. - My child and I both have Long COVID. Even in COVID-aware spaces, we are excluded because of their pre-existing disability.

eZme Fern and their ten-year-old both have #LongCOVID, but they’ve discovered that even in COVID-aware spaces, they're excluded because of their child’s pre-existing disability. They argue that COVID-aware communities must provide safe spaces for generationally disabled families. bit.ly/4sAkobN

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We need a political movement in Canada that runs on a platform of following science 🧬 over vibes 💫 on all things related to human & planetary health.

We need it more than ever in this era of misinformation, climate change, pandemics & global instability

To the tune of 'White Lines (Don't Do It)'.

Is there a support group for academics who are at the bottom of the learning curve for AntiGravity? Asking for a friend. #academicsky

Alors que toute prévention air a disparu, le ministère de la santé ne repond pas aux malades du Covid long sur leurs possibilités de vaccination.

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Frontiers | Dysregulated NK-cell gene expression defines the enduring symptoms of long COVID-19 IntroductionLong-term COVID-19 syndrome (LTCS) or “long COVID” is a debilitating post-viral condition affecting approximately 2%–8% of individuals after SARS...

The #Leonardi_Effect are strong.

Up your nose and away it goes.

It would seem the depletion of NK Cells contributes to Long Cövid 🙏🏻

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

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β-hydroxybutyrate enhances the metabolic fitness of CAR T cells in cancer β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), the ketone body associated with a ketogenic diet, metabolically reprograms and fuels CAR T cells to achieve proliferation, cytokine production, and superior tumor control. The...

β-hydroxybutyrate enhances the metabolic fitness of CAR T cells in cancer: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

“human-derived mathematical proofs have always been [to some extent] social constructs — about convincing other people in the field that the arguments are right”

Fab Substack on AI ‘proofs’ from @kityates.bsky.social

Chronic illness is unfair & unrelenting.

I’m facing a threat to my housing which has wrecked my baseline.

I haven’t written in weeks.

I don’t have a working washing machine so I’m covered in hives.

Today multiple things broke on me.

Then I broke. Sorry for the lack of writing. My brain is done.

Same goes for Covid - how many years have they been telling us we should wash our hands to prevent an airborne virus? Why do they assume BC'ers have no science literacy? #bcpoli

Learn from Japan!

And the country has a thriving night scene. People don't seem to want to go to out for dinner when it's bright out in the fall because it feels like the afternoon. Bars and restaurants are bustling after dark. They call it night life for a reason 🔥

Japan 🇯🇵 has a system of permanent standard time. They briefly tried permanent daylight time after WWII but it was unpopular & quickly rejected

due to
-sleep concerns
-longer work days with no extra pay
-safety concerns commuting in the morning, including kids going to school.

This woman has been in America for over 5 decades.

She came to the US as a toddler after being adopted by a US Air Force officer.

The regime wants to deport her to Iran.

A country they’re intent on destroying.

They want to send her to her death.

There should be a rule that anyone who dodged the draft can’t be allowed to institute a draft.

It’s utterly appalling that Trump is considering drafting your children to go off to war when he’s done nothing but avoid fighting himself and disparage the troops.

This is an ecological study but the association was found across multiple tumor types. Other studies have shown that night light is associated with breast & prostate cancers

Because so few places do pDST there isn't long term data so BC'ers are in another natural experiment we didn't consent to

Longitude Position in a Timezone and Cancer Risk in the United States Circadian disruption is a probable human carcinogen. From the eastern to western border of a timezone, social time is equal whereas solar time is progressively delayed, producing increased discrepancies between individuals’ social and biological ...

Circadian disruption is a probable carcinogen

A well cited U.S. study of ~4M cancer cases found cancer incidence rates ~3-4% higher per ~20 min later solar time moving west in a time zone

Permanent DST shifts BC's whole population ~1 hour west relative to sun

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Persistent attenuation of lymphocyte subsets after mass SARS-CoV-2 infection Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…

Study: "SARS-CoV-2 causes lasting immune dysregulation for over 20 months"

"This large multicenter study shows SARS-CoV-2 exposure leads to long-term changes in lymphocyte subsets—including CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, NK cells, and total T cells—persisting for up to 20 months."

Iron dysregulation and inflammatory stress erythropoiesis associates with long-term outcome of COVID-19 - Nature Immunology Smith and colleagues find that a multivariate signature of unresolved inflammation and altered iron homeostasis detected beyond 2 weeks following acute COVID-19 onset was the strongest early different...

Study: Iron dysregulation and inflammatory stress erythropoiesis associates with long-term outcome of COVID-19

Published: 01 March 2024

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disrupted iron levels after SARS-CoV-2 infection may trigger long COVID Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body's ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered...

"Disrupted iron levels after SARS-CoV-2 infection may trigger long COVID."

"Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body's ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered."