A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence | Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases Ingestion of bromide can lead to a toxidrome known as bromism. While this condition is less common than it was in the early 20th century, it remains important to describe the associated symptoms and r...

I think I’ll be referencing this case study in my classes this fall: ChatGPT poisoned somebody by telling him to swap in sodium bromide as a substitute for table salt. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT”

Huge American-style utes are damaging our roads, reducing safety, and increasing emissions.

“In Europe they’re introducing measures to discourage people from driving these big utes...

"In Australia we’ve got subsidies for them.”

@richarddenniss.bsky.social, Executive Director

#auspol

Australia Institute research shows that Australians pay more in HECS/HELP repayments than gas companies pay in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). #auspol

Sign our petition calling on the government to fix the PRRT
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Are South Australian journalists ‘hysterical’ about ambulance ramping? A high profile inquest into the ramping deaths of three South Australians featured a witness who described media coverage of the phenomenon as "hysterical". Reporter Stephanie Richards explores the ob...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Thanks all who shared insights & expertise on algal bloom crisis, health impacts & responses needed
croakey.org/health-exper...
HT @docsenvaus.bsky.social
National Rural Health Alliance
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Dr Toby Freeman, Dr Joanne Flavel, Prof Craig Williams, Dr Carmel Williams & others

As World Health Organization faces funding crisis, concerns raised about health promotion cuts Health leaders from Australia and other countries have sounded an alarm about planned cuts to health promotion activities at the

As World Health Organization faces funding crisis thanks to US withdrawal of funding concerns raised about health promotion cuts www.croakey.org/as-world-hea...

Relying on the idea of a ‘sensible centre’ ignores evidence and maintains the status quo.

Join Richard Denniss and Amy Remeikis in BRISBANE to discuss the bravery and boldness needed to address Australia’s biggest challenges.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social @amyremeikis.bsky.social

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A public health investigation of the new partnership between Aldi and DoorDash Introduction by Croakey: The burgeoning online food delivery sector raises many red flags for the community's health, as demonstrated by

"Growing consolidation of power between a few food and tech companies raises concerns about corporate influence over health". A public health investigation of the new partnership between Aldi and DoorDash – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/a-public-hea...

Outsourcing Policy-Related Functions in Australia: Health and Equity Impacts - Julia Anaf, Toby Freeman, Fran Baum, 2025 Changes to the public sector in Australia over recent decades result from the adoption of neoliberal policies and New Public Management techniques. By the 1990s...

Our latest article led by @drjuliama.bsky.social showing the adverse impact of outsourcing government functions to private sector on health and equity
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The Accelerating Health Impacts Of Heat: UK Climate And Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead Of COP30 - Health Policy Watch "Physiology includes the study of the body's responses to external challenges such as heat, cold, flooding, fire, pollution, starvation and dehydration,

“Physiology is the science of life, and there is no greater systematic threat to life across the world than #ClimateChange.”

healthpolicy-watch.news/accelerating...

Make this personal

How are YOU coping with 50.5ºC heat? What do you do when the power grid collapses in the heat and YOUR children are listless? Where are YOU going to go under a heat dome lasting a week for relief?

This will be all of us - climate warming is accelerating

Does your govt care?

New Australia Institute research shows there’s little evidence of a productivity crisis.

“Australia’s so-called ‘productivity crisis’ is massively exaggerated. Low productivity is not to blame for the problems facing households today, like low wage growth.”

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen We were denied entry into an ICE facility in Baltimore

Today we were denied entry to an ICE facility in Baltimore where were exercising our oversight role as Members of Congress. The law is clear: ICE is REQUIRED to let us into these facilities.

They just don't want the American people to see what's happening behind closed doors.

"The UK has had an inquiry into AUKUS.

"The US is currently holding its own inquiry into AUKUS.

"Australia meanwhile, which bears the brunt of the cost and the risk of this deal, hasn't had an inquiry."

- Dr Emma Shortis, International & Security Affairs Director
#auspol @emmashortis.bsky.social

This is classic fossil fuel industry and petrostate (Russia and Saudi Arabia) antiscience propaganda, as discussed by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me in our forthcoming book #ScienceUnderSiege (www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...) [via #PublicAffairs/#BasicBooks/@hachettelibrary.bsky.social]

Columbia and Penn Made Trump Deals. More Universities Could Be Next.

Academics, don't expect #AcademicFreedom if you don't have the courage to defend it:

“Universities, as they make concessions, do not stop the demand for future concessions. They..open the door for more..Turning Columbia into..a template has been the..plan for months”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Experts sound health alarm on algal bloom crisis, calling for climate action and comprehensive responses The algal bloom crisis across South Australia should be treated as a disaster for health and a clear warning about

Experts sound health alarm on algal bloom crisis, calling for climate action and comprehensive responses – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/health-exper...
By @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social

The rest of the comments are an open expression of ethnic cleansing. They are confirmation of a war crime.

Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn As Senate establishes inquiry into the ‘human-mediated disaster’, a report is calling for more long-term action

Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We are celebrating but it is a secret so far ..... wait for further news .....

The Technical Feasibility of Divesting Google Chrome – Knight-Georgetown Institute

Digital platforms are a massive commercial determinant of health. Analyst Ricky Sutton calls Google’s browser Chrome “the most powerful data-hoover in human history”. Report shows US Gov's proposed Google Chrome divestiture is technically feasible:
kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

He was one of the really good ones. Exposed financial wrongdoing

Why do they hate us? That’s the question academics in the humanities are asking. - Graeme Turner This is the question I was asked last week. Why are government, the media, even university administrations, so carelessly participating in the gradual demolition of one of the foundation stones of our...

The ability to understand what makes us human - from a science and social sense - is being eroded at the nation’s university. Soon it’ll be too late to reverse the cack-handed cuts. Nobody can say they weren’t warned. We warned you. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

The chairs of the BMJ Commission on the Future of Academic Medicine set out principles for transforming academic medicine and to help improve population and planetary health.

Sonia Saxena, Miguel O’Ryan, and @franbaum.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

Toxic Algae Bloom | The Australian Greens

Please sign South Australia facing ecological disaster - National response needed

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