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AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

Inflammation during viral infection can rouse dormant cancer cells Sometimes, cancer cells that have spread become ‘dormant’ but can start proliferating again later. A cue that can reactivate them has been discovered.

🚨 New study: In mice, Covid & the flu triggered dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs to wake up. Inflammation might fuel metastasis

The authors ask if we need to begin testing ppl in remission during viral bouts to check if dormant cancer cells are proliferating www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OHSU study suggests long COVID may be more common than previously thought Even mild cases of COVID-19 in monkeys were linked to chronic health conditions that emerged later.

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At 205 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain over the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Burn Scar. Between 0.75 and 1.25 inches of rain have fallen, mainly over the Sapello River and Manuelitas Creek areas surrounding Rociada, Pendaries, and Tierra Monte. Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing flash flooding in and around the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Burn Scar. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of areas in and around the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon Burn Scar. Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... El Porvenir, Montezuma, Sapello, Tierra Monte, Gallinas, Mineral Hill, Rociada, Manuelitas and San Geronimo. This includes the following highways... State Road 94 between Mile Markers 1 and 9. State Road 518 between Mile Markers 10 and 16. State Road 283 between Mile Markers 7 and 12...and near Mile Marker 14. State Road 276 between Mile Markers 0 and 5. State Road 266 between Mile Markers 0 and 6. State Road 65 between Mile Markers 1 and 14. State Road 105 between Mile Markers 0 and 6.

🚨 Flash Flood Warning issued July 22 at 2:05PM MDT until July 22 at 4:45PM MDT by NWS Albuquerque NM 🚨
Additional Details Here.

We deserve a world where health isn’t rationed, care isn’t contingent, survival isn’t means-tested & life is not valued statistically. We deserve infrastructures built around life, not abandonment. And, we won’t get there by politely debating actuarial projections with capitalist parasites…

State investigating claim that DPS troopers were told to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water The Office of the Inspector General is investigating the claims, which include pushing small children and women with nursing babies back into the river and turning away a 4-year-old girl who later pas...

State investigating claim that DPS troopers were told to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water

What I talk about when I talk about Gardening or, is it ripe yet?

New writing up at The Writing Vein. open.substack.com/pub/thewriti...

Gonna be a gay AIDS historian bitch here but evoking Guantanamo as “patient zero” is not just ableist—implying bad ideas spread like “bad people spread AIDS”—but hilariously ironic, given modern Guantanamo was founded as a concentration camp for Haitians with HIV (who were sterilized w/o consent)

PLEASE stop using their language of lies. People are *not* going to confuse this with some *other* constantly-in-the-news mega-bill if we use honest terms.

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Stealing from the poor, giving to the rich, at a time when inequality is already at record levels.

Inequality is the thing that holds us back most — and this Republican bill exacerbates it. (Again) #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

This is a huge win and it’s also a direct result of the grassroots effort. If you've made noise about this over the past few days and weeks, you have a lot to be proud of.

There needs to be a discussion about the feeling of entitlement from institutional medicine to abuse a position as gatekeepers of essential care to serve their own whims. This grows out of the attitude that "no care" is the default, and they are entitled to hero worship for anything more.

Ahem

Hey Alberta! Heads up!
Rising COVID hospitalizations in Alberta.
Although gov't is no longer publicly reporting hospital outbreaks (last report April 16, 2025), there are now 4 hospitals on outbreak.
Rockyview, Royal Alex, Leduc, and Miseracordia.
Haven't this many outbreaks in a long time. 1/

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It’s easy to pose as officers who doesn’t have to show their faces or badges. No masks for ICE!

“Rich New Yorkers are panicking because that was never a secret. It only felt like one because hardly anyone powerful said it out loud.”

“Mamdani, unlike Cuomo, would not perform subservience to Israel, no matter how many times pundits tried. Mamdani has secrets too: like that a city can uplift its own people instead of functioning as a hub for a wealthy criminals tied to foreign states.”

“Cuomo is part of a legal team representing B. Netanyahu against ICC charges of war crimes. The team was assembled by A. Dershowitz, a close associate of J. Epstein. Rich people who liked Epstein also like Cuomo, a fellow predator & death merchant. They need Cuomo to hold office & keep secrets.”

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. But how bad will it get?

A recent study devised forecasts for the next 25 years if vaccination rates decline by various rates. A ten-per-cent drop in measles vaccination, for example, would lead to some 11 million additional cases.

An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.

As US government authorities can no longer be relied upon to provide reliable medical information, the American Medical Association and 78 other medical societies have written an open letter to the American public underscoring the importance of vaccines.
www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

Heat Exhaustion A spark of hope in a limbo that feels like hell.

"I’ve said time and time again that you can’t vote out the mafia, and that's true. But you can try not voting IN the mafia. It won’t change everything. But it’s a start."
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“People fear a system crashing down because they don’t understand that it already happened and they’ve been living in wreckage sold to them as privilege. “ Ain’t this the damn truth!

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.

"The United States *was* the largest donor to Gavi, whose work is estimated to have saved the lives of 17 million children around the world over the past two decades."

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Mass murderer.

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Dr. Nancy Malek @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social is an amazing science communicator.

Check out her WHN blogpost whn.global/why-i-still-... and her latest YouTube video:

CDC to hire former head of anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. Lyn Redwood, who spread debunked claims about vaccines, will be in the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, multiple CDC officials tell CBS News.

RFK Jr. has just appointed another anti-vax liar to the CDC. Lyn Redwood, former head of the same misinformation factory that paid RFK Jr. to lie about vaccines, will now work at the CDC.

Every day it gets worse. The U.S. government is subjecting Americans to a disinformation campaign.