Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...
Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...
Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients.
Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Kelly Doran, Ethan Cowan, Marya Gwadz, Donna Shelley, Chuck Cleland, and Jennifer McNeely - Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients
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βFather Brian Shanley is violating New York state law & ignoring decades of St. Johnβs institutional practice & centuries of Catholic social teaching around respect for labor & workers."
β Sophie Bell, St. John's University AAUP President
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@standupforscience.bsky.social pulls every lever www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s... @statnews.com
"...we think people care about science. We think people care about biomedical innovation."
"We think that people care about not getting polio. Like, itβs really simple. Thatβs our strategy."
π¨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act β a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin's new role could grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare.
Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harmβs way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.
The secretary of Miami-Dade Countyβs GOP started a group chat for conservative students β and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
Cohort study of ~11.5M singleton births across 677 counties between 1968-1988, aggregated to the county-month level, finds community water fluoridation was not associated with statistically significant changes in birth weight.
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BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
What a public health nightmare. βAt least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrantsβ¦ Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated. The outbreak has closed the detention center to visitorsβ @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
These NOFO delays have created so many gaps in longstanding programs, including programs that are congressionally mandated.
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U.S. officials have identified four of the U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone on Sunday. They were Army Reserve officers from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio. nyti.ms/4r9Cnoa
This is what Donald Trump used to say about war.
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Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday.
She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.
New: At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants, Democratic U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said Tuesday.
Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated.
Our new measures of dating app aggression among MSM are here!! π¨Now published in JSR with co-authors @jackiewoerner.bsky.social @ericschrimshaw.bsky.social and @ahlewis.bsky.social !!
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Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
"These cuts will impact communities throughout the state, will threaten the lives of people with HIV and will lead to spikes in new HIV diagnoses and a rise in health care costs as people with HIV develop serious infections requiring hospitalization."
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Quick takes: 2 new ACIP members, stalled NIH funds, growing HIV stigma
The White House Office of Management and Budget has been slow to authorize the release of funds to the NIH.
"There is no scientific evidence to support the assumption that banning minors from accessing services would have a positive effect on their mental health and development." www.politico.eu/article/age-...
"H.I.V. medications suppress the virus to undetectable levels, eliminating the chance of spreading the virus to others, so interrupting treatment may lead to an increase in new infections."
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1. T is the male sex hormone.
2. T drives aggression and sexual violence.
3. T supercharges your love life.
4. T caused the 2008 market crash and boom-bust cycles.
5. The more T, the better the athlete.
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The shooting happened as the venue was closing.
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Hard-hitting reporting from the Brooklyn College student paper, with firsthand interviews from students & staff on NYU Langoneβs latest decision to stop gender-affirming care for minors.https://vanguard.blog.brooklyn.edu/2026/02/nyu-langone-ceases-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-for-a-second-time/
Medical experiments on prisoners?
Where have we seen this before?