#Lebanon: Since the early hours of this morning, 100ks of people have been fleeing their towns and homes, following relentless Israeli bombings on several areas.
Our teams have witnessed large waves of displacement, severe traffic congestion and people desperately seeking safety elsewhere.
REACTION: Israeli High Court grants urgent request from 19 humanitarian organisations providing aid into Gaza www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Firm that went bust owing £650k to HMRC offers staff Las Vegas trip after being bought by ex-owner
President Zelenskyy:
Ukraine didn’t choose this war& it's wrong to assume that this is a permanent arrangement that others can stay safe behind Ukraine forever.Ukrainians are people,not terminators.
🔴The Lesson Jim Ratcliffe Could Learn From My Immigrant Father-in-Law
The billionaire Manchester United owning tax exile says Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants but he could learn much from the hard working migrants who have made their lives in this country, says @sangitamyska.bsky.social
‘Point-of-no-return’: Lock-in of a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, warn scientists
- Continued global heating could set an irreversible course by triggering tipping points, but the public and politicians are largely unaware
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
U.S. Olympic men’s cross-country ski team member Ben Ogden, second from left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 5 at the competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left, Ogden’s teammates are Zak Ketterson, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)
Masked members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team pose for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 after a news conference at their competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left , Jessie Diggins, Hailey Swirbul, Sammy Smith, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe and Rosie Brennan. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)
Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas White @moru-mip.bsky.social
Nick was a visionary in #malaria treatment whose work transformed global health.
He will be remembered with great respect and affection
Read our tribute 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...
Wind power could soon come from the sky as China has successfully tested a megawatt-class airborne turbine that generates electricity while hovering 2000 metres up.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/GhXg
Emblem of the World Health Organization on a glass door.
WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States
WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe.
Full statement: bit.ly/46dT0HF
Screenshot from STAT article that says "What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
Research ties long #COVID in kids to chronic school absenteeism, learning problems
Long COVID was also linked to a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Nadio Calvino, President of the European Investment Bank,
"I think the EU is a superpower"
"And I think we need to believe in ourselves and our capabilities"
"We are not a defence superpower because the European Union is a project for peace"
"So it makes sense that we need time to ramp it up"
'Partnerships become even more important because together we can go further. Our experience with the Gates Foundation, @gavi.org, and @who.int is excellent.
🎙️President @NadiaCalvino, #WEF26 Breakthroughs in women’s health panel.
🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 80,000 signatures!
Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed today!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
From @apnews.com: The US is at risk of losing its #measles elimination status as falling vaccination rates have given the virus a foothold
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social stresses people who aren’t vaccinated should get vaccinated, warning that the message on this has not been clear enough
More here ⤵️
Five life lessons I wish I'd been told when I was younger... blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2025/01/five...
🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
A photo of a tomb for Spanish royalty at El Escorial.
The decline of child mortality, in one picture—
Some weeks ago, our colleague @bastianherre.bsky.social went to El Escorial, a royal palace near Madrid. Many of the Spanish kings are buried there, along with their family members.
US respiratory virus activity reaches high levels as flu, RSV spread
Cases rise as government leaders minimize the need for vaccines.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
Andrew Wakefield says that the unvaccinated must be protected at all cost “because they’re going to be looking after the damaged children in the future”
🤮 If you’re a Brit like me, you feel sick to the stomach when you think about the vile things the fraudster Andrew Wakefield did
⛔️ He was struck off the UK medical register for "serious professional misconduct"
❤️ But RFK Jr & his anti-vaxx group CHD adore him (of course!) & boosted his US career
'For Venezuelans, Maduro's capture is about far more than oil'
✍️ Alexandra Panzarelli for LBC Opinion
There's a lot of inhomogeneity in the data, so if you want to cherry-pick like @mikehoney.bsky.social did, you can find other countries where fatalities have increased, though on average the trend is down.
road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
5/5
It's always fun when work you've been part of makes it out of the ivory tower and into the popular press!
Coverage of our paper on brainstem deformation in ME/CFS and Long COVID w/ @renegaderesearch.bsky.social.
www.iflscience.com/what-causes-...
‼️GREAT piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on how RFK Jr has left our “vaccine policies in disarray & our access to vaccines increasingly imperiled”
The relentless norm-shattering isn’t “a byproduct of Mr. Kennedy’s larger plans; it is a central feature”
🎁 Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
