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skryChewing gum is plastic."chemical analysis shows that gum contains styrene-butadiene (the durable synthetic chemical used to make car tyres), polyethylene (the plastic used to make carrier bags and bottles) and polyvinyl acetate (woodglue) as well as some sweetener and flavouring." <a href="https://theconversation.com/chewing-gum-is-plastic-pollution-not-a-litter-problem-251662" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/chewing-gum-is-plastic-pollution-not-a-litter-problem-251662</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microplastic</a>

Ænðr E. Feldstraw<a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@georgetakei</a> expect a whole new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medicinal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicinal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> spur to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genderaffirm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genderaffirm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/masculinitity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinitity</a>

Flipboard Tech DeskOne of us who works at the tech desk may have eaten five pieces of pizza last night — without any awareness of the total calories. It might have been a good opportunity to use Cal AI, an app where users can upload a photo of their meal and receive a calorie count that has a purported 90% accuracy. Cal AI isn’t the first digital calorie counter, but it has a 4.8-star rating on the Apple App Store and over 1 million downloads on Google Play. <a href="https://flipboard.com/@Techcrunch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Techcrunch</a> has more on this app developed by a pair of teenagers.<a href="https://flip.it/OV_Lwq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/OV_Lwq</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apps</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Nutrition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nutrition</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a>

Unseen JapanJapan’s experienced a spike in recent years of young people – particularly teen girls – overdosing on prescription or over-the-counter meds. To counter this, the government released a new PR campaign that was so roundly booed they deleted it days later. <a href="https://unseen-japan.com/anti-overdose-campaign-sheep-japan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unseen-japan.com/anti-overdose-campaign-sheep-japan/</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/unseenjapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unseenjapan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/ujwebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ujwebsite</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a>

FlipboardWhen Spanish colonizers established a town in the mountains of Bolivia in the 1500s, they might have expected to expand their communities by having babies, but they could not. While Indigenous folks raised families, not a single child of European descent was born for decades. It was all down to the lack of oxygen at altitude, which the settlers were not genetically adapted to deal with. <a href="https://mstdn.science/@KnowableMag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KnowableMag</a> reports on how scientists are now studying this to see if they can help pregnant people whose bodies are struggling to provide enough oxygen to their fetuses, at any altitude. <a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/overcoming-risks-of-pregnancy-at-high-elevation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/overcoming-risks-of-pregnancy-at-high-elevation</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Pregnancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pregnancy</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

ProPublicaA Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance. —St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Idaho</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abortion</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Hospital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hospital</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a>

ProPublicaNational Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval —Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vaccines</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFK</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Government</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

ProPublicaAfter Vernor’s breathing machine stopped working, a Lincare representative promised his mother a company respiratory therapist would stay in contact “until we get him a new machine.”But she didn’t hear from Lincare until 7 days later, the same day Vernor died. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Healthcare</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SleepApnea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SleepApnea</a>

Unseen JapanA new ad from Japan's government meant to curb a rising trend in overdoses among the country's young instead led to harsh criticism online, with some saying the cringe 30-second spot featuring animated sheep just gives people advice they've already tried. <a href="https://unseen-japan.com/anti-overdose-campaign-sheep-japan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unseen-japan.com/anti-overdose-campaign-sheep-japan/</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/unseenjapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unseenjapan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/ujwebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ujwebsite</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mentalhealth</a>

AI6YR BenNBC News: Measles outbreak surpasses 200 cases in Texas and New MexicoMany people in the community are forgoing testing, a health official said."...The reported number of cases is likely a large undercount because many people aren't getting tested, said Katherine Wells, director of public health at the health department in Lubbock, Texas. ...A health food store in Seminole has become a gathering place for families with visibly sick children seeking medical advice. They’re often given cod liver oil,,,," <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-surpasses-200-cases-texas-new-mexico-rcna195258" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-surpasses-200-cases-texas-new-mexico-rcna195258</a><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outbreak</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/antivaxxers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivaxxers</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/tx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tx</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/nm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nm</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a>

Flipboard“The cost of Trump’s executive disorder is measured in lives” is the headline of this piece in <a href="https://mas.to/@thecontinent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thecontinent</a>. The team at the Africa-wide weekly newspaper break down how the U.S. government’s freeze on international aid has affected HIV and tuberculosis programs in Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “American aid to the global HIV response is channelled through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar). It is the world’s biggest HIV response fund and it supports – or supported – up to 20-million people,” they write. <a href="https://continent.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-trumps-executive-disorder" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://continent.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-trumps-executive-disorder</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DemocraticRepublicOfCongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticRepublicOfCongo</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Uganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uganda</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Mozambique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mozambique</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Zimbabwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zimbabwe</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAID</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

Flipboard50 years ago, Tim Bliss and Terje Lømo worked in the Oslo lab of the late neuroscientist Per Andersen, where they made a momentous discovery: the fact that when a neuron signals to another neuron frequently enough, the second one will later respond more strongly to new signals for hours afterwards. The phenomenon is called long-term potentiation (LTP) and it’s fundamental to how we learn and remember. <a href="https://mstdn.science/@KnowableMag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KnowableMag</a> talked to Bliss and Lømo about their discovery, and to other neuroscientists about how they’re applying knowledge about LTP to their research about memory disorders, chronic pain and more. <a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2025/memory-formation-long-term-potentiation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2025/memory-formation-long-term-potentiation</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MemoryLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MemoryLoss</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ChronicPain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChronicPain</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺Plants and animals are different [citation needed], but we've both evolved on the same Earth. So the physiology of animals is also affected by exposure to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LightPollution</a>, and this extends to humans and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HumanHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanHealth</a>.We have the problem that we spend most of the day indoors under artificial lights (much darker than natural day), and then spend the evening indoors under artificial lights (much brighter than natural night). Especially for night owls, this lack of a clear day/night signal screws up our internal <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Circadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Circadian</a> clocks. These clocks control things like metabolism, so messing with them causes <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> problems: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322231193967" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322231193967</a>

ProPublicaGeorgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year —Before ProPublica’s reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, the names of committee members had been publicly released. Now, Georgia says releasing the identities would be a violation of state law. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-maternal-mortality-committee-members-names-not-released?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-maternal-mortality-committee-members-names-not-released?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abortion</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a>

Aral BalkanSo, anyone up for a measles party?<a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia</a>Via <a href="https://queerfedi.com/@siobhan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@siobhan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/measels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/immuneSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immuneSystem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/amnesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amnesia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a>

ProPublicaOne million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.The USAID programs were cut anyway.<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAID</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aid</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disease</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

Tadonic the FlautulentThe American Medical Association has a YouTube page, where they are doing daily updates on bird flu, TB, measles and other outbreaks, as the CDC is no longer allowed to do this.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@americanmedicalassociation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@americanmedicalassociation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BirdFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BirdFlu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AMA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resources</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>

Kim Perales"At least 146 measles cases have been ID'ed in W TX, incl. 20 hospitalizations & 1 death. "MX has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to TX & 7 states due to a measles outbreak.""Thanks to vaccines, <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Measles</a> was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Anti-vaxers hosting measles parties are sending their own kids to the hospital." -J Cabellero<a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> is the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HHS</a> Sec.The US has a <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> crisis.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a><a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-official-warns-against-measles-parties-as-outbreak-keeps-growing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-official-warns-against-measles-parties-as-outbreak-keeps-growing/</a> <a href="https://www.borderreport.com/news/health/mexicans-warned-not-to-travel-to-texas-over-measles/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.borderreport.com/news/health/mexicans-warned-not-to-travel-to-texas-over-measles/</a>

Jen SorensenThis week's comic: "Protecting the children"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#children</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a>

FlipboardOver the past few years, a few people in the U.S. and China have benefited from xenotransplantation — inter-species transplants — but getting the organs to function correctly is a challenge. <a href="https://mstdn.science/@KnowableMag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KnowableMag</a> takes a look at the current state of things: Which animals provide the best match (minipigs), techniques to avoid organ rejection, ethical issues, concerns about virus spillover, and who will pay for transplant procedures. <a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/pig-organs-in-people-the-future-of-cross-species-transplants" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/pig-organs-in-people-the-future-of-cross-species-transplants</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biology</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicine</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OrganTransplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OrganTransplants</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

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