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fromNature
1 day ago

Viruses allegedly stolen from high-security lab cause stir in Brazil

A researcher was arrested in Brazil for allegedly stealing virus samples from a high-security laboratory, raising concerns in the virology community.
#vaccine-policy
fromArs Technica
4 days ago
Public health

RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel's charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has restructured the CDC's vaccine advisory panel to empower anti-vaccine perspectives and focus on alleged vaccine risks.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago
Public health

How RFK, Jr.'s controversial beliefs are shaping Americans' health

Secretary Kennedy has undermined public health practices by restricting vaccine recommendations, cutting mRNA vaccine funding, promoting unproven treatments, and amplifying fringe health theories contradicting scientific evidence.
Public health
fromArs Technica
4 days ago

RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel's charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has restructured the CDC's vaccine advisory panel to empower anti-vaccine perspectives and focus on alleged vaccine risks.
Public health
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How RFK, Jr.'s controversial beliefs are shaping Americans' health

Secretary Kennedy has undermined public health practices by restricting vaccine recommendations, cutting mRNA vaccine funding, promoting unproven treatments, and amplifying fringe health theories contradicting scientific evidence.
#cdc
fromEsquire
2 weeks ago
Public health

The CDC, Once the World's Most Important Public Health Organization, Is Now the Church of Medical Woo-Woo

Healthcare
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

As RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find

A new CDC director must balance Senate approval, Kennedy's anti-vaccine stance, and the Make America Healthy Again base.
Public health
fromEsquire
2 weeks ago

The CDC, Once the World's Most Important Public Health Organization, Is Now the Church of Medical Woo-Woo

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significantly damaged the CDC since his confirmation, leading to mass resignations and a decline in public health effectiveness.
fromThe Washington Post
3 weeks ago

J. Michael Bishop, who illuminated genetic roots of cancer, dies at 90

Dr. Bishop and Varmus showed that oncogenes - genes that cause cancer - are not foreign genes introduced into the body by viruses, as was widely believed at the time. Instead, normal versions of oncogenes are present in healthy cells, where they help regulate normal growth.
Cancer
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

Jeffrey Epstein Had an Obsession With DNA. It's Part of a Dark History.

A strange part of the strange life of Jeffrey Epstein was his obsession with the genome. And with ways to "improve" that genome-including by adding more of his own genes to humanity's gene pool. Epstein, culpable for so much, was also a believer in eugenics, the manipulation of reproduction and of genes to create "better" humans.
Right-wing politics
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Masked mitochondria slip into cells to treat disease in mice

When mitochondria are exposed to tissue or blood, they lose the electrical gradient across their outer membrane. Mitochondria that lack such a gradient are recognized by a cell's internal machinery as damaged and quickly destroyed. The vast majority of previous studies involved injecting 'naked' mitochondria directly into the bloodstream or tissue sites, but the approach isn't very efficient, so researchers often have to use 'ridiculous' doses of mitochondria.
Medicine
Coronavirus
fromwww.npr.org
4 weeks ago

Vaccine critics keep the pressure on, even as RFK Jr. shifts focus

The MAHA Institute promotes the claim that vaccines cause a 'massive epidemic of vaccine injury' affecting 1.4 million children annually, despite overwhelming medical evidence confirming vaccine safety and effectiveness.
Public health
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept's expert panels

The Trump administration terminated or undermined numerous federal health advisory committees across NIH, CDC, and FDA, including panels on vaccines, autism, and disease prevention, causing significant damage to biomedical research and public health infrastructure.
Coronavirus
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Scientists discover clue in viruses that reveal if they were lab-made

A new study analyzing seven viral outbreaks found no unusual genetic changes in Covid or most viruses before emergence, supporting a natural zoonotic origin rather than lab creation.
Science
from48 hills
2 months ago

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good. - 48 hills

Peter Duesberg promoted false AIDS denialism claiming HIV is harmless and blamed drugs, causing harm by undermining effective HIV treatment and prevention.
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Jarvis: One year of RFK Jr. has left public health devastated

Kennedy's first year as health secretary undermined public health, eroded trust, disrupted vaccine guidance, and triggered mass departures of scientific staff.
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

'We weren't perfect', says bogus Covid lab accused

Faisal Shoukat and co-defendants are accused of running a fraudulent COVID-19 testing company that sent fake negative results, mishandled samples, and laundered money.
#neonatal-opioid-poisoning
#jeffrey-epstein
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Science

Jeffrey Epstein Had a Bizarre Obsession With "Improving" Human DNA, and He Was Emailing With Top Scientists About It

fromFuturism
2 months ago
Science

Jeffrey Epstein Had a Bizarre Obsession With "Improving" Human DNA, and He Was Emailing With Top Scientists About It

Cancer
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Douglas Hanahan, biologist: We don't necessarily need a cure, what we really need is cancer without disease'

Cancer cells acquire hallmarks: uncontrolled proliferation, evasion of growth barriers, resistance to programmed death, and relative immortality, driving tumor diversity and treatment variability.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Bill Gates denies allegations after Epstein email about 'trysts' and an STD is released

One of the emails, with the subject line "bill," suggests that Bill Gates had requested antibiotics for a sexually transmitted disease to "surreptitiously" give to his now ex-wife, Melinda French Gates. Another email said Boris had helped Bill Gates "get drugs," and helped facilitate "illicit trysts" between the billionaire Microsoft founder and "Russian girls" as well as "married women."
US politics
Medicine
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.'s NIH funds "absurd" study.

The National Cancer Institute is investigating ivermectin for anti-cancer properties despite no scientific evidence supporting its efficacy and prior debunked COVID-19 claims.
Science
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

New Stanford study points to vaccine that protects against multiple infections

A single vaccine that activates innate immunity provided mice broad protection against respiratory viruses, bacteria, and allergens, representing a new vaccination approach.
US politics
fromJezebel
1 month ago

RFK Jr. May Say No to Measles Vaccines, But He Was Once Not Above Doing Lines Off a Toilet

RFK Jr. said he attended daily pandemic addiction meetings, isn't afraid of COVID-19, and claimed he used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

A cure for HIV is in sight. Here's what scientists are working on. - LGBTQ Nation

I'm certainly confident that we're going to have a breakthrough within my career, and I have a good 10 to 15 years left. While antiretroviral (ARV) therapies are extending lives and keeping HIV at bay, and PrEP has the potential to effectively halt transmission of the virus, a cure has remained elusive. That's because the HIV virus itself is elusive, both co-opting the immune system and hiding from it.
Medicine
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

RFK Jr. Boasts He's Not Scared' of Germs Because He Used to Snort Cocaine Off of Toilet Seats'

I mean, for meI said, I don't care what happens, I'm going to a meeting every day,' he explained. And I said, I'm not scared of a germ; I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats. And I know this disease will kill me if I don't treat it, which means, for me, going to meetings every day.' He added, For me, it was survival.
US politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

The amazing cases of 9 people "cured" of HIV each contain clues about a possible cure - LGBTQ Nation

For more than a decade, doctors and researchers have announced that a handful of people around the world have been cured of HIV. Each of these patients has experienced long-term viral control - in some cases for over a decade - without antiretroviral therapy (ART), as AIDSMap notes, though some doctors describe them as being in "remission." While the patients have shown no signs of HIV since stopping ART, at least some uncertainty remains as to whether the virus could eventually rebound in them.
Medicine
Public health
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up

Bhattacharya delegates NIH leadership to deputies, is publicly visible as 'Podcast Jay', and is expected to enable RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda at the CDC.
US politics
fromFast Company
2 months ago

RFK Jr. disregards science and facts. These STEM experts are fighting back by running for Congress

Clinician-legislators can counter politicization of science and expand affordable healthcare access, including state-led insulin production and vaccine protections.
Public health
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.

Administrative actions and cuts disrupted vaccine data collection, jeopardizing outbreak detection and targeted vaccination outreach.
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Experts warn NIH director now leading CDC will push RFK Jr's agenda'

Jay Bhattacharya was named acting CDC director while retaining NIH directorship, consolidating power among a small group and raising concerns about vaccine policy.
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Doctors face-palm as RFK Jr.'s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot

If we take away all of the herd immunity, then does that switch, does that teeter-totter switch in a different direction?
Public health
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled

US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial for newborns in Guinea-Bissau was halted and cancelled over ethical concerns about withholding proven vaccines; redesign required before any restart.
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