"But applied to widespread infectious outbreaks, the MAHA prescription is still deeply flawed. Being generally healthy doesn’t guarantee survival, or even better outcomes against infectious diseases—especially when an entire population encounters a pathogen against which it has no immunity."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/11/nih-pandemic-miasma/684979/

#PublicHealth #HHS #NIH #preparedness #GermTheory #miasma #MAHA #vaccines #immunizations #diet #nutrition #food #exercise #prevention

"Do not introduce #NIH #RustLang dependencies in your #Python package when there's no performance, security or any other benefit to it, and it just limits portability and creates more work for packagers" challenge.

Difficulty: impossible.

#packaging

“A lot of groups are doing this monitoring and they’re like, ‘Oh, look at this and this and this,’” said Tracey Woodruff, director of the University of California, San Francisco’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. “But it doesn’t address the underlying structural problem.”

https://undark.org/2025/11/26/infant-formula-oversight-maha/

#PublicHealth #formula #food #nutrition #FoodSafety #lead #research #EPA #NIH #HeavyMetals #toxins #HHS #FDA #USpol

A podcast series about the AIDS crisis. It has the plight, the fight, the light, and in the last episode you get to meet the greatest US Surgeon General you very likely have never heard of, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, an African American woman from Arkansas.

Here or wherever you get your podcasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXsiMUuXJ4&list=PLKp5Qb0lZxNFS_oxe6cWDGeMmzh0FJY1n&index=8

#podcast #aids #healthcare #research #CDC #NIH

"The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of transgender people, one of the nation’s most marginalized populations."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/transgender-patients-us-cancer-registries-trump-only-male-female-unknown/

#healthcare #gender #lgbtq #transgender #cancer #NCI #NIH #CDC #data

"His institute’s covid contrarians seek to limit the government’s role in protecting Americans from disease. The Austin, Texas-based think tank has received millions from donors whose identities are shielded in tax filings. And in recent months, its associates have catapulted to the highest levels of government."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/brownstone-institute-vaccines-acip-cdc-jeffrey-tucker-bhattacharya-kulldorff/

#healthcare #PublicHealth #covid #pregnancy #vaccines #immunizations #HHS #NIH #ACIP #misinformation #texas #USpol

Getting my feet wet creating audio plugins in Rust with nih-plug and vizia.

Chose to write a background MIDI recorder and it's going surprisingly well so far. Will need a stylistic overhaul at some point, but functionality fist.

This is with note generator for debugging, but it works within Bitwig Studio recording my controllers, too.

#rust #nih-plug #bitwig #midi #plugin #vizia

Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts, according to a new report.

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/tNlpJa

#Science #NIH #Health #Trump