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A CDC team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the US was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdcs-ivf-team-gutted-even-trump-calls-fertilization-president-rcna199261
CDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'

A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

NBC News
Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations: Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/lawsuit-aims-broadly-overturn-nih-s-grant-terminations
STAT+: Amgen’s rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel targeted for first-in-the-nation price limit in Colorado – Utah Colorado Biotech Networks

Texas Implements a New Ban on Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates https://undark.org/2023/11/14/texas-covid-vaccine/
Texas Implements a New Ban on Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates

The legislation, which applies to hospitals, could jeopardize the health of medically vulnerable people.

Undark Magazine

the iconic "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" cartoon just sold for $175,000

in case you want to know what art is worth when it's not an infinitely reproducible .jpg attached to a blockchain traded with made-up internet money

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/mainstream-illustration/peter-steiner-american-b-1940-on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you-re-a-dog-the-new-yorker-cartoon-july-1993ink/a/8137-71036.s

Vaccine heroes - a too familiar story for anyone who knows the histories of women scientists https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/02/12/brutal-science-system-mrna-pioneer
How Our Brutal Science System Almost Cost Us A Pioneer Of mRNA Vaccines | WBUR News

A doctor who witnessed the tribulations of mRNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó warns that science is naturally hard, but the system that puts make-or-break financial pressures on American scientists makes it even harder.

WBUR
#Climate #News: Extreme heat may hasten cognitive decline in vulnerable populations: A new study finds that ongoing extreme heat can worsen cognitive decline among vulnerable groups -- particularly Black older adults and those living in poor neighborhoods.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230815151126.htm
Extreme heat may hasten cognitive decline in vulnerable populations

A new study finds that ongoing extreme heat can worsen cognitive decline among vulnerable groups -- particularly Black older adults and those living in poor neighborhoods.

ScienceDaily
Montreal on a Snowy Evening
Richard Savoie
#CanadianPainting #Montreal #WalkingTheDog #snowy #quiet
EXTREMELY RARE footage of the elusive box jellyfish Chirodectes. Larger than a soccer ball, this jelly is a true ocean mystery, and this video is one of the only in existence, filmed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2021.
📽️Scuba Ventures Kavieng bit.ly/3FE29tL

"Officials said an initial surge was from influenza but the number of kids sick with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is unusually high and still increasing."

Unusually high?

The data and I beg to differ.

It took me 5 minutes of fact checking using published data the work the journalist should have done.

source: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/surveillance/respiratory-virus-detections-canada/2021-2022.html

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mandatory-ot-staff-vacation-cancellations-possible-as-stollery-sees-rush-of-sick-kids-1.6202645

Respiratory Virus Detections/Isolations in Canada 2021 – 2022 - Canada.ca

Respiratory Virus Detection Surveillance System data from Canadian laboratories on the number of tests, and positive tests, for influenza and other respiratory viruses.