John Ross

Proposed changes to childhood hep B vaccination would increase chronic hep B infections in kids by 83% #IDSky

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

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In the 1980s, I spent a summer driving a cab in a small Canadian city with one gay nightclub. A number of regular fares were gay men who cabbed it because there was a non-trivial chance they could be beaten to death outside the club

Duh, every medical student knows that if you fall asleep with blood clots Freddy Krueger shows up and makes the blood clots worse

Forget about the strategic petroleum reserve, time to worry about the strategic maple syrup reserve

Flu, covid, RSV and shingles vaccines may do more than keep you from getting sick. They may protect your HEART. Flu infection was tied to a sixfold jump in heart attack hospitalizations the week after

Breaking Bad in France: you get a sick leave, you get treated in the National Health Care System. You get well. You get back to work. The End.

42% of Americans with cancer deplete their life savings within two years. Breaking Bad was a documentary

“Deaths of despair” is crappy framing that makes it sound like America needs more Jesus. These are really “deaths of poverty.” When you bust unions, freeze the minimum wage, smash the social safety net, and increase income inequality, don’t be surprised when life expectancy drops.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Blue Henry (Der Blauer Heinrich), a portable spittoon for tuberculosis patients, circa 1900. The patient would pop open the lid and cough directly into the funnel inside (as opposed to, say, coughing into a friend's face or spitting on the floor). The bottom unscrews for easy drainage.

Hospitalization leads to deflozination dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... h/t @brendonneuen.bsky.social Often sick day rules cause this. Zero evidence to support sick day rules. Time to stop reflex discontinuation of useful medications #MedSky

RFK Jr fudging the measles death count like Jerry Lundegaard smudging the VIN numbers in Fargo

oh my GOD. we’ve lost a giant

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A sixth measles death in PA. www.pennlive.com/health/2026/...

Dumbass Northern flicker (possibly drunk on nearby crabapples) crashed through my window screen and got stuck between the screen and the window. Even after I enlarged the opening, it still took him a while to get out (he’s fine now btw).

Ukraine responds to Trump’s deal with Putin by striking russian fuel export terminal in Rostov.

"Are you into Spartans for the pederasty, the infanticide, or do you just have a kink for getting stomped on by Boeotians?"

"Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East," sounds like a totally normal and not at all shady thing

Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio

Musk advocating for Quebec separatism then following it up by saying Alberta & Saskatchewan should leave too gives away this is just about dissolving Canada for being lib, but I'm glad he's too dumb to realize it undermines separatists' chances by further associating them with right-wing Americanism

The annual curve of flu cases is starting to rise sharply in the US. This would be a great week to get vaccinated, if you haven't already

"Leopard Frog", oil on canvas board, 4x6", 2026- $200(Cdn) #art #frogs #sciart

RIP Eva Marie Saint

Anyone who saw the massive success of oleaginous 80s fraudsters like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Faye wasn't surprised by the rise of DJT

Hopefully, this should appear as a gift article: The elephant in the room (Globe and Mail). This is about Alberta separatists getting help from Trump supporters in the US. #abpoli

Plague epidemics were a regular thing in Europe for four centuries, but they haven't been since 1722. That's because most of us don't live in close proximity to rats, fleas, and lice anymore. Comparisons to Wuhan and COVID are grossly overblown.

Insanely dumb, even by Ron DeSantis standards. This will drive out the tourists that are the engine of Florida’s economy *and* defund schools, MAGA police departments, and mosquito control in a state with a raging dengue fever outbreak

The Pennsylvania Department of Health just confirmed a 5th measles-related death. This really suggests that the outbreak is a lot bigger than the official numbers. The average case fatality rate for measles is about 1 to 3 deaths per 1,000 reported cases in developed countries.