Is modern medicine losing its soul?
A poem about modern medicine's loss of the human touch. True healing is found not in charts and scans, but in listening, empathy, and the doctor-patient relationship.
Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register
Shed where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England list
New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay • Ontario Nurses' Association
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China seeks self-reliance in science in next five-year plan
Beijing wants to double down on advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and basic research.
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets | Science | AAAS
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
School Isn’t About Learning — It’s About Obedience - Sofo Archon
School is supposed to be about learning. But for most of us, it’s really about obedience. And that lesson sticks longer than any textbook.
Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster’s COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education
Free-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.
Medscape: Canada Breaks From US on Accreditation of Medical Schools
Canada is transitioning from a method of joint US-Canada medical school accreditation to a purely Canadian accreditation system.
Google to GOP: Biden pushed us to remove Covid misinfo : r/google
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Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history | Science | AAAS
Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research
Trump’s autism initiative embraces little-tested vitamin as a treatment | Science | AAAS
FDA to approve leucovorin despite questions about whom it might help
Covid-19 falls off list of top 10 causes of death in US; overall death rates also decreased for all race and ethnicity groups : r/sciences
Medscape: CDC Chops Foodborne Illness Surveillance
Limits on FoodNet tracking may impact outbreak response.
Medscape: Ousted CDC Head Says She Was Pressured to Preapprove Vaccine Panel Recommendations
Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez said on Thursday she was pushed to rubber-stamp the decisions of Health Secretary Robert F....
Scientific objectivity is a myth — here's why. Cultural ideas are inextricably entwined with the people who do science, the questions they ask, the assumptions they hold and the conclusions they land on. : r/EverythingScience
Why Canada is ill-equipped to tackle the growing threat of fake science : r/onguardforthee
When Science Becomes the Enemy
When Science Becomes the Enemy
From funding cuts to violence: How mRNA became ground zero in the war on expertise
Jess Steier, DrPH and Aimee Pugh Bernard, PhD
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A single shot of a flu drug could outperform vaccines—and protect for an entire season | Science | AAAS
One injection of a long-lasting drug showed up to 76% efficacy in a large trial
The hidden cost of health care: burnout, disillusionment, and systemic betrayal
Burnout and disillusionment among physicians are not personal failings but rational responses to a profit-driven health care system that devalues healing and demands unsustainable sacrifice.
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
The Docs Aren't Alright.
The mental health and suicide crisis among clinicians and first responders is a public health emergency that we must urgently address.
Doctors and Nurses Are ‘Living in a Constant Crisis’ as Covid Fills Hospitals
Hospitalizations across the country have increased 20 percent in two weeks, taxing already exhausted health care workers as the United States confronts the Omicron variant.
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'Completely Out of Control': China Says 'US Epidemic' Threat to Rest of the World
'In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.'
Heroes of the pandemic: Canadian professor has a peanut butter sniff test to combat COVID-19
'We would be able to identify asymptomatic carriers, even before they were conscious of losing their smell,' says Dana Small
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Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education
They can use their position and collective power to influence institutional actions and mobilize to support more vulnerable colleagues.
About 100,000 nurses left the workforce due to pandemic-related burnout and stress, survey finds | CNN
About 100,000 registered nurses in the US left the workplace due to the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the results of a survey published Thursday by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
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