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A Food-Safety System Under Strain: The answer book has been out in public for years now. Project2025 is the Republican design to dismantle democracy in America and destabilize infrastructure that protects many Americans. That includes making Americans sick by dismantling food inspections. By weakening the country’s food-safety infrastructure the food supply becomes vulnerable to the …
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A new clinical study has been released this year that is demonstrating promising treatment options for pancreatic cancer. Background: Available 2L therapies offer limited clinical benefit in mPDAC with reported mPFS of 3–4 mo and mOS of 6–7 mo. Aberrant RAS pathway activation is the key driver of PDAC, with oncogenic RAS mutations (mut) identified …
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Since the global pandemic began anti-intellectualism in Republican states has only spread. The link between the widespread embrace of conspiracy theory and Republican/conservative identity is commonplace. Ideological rationale appears to govern Republican thought, and not any evidence based policy. Conspiratorial thinking has steered growing segments of the Republican base toward anti‑vaccine positions—resulting in tangible harm, …
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HHS and anti-vaxx proponent, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was anticipated to make sweeping changes across the nation’s public health architecture (HHS.gov). With a $2‑trillion budget and oversight of institutions such as the CDC, FDA, and NIH, HHS stands at the core of America’s epidemic defense—and Kennedy’s tenure has unleashed a string of controversies that have …
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A groundbreaking study published on August 11, 2025, reports that researchers have engineered a synthetic glycosystem—a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle—that can prevent SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus behind COVID‑19, from infecting human lung cells with an efficacy of nearly 99 % (Source: News-Medical | Phys.org.) Mimicking Nature: Polysialoside-Based Decoys The nanoparticle is coated with polysialosides, polymers made of repeating …
Opinion. As American Republicans begin confirmation of their key departments including a known anti-vaxxer for Secretary of Health–Robert F Kennedy Jr., and as the White House strips massive funding for key health research and innovation programs (like cancer), it’s seems the current mayhem is not merely a part from the right-wing political playbook, but also …
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In many regions in North America, since Christmas, the spike in influenza A has been pronounced, curiously with COVID numbers slowing during the same period. This acts a reminder for many to not only update your seasonal vaccinations in flu and COVID, but to continue protecting yourself from respiratory infections. Some regions showing spikes in …
Moderna and Pfizer in the lead with Sputnik not far behind. Full details of the research so you can continue to arm yourself with science and not conspiracy theories. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext
At the publishing of this article Canada has now emerged as the world leader in terms of single doses as a percentage of population. The access to COVID-19 vaccines is a question of concern, however. Right now, as the Delta variant continues at a breakneck speed, countries that were not at the front of the …
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Ahead or behind? There is a clear association between countries that have money, and those that produce vaccines within its borders. Poorer nations will likely wait a year before enough vaccines arrive. That means the top countries fighting for supply right now, America leading the way, are very lucky to fighting over anything at all. …