12 years later, and the Olympic Games remain heavily sponsored by powerful corporations that surf on the halo effects of the Games to make profit whilst harming our health theguardian.com/society/2012/j…. Sign the petition below. Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Obesity Health Alliance Bite Back Children's Food Campaign

“For years, the process for developing and testing new drugs has focused disproportionately on male bodies — to the detriment of female patients”

🗳️Research: Public service deprivation feeds voter support for the far-right. ‘Europe’s far-right surge has a lesson for The Labour Party Party - fix the National Health Service #NHS to defeat Nigel Farage’s #ReformParty’ Prof. Catherine De Vries, Università Bocconi theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#CovidIsNotOver: ‘We live in #Europe's #Covid hotspots - and they're packed with tourists’ ‘Cases recently doubled in #Greece, #Cyprus, #Belgium, and #Ireland, while infections in #Malta and #Luxembourg rose by more than 300% between June and July’ inews.co.uk/news/world/eur…

Amendments to the International Health Regulations at the 2024 World Health Assembly represent much needed reform of #globalhealth law. Global health must meet the challenges of future public health emergencies, Dr Alexandra Phelan bmj.com/content/386/bm…

“Just like tobacco companies, alcohol companies have a long history of disrupting and delaying health policy, which is why the World Health Organization advises governments to protect against undue influence from the alcohol industry. theguardian.com/society/articl…

🇪🇺New Members of European Parliament Stine Bosse / Christine Pr. Laurent Castillo discuss European health priorities: 💊#EssentialMedicines 🔬#Innovation ⛑️#Prevention 💶Defend EU One Health budget 🗳️SANT Committee Press health subcommittee must become independent committee trendsanita.it/en/new-eurodep…

💉Study: Esoteric beliefs and complementary and alternative medicine #CAM (#Waldorf, #Homeopathy) negatively impact SARS-CoV-2 #immunization drivers, uptake and pediatric immunization views in #Germany. nature Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4154…

We are hosting a joint webinar on the role and value of behavioural science in optimising public health policy and practice. Register today to hear from FPH Vice-President Prof. Tracy Daszkiewicz and BSPHN Chair Dr Gráinne Dickerson. fph.org.uk/events-courses…

👋🏻Farewell X/Twitter: Spending more time on #BlueSky instead Enough of hate labelled as freedom of speech Join me bsky.app/profile/pauljb…

More leave #X after recent #ElonMusk riot comments "Half your followers are sexbots, most of the interesting people have moved somewhere else, the people still there are posting less and your timeline is just an endless stream of misery.” cityam.com/more-advertise…

The #Xodus to #Bluesky grows Enough of #toXic hate labelled as freedom of speech Join me at bsky.app/profile/pauljb…

UK – 3 in 10 users of #X, the social media platform formerly known as #Twitter, say they are considering leaving the site Join us on #BlueSky instead: bsky.app/profile/pauljb… research-live.com/article/news/a…

How to break up with your #X ‘Crucially, you will no longer be contributing to a platform thirsty for content and for ads and comfortable with a “both sides” approach to barefaced racism.’ Try #BlueSky instead: bsky.app/profile/pauljb… ft.com/content/3edd3c… via @ft

‘If #Twitter was a new social media network..we’d treat it like Truth Social or Gab – an outpost of the alt right – not the world’s “public square”. If your politics aren’t on the nasty right, the case for leaving is increasingly unarguable’ jonn elledge newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Why EU [and UN] leaders should get off Musk's X “if you prefer to hold your nose and stay on X, consider also that you are damaging not just your own brand but also causing financial and political harm in real life” European Commission EU One Health WHO/Europe euobserver.com/eu-and-the-wor…