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We need to make sure the risks for people in Australia is properly considered before we allow US beef imports. Cattle feed-lots use lots of antibiotics in the US including last resort human antibiotic groups. So large numbers of Superbugs in their meat. abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0…

Just read one of the most ridiculous claims in a scientific journal discussion I've ever seen 👀 a therapeutic approach to gut microbiome to improve lung health impacts from air pollution 🤯 in rural Uganda! read on if you want to see how..1/n

Less than 200 years ago, one in three Dutch children died before the age of five— Losing a child is one of the worst things that can happen to a parent. Imagine living in a world where there was a one-in-three chance your child would die. This wasn't just the reality for your

One in 10 young children on NDIS as new disability scheme stalls theage.com.au/politics/feder… This is off the rails. 15% of 6 yr old boys meet criteria 4 permanent severe disability? While adults with schizophrenia & other SMI grossly neglected. Now under 1 ministry - time to get real

This is a fascinating thread on a bit of a taboo subject - colorectal cancer Here is the puzzling thing: Uncle John Returns found that the cancer rate grows for each age band ... with people born as of 1975 So ... what changed in the UK in 1975?

children who were babies during the pandemic have fewer words and may struggle more with higher-level thinking skills. "The overall picture across the evidence is that communication seems to be something that might have been impacted," says Nicola Botting bbc.com/future/article…

1.6 billion students had their education disrupted. When schools closed, large portions of learning passed to parents who home-schooled their children. Children without access to computers or reliable internet connections inevitably suffered more. bbc.com/future/article…

In 2023 in US, a wide-ranging report on effects of pandemic on children, "across all measures of school engagement and learning outcomes, students appear to be worse off" than they would have been without the pandemic. bbc.com/future/article…

"across all measures of school engagement and learning outcomes, students appear to be worse off" The effects are particularly pronounced among those from low-income families and marginalised communities, a pattern that crops up repeatedly bbc.com/future/article…

Chillingly, the report concludes that the losses in learning that occurred during the pandemic era could have lasting economic implications once these children reach adulthood. bbc.com/future/article…

lasting economic implications once these children reach adulthood. recent study tried to quantify the learning loss, using global test score data. mathematics scores declined an average of 14% – roughly equal to seven months of learning for a student. bbc.com/future/article…

Across Europe, children lost the equivalent of one-to-three months'-worth of learning, with some countries such as Poland and Greece seeing three times that level. Even more significant effects were found in countries including Brazil, Mexico, South Africa bbc.com/future/article…

A major review of 42 studies across 15 different countries over a year and a half of the pandemic estimated that pupils lost a third of a school year's worth of learning due to the shutdowns. bbc.com/future/article…

Prof Peter Collignon And our research in 5 countries found that reopening schools during Delta and Omicron did not alter existing trajectories of adult COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths Schools should not have closed. journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-…

Seasonal mortality in Scandinavia - how did the pandemic years affect the trend? No baselines/excess estimates, just a visualization of rates for "July-June flu seasons" since 2012, with a linear trend-line for the whole period. One country stands out as least "disturbed"🇸🇪 1/

Simon Faire Ian Solliec Jean Fisch Which is why using age band rates is going to be a better calculation than raw numbers.

When discussing Lyme disease, someone inevitably chimes in to claim it was made in a government lab. It wasn't. The earliest known human Lyme disease case is Ötzi the Iceman, who was alive 5,300 years ago.

Between 1990 and 2019, total cancer-related disability increased substantially. But this was because the population got larger and older. The happier news is that, at each age, cancer-related disability rates declined.

Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by bacteria, was responsible for as many as one-quarter of all deaths in the US and Europe during parts of the 18th and 19th centuries. However, as we see in the chart for England and Wales, deaths from TB have declined

Childhood pneumonia deaths have plummeted in Nepal, and more lives can still be saved— In the early 1980s, Nepal’s children suffered from some of the highest death rates from pneumonia in the world, with over 1,400 deaths for every 100,000 children under five. That meant around