#JasonCollins, the first openly #gay #NBA player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport for the past decade, died from brain #cancer, family said Tuesday. He was 47.

Collins told ESPN in November that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 #glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of #BrainCancer.

#health #medicine #LGBTQ #advocates #RepresentationMatters
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#RFKJr Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into #Vaccines Despite Recent Public Silence

“Health” Secy Robert F Kennedy Jr has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside the #HHS, a sprawling “research” effort is top priority.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #eugenics #disinformation #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #HealthInsurance #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #PublicHealth #Health #science #medicine #policy #USpol
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People stop freaking out about #HantaVirus. There is a variant first seen in the #Andes that can be transmitted human-to-human, and that's probably what got on the #cruiseShip based on its ports of call, but these things tend to peter out, it happens all the time, it is well-contained...

" #KLM #flightAttendant hospitalised with suspected hantavirus"

Oh fuck

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#PublicHealth #Disease #Epidemiology #Epidemic #Medicine #Virus

KLM flight attendant hospitalised with suspected hantavirus - DutchNews.nl

A KLM air stewardess has been hospitalised with hantavirus symptoms, according to the ministry of health. The woman was briefly in contact with one of the Dutch people that died after contracting the virus late last month.

^{Louis Gore-Langton (DutchNews.nl)}

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

^{cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

#SCOTUS restores #access to #abortion pill #mifepristone through telehealth, mail & pharmacies

#law #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
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A manufacturer of the #AbortionMedication #mifepristone asked #SCOTUS Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of #abortion back before the justices in an #election year.

#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/poli…