Christine Marie

Report highlights ‘spots of progress’ in a challenging landscape for new antibiotics

“Until antibiotic discovery is funded at a scale that matches the threat posed by AMR, efforts will be reactive instead of proactive, costing money and lives,” www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

Flu claims 5 more US children’s lives as virus continues circulating at moderate to very high levels

“Influenza A continues to dominate, at 54.6%, but influenza B is rising (45.4%) in most areas of the country” www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

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Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations.
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PBS headlines have been trash and devoid of all reality when I come across them the last several months. I stopped following them.

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Congratulations to Dr Ryan Maves and colleagues on their latest publication titled "Healthcare Workers Have More Frequent and Less Severe Influenza-Like Illness Than Non-healthcare Workers: Findings From the PAIVED Study " Read more here: doi.org/10.1093/ofid... #idsky #wfu #wfuresearch

25 Favorite Moments from this past year. Bitterly cold temps and bright sunrise gave us a scene that looked Game of Thrones on this December morning in Chicago. 17 of 25.

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

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More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.

Electric bills are up 11% this year, and shutoffs are spiking across the country.

At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and 75% of ALL cases are in kids under six.

In the 1960s, survival rate for ALL was 10%. Today, it’s OVER 90%.

Why? Research & development of modern chemotherapies like vincristine.

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“We are doing a service for the United States because they’ve identified needs that need to be met,” says Harvard bioengineer Don Ingber, defending federal grants and contracts to universities for scientific and medical research. cbsn.ws/4hRoEiJ

“We are truly putting the brakes on scientific innovation in this country at a time when our ostensible adversary, China, is going faster and faster and faster,” says Harvard scientist Don Ingber. “If we can’t be the leader, we’re going to be the follower.” cbsn.ws/4hOpWuW

Back in July due to weather on the east coast, we flew at 8000 feet from Newark to Dulles. Quite the experience.

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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

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All the Horror Heading to Hulu, Netflix, Tubi & Other Streaming Services in November 2025 November ushers in the post-Halloween blues as the streaming services shift gears for the holidays. While that means that horror isn’t the focus this month, the genre still has a strong presence in No...

Halloween may be over, but there's still plenty of horror arriving on streaming this month:

Happy Halloween, my fellow gorehounds!

"What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege."

Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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A dangerous lunatic

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Measles cases up 31-fold in the Americas region this year

The Americas region have reported 11,313 cases so far this year.

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Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters.

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters.

Los Angeles child dies from rare measles complication years after recovery The county health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

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