Category «Health Care»

See Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts

Scientific American – These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults – “Vaccines are a marvel of modern medicine: the carefully tested and regulated technologies teach people’s immune systems how to fight off potentially fatal infections, saving both lives and health care costs. But for as long as vaccines have existed, …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

New IPIE Report – Climate Misinformation Threatens Global Action

“The IPIE’s landmark assessment reveals that the greatest barrier to climate action is the global spread of misinformation about climate science. The IPIE’s Scientific Panel on Information Integrity about Climate Science latest assessment, Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review, and its accompanying Summary for Policymakers, represents the most comprehensive analysis yet of how …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The crisis in American science

Open Access. The crisis in American science. Sage Journals. History of Science. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-2892, Volume 63, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/00732753251343655 Abstract – “The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Microsoft

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs

ProPublica: “ProPublica has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in federal court in New York, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans. For years, Congress, watchdog groups, doctors and others have questioned the quality of generic drugs made in factories overseas. To …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI Use on Children

The Alan Turing Institute and LEGO Foundation: “There is a growing body of research looking at the potential positive and negative impacts of generative AI and its associated risks. However, there is a lack of research that considers the potential impacts of these technologies on children, even though generative AI is already being deployed within …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

The Disappearing Funds for Health

New York Times (Gift Article): The Disappearing Funds for Health. “These are the nearly 2,500 N.I.H. grants that have been ended or delayed [vizualization]. In his first months in office, President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the United States the …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Medicine

Should You Be Worried About Living Near a Golf Course?

Unbiased Science: “…The researchers set out to investigate whether living near golf courses increases Parkinson’s disease risk, possibly due to pesticide exposure from course maintenance contaminating water and air. They analyzed data from 419 PD patients and over 5,000 matched controls in Minnesota and Wisconsin, comparing how close they lived to golf courses and their …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Health Care, Medicine

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The New York Times [no paywall] – “The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Financial System, Free Speech, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Over 700 and $1.7 billion in previously undisclosed grant terminations published by NIH

Grant Watch: “726 additional additional terminated grants were reported by NIH this week, amounting to over $1.70 billion in total grant value, with $780 million remaining unspent. This brings the total number of terminations in our NIH database to over 1500 and $7.5 billion in total value. Thanks to scientists self-reporting these terminations, we know …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Search Engines

The New Dark Age – The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself

The Atlantic no paywall: “The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data

Via LLRX – Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data – What is the status of the official data published by U.S. federal statistical agencies? As the current administration continues its disassembling of huge swaths of the federal government, not only are the workers and services gone, so of course is much of the data …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Housing, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine