So I started my podcast honestly as a form of physio post-hospital e.g. enunciation practice and I love it but this is so true, it's so time-consuming esp when you do every 😂

People thinking that Reform's suggestions of getting rid of legal immigrants will fix the NHS have no idea how much it will hurt healthcare. Immigrants & children of immigrants keep the NHS functioning. Same with social care.

Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar

The center at Duke that I'm fortunate to lead studies the effects of aid cuts; we recently summarized key lessons from our research at www.brookings.edu/articles/nav...

One key conclusion: sudden, poorly planned donor exits, like the one @jamellebouie.net describes, cause disease resurgence & death

Who'd've thought?!

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Welcome to all my new followers (can't quite believe I have this many but thank you, starter packs 🙏🏾)!

I'm a ✨️recovering academic✨️ a.k.a. global health consultant, podcast host and rare disease patient advocate with @thesumairafdn.bsky.social based in the UK 👋🏾

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.

"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

Anger is not the predominant emotion for many of us from minority backgrounds. It’s actually existential fear. We don’t necessarily have the privileged position of polite disagreement. Also someone could support a wealth tax & at the same time have racist views. The former doesn’t excuse the latter.

🚨US funding cuts to vaccine programmes have imperiled vaccine coverage around the world.

💉In our new Georgetown Center for Global Health Law and Policy Working Paper, we unpack these decisions/

🎱The US dropped the ball, leaving a mess for others to fix.

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The mystery of medical diagnosis!

1 in 3 GPs in England do not work in #NHS, says BMJ study

@theguardian.com reports on study led by Luisa Pettigrew suggesting high number of GPs not joining NHS after training, moving abroad, working privately or quitting general practice early in careers.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Many teens are using artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for everything from homework to relationship advice. Experts say parents must lead the way in helping them understand the technology.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Noncommunicable diseases cause over 70% of global deaths & cost more than $500bn annually.

Health taxes could help prevent deaths &;expand fiscal space, but Sanjeev Gupta & Joao Jalles show that govs are collecting only a fraction of revenues. More:
https://bit.ly/4oOfcQx

For the first time, children with obesity outnumber those who are underweight across the globe, according to a new report on child nutrition from UNICEF. nyti.ms/4gE3e8x

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

where is the steamroller...where is the government?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If only western leaders were as enraged about literal kneecaping during a genocide by Zionist psychopaths as they are about a band called Kneecap speaking out against that very same grotesque genocide.

It's not just some genetic quirk of narcissism that made him this way. It's privilege.

Research shows that if you give people status, they're more likely to cheat and lie, and they're more likely to feel it's justified. Especially in more unequal contexts where there's more value in having an edge.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"