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Dr Sherri Hayden 🇨🇦
@drsherrihayden.bsky.social
Neuropsychologist
Neuroscientist 🧠
Clin. Asst. Prof. Neurology
Opinions my own/No DMs🙅‍♀️
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The American Cancer Society (ACS) has released updates to their cervical cancer screening guidelines with a few main changes, including an updated start age for cervical cancer screenings (age 25), and a new HPV self-testing option.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/acs...
New cervical cancer screening guidelines: 3 key changes
The American Cancer Society has recently updated cervical screening guidelines for HPV and cervical cancer. Here are the main changes.
www.medicalnewstoday.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Women in corporate America are backsliding, warns new report www.axios.com/2025/12/09/w...
Women in corporate America are backsliding, warns new report
The researchers found a new "ambition gap" between men and women.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Relief from one of menopause’s most frustrating symptoms could be a self-guided session away.
www.sciencenews.org/article/self...
Self-hypnosis with cooling mental imagery could ease hot flashes
Postmenopausal women who listened to self-guided hypnosis recordings daily for six weeks saw meaningful improvements in hot flash symptoms.
www.sciencenews.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."

fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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After Europe had a weekend to digest the confrontative new US National Security Strategy, time to ponder the questions raised by @maxbergmann.bsky.social in this excellent piece:
The NSS That Could Destroy the NATO Alliance
The latest U.S. National Security Strategy doesn’t just sideline Europe—it seeks to reshape its politics, backing nationalist parties and challenging the European Union in ways that could push the tra...
www.csis.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"U.S. vaccine advisers' decision to scrap longstanding guidance on hepatitis B shots will expose more children to the harmful virus and signals how other evidence-based vaccine policies will be undermined says doctors and disease experts."
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Kennedy vaccine advisers 'turned back the clock,' experts say
Their Hepatitis B decision will expose more children to the virus, they said.
www.reuters.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Crumbling health systems fuelling global surge in measles, scientists warn www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

"The decline in vaccination rates has been blamed on growing levels of misinformation..."

"#Misinformation is just being spewed from the highest political echelons of the U.S."
Crumbling health systems fuelling global surge in measles, scientists warn
Experts say that a ‘generational decline in living standards’ could be behind waning rates of vaccination
www.independent.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A new study has found that Black women face up to 70 per cent higher death rates from breast cancer compared to white women, prompting medical experts and advocates to call for increased risk-based screening in #Canada.

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Black women face up to 70 per cent higher breast cancer mortality, study finds
A new study found that Black women face up to 70 per cent higher death rates from breast cancer compared to white women, prompting medical experts and advocates to urge for increased risk-based screen...
www.ctvnews.ca
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Without evidence, RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation for newborns https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/without-evidence-rfk-jr-s-vaccine-panel-tosses-heb-b-vaccine-recommendation/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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With a third of Ontario’s population, Alberta has the most measles cases, after the province withheld hundreds of probable cases from public reporting www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... @alannasmith.bsky.social

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ah, I appear to have once again written my op-ed for the Independent about Europe needing to be ready to face Russia without the support of the United States. It's getting harder and harder to find different words to say it each time.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia
Europe is still paralysed by denial over the threat it faces from Putin, writes Keir Giles. Unless European leaders change tack, they will be a soft target for Moscow
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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“highest levels of physical activity in midlife[45-64] &late life[65-88] was assoc’ed w/ a 41% &45% lower risk of dementia, respectively…JAMA Network Open.…

‘This study shifts the convo from “exercise is good 4 the brain” to “there may be key windows when exercise matters most for brain health”’”🧪🛟
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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#Dementia isn’t just #AlzheimersDisease. Most brains show a mix of issues: Blood vessel damage, toxic proteins and Lewy bodies all play a role. Read more, including what APS member Costantino Iadecola thinks, in The New York Times: https://ow.ly/yUBv50XAJb7 #ISpyPhysiology 🧪
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December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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In a dangerous and divided world, Canada and Europe are elevating our defence partnership.

That means more access to new equipment for our Armed Forces, more investment in Canada, and massive opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses.
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"Let this be a reminder to all of us: Watch what Trump does, not what he says..."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Canada’s economic growth beat expectations this quarter.

We’re diversifying our trade, building big, and creating well-paying careers — and we’re getting results.
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM