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17/04/2026

Research reveals air pollution is advancing the average age that people in the UK acquire long-term illnesses. For some conditions people could be getting ill more than two years earlier because of the air pollution they breathe.

Pollution is ‘silent accelerator that robs individuals of their healthiest years’, say researchers

14/04/2026

Clinicians and public health experts have the evidence, expertise, and responsibility to insist that children’s health be treated not as collateral damage, but as a central consideration in public policy.

The types of immigration-enforcement actions being taken in the United States can activate children’s stress-response systems, disrupting neurodevelopment, immune function, and emotional regulation.

14/04/2026

Many U.S. patients face unstable housing, food insecurity, transportation barriers, and cumulative harms of discrimination, yet family physicians frequently face obstacles to meaningfully addressing these social determinants of health (SDOH).

Recognizing that family physicians face obstacles to addressing social determinants of health, the American Academy of Family Physicians developed a set of practical tools to enhance community–clin...

03/04/2026

Behavior is supposed to be governed by a concern for the customer’s welfare which would not be expected of a salesman.

Society depends on clinicians to provide high-quality services in the vast areas of medical care in which quality isn’t measured. But corporate entities may not support this type of professionalism.

02/04/2026

Industrial poisons ….

Globally, five commercial products are key factors in 31% of all deaths each year: fossil fuels contribute to 8.1 million deaths, to***co to 7.2 million, ultraprocessed foods to 2.3 million, chemicals (manufactured chemicals used in commerce and pesticides) to 1.8 million, and alcohol to 1.8 million

Corporations that make and market health-harming products are a primary vector for the global increase in mortality related to noncommunicable diseases. Research using internal industry documents c...

01/04/2026

Met Engineering Post – Ik ben zojuist erkend als een van de topfans! 🎉

01/04/2026

🚨 Canada has applied to join the EU

After months of secret negotiations, Canada and the EU have reached an agreement that will make Canada the newest member of the EU.

Effective today, 1st of April 2026, Canada has joined the greatest union on the planet. 😀

21/03/2026

🧵 Does the teacher's gender affect the math gender gap? Yes — but the mechanism matters more than the match.

1/ Same-gender matching (Dee, NBER 2006): assigning a student to an opposite-sex teacher lowers performance by ~0.04 SD. A year with a female teacher can close the science gender gap in 13-year-olds by half — and eliminate the smaller math gap entirely.

2/ But the bigger story: math anxiety in female teachers (Beilock et al., PNAS 2010). 90%+ of primary school teachers in Western countries are women. When female teachers have high math anxiety, girls in their class underperform — boys are unaffected.

3/ The mediator: girls internalize the stereotype "math is for boys" transmitted by anxious female teachers. A male teacher with math anxiety does NOT produce the same effect in girls.

4/ Implicit bias in grading (cross-national, 2023): teachers systematically rate boys higher in math and girls higher in language — even controlling for actual performance. These biased assessments partially mediate later achievement gaps.

5/ Implicit stereotypes (Carlana 2019): teachers with stronger implicit gender-math stereotypes steer girls toward less math-intensive tracks. Girls taught by these teachers also show lower math self-confidence.

📊 Summary:
• Direct gender-match effect: modest (~0.04 SD)
• Teacher math anxiety → girls only: significant year-end gap
• Implicit grading bias: domain-specific, both sexes
• Stereotype-driven track advice: girls, long-term impact

Bottom line: it's less about whether the teacher is male or female, and more about what beliefs they transmit — consciously or not.

21/03/2026

Russians …

“Why are the russians doing this to Ukraine? Because they can, because the world has allowed them to.” Testimony of Taira (Yuliya Payevska) to the US Helsinki Commission. She was captured and imprisoned by russians on March 16, 2022 and released on June 17, 2022. ▪️ Taira about herself: "My ...

16/03/2026

Lopers …

The study by Cannon et al., presented at ASCO 2025, found that long-distance runners had a significantly higher incidence of pre-cancerous advanced adenomas in the colon compared to the general population:
- **15% of the long-distance runners** in the study were found to have advanced adenomas, which are precancerous growths in the colon.
- This figure is **much higher than the typical 1–2% prevalence** observed in average-risk individuals of the same age group.
- Additionally, **41% of the runners had at least one adenoma** (not necessarily advanced), compared to the expected one-fifth of those numbers in the general population.
These findings suggest that long-distance runners may have a higher risk of developing precancerous colon polyps compared to non-runners. However, the study did not include a direct control group of non-runners, so further research is needed to confirm these results and explore potential causes, such as exercise-induced bowel ischemia or other factors related to extreme endurance exercise
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13/03/2026

AI as a complice …

As chatbots explode in popularity among young people, CNN’s investigation found that most of those we tested are not only failing to prevent potential harm – they are actively assisting users by giving them information that could be used in preparing attacks.