Profoundly moving story from Baroness Finlay, former BMA president and a leading figure in palliative care, about one of her patients.
“36 years ago a GP referred a distraught young man whose prognosis—as estimated by him, the surgeon, and the oncologist—was about three months, saying: ‘He is the most clear-cut case for euthanasia I have ever seen.’
“In total pain, desperate for lethal drugs, with his youngest child only six weeks old, his care was challenging, particularly in the first fortnight.
“Eleven years after that visit, and after many times of complex care, David phoned me. His beautiful young wife was dying of advanced cancer. By then a wheelchair user, he and his three children were with her in the hospice as she died.
“Just two days ago, I visited David, who—with his three fine adult children who he has brought up on his own despite his disability—said I could speak of this, in tribute to him and all his care has taught me.
“They’re watching this debate today. I know they have tuned in. It’s a great privilege to be entrusted with such care.”
(h/t @nmdacosta)
Stop, I'm already all in.
Shout out to @Med_City_Health. My patient’s wife told me yesterday this is the only hospital in Texas that would perform her kidney transplant without requiring a Covid shot. None of the hospitals in Houston would do it. She is doing great!
LESS POWER THAN FOR REVIEWING A PARKING TICKET APPEAL!
Lord Murray of Blidworth explains that assisted suicide panels would have less authority than a parking adjudicator, and wouldn't even be able to request to see a person’s will.
So much for strict oversight and safeguards.
Wow this really is quite something even for this government.
Wow, this chart is simply unreal.
Has Canada already joined the European Union, or did it decide to successfully deindustrialize on its own?
"Success" of tafenoquine in expanded trials for babesiosis (dated March 11, 2026), it's worth critically reflecting on the accelerated rollout of this drug in Brazil🇧🇷especially in vulnerable populations like the Yanomami Indigenous people in the Northern Amazon, a region with extremely low socioeconomic levels, high malaria burden, and an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
This wasn't a classic "clinical trial" (phases I/II/III), but a pioneering operational implementation prioritized there due to the public health emergency.
Key facts:
- Start: March 2024 (from March 22, 2024 onward). The Yanomami were the FIRST group in Brazil to receive single-dose tafenoquine (150 mg, for those over 16 years) + chloroquine, with point-of-care G6PD testing to prevent severe hemolysis. Accelerated by the crisis in the Yanomami Special Indigenous Health District (DSEI), where P. vivax dominates cases.
- Initial batch: ~8,000 treatments to cover needs for ~6 months; training for Yanomami health workers began then (e.g., in Boa Vista and Surucucu base).
- Monitoring: Real-world, observational, ongoing—no fixed "test" period like traditional trials. Reports claim thousands used it safely over a year (2024 onward) thanks to G6PD testing, proving operational feasibility.
- Supporting study: TRuST (Tafenoquine Roll-out Study), launched in September 2021 and published 2023/2024 (Lancet Global Health and Lancet Infectious Diseases). Conducted in Manaus (AM) and Porto Velho (RO)—NOT among the Yanomami—but used to justify rapid expansion to vulnerable Indigenous areas like theirs.
- Pediatric version (50 mg, for children 10–35 kg): Introduced in March 2026, again with PRIORITY to the Yanomami Territory (first region to receive it, with 14,550 initial tablets).
Brazil became the first country in the world to offer pediatric tafenoquine through the SUS (public health system)!!!
Prioritization in remote/vulnerable populations to "demonstrate feasibility."
But why? Why choose children and low-SES Indigenous groups as the initial "guinea pigs"? Questionable ethics—would more privileged populations be selected first? This reeks of global health inequality. We must ask: why are vulnerable Brazilians paving the way for "cures" tested in US trials?
#Tafenoquine #Yanomami #HealthEthics #Malaria
(Source: Official reports from MS/Fiocruz/WHO).
@53v3n0fn1n3
@Jikkyleaks
@AnneliseBocquet
@MidwesternDoc
An was mich das am meisten erinnert, ist März 2020
Pinned: Das größte Risiko von LLMs ist nicht Halluzination, sondern Gewöhnung. Die tägliche Nutzung optimiert Workflows aber verändert auch die Kognition.
Die Frage ist nicht mehr: Nutze ich sie?
Sondern: Könnte ich noch ohne?
Das Wetter lädt nicht nur zu mehr Zeit draussen ein, es macht auch Lust auf einen Wechsel der Garderobe. Fünf Kleidungsstücke, die wir jetzt tragen wollen https://bellevue.nzz.ch/stil-design/mode/mode-trends-fruehling-2026-diese-5-kleidungsstuecke-wollen-wir-jetzt-ld.1927867?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=20260313699bfcf444c4e21fcfd7d04d
💬 Perspective: National reviews of controlled organ donation highlight the need for serial neurobehavioral evaluations and minimum neurologically informed standards to ensure ethical, patient-centered practice.
https://ja.ma/4rxFmqX
Among patients with #Gout, achieving serum urate <6 mg/dL with urate-lowering therapy was associated with lower 5-year risk of major adverse cardiovascular events, especially for those at high cardiovascular risk. https://ja.ma/4rM1Rt4
Each year, as our primary means of sewage disposal, millions of tons of toxic sewage sludge, labeled as “biosolids,” are spread as agricultural fertilizer across our nation’s farmland.
~@Mission503USA
The Sludging of Rural America
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-sludging-of-rural-america/
"Streikrecht: Arbeitsverweigerung des Gesetzgebers"
Editorial im #BetriebsBerater 11/2026.
Abrufbar hier: https://betriebs-berater.com/41506/2026/bb_2026_11_b4/
Es ist gut sich daran zu erinnern, weshalb die Spritpreise hierzulande so teuer sind: Man hat eine CO2-Steuer unter dem Vorwand eingeführt, dass das Aufkommen über ein Klimageld wieder an die Bürger ausgekehrt wird. Ein Klimageld wurde nie ausgezahlt, die CO2-Steuer aber erhöht.
Der Streit um #Mercosur, #Eurobonds und FCAS zeigt, wie sehr sich Paris und Berlin voneinander entfernt haben. Doch in der unsicheren geopolitischen Lage könnte auch eine neue deutsch-französische Partnerschaft entstehen, schreibt @HansBellstedt. https://www.cicero.de/aussenpolitik/paris-berlin-bonjour-tristesse-oder-ausweitung-der-kampfzone-
Japanese society is so civilized that the fires simply drive themselves to the fire station
Angst 😱 frisst Hirn 🧠 - das hat während der Corona-Zeit unglaubliche Auswüchse angenommen und ganze Nationen lahmgelegt 🤬
The U.S.-Mexico papaya partnership offers a blueprint for global food safety. By combining regulatory expertise with industry commitment, we've gone from multiple Salmonella outbreaks (2011-2019) to zero outbreaks since 2020—a major public health win!
https://www.fda.gov/food/international-cooperation-food-safety/improving-safety-imported-papayas
Gibt es außer dem Shithole Berlin noch andere Gaga-Ärzte in Deutschland oder ist das wieder typisch für unsere Hauptstadt?
Die politische Blockade in Bern gefährdet die Zukunft des Landes. Eine Koalition der Vernünftigen muss die Geschicke in die Hand nehmen. Ein Programm für mehr Einigkeit und mehr Widerstandskraft. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/wann-wenn-nicht-jetzt-die-schweiz-braucht-einen-aufbruch-ueber-die-sicherheitspolitik-hinaus-ld.1928264?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b0b081e077e55d2a059f52
kann man ausser Rhetorik und einem Pilotenschein nichts auf dem Kasten haben?
asking for a friend.
Pinned: On the cover of The Lancet: a call to enhance civilian and military blood preparedness.
With global demand already exceeding supply, establishing a clear preparedness timeline is vital.
Read more in our latest issue ▶️ http://spkl.io/6011AIUMB
She took the jab.
She died only 4 weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.
The regime's top officials know well if they are elimination targets or not.
Compare:
🔸Larijani is walking densely circled by civilians to protect himself.
🔸Pezeshkian walking freely. He knows he won't be targeted.
Channel 14's @DBalazada revealed Israel's elimination list.
Larijani walking among civilians in Tehran, today 👇
He is using the civilians as human shields. And the civilians trust America and Israel not to harm them.
Even the regime's own henchmen trust the humanity of America and Israel.
Der israelisch-amerikanische Angriff auf Iran erschüttert den Nahen Osten und die Golfregion. Auch die Ukraine spürt die Folgen – und die dürften negativ sein. https://www.nzz.ch/podcast/welche-folgen-hat-der-iran-krieg-fuer-die-ukraine-ld.1928894?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b0b081e077e55d2a059f51
כשאתה מגלה שברוך מרזל יותר ליברלי מ 99.9% מהישראלים 👇
מה זה עניינכם לעזאזל באיזו שפה בעל החנות בוחר לשים את השלט? אל תבלבלו במוח עם "חוק עזר עירוני", תדחפו אותו למפלגה הקומוניסטית שלכם!
באיזו שפה לכתוב את השלט זה עניין אך ורק של בעל העסק והלקוחות שלו, לא של אף אחד אחר.
«Das ist Israels Krieg. Das ist nicht der Krieg der Vereinigten Staaten», sagt Tucker Carlson, einer der einflussreichsten US-Journalisten aus dem republikanischen Lager. Seine Aussage zeigt exemplarisch, wie der Iran-Krieg den rechten Flügel in den USA spaltet.
https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/welt/der-krieg-der-die-amerikanische-rechte-spaltet/
Bildquelle: © Youtube
🌎 Global #cardiology societies released their first joint statement urging action on environmental risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including air pollution, heat, and noise.
https://ja.ma/4rp9LYd
A phase 3 trial found that elinzanetant significantly reduced the frequency and severity of #menopause-related vasomotor symptoms, also known as #HotFlashes, compared with placebo.
🔗 https://ja.ma/4rtMUe7
My NHS physio used to buy support boots direct for £62. 2 years ago he was ordered to stop as they would now be bought centrally - same boot, same company - for £132!
The same hospital pays £30 for Tesco computer paper that is £4.50.
The @NHSuk isn't short of cash. It's badly run
It's interesting that Michael Burry did this as a defense mechanism to help clients/investors in the face of the fraudulent mortgage bond market.
Völkerrecht und Iran-Krieg: Kritik an der Uno-Charta https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-uno-charta-ist-eine-fehlkonstruktion-das-voelkerrecht-beguenstigt-die-staerkeren-ld.1928390?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031369b0b081e077e55d2a059f50
Große Freude bei SPD (Marie Luise Dreyer, Verwaltungsrat) und Union (Gerda Hasselfeldt, Fernsehrat): Norbert Himmler wurde mit 48 von 53 Stimmen als ZDF-Intendant wiedergewählt.
Heute steht Norbert Himmler zur Wiederwahl als #ZDF-Intendant – ohne Gegenkandidat. Dabei bräuchte der Sender für notwendige Reformen eine juristisch unbelastete Führung mit sauberem Compliance-Willen und journalistischem Kompass, schreibt Roland Schatz. https://www.cicero.de/kultur/norbert-himmler-und-die-intendantenwahl-wenige-blockieren-das-zdf-fur-alle
Ik zou pleiten voor levenslang in plaats van een dodelijke injectie.
Voor de rest ben ik het helemaal eens met Leon.