Schwerste Form von langfristigen #Covid Schäden bei Kindern zeigt beeindruckend wie zerstörerisch Covid ist 4,5 Jahre nach Covid mit #MIS adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] : cardiovascular= 13.88 hypertension= 8.86 gastrointestinal=9.48 respiratory= 3.46 neurological disorders= 2.02

Why are so many young people developing cancers once considered the purview of old age? go.nature.com/3QhVdgs

Congrats to @drDavidKeegan appointed to chair Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Preventive Health Services. Read @MsJulieSLam’s interview of Dr. Keegan who sees #LongCOVID patients. m.facebook.com/story.php?sto… instagram.com/p/DZh2OENRuhX/…

Not getting covid at this urgent care! #maskup

Where the authors land? A serious infection may act as a first hit that nudges the brain toward a slow neurodegenerative process. That's an argument for tracking post-viral patients long term - and for preventing infection in the first place - as public-health priorities.

And I had a guest ❤️

Doctors Recommend Protecting Newborn Brains From Infection By Making Older Siblings Slightly Less Sticky (special writing credit: @froglet80)

A scientist spent 30 years studying an organ every textbook said was irrelevant. In 2026, two papers in Nature proved she had been right all along. The papers were not written by her. Her name is Noel Rose Mackay. She is a thymic biologist who has studied the thymus since the 1990s, at a time when the field was considered a professional dead end. The thymus is a small immune organ behind the breastbone. By the 1980s, medical consensus had settled: the thymus trains immune cells in childhood, shrinks at puberty, and stops functioning meaningfully in adults. Researching adult thymic function was considered a waste of time and grant funding. Mackay and a small number of colleagues disagreed. They published research throughout the 1990s and 2000s arguing the thymus remained active in adults and that its ongoing T cell production mattered for immune health. The papers were published in smaller journals, cited rarely, and largely ignored by mainstream medicine. For 30 years, clinical practice did not change. Radiologists reading millions of CT scans did not measure thymic health. Oncologists designing immunotherapy did not account for it. No clinical guideline mentioned it. In March 2026, researchers at Mass General Brigham used artificial intelligence to analyse CT scans from over 25,000 adults. The AI found exactly what Mackay had argued for three decades. Adults with healthier thymuses lived longer. 50% lower risk of death from any cause. 63% lower risk of cardiovascular death. 36% lower risk of lung cancer. In cancer patients receiving immunotherapy, stronger thymic health predicted a 37% lower risk of cancer progression and a 44% lower risk of death. Two papers. Published simultaneously in Nature. Covered by Harvard Medical School, Mass General Brigham, and dozens of international outlets. The researchers who wrote them work in artificial intelligence and cancer imaging. They were not thymic biologists. They were not looking for the thymus. The AI found it for them. The science that spent 30 years being ignored was correct. It took a machine looking at 25,000 scans without any prior assumptions to confirm what a small group of scientists had been saying for three decades. Sometimes the reason a field is underfunded is not that the question is unimportant. It is that the answer is inconvenient.

"We have riders .. who have had to abandon because there is almost a plague of people with influenza A.” Team Movistar in elite cycling has been deeply affected by viral disease in the weeks ahead of the top Tour de France cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/…

Eye masks and ear plugs: Pilot project underway as hallway medicine common in B.C. hospitals - CTV News apple.news/ArXTw8XeCSr2p0wO5…