Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast.
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Melody Schreiber
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I've been feeling exactly the same way and it makes me so sad that AI is taking away this source of wonder
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
More and more, I think we should be thinking about infections in terms of the acute and lingering phases
HOPSPITAL OMG
One toddler stopped eating for *12 days*. He kept scooting a chair over to a phone on the wall so he could call his dad, held at another facility a thousand miles away. They are asylum seekers.
Official measles cases just topped 2,000 in the US -- and the real rate is probably three times that. We're only halfway through the year, and it's probably going to be a "busy summer," @andrewpaviamd.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
HPV causes six kinds of cancer, including head and neck cancer. Treatment often includes radiation therapy like this
13 years ago today I finished my last round of chemo and radiation for stage 4 throat cancer. My only advice from the experience is for parents: make sure your kids get the HPV vaccine - save them or their partner from having to go through the gauntlet of cancer treatment.
20 years after the approval of the HPV vaccine, countries are now working to eliminate cervical cancer. Australia says it's on track to eliminate the disease by 2035. The US is an outlier as one of the few countries without a national elimination plan,
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
In January, a man detained by ICE died at the facility in what the coroner ruled a homicide.
This new report says "the contractor did not provide use of force and death reports to ICE, as required. In addition, evidence associated with the incident was missing or destroyed." /4
