"The most commonly prescribed antibiotics in Southeast Asia are now only 50% effective at treating sepsis and meningitis in newborns...Why aren't the drugs doing their job? It's because overuse of those drugs has led to the evolution of antimicrobial resistant infections – bacteria and other diseases that are no longer knocked out by treatment."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/11/07/1209109088/antibiotics-that-fight-deadly-infections-in-babies-are-losing-their-power

#publichealth #globalhealth #antibiotics #IDmastodon #pediatrics #drugresistance

I think about this graphic at least once a week. What vehicles do to our towns & cities…

Illustration by Swedish artist Karl Jilg.

#Transport #Climate #Health #PublicHealth #CarBrain #FuckCars

Any reporter - or pundit, social media or otherwise - who wants to comment on 5150s or other aspects of mental health services in San Francisco should first do the work of talking to people who've been through - and too often been ground up - by the system

#PublicHealth #MentalHealth

SF 5150 training expansion raises questions over effectiveness https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/why-san-francisco-expanding-5150-holds-worries-advocates/article_6271130a-21bc-11ee-9d80-e3164d425fee.html

SF 5150 training expansion raises key questions

Advocates, doctors say holds can't be only solution.

^{San Francisco Examiner}

#Google’s ad business helps fund #dangerous #disinformation that puts #publichealth and #democracy at #risk around the #world, earns money from millions of #gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a #sanctioned Russian ad tech company to #harvest #data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in #Ukraine, putting their #security and #privacy at risk.

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

#SurveillanceCapitalism
#InformedConsent #HumanRights #PrivacyCapitalized #HateCapitalized #EthnicClensing #socialmedia

Inside Google’s Ad Display Network Black Box: Porn, Piracy, Fraud

Google's ad business hides nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We uncovered a network containing manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

^ProPublica