People could someday get a flu vaccine by flossing their teeth, according to a study published last week in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The authors of the study said their findings “establish floss-based vaccination as a simple, needle-free strategy that enhances vaccine delivery and immune activation.”
Over the past week, a troubling portrait of American healthcare came into sharper focus. From new calls to mandate vaccine passports for schoolchildren, to shocking revelations of organ harvesting on living patients, to legal shields protecting mRNA vaccine makers, and profiteering middlemen inflating drug prices—one thing is clear: the system is not serving the people it’s meant to protect.
An advance in medical care or an ethical minefield? Dr Ros Jones:
This news item from the Telegraph highlights part of the new NHS 10-year plan. The claim is that “Advances will allow people to avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised health care”
July 31, 2025 – The 8.8 magnitude megaquake is the joint-sixth largest earthquake ever recorded and the first tsunami waves have already hit Oahu, Hawaii.
The authors of a recent study of 1.2 million children claimed they found no link between the aluminum in vaccines and autism. However, corrected data now added to the study show the opposite is true, according to scientists with Children’s Health Defense.
In a sweeping new advisory opinion released July 23rd, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has officially declared that states not doing enough to fight climate change may be held internationally liable for violating human rights.
UK Energy Minister, Michael Shanks’, claims last week that scrapping ‘net zero’, as Nigel Farage proposed, would cost a million jobs, were soon shown to be a fantasy when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its own analysis of ‘green’ jobs the day after
During the first half of 2025, a new record was set for the number of deaths caused by climate and weather disasters. Can you guess what that record was?
As the electric vehicle lack of revolution grinds to a halt without subsidies, we’re told that a Chinese firm has invented a way to charge an EV in five minutes.
An email from Bloomberg Green growls “Air travel is soaring, and so are emissions”. The piece it teases to has the good grace to admit that “Airlines Trying to Reduce Emissions With Green Jet Fuel Face Reality Check”.
The costs of Germany’s power grids have more than doubled within ten years. According to figures from the Federal Network Agency (FNA), the network fees to be paid by consumers and companies this year amount to 33 billion euros. In 2015, it was only 15.9 billion euros. [emphasis, links added]
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is a relatively recent phenomenon. The term itself was not coined until 1991. It began with the best of intentions — to give frontline doctors the tools from clinical epidemiology to make science-based decisions that would improve patient outcomes.