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Reinold O.B. Gans

Reinold O.B. Gans

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Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 12h

Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better

The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 1d

Vaccination with a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster with an updated vaccine formulation was associated with significant reductions in the risk of serious adverse outcomes from COVID-19 infection buff.ly/ZO8pqAh

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 1d

The next #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. EBIM in the Loop, Oct 31 buff.ly/PBtHdgy

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 3d

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world buff.ly/XARtoZh

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 3d

Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries, putting lives, livelihoods and entire economies at risk.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 4d

I Worked at OpenAI. It’s Not Doing Enough to Protect People. buff.ly/ow7a1Go

Opinion | I Worked at OpenAI. It’s Not Doing Enough to Protect People.

A.I. companies need to do more to show the proof behind their claims.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 6d

Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent buff.ly/1mJdWT4

Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent

A Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines is fueling the disease’s return.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 8d

The next #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. #InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare #MedicalEducation EBIM in the Loop, Oct 24 buff.ly/Ty3ohKj

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 10d

World Falling Short on Methane Pledge, U.N. Report Finds buff.ly/tX3yCpR

World Falling Short on Methane Pledge, U.N. Report Finds

Several agency programs are trying to track and reduce methane emissions around the world. They aren’t meeting the targets fast enough.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 15d

The next #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. #InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare #MedicalEducation EBIM in the Loop, Oct 17 buff.ly/YkCBTGE

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 16d

Indoor combustion: health effects and costs (NZ) | EECA www.eeca.govt.nz/insights/eec...

Indoor combustion: health effects and costs (NZ)

New NZ research on gas and wood appliances shows significant indoor air-pollution health impacts and costs. See methods, key findings, and what to do next.

www.eeca.govt.nz

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 17d

An X-ray Likely Would Not Have Changed Sam’s Outcome: Sick vs Not Sick open.substack.com/pub/sensible...

An X-ray Likely Would Not Have Changed Sam’s Outcome: Sick vs Not Sick

A critique of a recent article in the lay press that deals with clinical reasoning, written by a master in the field, what’s not to like?

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Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 20d

EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. Stay informed #InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare: EBIM in the Loop, Oct 10

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 20d

Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Nature buff.ly/49JdB3L

Autoimmune response to C9orf72 protein in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Nature

An analysis of T cell responses in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis shows that the C9orf72 antigen is a key target of autoimmune responses in the disease, and identifies C9orf72 epitopes…

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 20d

Ambient Trichloroethylene Exposure increases Parkinson Disease Risk | Neurology buff.ly/X4O6BYo

Ambient Trichloroethylene Exposure and Parkinson Disease Risk in Medicare Beneficiaries | Neurology

Background and ObjectivesTrichloroethylene (TCE) is an important environmental contaminant in the United States due to widespread use industrially. Epidemiologic studies suggest that occupational…

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 21d

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis | Nature buff.ly/6yQuc6P

Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature

A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they…

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 21d

Study supports association between racism and psychosis | PLOS Mental Health buff.ly/BGhZW21

The association between racism and psychosis: An umbrella review

Elevated rates of psychosis are consistently identified in people from racialised backgrounds, with growing evidence from the systematic review literature that suggests a role for racial/ethnic…

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 22d

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025: They understood how the immune system is kept in check

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 23d

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis buff.ly/c8KGvUp

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 23d

Curious Reindeer and Charging Polar Bears: The Changing Wildlife at the Top of the Earth www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/c...

Curious Reindeer and Charging Polar Bears: The Changing Wildlife at the Top of the Earth

Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

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Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 23d

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’ buff.ly/Vq5keoN

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’

Scientists reflect on the life and work of a researcher whose discoveries made them rethink what it means to be human.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 23d

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ buff.ly/hhDt7Oq

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 23d

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds buff.ly/BlFIDTy Audience

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · 26d

Undersea Bacteria Feast on Methane. Can They Help Cool the Planet? buff.ly/HaTlNIq

Undersea Bacteria Feast on Methane. Can They Help Cool the Planet?

They feast on bubbles of methane seeping out of the ocean floor. Could their appetites be harnessed to slow climate change?

Reinold O.B. Gans @gansrob.bsky.social · Sep 28

This month’s #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. Stay informed #InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare #MedicalEducation EBIM in the Loop, Sept 27

EBIM in the Loop, Sept 27

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