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New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients


Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
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© CC0/Public DomainBrain Scan
A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), published in eBioMedicine, provides the strongest evidence to date that long COVID is associated with injury to dopamine-releasing neurons in the brain — a finding that may explain symptoms such as lack of motivation due to fatigue, slowed movement and memory difficulties, and could open the door to new treatment strategies.

Long COVID is estimated to affect 5% of the world's population and is characterized by a wide range of persistent and sometimes debilitating symptoms, including brain-related ones such as fatigue, brain fog, memory problems or low mood, that continue for at least three months following the initial COVID-19 infection.

Despite its prevalence, no evidence-based treatments currently exist, largely due to limited understanding of the underlying brain pathology.

Brain scans point to dopamine loss

In the new study, researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging to measure a well-established marker of dopamine neuron integrity in people with long COVID and healthy individuals.

The team found significantly lower levels of the imaging marker — indicating reduced dopamine nerve terminal density — across all major regions of the striatum, the brain structure that plays a central role in motivation, movement and thinking, in people with long COVID compared with healthy individuals. Specifically, lower markers in the ventral striatum were associated with greater loss of motivation, marker reductions in the dorsal putamen were associated with slowed movement speed, and marker loss in the caudate putamen was linked to memory difficulties.
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Syringe

Germany halts recommendations of COVID-19 vaccination for most people under 75

Zachary Stieber
ZeroHedge
Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:14 UTC
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Germany has updated its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations, advising most people under 75 not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

Germany's Standing Committee on Vaccination, which offers vaccine recommendations for the country, on July 9 said in a 33-page document that its stance on COVID-19 vaccination was changing "to reflect the current epidemiological situation and the population's immune status."

The committee, known as STIKO, added: "A large proportion of the adult population now has hybrid immunity, characterised by exposure to a variety of antigenic contacts, and is therefore sufficiently well protected against severe cases of COVID-19.

"This also applies to healthy pregnant women. Consequently, the recommendation to achieve baseline immunity for the adult population (including pregnant women without underlying conditions or pregnancy-related complications) is no longer applicable. In [the] future, the standard vaccination recommendation will apply to those ≥ 75 years of age."
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Syringe

RFK Jr. to issue list of injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines

Zachary Stieber
ZeroHedge
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:42 UTC
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
© David Berding/Getty ImagesHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Minneapolis on May 21, 2026.
Health officials are proposing a plan to clarify which COVID-19 vaccine side effects would be eligible for government financial compensation, according to a new notice.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and one of its divisions said in a description of a proposed rule released on July 1 that they plan to establish an injury table for COVID-19 vaccines through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).

"The Table will list and explain injuries that, based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence, are presumed to be caused by covered COVID-19 countermeasures, and set forth the time periods in which the onset of these injuries must occur after the administration or use of these covered COVID-19 countermeasures," a summary of the rule, which has not been made public, stated.
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Attention

11-year-old boy dies of rabies in Canada after waking to find bat on his face in the middle of the night in 2024

Sophie Ziedalski
NBC News
Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:03 UTC
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The physician recommended rabies postexposure prophylaxis, a lifesaving treatment that can prevent the disease if it's given before symptoms develop.
An 11-year-old boy in Ontario has died of rabies after he awoke in the middle of the night to find a bat on his face, medical experts reported.

The family was staying at a cottage in northern Ontario in 2024 when their 11-year-old son awoke in the middle of the night with a bat on his nose and mouth, according to a report published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The boy, who was not identified, immediately swatted the bat away, the report said. His father caught it in a cooking pot and took it outside.

The child had no visible bite marks or scratches, and his parents were not under the impression the bat had caused any injury, according to the report.

The family did not seek immediate medical care, even though health officials recommend that anyone who has direct contact with a bat be evaluated for possible rabies exposure because even small bites often go unnoticed, the report said.
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Attention

Is healthcare a human right?

Alex Krainer
Alex Krainer's Substack
Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:44 UTC
Candace Owens returned from Russia with a profoundly thought-provoking experiences, literally signifying the difference between life and death.
Healthcare
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Candace Owens recently visited Russia with her family, among other things, in order to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Her entourage included a security team, among whom was a U.S. military veteran, a former Navy SEAL with about 12 years of service (Mr. SEAL).

As it happened, shortly after their arrival in Moscow, this man had a medical emergency: a stroke-like event, which caused him to collapse with severe seizures. Paramedics and hospital staff reacted quickly and among other things performed a CT scan that revealed a massive blood clot in his brain. An emergency surgery was arranged to remove the clot.

According to Candace Owens, Mr. SEAL had significant health issues related to this clot including frequent headaches, hearing loss, seizures and coughing up blood. Even though these issues were related to his military service, he was unable to obtain proper treatment from the US Veterans Administration where he was told his problems were all in his head (they kind of were), related to PTSD. Instead of a CT scan and proper treatment, they prescribed him Xanax and told him to go away.

In Russia, he was treated immediately and according to Owens, his symptoms, including headaches, hearing issues, and blood coughing cleared up significantly or went away overnight. After his surgery he received physical therapy, ongoing care and further diagnostic tests. Owens described the episode in the video, which is below:

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Bug

HHS launches tick-control pilot targeting deer and mice to cut Lyme disease cases


yourNEWS
Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new CDC-led pilot program in New Hampshire aimed at reducing tick populations on wildlife hosts before they spread illness to people, and lowering Lyme disease cases by 2035.

Kennedy unveiled the initiative late last month in New Hampshire, a state heavily affected by Lyme disease, during the administration's "Take Back Your Health" tour. The program is part of the Make America Healthy Again initiative and is being presented as a results-driven response to rising tick-related health threats.

The announcement comes as emergency room visits for tick bites reached their highest April levels since 2017, according to the information provided. HHS officials said the new approach is intended to move prevention beyond personal repellents and residential spraying by addressing tick populations earlier in the transmission cycle.

The centerpiece is a multi-million-dollar pilot program led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in partnership with leading researchers focused on vector-borne diseases.
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Bug

RFK Jr. responds to "explosion" in tick-borne, WEF-touted Alpha-Gal syndrome

Ben Bartee
Armageddon Prose
Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:17 UTC
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Alpha-gal syndrome: A bonanza for Bill Gate's fake meat project?
In response to a question on the topic posed by ZeroHedge reporter Liam Cosgrove, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently addressed the astronomical increase in alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne infection that causes potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat:
"Last week, I went to New Hampshire... to address this explosion of alpha-gal, and we take it very seriously. One of the epicenters is Martha's Vineyard where 50% of the adult population is now affected. It is really a devastating disease. You can't eat red meat for the rest of your life. We are looking at medications that can serve as both prophylactics and also potentially cures for it. We're funding those studies now and we're working with the companies that are making those. We've also launched a major effort on tick control through a number of different strategies that address deer populations... Three ticks that are causing these, most of the tick-borne diseases, all breed on deer. And we're looking at strategies for eliminating their breeding capacity."

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Life Preserver

PEA (Palmitoylethanolamide) as Supplement: Gaining in Popularity, And For Good Reason

Dr. Gaby
The Health Matrix
Wed, 27 May 2026 15:52 UTC
PEA supplement chemical structure
I recently received a recommendation from a lab with a simplified process for dealing with the massive numbers of patients with allergy problems nowadays: there aren't enough allergologists and pneumologists to evaluate everyone, so just go ahead and send them to the lab.

The estimate for overall allergic disease prevalence in the Western world in the 1960s was roughly 1 to 10% of the population, depending on your parameters, primarily driven by hay fever and allergic rhinitis, with asthma just beginning its epidemic rise and food allergies barely on the radar. Today, by contrast, 30% have at least one allergy, illustrating the dramatic shift over the past six decades. The statistics are skyrocketing, and it's thought one in two will be affected by 2050.

So what happened? There's very good literature from mainstream sources, and with fascinating details for those who love molecular biology. For me the upshot, if you'll excuse the pun, is that COVID-19 happened. We can't blame it all on COVID, but that's because it was only the latest, loudest, example of its kind. There was already the precedent of suspected cross-contamination in vaccine programs and chronic latent infections (i.e., Gulf War Syndrome and post-infectious Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/fibromyalgia) in the past leading to the exact same problems before the COVID-19 era.
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Babies are being given and dying from a vaccine that was created for sexually active adults


Died Suddenly News
Sat, 30 May 2026 16:46 UTC
Baby and vaccine
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For decades, the hepatitis B vaccine has been presented to parents as a routine and unquestioned part of newborn care in the United States.

But critics of the vaccine schedule are increasingly challenging the origins of the shot, arguing that the vaccine was never originally intended for healthy infants and that its expansion into universal newborn use was driven more by pharmaceutical economics than public health necessity.

The hepatitis B vaccine was first developed in the early 1980s for adults considered at high risk of infection, including intravenous drug users, individuals with multiple sexual partners, sex workers, and healthcare workers exposed to blood.

Hepatitis B is primarily spread through blood and bodily fluids, and early public-health campaigns focused heavily on adult transmission risk factors.

According to vaccine critics, healthy newborn babies were not the original target population for the vaccine. They argue that when adoption among adults failed to meet expectations, federal agencies shifted strategy toward universal childhood vaccination.
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Brain

Global mental disorders have nearly doubled since 1990, now affecting 1.2 billion people worldwide


eurekalert.org
Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00 UTC
mental disorders
© Neuroscience NewsMental disorders and disability
Global mental disorders have nearly doubled since 1990, now affecting 1.2 billion people worldwide
  • Mental disorders are now the leading cause of years lived with disability globally, accounting for more than 17% of all disability worldwide.
  • The highest mental disorder burden is observed among individuals aged 15-19 and women of all ages, driven largely by anxiety and depressive disorders.
  • Mental disorder burden varies widely across countries, with some of the highest levels observed in high-income regions such as Australasia and Western Europe.
SEATTLE, Wash. - May 21, 2026 - Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with a mental disorder, nearly double the number recorded in 1990. According to a new study, this stark rise has placed mental disorders as the leading cause of disability globally, surpassing cardiovascular disease, cancer, and musculoskeletal conditions.

The study, led by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in collaboration with partners at the University of Queensland and published in The Lancet, identified that mental disorders disproportionately impact people aged 15-19 and women. It examined the prevalence and burden of mental disorders across both sexes, 25 age groups, 21 regions, and 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2023, making it the most comprehensive analysis of mental disorder burden to date.

The study assessed 12 mental disorders, with anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder (MDD) ranking 11th and 15th, respectively, in burden among 304 diseases and injuries worldwide.
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