This weeks has a range of news that almost immediately begins with things that make you wince and squirm. Admittedly for many different reasons.

Broken bones, drugs, and disease. Thankfully not everything at one time. Instead each has reached a level of bad that is enough alone.

The broken bones are from riding motorbikes and getting into car accidents. Both broke the strongest bones in the human body; the femur. If nothing else it is a simple and compelling lesson.

The drugs relates to volume and the difficulty of getting a conviction., even with exceptional quantities found when arrested.

For disease it is a mixed bag of results. Some ar every good. Some are bad. Some are uncertain.

In good news we have the RSV vaccine. The results from France are very compelling. In short the RSV vaccine works and is safe.

Depression is more complicated. There is an association with depression in teens before they are diagnosed and in adults after diagnosis where a part of the brain changes. It gets much bigger. This effects other parts of the brain.

Even less clear is the relationship between cannabis use and cardiovascular disease. While the exact relationship is not clear it exists which raises all kinds of questions.


This weeks news items can be found at the following time stamps:

00:00 Intro
01:26 French RSV vaccine safety data
03:37 Femoral head dislocation
04:52 Why being laid back in a car crash is bad
06:44 MAL blood type
08:55 Puberty triggered by cosmetics
10:26 Depression and brain structure size
12:46 Neurallink and FDA
13:46 Chestburster wasp larvae
16:16 33Kg meth bust not a strong case
17:05 Cannabis use trending in the USA
19:23 Cannabis and CVD
22:49 Marmosets have names
24:26 Australia, social media and misinformation fines
26:54 Microbial computing
28:42 Antibiotic resistance mortality
30:28 Coin flip probability
31:06 Biological fashion
31:30 The dumpster fire internet
33:46 Robot muscles