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A doctor has issued a warning about the dangers of polypharmacy, highlighting that many patients, particularly older adults, may be over-medicated with multiple prescriptions that could lead to severe side effects and hospitalizations, urging for careful medication reviews and deprescribing when necessary. #Polypharmacy #MedicationSafety #ChronicConditions

“It is not often a European country votes to fully reset its political system overnight, and Serbians have voted to hand the task to a group of novice politicians, made up of intellectuals, professors, artists, athletes and as many as 12 medical doctors and surgeons.” Maybe a template?

COMPETENCES OF THE GOOD JOURNALIST 1 "Investigating US and UK television broadcasting, Brian McNair (1998, 119) finds that ‘the style of journalism has gradually come to take precedence over substance’. Competition, intensified by the emergence of cable and satellite television channels in the 1970s and 1980s, has turned the bulletins of traditional news organisations into entertainment, focusing on interesting, rather than important, stories. The rise of infotainment is a clear indication that competition on the media market does not necessarily improve quality. Pseudo-events, i.e. public appearances by politicians such as interviews, press conferences and political performances organised by spin doctors (cf. Boorstin 1961/1992), cost-efficient for media to cover, have become commonplaceon television. When broadcasting pseudo-events, however, journalists allow political actors to set and frame the news agenda and hence divert attention from abuses that they wish to hide from the public eye. One may add to McNair’s observation dating from the 1990s that the rise of social media platforms in the 2000s and 2010s enabled political elites to more efficiently impose their own agendas and frames on the public, as they can now bypass professional journalists and address voters directly and uninterruptedly. As a result, professional journalists may find themselves in a passive and reactive position. To take McNair’s line of thought further, we can suggest that good journalists have the competence of not letting politicians set and frame the news agenda. They should not only report on issues raised by political elites but also break stories based on independent sources. Of course, journalists cannot completely ignore pseudo-events, yet they can cover them critically and put them in context, noting that many pseudo-events have been orchestrated by campaign experts." (Péter Bajomi-Lázár - Dalma Boldog: Journalism Ethics in Eastern Europe. Anthem Press, 2026, pp. 78-79).

David Calvo joked about those who, according to him, went from not knowing about dams to considering themselves experts in hydraulic engineering to clarify the DANA, and in railway engineering to resolve what happened in Urda. He added that this "university of the in-laws" remained open even on holidays. #Ingeniería #Educación #España (translated)

MWGFD e. V. reported on the case of Ruth Gadé, a courier driver from Hamburg born in 1965, who allegedly stood as a bystander at the edge of a demonstration on January 13, 2022. When police officers approached her, she showed them a certificate for asthma. One of the officers allegedly referred to the doctor as the issuer of bogus certificates, confiscated the copy of the certificate, and temporarily wanted to retain her identification. Gadé subsequently filed a complaint against the supervisory authority. Two days later, she was informed by phone that she was being investigated for using an incorrect health certificate (Section 279 of the German Penal Code). According to MWGFD, she did not receive any written notifications or evidence of any proceeding. It was only in May 2024 that a penalty order for 3,000 euros – 60 daily rates of 50 euros each – was received by her. In this order, she was accused of inciting the issuance of an incorrect health certificate (Section 278 of the old version of the German Penal Code) instead of the original charge. The basis for her certificate was an asthma condition diagnosed by a pulmonologist in 2017. According to the association, Gadé's companion, who had been to the same doctor and experienced the same examination, received a penalty order for 1,200 euros for using an incorrect health certificate. Gadé's suspicion that the charge against her was intensified due to her stance on the mask mandate is her assumption; according to MWGFD, the prosecutor argued that Gadé had requested the certificate primarily in rejection of the mask mandate. According to the association, Gadé was defended pro bono by Tom Lausen. On February 27, 2025, the Hamburg-Harburg District Court acquitted her. The judgment became final on April 3, after the public prosecutor's office withdrew its appeal. She did not receive the written judgment until July 1, 2025. MWGFD referred to Gadé as the first documented patient case in its collection and called on other affected individuals to report their cases via a questionnaire. https://t.co/uDzVxE0HTN #ÄrzteMitGewissen #DoctorsOfConscience #Maskenattest #VerfolgtePatienten #ÄrzteMitGewissen #Maskenattest #VerfolgtePatienten (translated)

Sebastián Nohra reminded the president that, as he wrote, he had won by just 250,000 votes and needed the Liberal Party to pass the tax law and the submission law. He also proposed calling Alejandro Ordóñez to appoint him as Minister of the Interior. #Política #Colombia #Elecciones (translated)