Key federal reports on flu, Covid-19, and RSV haven’t been updated in nearly a month, even as virus activity picks up, due to the federal government shutdown. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/h...

Pregnant women can't access the #COVID vaccine. If they get #COVID and develop a fever, they can't take Tylenol? 🫠. Both COVID infection and untreated maternal fever increase the risk of bad outcomes for both fetus and mother ranging from preterm delivery to death. None of this is pro-life.

Many American families struggle to put food on the table ...but we won't know how many after this year. 🍎 Food insecurity is apolitical 🍎 The fight against hunger is not a 🔴 or 🔵 issue, it's a human issue @hcwvshunger.bsky.social @tmprowell.bsky.social @shematologist.medsky.social

It's a really, really tough time to be a scientist and a lawyer. Both evidence and precedent don't seem to matter anymore.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Let me make this very clear: Being sarcastic about sexual assault while also anti science, and scaring pregnant people into not appropriately treating their pain while simultaneously belittling the lives of autistic people is really a full encapsulation of this administration.

Something to remember as the administration works to stop children from getting lifesaving vaccines

Thankful and proud that @iamascls.bsky.social signed on to this letter to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). www.agingresearch.org/news/more-th...

When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?

BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week. Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines. RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday made it illegal to sell 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, a compound found in some kratom products, by classifying it as a Schedule I controlled substance in the state. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

Disturbing

Same-sex marriages have zero effect on religious extremists. A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings. So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

They want us all to die. apnews.com/article/kenn...

The Florida AG is arguing that the ABA (@americanbar.org) should lose the authority to accredit law schools in Florida because of its pattern of left-leaning political actions. So wanting an independent judiciary and upholding the rule of law is woke? news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/f...

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

They vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.” Instead, they: Kicked millions of people off health insurance Closed hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, and reproductive health clinics Cut billions of dollars from science research Fired government scientists and replaced them with antivaxxers

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Politics in the US today is about as morally simple as it has ever been. The only relevant question is “Do you support totally eviscerating the already threadbare US social safety net to fund a system of concentration camps for immigrants and people of color, or do you not support that?”

We already consistently have a shortage of blood. If people could receive proper abortion care, we could avoid the need for transfusion and reduce the strain on our blood banks.

"We will not stay silent." IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP, joins @ameracadpeds.bsky.social, @acpimphysicians.bsky.social, @acog.org, and @aafp.org in urging evidence-based vaccine recommendations. bit.ly/443ptQw

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the CDC's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

BREAKING: A Massachusetts federal judge blocked the NIH from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government. www.law360.com/artic...

Outgoing president of @aphl.org giving the keynote address at #LabJAM. "The future of science is at risk."

This is 100% going to come back and bite us all in the ass.

FDA's changes to COVID vaccine approval could make it harder to access the vaccine and harm populations. “This policy change will increase likelihood of variant emergence and worsen health inequities," RSPH's Jodie Guest told @cnn.com. www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/h...

Americans sometimes drive across the border to buy cheaper insulin in Canada I fear they might now need to do that to access vaccines

"Two CDC employees who work in communications told NPR that fewer than half of the public health posts they've sent to HHS for approval have been cleared for publication on social media."

Cruelty is the point. www.newsweek.com/abortion-bra...

This is absolutely unacceptable.

The FDA on Friday approved the United States’ first at-home cervical cancer screening tool, potentially giving patients an accessible alternative to Pap smears, which many find painful or traumatic. apnews.com/article/hpv-...

unlike this smoothie recommended by the new surgeon general nominee, we’re cooked

Keep JD away from the Vatican

Repealing Medicaid expansion could cause nearly 15,000 additional deaths annually among working-age adults. Furthermore, researchers estimate “that more than 623,000 adults would face catastrophic health costs if coverage is withdrawn. www.medicaleconomics.com/view/medicai...

All you need to know about this HHS anti-trans slop pretending to be a scientific review is that they accidentally cited a 404 page.

Federal talk of a national registry of autistic people is detering parents from seeking evaluation, diagnosis of children who may have the condition, @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/a...

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

It's only going to get worse

Googling, watching the news, searching the internet, using social media, or hearing it from a cousin's friend's sister is not research.

Please be aware that measles is not the only vaccine-preventable disease that is currently blowing up in the USA due to vaccine misinformation. Whooping cough has kicked the door down also. Vaccinate. Defend public health. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Anti-vaxxers are the biggest grifters. They profit off of misinformation.

the way i see it, removing fda inspections means food safety will become a luxury for the rich

This is so embarrassing.

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

HHS terminated the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children, effective April 3. The advisory committee's central role was to make recommendations about which conditions to include on a universal screening panel for newborns. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.