Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

If you want to show people in your life why doctors say Tylenol DOES NOT cause autism, here are two straight forward explainers: medicalnewsbulletin.com/acetaminophe... medicalnewsbulletin.com/autism-is-no... #AutRes #EduSky 🩺📊 medsky, 🩺,⚕️ #SciPol 🧪

Weird some scicomm accounts gave the new “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight. They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit, when he was a paid “expert witness” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers. 1/

know that it’s anecdata, but in recent days I’ve heard more instances of tenured and highly regarded biomedical research faculty leaving the US than ever before it may be a trickle and not a flood, but still it’s an exodus

A must read. It takes years to see a spark transformed to a groundbreaking treatment. It all begins with basic research. Due to sustained #NIH funding, we have better therapeutics, cancer detection, vaccines. We are like 1930s Germany. 🧪 www.infotimes.us/basic-scienc... via @markhisted.org

This is a really good read about how experimental psychology research can inform us about human decision making in the context of rare and common outcomes/events/facts.

My mom was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer. Fighting with health insurance companies so that she could get care is something I would not wish on my worst enemy. That experience drives the work that I did in the House, and certainly, why I’m here on this floor today.

Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

One thing that’s changed in the past two decades in science is the speed at which information is disseminated and must be absorbed. It wasn’t so long ago that we needed to go to a library to read journals. Generative AI might help, but it isn’t a complete solution for reading the literature. 1/

Are we efficient yet? Our public resources are paying salaries of federal workers who want to work, but this admin won’t let them. AND we are paying them because the admin used illegal methods to lay them off. The incompetence is astounding! www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

The VC model is the antithesis of good basic science. Basic science is best when many labs are funded over the long-term, when many different scientists pursue their own ideas. Let a thousand flowers bloom —and support them. VC investment is about relentless, exponential growth.

It's a remarkable state of things that we have a drug that reduces your chances of dying of any cause by FORTY PERCENT and reduces your risk of cardiovascular death, stroke or heart attack by 28% if you're a diabetic and yet barely a peep from traditional media. @proptermalone.bsky.social

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

1/ Two days of ACIP chaos: Self-described "rookies" eliminated universal COVID vaccine recommendations, added FDA-debunked theories to consent forms, voted outside their legal authority. They literally don't know what they're doing or what they're allowed to do.

Final ACIP update for the Covid vaccine: 1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc). 2) 65+ can just go and get it. 3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation 1/2

"At breathtaking speed, the Trump administration is enacting policies that will be difficult to reverse and could disrupt population health for years or decades to come. Time is running out to intervene." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com

I just saw a patient with liver cancer from hepatitis B that was acquired at birth. Vaccination would’ve prevented it. There’s been a 99% reduction in annual childhood hep B infections since 1991 thanks to universal birth dose vaccination. We can’t afford to roll back that progress.

I made an edit to the figure.

“Their sheer number suggests that the United States government has spent tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars since the start of April on idled health workers. “I’m being paid to not work…”“ apple.news/A4sqCxa1eSCC...

Trying to come up with a way to help explain immunology to a general audience on social media, any critiques are welcome. Here is a few images I have made for how i am thinking of approaching it. 🧪

One of those genius ideas that looks obvious once you see it.

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”

1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*. bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A bluetorial on NIH funding and out year commitments: A historical perspective

A very nice essay. Too bad RFK Jr won't read it. Pettenkofer was not completely wrong, but his obstinate refusal to accept the germ theory prevented him instituting water filtration measures that could have saved 8,600 lives during the 1892 Hamburg cholera outbreak.

A conversation on Healthy Aging with @hmkyale.bsky.social and @thehowie.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/hea...

“Scientific disagreement is normal — it’s literally how science works) We have peer review, we debate at conferences, we publish competing studies. When thousands of experts reach consensus after rigorous testing, like they have on vaccine safety, that consensus reflects the weight of evidence.”

What a huge loss. I am so sorry to hear this news. David was a tremendous positive presence across all biomedical science. A once in a generation kind of scientist. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...

Excellent and easily digestible description of US health versus other countries and versus us in the past.

This one will make you have to sit down. . .

🕷️Spiders in your blood? Don’t worry, these are protein molecules of C4BP protein, part of your immune system. Just like real spiders, they grab prey with their “legs.” Watch them in action! Intrigued, check the paper of @tkadava.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.mc... @bijvoet-centre.bsky.social

Cool video of innate immune serum “spider-like” proteins

1. There are a few things I would like normal people to bear in mind tomorrow after they follow news coverage of congressional testimony by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr. rollcall.com/2025/08/28/k...

14. We have taken for granted the freedom created by medical science. We have become resentful of rules intended to perpetuate that freedom.

More than 30 National Institutes of Health grants in Ohio have been impacted by recent cuts at the federal level. The cuts represent an estimated loss of $16.75 million for various Ohio universities and hospitals ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/03/o...

Them: "Yeah but why do vaccine manufacturers get liability protection if their product is so safe? HMMMMM?" Because our bloody society is so litigious. If a company can be bankrupted by a spurious court decision, they need protections to make the products that keep society humming. Thread [1/2]

Gift article from NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

From the public health aspects of infectious disease & climate change the USA has now left the field & seems intent on inflicting global damage from the sidelines. The rest of humanity has to step up. What chaos at the US CDC could mean for the rest of the world theconversation.com/what-chaos-a...

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.

“here I am, in some twisted sense of irony, going back to Germany to advance my career in hopes of a better life.”

Washington Post EDITORIAL BOARD has had it with RFK, Jr. [Gift link] wapo.st/4lLZOkH

“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health.” Firings and resignations of top CDC leadership today. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

Applications are now open for the Stanford Science Fellows postdoctoral program, opportunity to join an exciting community of scholars! stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu

Spread the word - we at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social are searching to fill a new junior faculty at the interface of molecular and computational science. See link below!