“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

🧪 PubMed’s brief outage sent researchers into panic, underscoring global reliance on the free biomedical database. While restored, the incident raises concerns about access, resilience, and the need for backups. 🩺💻

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Joining 400 pediatricians at #AAPAdvocacy to advocate for Congress to reject funding cuts to Medicaid/CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) In IL, Medicaid covers 35% of children, 40% of births, and 43% of children with special needs #KeepKidsCovered @quigley.house.gov @duckworth.senate.gov

Representation matters. This meant the world to people. It’s just as important as putting up a menorah or a Christmas tree #RamadanMubarak

He’s so helpful.

🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.? A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Why aren’t we talking about the true preventive treatment which is vaccination 🤦‍♀️

PubMed is essential for scientists and doctors to access the latest medical research. With PubMed down, we can’t search for the latest research and newest treatments for diabetes, cancer, infectious diseases, and more. This directly impacts patient care—everyone should be concerned.

Great, evidence-based resource for parents/community re: vaccine schedule, catch up doses, immune response etc. 👇🏽 www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine. 📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

A bill before the Missouri state Senate would introduce $1,000 rewards for people identifying undocumented immigrants who are then taken into custody. Opponents say it’s already spreading fear and changing the lives of both legally residing and undocumented immigrants: cnn.it/3QEaswU

I posted the following repeatedly following Nov 7th, 2024. I didn't do it to show what a 'clever boy' I was, nor someone who recognised the patterns of history but, principally, because I could see the bleeding obvious. 😑

Please give it a go advance mode . Here the 🔗 and it’s still working in safari & google chrome 🇬🇧 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Wheels up! 🛫 Headed to DC with #AAP and 400+ of my closest friends to advocate for kids ❤️ Who else is going? @deannamarie208.bsky.social @annieandrewsmd.bsky.social @drdrmaya.bsky.social @neodrswenson.bsky.social @sheilarazdan.bsky.social @stephenwpatrick.bsky.social ?

Damn. If only there were a way to prevent measles AND rubella at the same time

Hot take: Social security is good actually

Texas school confirms case of rubella as measles outbreak in state reaches 146 cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

The measles had turned into measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do. That was in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do.

'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

Must read 🧵: Roald Dahl on Measles: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.

I think about this headline all of the time.

NPR did a thing. I helped out. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

In 2012 I published a paper that estimated that global measles mortality had dropped from 500k to 139k from 2000 to 2010. Last year, after doing this every year for 12 years, we estimated that measles deaths had further dropped to 107K. Every death due to measles is preventable.

Raise your ✋ and repost this if you're participating.

Know what’s not cost-effective? Measles outbreaks The 2019 Clark County, WA outbreak cost about $3.4M - $47,479 per case - $814 per contact Crucial resources were diverted to measles triage, isolation, contact tracing, and treatment pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🚨 Measles is resurging in the U.S. This is what we'll be dealing with moving forward 📍 West Texas – 120+ cases, 1 death 📍 DFW, TX – 1 case 📍 California – 1 case 📍 New Jersey – 3 cases 📍 Kentucky – 1 case Get vaccinated & know post-exposure prophylaxis protocols. #VaccinesWork #MeaslesOutbreak

I’ve seen children die of -influenza -COVID -pertussis And wouldn’t wish those experiences on anyone. Know what these things have in common?! Effective vaccines that save lives.

NEWS The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines. This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines. 86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. About 430,000 people were hospitalized.

You don’t need to be an infectious disease doctor to see where this is going

This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

Actually, a measles outbreak IS an unusual occurrence. Especially in a country like the US, which had eliminated the disease thanks to vaccination until recently. It's so unusual that most physicians in the U.S. have NEVER seen a case! www.nbcnews.com/now/video/-i...

Echoing everyone else. I started med school in 2000, and I’ve never had a patient with measles. It is not normal!

Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.