Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h....

Will the C.D.C. Survive? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h... I think it will survive but not thrive. CDC rapidly loosing its leadership and relevance nationally and globally. In the short term State and local health departments will be critical for public health.

Healthcare provider stigma toward patients with substance use disorders - Parish - Addiction - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Congratulations Carrigan and CTN 104 team!

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h... Prescription drug denials by private insurers in the US ⬆️25% from 2016 to 2023... a practice that has contributed to rising public outrage about the nation’s private health insurance system.

A New Era of Hunger Has Begun www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o... How shameful and unnecessary this is.

@ihmeuw.bsky.social report on the impact of funding cuts in DAH. www.healthdata.org/news-events/... "The potential ⬆️ in inf dis in LMICs poses a global health concern that could impact all nations, including those in HIC, due to the risk of triggering economic, political, and security crises."

Enjoyed talking to my friend Mike Saag on this IAS-USA podcast where we discussed HIV care for foreign-born and hard-to-reach populations. youtu.be/BAZ6Lu6g1W8?...

"The secret, Alice, is to surround yourself with people who make your heart smile.” Alice in Wonderland.

Excellent update on Measles in NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Risk and Distribution of Metastatic Infections by Primary Infection Focus in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia url: academic.oup.com/ofid/article.... Almost 20% of patients with SAB have metastatic infections. Endocarditis is the most common primary infection.

Wondering if your grant will be reinstated from Monday's ruling? Check here. Plaintiffs have uploaded a list of 848 (of the ~2400 total terminated) they say are covered because they're to institutions in the states aforementioned or a part of APHA/UAW. The judge must approve the list first.

www.al.com/politics/202... “Academic Health Centers are like tropical rainforests: They take decades to develop and weeks to destroy.”

Delighted to publish this paper in Lancet Regional Health with @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social @emoryrollins.bsky.social and CDC colleagues about the need to dismantle silos in public health that have pitted infectious diseases against chronic conditions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tonight is the Emory ID fellows graduation. Great event at Dr. Steinberg’s home. Congratulations to the six graduating fellows!

This evening I am attending the Departmrnt of Pathology Resident Graduation event. A fantastic group of residents and fellows. Congratulations!

With federal changes to vaccine policy & recommendations underway, here's our overview of insurance coverage requirements for vaccines by payer, as linked to ACIP/CDC. As we show, federal changes mean consumers could lose access to free vaccines. www.kff.org/other/issue-...

ACIP was a group of unpaid vaccine experts who based their recommendations on clinical data, safety monitoring, disease surveillance, and cost-effectiveness. They were not shills for the pharmaceutical industry. They were not political actors. @paulsaxmd.bsky.social blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Enjoy being at the ACP today with my @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social colleagues Dan Dressler & Joanna Bonsall working on the program for the 2027 ACP Meeting.

Today is the final morning report at EUH conducted by our @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social chief resident Jim Pennoyer. Congratulations Jim, great job!

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r... via @statnews.com

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the publication in the MMWR of a new syndrome that we now know as AIDS www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview... (MMWR 1981;30:250--2). Much progress since then but much remains to be done.

My wife and I hosted today a dinner honoring our finishing @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social Chief Residents. An incredible group of talented young physicians committed to excellence and to training the next generation.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a... Yet another terrible decision.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

www.science.org/content/arti.... It’s wrong and unnecessary.

Looking forward to today’s @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social Grand Rounds where Dr. Yolanda Wimberly will speak about Health Equity.

medicine.ucsf.edu/about/facult... Excited to be at UCSF as the Holly Smith visiting professor.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/h... “And despite the progress, drug fatalities remain high. According to the data, 80,391 people died from drug-related causes in 2024.”

RFK Jr just stated in front of Congress that recommending the measles vaccine is like recommending people to swim in a lake and not telling them there are alligators there!

Getting ready to moderate an Update on Urgent Virus Outbreaks with my colleagues Peter Chin-Hong & Bonnie Maldonado

How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer - Vox

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Between Feb 28 and Apr 8, 2025, 694 NIH grants were terminated across 24 of the 26 institutes and centers. The cumulative amount of terminated grant funding was $1.81 billion, of which $544 024 077 (30.0%) had not been expended at the time of grant termination.

The new reality for American academia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Excellent editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social

Another excellent Coffee with Carlos where I meet with @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social faculty to hear their thoughts, challenges and accomplishments. Today I met with faculty at the Atalanta VAMC. Was impressed by their commitment to serve our nations veterans.

“Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane". Today I am attending the opening of the renovated MOSAIC Clinic in Clarkston. An amazing service to the community.

www.bmj.com/content/389/... “Trump’s first 100 days have destroyed the foundations of 100 years’ scientific progress and pre-eminence.”

“Only when it’s dark enough you can see the stars. This is not the time to through up our hands, this is the time to role up our sleeves”. Kamala Harris

Attending this afternoon the ELAM & ELH graduation. Thrilled that two @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social faculty are part of these amazing group, Drs. Camille Vaughan and Divya Gupta.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... MVCs were associated with a significantly higher percentage of patients with VC-related adverse events or dysfunctions and could not be demonstrated as a noninferior alternative to PICCs.

Excited to have Doug Walker @emoryrollins.bsky.social speaking today at @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social Grand Rounds on Micro & nano plastic exposure.

Here is my review on NEJM Journal Watch ID of the recent study published in JAMA from Monica Gandhi and team on LA-CAB/RPV in PWH with and without viremia. www.jwatch.org/na58554/2025...

Today Dr Jerry Boss will be delivering Emory’s Dean Distinguished Lecture. Jerry is a terrific investigator, a great leader and a wonderful colleague. Congratulations Jerry!

As an infectious diseases specialist I beg to defer. Simply encounter as a healthy individual an N meningitidis and you might die, doesn’t matter how healthy you are.

thepointsguy.com/news/europea... Wow, I am sure that the tourism industry is loving this administration’s policies!

www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Congratulations to Daniel Drucker at the University of Toronto and the other physician-scientists for winning this prestigious prize.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... “Many young researchers say they are having to choose between staying in the United States and staying in science.”