Shobha MX
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Maternal-fetal medicine physician passionate about public health, policy, and communication.
“In this cross-sectional study performed from 2018 to 2021, pregnant women experienced a 37% higher firearm homicide rate than nonpregnant women.”
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
5 months ago
My interview with ABC and Mary Kekatos
abcnews.go.com/Health/us-me...
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US measles cases hit highest number in 33 years: CDC
Measles cases in the United States have reached their highest number in more than 30 years, according to new federal data published Wednesday.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-measles-cases-hit-highest-number-33-years/story?id=123564379
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy
5 months ago
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
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Hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans' Medicaid cut
States and rural health advocacy groups are sounding the alarm that Congress’ slashing of Medicaid will devastate already financially fragile rural hospitals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rural-hospitals-brace-financial-hits-closure-republicans-1-123474194?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLUkl5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmTQXb_CDdJeeMQwaSW6B2ZlnSLnKdFsAkVNUJf7UfS5piS80_iODChdPnNH_aem_b92v77odlwGR18z3DVfR5Q
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Seth Trueger
6 months ago
also care will be worse for all sorts of people for multiple reasons, its not just gonna hurt those who lose medicaid
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Kyle Griffin
6 months ago
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation."
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/louisiana-hospitals-warn-mike-johnson-of-devastation-from-megabill-00431385
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy
6 months ago
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Dr. Vin Gupta
6 months ago
78 medical societies, including the American Medical Association, strongly endorsed existing seasonal vaccination guidelines. The leading coalition of American health insurers also committed to providing uninterrupted coverage for these same vaccines. Civil society is standing up 💪
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The Tennessee Holler
6 months ago
WATCH —
@underwood.house.gov
: “Elderly will lose Medicaid. Nursing homes will close. What are people supposed to do? They don’t care… there’s no way to sugarcoat it - it will be devastating for our communities.”
#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
6 months ago
Tomorrow with
@bcmhouston.bsky.social
and CHRISTUS Health San Antonio
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Alt National Park Service
6 months ago
We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.
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daviss 📸
6 months ago
Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
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Tina Smith
6 months ago
This morning Minnesota woke up to news of a brutal act of violence targeting public servants. I am heartbroken to learn that our Speaker Melissa Hortman, Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses have been shot.
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Ruth Ann Crystal
6 months ago
Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months: 🧠36% cognitive delays 🗣️64% communication delays 🏃57% had motor delays 🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth.
buff.ly/AQSfBm9
#Medsky
#Pedsky
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
6 months ago
Oh boy... New ACIP. Talk about the wrong stuff. I linked to their backgrounds in the thread here...
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Doctors for America
6 months ago
DFA Condemns RFK Jr.’s Gutting of Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices Secretary
#Kennedy
is unfit to lead HHS and must resign. We urge Congress to take swift action to hold Secretary Kennedy accountable and protect public health.
#medsky
doctorsforamerica.org/sr-rfkjr-acip/
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DFA Condemns RFK Jr.'s Gutting of ACIP
Doctors for America condemns Secretary Kennedy’s removal of all 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP).
https://doctorsforamerica.org/sr-rfkjr-acip/
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KFF Health News
6 months ago
In an extraordinary public rebuke, career NIH employees wrote to Trump health officials that they feel “compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”
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‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’ - KFF Health News
A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers — some still working, others who were fired this year — is an extraordinary public rebuke of actions taken under Director Jay Bha...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-workers-protest-federal-cuts-bhattacharya-trump-american-health/
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The New York Times
7 months ago
Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.
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C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/cdc-covid-vaccines-children-pregnant-women.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Julianne McShane
7 months ago
NEW
@motherjones.com
: The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit The provision—which would cut services like pap smears, cancer screenings, & birth control, since Medicaid already doesn't fund abortions—moved forward today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit
So much for cutting costs.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/the-gops-plan-to-defund-planned-parenthood-would-add-300-million-to-the-deficit/
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FWC Indivisible
7 months ago
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House Republicans Push Forward With Tax and Medicaid Cuts
Three key committees advanced legislation that would combine into the “one big beautiful bill” to enact President Trump’s agenda. But the package faces a rocky path in Congress.
http://dlvr.it/TKmBWv
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Given that “undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federally funded coverage including Medicaid, CHIP, or Medicare or to purchase coverage through the ACA Marketplaces”… It’s unclear what cost savings will result from “kicking them off” as GOP reps are saying recommending.
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Key Facts on Health Coverage of Immigrants | KFF
This fact sheet provides an overview of health coverage for immigrants based on data from the 2023 KFF/LA Times Survey of Immigrants, the largest nationally representative survey focused on immigrants...
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/fact-sheet/key-facts-on-health-coverage-of-immigrants/
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Stunned by where we find ourselves on this timeline…
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks
7 months ago
I’m calling on Secretary Kennedy to resign. We are sick of it. He must go!
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Ben Wikler
7 months ago
This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
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Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030
Experts including Prof Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Dr Seth Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04-08-nearly-500000-children-could-die-aids-related-causes-2030-without-stable-pepfar
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=5-7
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Alt CDC (they/them)
8 months ago
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
8 months ago
“‘Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,’ one source, who was part of a team that managed these systems at HHS for a decade before being part of the RIF, alleges to WIRED.”
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Alexander Tin
8 months ago
We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/
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Sherrilyn Ifill
8 months ago
Taking “constituent services” to the max. Well done, Senator
@vanhollen.senate.gov
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Mueller, She Wrote
8 months ago
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us
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Rachel Maddow
8 months ago
Well this seems like a fantastic plan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the
#HandsOff
protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.
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Rachel Maddow
9 months ago
Breaking, per NBC News
@garygrumbach.bsky.social
-- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p
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Timothy Snyder
9 months ago
Lesson 13: "Practice corporeal politics... Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." ***There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th.*** Find yours here:
handsoff2025.com
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Christopher Webb
9 months ago
Fam, remember three years ago when Cory Booker brought tears to all of our eyes when he lifted up Ketanji Brown Jackson? “You are worthy.” That’s who he is. That’s who he’s always been.
@booker.senate.gov
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Josh Marshall
9 months ago
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
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PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams-shuttered-for-good
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Sherrilyn Ifill
9 months ago
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours
@booker.senate.gov
laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Your Local Epidemiologist
9 months ago
Today, thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs, effective immediately. People are literally finding out if they were fired at security when they try to badge in. It's cruel and unnecessary, which is the point.
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“…overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences, and there is no evidence that it can prevent measles.”
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Some measles patients in West Texas show signs of vitamin A toxicity, doctors say, raising concerns about misinformation | CNN
Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/health/texas-measles-vitamin-a-toxicity/index.html?cid=ios_app
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ProPublica
9 months ago
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By
@sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
https://propub.li/4i3ievK
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@DUH4Healthcare
9 months ago
www.wave3.com/2025/03/27/d...
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DOGE says it’s cutting nearly half a billion dollars from Kentucky, Indiana health departments
New entries on the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) website show the agency plans on cutting more than $500 million from state health department grants in Kentucky and Indiana.
https://www.wave3.com/2025/03/27/doge-says-its-cutting-nearly-half-billion-dollars-kentucky-indiana-health-departments/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2juT4Y7aSnIl28HKde9pv2IMqMwTFLBpmVlJ61-905Ru6Ku4qGEZavWKo_aem_CraQyIL955qZ-mY4KZsvig
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KFF Health News
9 months ago
The anti-fluoride movement has more momentum than ever. In rural counties with few dentists, tooth decay could surge to levels that have not been seen in decades, experts warn.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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With Few Dentists and Fluoride Under Siege, Rural America Risks New Surge of Tooth Decay - KFF Health News
The anti-fluoride movement has more momentum than ever. In rural counties with few dentists, tooth decay could surge to levels that have not been seen in decades, experts warn.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fluoride-dental-shortages-unfluoridated-public-water-tooth-decay-rural-america/
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Another devastating loss of critically needed work…
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David Hackney
9 months ago
“Former Diversity Officer” “A longtime University of South Florida administrator…” Correction: Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist Dr. Hayward Brown, Vice Dean, Past President of ACOG and unwavering, lifelong advocate for pregnant people This is infuriating
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
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Former diversity officer at USF resigns after comments on DEI laws
The university said it was “disappointed and troubled” by the administrator’s words.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2025/03/18/former-diversity-officer-usf-resigns-after-comments-dei-laws/
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Timothy McBride
9 months ago
Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order - The New York Times
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Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD
9 months ago
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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I joined OB/GYNs from MD’s 3rd district on the Hill today to advocate for women’s health, including improved rural access to OB care & against Medicaid cuts. We are grateful for the effort of Rep Sarah Elfreth
@elfreth.house.gov
& her wonderful staff.
#CLC2025
@acog-org.bsky.social
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