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Over the last 5 years, ACA marketplace insurance enrollment increased 157% in red states and 36% in blue states. It’s these Americans that are likely to lose their insurance if Republicans don’t do something about the expiring tax credits. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

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

ENDORSE: "We are speaking out because protecting public health is our responsibility as physicians, scientists and patient advocates. It is also the responsibility of our elected officials, and we call for their support at this critical moment to protect the health of the nation." (1/2)

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan

We cannot get people with even basic scientific literacy back into leadership positions quickly enough.

The highest cost of demagoguery is paid by the eight thousand little souls who starve to death *every day* while their salvation sits in a warehouse. The Christians who enabled & still support this administration should be haunted the rest of their days by this ungodly cruelty. Watch the 2 vids 👇🏻

A very big study from Denmark generates some reassuring findings about aluminum in childhood vaccines, finding no association between aluminum and development of a number of illnesses, including asthma. www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/a...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is proud to stand with leading public health organizations by taking legal action to protect the integrity of our immunization system to defend science, evidence-based medicine, and the policies that keep children safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODV...

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Very important study

Read more about the role that vaccines have played in reducing child mortality: ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...

Please enjoy some basic facts about thimerosal, a favorite boogeyman of the anti-vax movement, from our friends at Rollins at Emory, the #2 ranked school of public health in the country according to USNWR.

A great post to pin. Vaccines are safe, cost-effective, & prevent serious infections leading to things like deafness, paralysis, cancer, & death. They have probably been the single most important advance in the history of medicine and they are under unnecessary attack. XO, a pediatric immunologist

Read this. “The evidence overwhelmingly shows that ensuring children have access to care leads to better outcomes and that Medicaid improves their health and economic well-being into adulthood.” Of all the s*#t happening in the world, the needless suffering of children is the biggest atrocity(1/)

The ripple effect from the cruelty and fear of these raids is profound. Pediatricians from around the country are seeing an increasing rate of children not showing for their medical appointments due to fear. To enact policies that instill fear of accessing basic needs is truly a low of lows.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

👏🏻 Slashing 👏🏻 federal 👏🏻 investment 👏🏻 in 👏🏻 research 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 major 👏🏻 strategic 👏🏻 mistake 👏🏻

Children like Evan are dying needlessly and we have willfully turned away from them, led by an addled man-child who in large part made his own fortune with the help of government grants. Cutting PEPFAR & similar relief programs should be viewed as a crime against humanity, full stop. Watch👇🏻

This baby is alive because the NIH and other US federal agencies supported research and development of CRISPR technology. How many babies will die due to cuts in federal research funding? How many babies would have to die for the richest people in the world to be willing to give up their tax cuts?

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We didn’t come this far for my daughter to be subject to this kind of bullshit from delusional old white male billionaires. Out of the way, grandpa. Thanks for making a giant mess (again) that our kids will have to clean up for you once you’re gone.

We are beginning to see in the data evidence of the brain drain which is entirely predictable, and which Dr. Collins spoke about last week on 60 Minutes. It is essential that the general public understand the nature of scientific research funding so that we can collectively advocate for NIH (1/)

Using an LLM to generate a 100-word email requires .14 kilowatt-hours worth of electricity, enough to power 14 LED lights for an hour. If you were to send one AI email a week for a year, you'd use 7.5kWh, equal to an hour's worth of electricity consumed by 9 households. futurism.com/altman-pleas...

It was a true honor to recognize Dr. Lisa Kobrynski this morning for her 30+ years of dedicated service to @emoryuniversity.bsky.social as a researcher, public health advocate, teacher, and master clinician par excellence - and to welcome Dr. Cullen Dutmer as our new Medical Director of Immunology!

People 👏🏻 with 👏🏻 autism 👏🏻 ARE 👏🏻 HUMAN 👏🏻 BEINGS 👏🏻 …with many gifts and unique abilities! Feels weird to have to set the Secretary of HHS straight on this matter, but here we are.

FACTS. Many of these people are my neighbors. I know them personally. They work their asses off for low pay because they dedicate their lives to the mission orientation required of public servants. They deserve our undying gratitude and respect 🙏🏻

“The FDA as we know it is finished.” - ex FDA commish. Since when did the American people decide that ensuring the safety of our food and medicines is not in the national interest? Same question about CDC? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Bad for Americans, bad for industry, bad for the world 😢

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

Here’s the @ajc.com front page in 1997 announcing the record tree pollen count of 4601. Over this past weekend it exceeded 14,000. What’s going on? Well, remember back to middle school science: Trees exchange CO2 for O2. More CO2 = more pollen. Anthropogenic climate change strikes again.

If they're this careless with their own personally identifiable information, imagine how careless they are being with yours.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Proud to serve on the Board of @immunedeficienC. This #RareDiseaseDay, Help us raise awareness about primary immunodeficiency. Their free screening tool takes just 10 minutes and could change someone's life. go.primaryimmune.org/immune-syste...

“What becomes of the University if it succumbs to the demands of a political party or leader and cedes its rights of free speech, free expression, and free inquiry?”

There are many, many talented physicians, scientists, & engineers legally here on H-1Bs. They are not threats & do not take American jobs. They work very hard in essential roles & make us better. Likely one has cared for one of your loved ones. This is wrong. Remember her name: Dr. Rasha Alawieh.

The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by, says Arthur Caplan https://go.nature.com/3XS8xc4

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good to watch. but there's one part in here that most will probably overlook. stability, the constitution and the rule of law are magnets for capital. an elemental observation that's at the root of basically every study of economics and capitalism.

You could drop in to *literally any* medical school in the country and pick a first year student at random, and they could lead a more effective response to a measles outbreak than the current head of HHS.

99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Over 9 in 10 Americans agree: Medicaid is important for their community. Protecting health care for working families isn't a partisan issue. Save Medicaid. No cuts.

When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

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A political movement that attacks scientific research & the institutions that conduct it will eventually lose. The American people are creators & dreamers who believe in a better tomorrow. Our story has *always* been about innovation. We #standupforscience2025 because our future depends on it.

In these unprecedented dark times for American life science and medical research (no less well beyond biomedicine), my coping mechanism is to laser focus on the unremitting and remarkable daily advances, and the fervent hope these will not be slowed or interrupted.

of all the own goals we are scoring lately, handicapping our ability to warn people when deadly weather is coming their way feels like one of the biggest and dumbest