From my local (Marin County, CA) public health department: "the combined impact of federal vaccine policy and the shutdown has disrupted supply, and the County has not received COVID-19 vaccines." #vaccine #COVID #shutdown

A ruling upholding California's medical bias training law is a victory for the state against anti-DEI challenges from the Trump administration and conservative groups. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class.

Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?

Rich! From a man fined $364 million for a scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth. "The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve."

Why are more younger Americans dying?

The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives.

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

He's back, at least in part.

What have we become? As I listened to today's Daily, I recalled the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty -- Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. I sang these lines as a child in school.

BREAKING: Japan says a powerful, magnitude 8 earthquake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issues a tsunami advisory.

And then they came for Duke Medicine, Health and Law... www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

Please watch. www.btselem.org/publications...

"I don’t know how you can have a better future without looking honestly at the past.” Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

My latest @npr.org. Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to get cancer than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found. @hsph.harvard.edu @jamanetworkopen.com

Not necessarily true that no one has escaped Alcatraz and survived.

Read with tissues www.latimes.com/california/s...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

What's a "new Brooklyner"? (Curious as someone who was born and raised in the borough.)

Chilling. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...

Disabled people in wheelchairs are being zip-tied and arrested in the halls of Congress—for demanding the right to live. They came to stop Trump’s brutal Medicaid cuts, and this is the response: cuffs, arrests, silence. This is what cruelty looks like. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

So not Christian. A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay sfstandard.com/2025/06/17/v...

Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter in Atlanta originally from El Salvador, was arrested while reporting on a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies over the weekend, his lawyers said.

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

"If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to daily laborers out in the LA community, throughout California and throughout the country."

Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention. Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

Complicating an already difficult situation. Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

Thorny questions for journalists. The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/i...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... “I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here. But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.” She paused. “This is Carol.”

Undercover ICE agents begin making arrests at SF immigration court sfstandard.com/2025/05/27/u...

This is the second time in one year the FBI has visited me over a document I lawfully published. If you want to know why media constantly refuses to publish things, here's why.

Do we want more tanning beds -- which create skin cancers -- but fewer hospital beds???

In 2008, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended men 75 and older not be screened for prostate cancer with a PSA test, and since 2018, it has advised against screening men 70 and older. Joe Biden, 82, apparently followed the guidance. He last had a PSA in 2014, when he was 71 or 72.

The NYU audience was so *offended* that it burst into wild applause

Kid at NYU just lost his diploma for speech you can overhear by tuning into the UN security council.

Lord Buffalo drummer Yamal Said, a legal U.S. resident, has been detained by border patrol.

DeLauro nails it. This is illegal impoundment. Every last dollar that was appropriated by Congress for the NIH that has been "saved" needs to spent on its intended purpose: scientific research for the benefit of the American people.

A research colleague here at Harvard Medical School has been detained by ICE since February. Her story is powerful and disturbing. Please read: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

The Trump administration just announced the termination of another $450 million in grants to Harvard ($2.2 billion last week) over trumped up antisemitism allegations due to pro-Palestine sentiment on campus. This despite Harvard largely complying with the administration’s anti-diversity agenda.

Carcinogenic formaldehyde-releasing preservatives found in a majority of beauty products -- from moisturizers to soaps, shampoos and conditioners, even eyelash glue, study finds. @robinedodson.bsky.social @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social

It's true that Vinay Prasad has not been a friend to business. I learned that in 2007 when I interviewed him about a study he did about doctors taking pharmaceutical money and using Twitter to hype the drugs. Could his anti-bio pharma stance be pro-health?

Alcatraz is open. It is a national park, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which Congress established in 1972. More than 1 million people visit the island every year. #Alcatraz

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Feds threaten medical journals -- vaguely.

Confusion, fear, anxiety...

Tragedy upon tragedy.

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

1/7 Black women are at 3X times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, and, nationally, Black infants have the highest rates of preterm birth and mortality. Now the fate of Black maternal health programs is at stake amid federal cuts. @ronnielcohen.bsky.social reports:

Quite a statement.

My latest @npr.org CT scans could be responsible for 5% of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. in a single year, a new study finds. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @jama.com