In summary, from both a personal and professional perspective, to hinder access to HPV vaccine would be to directly cause preventable deaths in both men and women, and to cost the U.S. $8B per year. And I will fight it with everything in my power, I can promise you that.

Just outside Seattle on I-5 🤘

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The next beer’s on me, JessSteiner! #vax reality ##COVID

news: COVID vaccines are safe

Why read books? Because there's a book for EVERYONE out there. And once you find the right book - reading will change your life forever! #literacy (Art: Charles M Schulz)

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

Everybody Everywhere Needs flowers tonight

Before the 1970s, a child diagnosed with leukemia had a 90% chance of dying within 5 years. Today, those odds are flipped: they have an almost 90% chance of survival. My colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev's article on progress against childhood cancer. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

One of the greatest tragedies of the gutting of the federal government is the loss of dedicated scientists who chose to work in public service for the benefit of the American people. This letter is both incredibly brave and a testament to their integrity. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Read this thread to understand the horror, the suffering, the pain, and the dreadful censorship that Jay Bhattacharya has unleashed 😞

I am so excited to share our most recent work & my first big project as a graduate student! We leveraged spatial transcriptomics to study the cell-cell communication involved in human lung development. Here’s the full study: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/17)

Do not listen to RFK Jr. on covid vaccines for pregnant people. Listen to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which STRONGLY recommends a covid vaccine during pregnancy, for the health of the pregnant person and the fetus. 🧪 www.acog.org/covid-19/cov...

In light of today’s recommendation on COVID vaccines for pregnant women, this 2022 piece by @deldeib.bsky.social is newly relevant. COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen

Neonatal and Developing Lung Interest Group (NDLIG) Annual Meeting & Whitsett Award Presentation Mon 5/19/2025 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM Marriott Marquis San Francisco Foothill E (Second Level) #atsmeeting #ats #neobluesky

HUGE NEWS. A study presented at #AACR25 found that one dose of the HPV vaccine (which prevents CANCER) is as effective as two, with efficacy rates >97%.

Presenting at #pas2025 about cystic fibrosis newborn screening!

Here at the #PedsICU section of #PAS2025 Learning about pediatric mortality in conflict zones

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

This is clearly happening to @atscommunity.bsky.social, where longtime friends and stalwarts — great teachers who usually show Americans cutting edge data from @anzics.bsky.social collaborations — are skipping this year US patients will suffer from delayed access to latest results

Learning from the legendary Dr. Bonnie Ramsey #cysticfibrosis

scienmag.com/revolutionar... read about the new guideline for cystic fibrosis newborn screening! #medsky

Tom Mariani, PhD - chair of the ATS Research Advocacy Committee told Hill staffers, "It is no exaggeration to say important studies testing the benefits of new treatments have been delayed, fundamental research pursuing novel health discoveries have been derailed...by Administration actions."

Alright Skeeties! I wanted to put all the anatomy facts in a thread to keep them organized so: WELCOME to class of 2023 Insomniac Anatomy Academy! In which I study anatomy when I can't sleep and share the best facts with you. 🧪

THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...

Horrible. Pediatric brain cancer research. What are we doing? On this front:

'NIH suggests that indirect and direct costs are substitutes when in reality they are complements: (...) If NIH puts more money into direct project funding, that funding generates additional indirect costs for more labs, more safety & compliance officers, and more buildings & their utility costs.'

I remember the cystic fibrosis patients I took care of 20 years ago. I also remember the dedicated HIV wards in the hospitals, and that Princess Diana made headlines for shaking hands with AIDS patients. Progress has been incredible. Miracles are where you choose to see them.

#medsky #patientexperience #advicefromapatient

This is Courtney. She’s about to graduate with her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Colorado. She made this sign in 2017 for the first science march and has had it in her lab ever since. “In 2017 we felt science was being attacked. Now it actually is.” #StandUpForScience Denver

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has extended her nationwide block on Trump administration effort to slash funds for NIH research.

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

“Every American has benefited from NIH-supported medical research conducted at medical schools, academic health systems, and teaching hospitals nationwide. Every American will be harmed by the undermining (@NIH).” www.aamc.org/news/press-r...

When Elon was a kid, survival for ALL, the most common childhood cancer, was <10% Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR. For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made. I think it’s worth it.

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Vaccines do not cause autism.

NYTimes adding insult to injury in this tragedy. The “treatment” was for autism, which isn’t a thing, and was being done by someone with no medical training who charges cash for expensive bogus therapies. And now a 5-year-old is dead because of the grift.

If you weren’t clear: a President ordering a Federal health and disease agency to delete pages on its website is a public health crisis.

On the left, CDC’s page of vaccine-specific recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) On the right, that page tonight

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

A quick economics lesson: If funding for Medicaid is frozen or cut, Children's hospitals will close. Pediatricians will shut their doors. Then it doesn't matter how rich or poor you are. There will be no children's hospitals and no pediatricians. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. #PedSky #MedSky

If you have feelings about RFK and his overall fitness to run HHS, here is some information on how to call your senators in whichever state you live and work!

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

#Gratitude post. Thank you to everyone who "brought the light" to #HCWvsHunger2024. This was truly a grassroots effort across not just #MedSky and #MedTwitter, but so many others who just wanted to part of this force for good. Thank you for the incredible HCWvsHunger leadership team including 1/

🥳Will we be throwing confetti before #HCWvsHunger ends at midnight tonight 12/3/24? $3 MILLION total to #FightHunger since we began in 2020 is within our reach, & we believe in #MedSky! Message fam/friends to donate & remember to log all #GivingTuesday & employer matches! #LetsGo! Finish strong!

OK #KidVengers! I think I understand the #HCWvsHunger "RISE UP" #ChaosGrenade! The goal is to help every team "RISE UP" in terms of their donation totals! We **strategically** donate on behalf of OTHER TEAMS, and the team who donates the most by 7am tomorrow gets a $50,000 bonus! Here's how: 1/2