14 US states have abortion bans, leading to a rise in maternal and infant mortality. Global experience shows that criminalizing abortion doesn't increase birth rates - it risks women’s health and lives, making it harder to obtain legal medical care and forcing them into clandestine abortions.

EVERYONE deserves to live free from the threat of gun violence in America.

Ingestion of death cap mushrooms has led to 35 hospitalizations, 3 deaths, and 3 liver transplants in California. Death caps remain poisonous even after cooking. Remember to avoid foraging for wild mushrooms and keep an eye on kids and pets.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How money is spent reflects values and priorities

A 5★ new review of the GLP-1 drugs, what they have achieved, and where the field is headed with so many new molecules and combinations @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Measles is not benign

So glad non medical consultants can overturn medical decisions by the doctors caring for the patients.

Sad that we now have to relearn how to diagnose and treat preventable diseases.

Nothing says "healthcare" like inflating diagnoses to inflate profits. UnitedHealth turned Medicare Advantage coding into a profit game, mining patient data to increase government payouts. Medicare gets drained and seniors get paperwork, not better care.🧾 💸 Ethics? Is ethics in the room with us?

Increasing pollution does not make anyone healthy.

Flu vaccine saves lives.

It breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔 But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️‍🩹 Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇 downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

Rolling back routine childhood vaccine guidance puts children at risk. Period. While WA plans to stick with the old one, this national move threatens decades of progress protecting kids from preventable illness. We must listen to experts and science, not conspiracy theorists.

Nutrition experts are slamming RFK Jr.’s new “real food” guidelines for flipping the food pyramid to prioritize red meat and dairy, calling the shift “a giant step back” from decades of evidence-based nutrition science.

We know it’s hard for the NYT’s to fact check, but the food pyramid has not been US policy for OVER A DECADE. The food pyramid was always a disaster and it would have been better to compare the 🧠🪱’s nutrition guidance to My Plate.

The list of off target benefits of vaccines is growing! Several vaccines are associated with reduced risk of conditions not targeted by a specific vaccine. Shingles 💉 ➡️ reduced dementia risk Flu💉 ➡️ reduced dementia risk Pneumococcal💉 ➡️ reduced Alzheimers risk COVID/RSV💉 ➡️ reduced cardiac events

Preventable deaths and suffering will occur when evidence is ignored. Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

It’s Meningitis Monday! Meningitis for all! Do you see a pale house? And his name that sat on him was Death. Robert F Kennedy Jr has just decided that our children should not be immunized against several diseases, among them meningitis. Meningitis spreads FAST and kills 1 in 6.

Vaccines save lives.

Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...

YEAR ONE MAHA

When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-brazen-cruelty-of-the-trump-regime

No wonder the resident Trump propagandist at CBS didn't want us to see this. It is horrific and shows how deeply lawless and depraved the Trump/Miller administration is.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Congrats!

Did my biannual sexual harassment training today. Thinking about how 47 denigrates women publically, calling them “piggy” and “dumb”. This would not be tolerated in my workplace.

Evidence for a detrimental causal effect of social isolation on cognitive function in older adults academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."

Couldn't agree more. All of these proposals are constitutional, reasonable, and vital. (1/2)

UPDATE: Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in the shooting at Brown University in Providence, RI yesterday afternoon. A person is in custody in connection to the shooting.

Trump: “All we can do right now is pray for the victims.” Make no mistake: Lawmakers can take action now to stop this carnage and trauma. They are choosing not to—yet again.

Measles vaccine was developed for very good reasons.

If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Agreed. Private equity out of healthcare!

I’m not a fan of Insurance companies, but letting the subsidies lapse just means people lose access to healthcare.

📖We are often asked where you can find reliable vaccine information. It breaks our hearts to say it, but it’s no longer at CDC The vaccine integrity project is a great source & has compiled recommendations from medical societies into 1 place for easier reference: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.

Claim denial by AI. What could go wrong? More hurdles for patients to get care

Yes. We must extend the ACA tax credits so that over 20 million Americans don't see a doubling in their health premiums, on average. But we must do more. We cannot remain the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right. We must pass Medicare for All.

Andy, we have gone through this in our family. Thank you for speaking so eloquently for millions of Americans. We are with you.

I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history

Inflammaging—chronic, low-grade inflammation that rises with age—may be a key driver behind many chronic and acute diseases. We talk with 3 experts: Brian Andonian, Sara LaHue, & Joe Hippensteel. #medsky 👉 Post: bit.ly/GeriPalEp383 😀 Hosts: @alexsmithmd.bsky.social | @ewidera.bsky.social

Cassidy was the deciding confirmation vote for rfkjr. Shame on you!

Vaccines save lives. We have forgotten why we made this recommendation in the first place. RIP CDC Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Vaccines save lives.

Active shooter drills don’t make our schools or children safer. Instead, they traumatize students, school staff, and parents. Our kids deserve better—they deserve solutions that prevent gun violence before it happens.