More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

Dr. Debra Houry, who resigned in protest from the health agency, said the spread of misinformation impacted lives.

Kennedy’s HHS was supposed to purge cozy relationships and conflicts of interest from health care policy; ....White House [...'s] big-money alliances with tobacco, pesticide, and talc companies have repeatedly undercut MAHA priorities, ..." 1/2 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Has the MAHA Movement Given Up? The Trump administration backed big business over them in several areas, states are ignoring their efforts to undermine vaccine access, and Kennedy is widely unpopular. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/m... @dwallacewells.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

This week @defendpublichealth.bsky.social explores why RFK Jr won't warn Americans about the dangers of raw milk consumption. He's also shied away from making inter-state sales legal, keeping responsibility for milkborne outbreaks with the states! www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

Hegseth proudly announced that the flu vaccine would no longer be required for people serving in the military. A flu outbreak is now happening at Lackland Air Force Base, and flu vaccinations are again required. The AF has now been forced to admit that a 25-year-old recruit has died of influenza.

Great time to have killed USAID

Begging a single journalist out there to ask how this policy will be enforced.

It's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Calling bullshit on RFKJr and Trump: yet another peer-reviewed study determines that there is no connection between Tylenol and autism. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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There is no excuse for Bill Cassidy voting to confirm RFK Jr. and convincing others to do so. Tens of thousands of expert healthcare professionals and scientists opposed this, and he ignored us because he thought it would benefit him. Now he wants to wash his hands. But we will NEVER forget.

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

"Chat, using words a layperson can understand, could you explain to me what 'insurance' is?"

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.

If this rule change goes forward, science in the US “will stop,” says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “It won’t exist anymore.” Read the article here:zurl.co/gEtBL Then help us take action against the proposed rule here: zurl.co/J3Z23

“What [Kennedy] is doing is incredibly dangerous,” said Offit. “I just feel like we're slowly approaching this cliff and about to fall off in slow motion.”

“The old charter required real expertise in vaccine use, vaccine research, or vaccine safety and efficacy.” New rules are “broad enough to seat almost anyone with a health-adjacent title. It is hard to read it as anything other than retrofitting the rules to fit the people who failed them.”

Less than 24 hours after RFK Jr. became health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the CDC: Take down your ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. That same day, the CDC reported flu-related ailments that season had killed 68 children — 11 that week alone — and 16,000 overall.

Another powerful op-ed by Nancy Krieger on the OMB rules destroying research and poised to affect ALL federal grants. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/27/o...

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Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/NzgJ8 #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, deep breath* Is the nation at war or not?

This is deeply unethical NIH grantees are being told to leave out published papers with foreign coauthors in their progress reports—they’re being ordered to be dishonest & to suppress their own work! And pre-emptively removing foreign authors from papers that they coauthored is SO unethical!

Defend Scientific Research, Defend Our Universities, and Defend Our Communities! AAUP NC Call to Action on Proposed OMB Rules and on UNC Institutional Neutrality Policy drive.google.com/file/d/1VtEm... Text follows 1/

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

Vaccines are a win-win, good for ourselves as well as our shared communities www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

The bootcamp flu outbreak illustrates the importance of public health policies, including how policies amount to more than the sum of individual decisions Policy decisions also involve trade-offs. Few policies are fully costless Glad troops will return to an evidence-based policy with much benefit

This is a great example of a politician sticking to an unpopular policy (ULEZ) which was the right thing to do and ended up saving lives.

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The State Department’s plan will basically destroy PEPFAR and lead to the closure of many CDC country offices—a scenario that would jeopardize the health of millions and make Americans less safe.

Why did 83 members of Congress call RFK Jr.‘s new project “duplicitous, a waste of government resources, and a thinly-veiled attempt to push a far right agenda onto people at a vulnerable time in their lives”? You can find out below with @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s Whopper of the Week.

On any day that has a y in its name, RFK Jr is doing something to cause suffering, pain, distress, & death His new pro-natalist, anti-abortion project is “a joke, an insult, & a danger all in one place” Shouldn’t the person who leads the US health system do SOMETHING to, um, improve public health?

Whoever could have predicted? 🧐

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Shouldn’t be lost on anyone that the world’s richest man is stoking public health conspiracies after getting called out for gutting USAID—a move that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Great work RFK! 👇

This report from @robertgarcia.house.gov and @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social is a comprehensive and damning account of the gutting of American's health research infrastructure oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Here is @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s statement on the new OMB rule that takes scientific funding decisions away from experts and hands them to political appointees. Please have a look to learn more about how you can help.

Defend Public Health has launched an all-out, multipronged campaign to block proposed new OMB rule for federal grants, which threaten to politicize all federal funding, from medical research to grants for bridge repairs and disaster relief. Learn more 👇

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

Just in case you were wondering whether the feigned outrage over personal freedom during Covid was real or theater… it turns out the right does really like the exercise of state control.

"I have spent more than 40 years in pulmonary and critical care medicine. I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government."

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