Tim Lahey
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Infectious diseases doc, ethicist, and medical educator in Vermont ❤️🏳️🌈🕊️
“This agreement offers a path, however imperfect, back to doing the work scientists were trained to do: documenting health inequities and developing solutions that save lives. At the same time, we should be very clear: the damage is already profound”
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NIH begins review of thousands of delayed research proposals, funding 135 on first day
A deal between NIH and groups that sued the Trump administration over delayed DEI-related grant proposals is already bearing fruit
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/30/nih-grant-delays-new-review-no-guarantee-approval/
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She describes bacterial vaginosis as “more like: you over-fertilized your lawn.” “Oh, I like that,” said Dr. Cigna… “I might steal that.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/h...
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This Common Infection Was Thought to Affect Only Women. Now Doctors Know Better.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/health/bacterial-vaginosis-sexually-transmitted-infection.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Historians will count the children harmed by the US State Department in 2025 as among this administration’s greatest atrocities
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/h...
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How Cameroon Fought to Save Its Malaria Program After the U.S. Cut Critical Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/health/malaria-cameroon-usaid-pmi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The corollary to Brandolini's law should be Musk's maxim: it's 100x easier to break working government programs than to fix true governmental waste
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Paul Sax
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“AZT killed more people than AIDS” is false. I was a medical resident in the late 1980s. AZT wasn’t perfect, but it saved lives and was the first step on the way to modern HIV therapy. Evidence, history, and context here.
paulsaxmd.substack.com/p/no-azt-did...
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No, AZT Didn't Kill More People than AIDS
Some statements are wrong enough to make your head explode.
https://paulsaxmd.substack.com/p/no-azt-didnt-kill-more-people-than
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André Picard @picardonhealth
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‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent. Research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes, says Dr. Andrew Boozary of the University Health Network.
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‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent
‘This is preventative medicine,’ says Dr. Andrew Boozary with the University Health Network, as research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes. The fund will help patients on a case...
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/this-is-preventative-medicine-toronto-hospital-starts-1-million-fund-to-help-patients-with-rent/article_af7209dc-dcb1-4cab-91da-e22954869844.html
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BK. Titanji
15 days ago
There have been at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations, and 1,900 deaths from flu this season so far. There is a lot of flu out there. Getting the flu shot prevents hospitalisations and death! Please get your flu shot it id not too late.
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I know a guy, in Denmark He takes some medications Should I take his medications?
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Tyrannical feds teach vulnerable children a lesson to censor pediatricians
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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Health Department Cancels Grants to Group That Criticized Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/american-academy-of-pediatrics-hhs-funding-rfk-jr-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Tarnishing the US scientific brand helps who, exactly?
www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...
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Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/research-cuts-fuel-scientific-brain-drain-american-science-shattered/
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Dr van Tilburg
20 days ago
This is a very sobering graph for the US. Hospitals that treat kids (level 1-2-3 in figure) are disappearing. This is problematic for all.
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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Simpler question: Should rich people get preferential access to scarce organ transplants? Harder question: Should the US pool of scarce transplants be limited just to US residents?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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Transplant Hospitals Court Patients Overseas Despite Organ Shortage
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/organ-transplants-international-patients.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Gepotidacin approved by FDA for treatment of gonorrhea
www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/f...
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FDA approves first new gonorrhea drug in decades
FDA approves new drug to treat gonorrhea, which is notorious for developing resistance to medicines
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/fda-approves-new-gonorrhea-antibiotic-blujepa-from-gsk/
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One oral dose of zoliflodacin cures gonorrhea as often as ceftriaxone/azithro
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Zoliflodacin versus ceftriaxone plus azithromycin for treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea: an international, randomised, controlled, open-label, phase 3, non-inferiority clinical trial
Zoliflodacin was non-inferior to ceftriaxone plus azithromycin for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhoea and had a similar safety profile. These data suggest a potential role for zolifl...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01953-1/fulltext
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Risk-based breast
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screening equivalent to one-size-fits-all screening Is the risk assessment process practicable outside of a clinical trial?
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Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening
This randomized clinical trial examines whether risk-based screening is a safe and effective alternative to annual mammography for detecting breast cancer in women 40 years and older.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2842903?utm_source=for_the_media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=121225__;!!M9LbjjnYNg9jBDflsQ!CkCO8l91JplD0jkySDp8Ds_jsi_T7Hp8LakjM2G7eCXXyvjDdvRawDQ9V-Ae1f40JavzXf4P54kcqdj7BV-q12y1pFxFK5Nmvg$
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Patrick Hickey, MD
26 days ago
JFC These preventive treatments have been a game changer in pediatrics. Ever sit with a family by the bedside of an infant gasping for air? Ever tried to decide when it’s time to move that that child to a ventilator? Makary, Prassad, and Høeg certainly haven’t.
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Liz Szabo
27 days ago
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
My latest for CIDRAP News
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Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/pediatricians-reject-cdc-advisers-guidance-plan-continue-vaccinating-all
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To have a strong ID workforce, "we must make the pathway viable [via] fairer compensation, robust support for research, revitalized public health infrastructure, and a political climate that protects rather than punishes expertise" Amen,
@boghuma.bsky.social
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www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress.
Sidelining our field will inevitably leave us all unprepared for the next threat
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118906?xid=nl_secondopinion_2025-12-09&mh=d272622e66ffe588f3af47be1677682b&zdee=gAAAAABm4uKOp9B4J4xWasJRGrm_J2jC3aSFSIJwmQU4BB-05O665SLaj3Ld8cMAEj99w8_iCdH7LbaOlrBrIE69slDppbiVQX5VSg7vF6FBzSgg7sspQk0%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SecondOpinions_120925
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"scholars felt betrayed, because they had been urged to seek funding through the program when they could have qualified for other training grants not focused on diversity. Now they’re scrambling for other jobs, or to set up their new labs with limited resources. "
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
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NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/trump-nih-cuts-impacts-next-gen-researchers-american-science-shattered-series/
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"a quarter reported that they were 'very likely' to go without coverage if their premiums doubled or if they had to pay $50 more a month if they paid no premiums for 2025."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/h...
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Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/health/obamacare-deductibles-premiums-health-insurance.html
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Yes
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Over the past two days, I’ve been in Washington representing the American College of Physicians at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). I am deeply concerned by recent decisions th...
TikTok video by jasongoldmanmd
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UsgYsH/
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Tara C. Smith
about 1 month ago
Here is Jason Goldman's beautiful, amazing takedown of the whole sham
#ACIP
meeting today. (2 parts) So glad he said what every expert in the field is feeling today (and all year).
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"We are doing harm by changing this wording."
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
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CDC Panel Drops Recommendation That All Babies Get Hep B Shot at Birth
Panel adopts shared decision-making policy; dissenters say it endangers children, lacks evidence
https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/vaccines/118852
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Study catches AI chatbots “optimizing persuasiveness … at some cost to truthfulness,” which will surprise zero politicians
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AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people's political opinions, study finds
A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-chatbots-used-inaccurate-information-change-political-opinions-stud-rcna247085
about 1 month ago
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Pantone partners with ICE to declare white the color of 2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/s...
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Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year Is ‘Cloud Dancer’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/style/pantones-2026-color-of-the-year-cloud-dancer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 month ago
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Annenberg survey suggests Americans trust AMA more than CDC, ie trusted experts can protect people from wing nuts
www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-mo...
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Americans More Likely to Accept Guidance from AMA than CDC on Vaccine Safety | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
By a 2-1 margin, Americans would be more likely to accept guidance on vaccine safety from the AMA than the CDC, an Annenberg survey finds.
https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-more-likely-to-accept-guidance-from-ama-than-cdc-on-vaccine-safety/
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How do we spread this novel idea that citizens vote out rulers who harm them?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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Poll Suggests G.O.P. Will Face More Blame if Obamacare Subsidies Go Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/poll-republicans-health-insurance-subsidies-affordable-care-act.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Excellent summary of how to manage disinformation from the bizarro-ACIP
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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What to expect from this week's U.S. vaccine meeting
Hep B, routine vaccination schedule, and a firehose of falsehoods
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/what-to-expect-from-this-weeks-us?r=1ue040&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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Experts say Prasad’s shadowy changes to evidence-based vaccine approvals risk real harm
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...
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A dozen former FDA commissioners decry Prasad memo on vaccine regulation
Changes to the ways in which the FDA plans to regulate vaccines represent a threat to effective vaccines and public health, 12 former commissioners say.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/fda-former-commissioners-vaccine-policy/
about 1 month ago
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Bill Hanage
about 1 month ago
The health of Americans is at risk as those in power abandon evidence and process, and elevate anecdote and rhetoric in their place. Excellent article (if sad to read)
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/a...
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CDC’s vaccine advisory panel faces a crisis of its own making
“ACIP has drifted toward inflating speculative risks while downplaying well-established vaccine benefits,” write former CDC officials Demetre Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan, and Debra Houry.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/acip-meeting-cdc-vaccine-advisory-panel-risks-benefits/
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
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FDA Approves New Drug That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
SILVER SPRING, MD—Praising the drug’s ability to quickly and effectively increase fatalities amongst the nation’s opioid users, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new nasal spray Wednesd...
https://theonion.com/fda-approves-new-drug-that-reverses-effects-of-narcan/
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.
about 1 month ago
1918 HERE WE COME
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/fda-official-proposes-impossible-standards-vaccine-testing-could-curtail-access
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I don’t see doctors who can’t interpret vital signs and labs
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/02/acip-hepatitis-b-childhood-immunization-schedule/
about 1 month ago
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Excellent new lit review and meta-analysis of the link between BMI &
#tuberculosis
, including data from our cohort in Dar es Salaam
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40922029/
about 1 month ago
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Eric Topol
about 1 month ago
The US government support of cancer research via NCI has been severely cut. And of June 2025, "There were 181 individual terminated NCI funded grants, with a total award amount of $640,867, 956."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Disrupted Federal Funding for Extramural Cancer Research
This cross-sectional study assesses the scale and scope of terminated cancer research grants from the National Cancer Institute.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2841870
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Paul Sax
about 1 month ago
Can we really be grateful for anything in the ID world in 2025? Sure -- plenty of great advances! Here are a half-dozen to celebrate (and be grateful for) in 2025, believe it or not.
#idsky
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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ID Things to Be Grateful for -- 2025 Edition
Looking back on these annual Thanksgiving posts, I notice an odd pattern: every few years, the intro turns into a kind of apology. As in, Yes, I know the title sounds upbeat, please don’t attack me. T...
https://blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-observations/index.php/id-things-to-be-grateful-for-2025-edition/2025/11/24/
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Are lung cancer screening guidelines failing to save lives because of cancer stereotypes (as this suggests) or aligned to the available clinical trials?
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Why screening for the deadliest cancer in the U.S. misses most cases
A new study reveals that current lung cancer screening guidelines may be missing most cases, prompting calls for changes to detect the disease earlier.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/24/lung-cancer-screening-guidelines/
about 1 month ago
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Lovely essay
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood
about 1 month ago
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Apoorva Mandavilli
about 2 months ago
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
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C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/health/measles-us-elimination-status-outbreaks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2E8.urYe.LZZxBOjJfCBE&smid=url-share
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Katelyn Jetelina
about 2 months ago
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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BK. Titanji
about 2 months ago
If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
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Onisillos
about 2 months ago
The latest update to US CDC's website on autism and vaccination is, sadly, a major blow to the credibility of this institution. Because it undermines faith in any impartiality. It's going to take a major effort to reconstruct its status, assuming it even survives the next few years.
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A monument to Bin Laden built on ground zero
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Under RFK Jr., CDC promotes false vaccines-autism link it once discredited
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/20/cdc-vaccines-autism-website-change/
about 2 months ago
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Methodological concerns raised regarding pivotal studies of non-TB-specific benefits of BCG immunization
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“The knowledge that we would have had about how we can enhance population health through those clinical trials will be lost.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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"we mourn the loss of AMA JoE for the field of bioethics. Even more, we mourn what the AMA's sudden elimination of its ethics journal might mean for physicians, the profession, and the public."
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | In Memoriam: The Sudden Demise of the AMA Journal of Ethics
A great loss for physicians, the profession, and the public
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118526?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-11-14&mh=d272622e66ffe588f3af47be1677682b&zdee=gAAAAABm4uKOp9B4J4xWasJRGrm_J2jC3aSFSIJwmQU4BB-05O665SLaj3Ld8cMAEj99w8_iCdH7LbaOlrBrIE69slDppbiVQX5VSg7vF6FBzSgg7sspQk0%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202025-11-14&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition
about 2 months ago
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Megan Ranney MD MPH
about 2 months ago
New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women. Gun violence & partner violence are related. All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Firearm Homicide in Pregnant Women and State-Level Firearm Ownership
This cross-sectional study examines firearm homicide rates in pregnant compared with nonpregnant women and whether estimated state-level firearm ownership is associated with homicide deaths among preg...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2841181
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Jason Moore
about 2 months ago
Working from home
#wfh
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Caitlin Rivers
about 2 months ago
CDC flu data is back! I’m so happy I could cry. H3N2 is predominating, especially the new subclade K. This supports the emerging hypothesis that we will have a big flu season. More to come.
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Potential mechanism for EBV causation of lupus found and now awaits epidemiological investigation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus
Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells to promote pathogenic antinuclear T and B cell responses in lupus.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.ady0210
about 2 months ago
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