“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” www.statnews.com/2025/12/30/n...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

‘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. www.thestar.com/news/gta/thi... via @thestar.com

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.

I know a guy, in Denmark He takes some medications Should I take his medications?

Tyrannical feds teach vulnerable children a lesson to censor pediatricians www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Tarnishing the US scientific brand helps who, exactly? www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...

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...

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...

Gepotidacin approved by FDA for treatment of gonorrhea www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/f...

One oral dose of zoliflodacin cures gonorrhea as often as ceftriaxone/azithro www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Risk-based breast #cancer screening equivalent to one-size-fits-all screening Is the risk assessment process practicable outside of a clinical trial? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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.

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

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! www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

"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...

"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...

Yes www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UsgYsH/

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).

"We are doing harm by changing this wording." www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Study catches AI chatbots “optimizing persuasiveness … at some cost to truthfulness,” which will surprise zero politicians www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Pantone partners with ICE to declare white the color of 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/s...

Annenberg survey suggests Americans trust AMA more than CDC, ie trusted experts can protect people from wing nuts www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-mo...

How do we spread this novel idea that citizens vote out rulers who harm them? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Excellent summary of how to manage disinformation from the bizarro-ACIP open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Experts say Prasad’s shadowy changes to evidence-based vaccine approvals risk real harm www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...

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...

FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan

1918 HERE WE COME www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

I don’t see doctors who can’t interpret vital signs and labs www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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/

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...

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...

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/...

Lovely essay www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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...

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.

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.

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.

A monument to Bin Laden built on ground zero www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Methodological concerns raised regarding pivotal studies of non-TB-specific benefits of BCG immunization

“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/...

"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...

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...

Working from home #wfh

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.

Potential mechanism for EBV causation of lupus found and now awaits epidemiological investigation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...