What we should be doing, instead of chtting funds to lifesaving care www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

4 vaccines associated with lower rates of dementia because ... viruses bad www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

“The health secretary’s comments were disturbing, misleading and full of contradictions” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/h...

Ahem. Louder for the lawmakers in the back.

Boston Globe says Kennedy must go! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/o...

With the amount of rubbish disinformation and quackery these days, we all need tylenol!

"RFK Jr. and President Trump will surely out-Herod Herod in their contributions to infant mortality in the United States. These two men... are presiding over a modern-day massacre of the innocents that should disgust and enrage us all.

Fostemsavir Decreases the Levels of Anti-gp120 CD4-Induced Antibodies in Heavily Treatment-Experienced People With #HIV academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... (open access) @jidjournal.bsky.social

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Our elders who’ve seen the pre polio vaccine era will tell us stories about those terrible days I got to see this iron lung during a visit to South Africa and will never forget

“his statements complicate the ability of health care providers to give advice to their patients … It puts the patients in the middle of having to reconcile their belief in him as a political leader and the best advice from medical professionals.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

New CDC web page black outs target health care for people disfavored by the administration and come amid deepening governmental censorship open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

“Seems like the committee would benefit from a vaccine expert or two and someone who can run a meeting.” open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

ACIP is dead Seek trustworthy advice elsewhere www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

There goes the First Amendment www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Federal government silences commentator www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

“He did not have any data or science to point to” #MedSky #IDsky #pediatrics www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m...

5 new wolves to watch the henhouse www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/k...

I thought the war on #cancer was a bipartisan concern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

RFK Jr loves to say that there was no autism when he was a kid. And technically he's right. But he's also making a classic error! open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

We can reject violence without legitimizing agendas built on bigotry. We can affirm the sense of institutional abandonment and discontent leading many to MAHA without forming unholy alliances with actors who prey on them. Soft bigotry & zero-sum thinking will not save us. Our moral imagination will.

And the American College of Physicians And the American College of Obsetrics and Gynecology (And the ACIP, before they got hijacked by wingnuts)

"strikes succeed or fail based on public perceptions. Physicians’ strikes achieve success when they are seen as advancing justice, not just for the profession but for the public." www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/r...

The destruction is the point www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

If you read 1 thing today, please make it this: my so-talented colleague @ericboodman.bsky.social explains why babies in the US are vaccinated at birth against hep B — and what the human costs of changing that policy would be. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

Cool... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Global health programs are not charity. They are insurance policies and the most affordable protection we have against future pandemics. Containing outbreaks at their source costs millions. Letting them spread costs billions — and lives." www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/e...

Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage. Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org. Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.

Adding: the attack on the CDC.

Report of the 2024 #marburg outbreak in #rwanda. The response successfully treated two patients in the icu, simultaneously ran vaccine and treatment trials and effectively contained the outbreak. 15/66 cases died. They gave the world a lesson in outbreak response. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence. Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this. We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.

“House appropriators have snubbed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by including an amendment in their 2026 spending bill that specifically funds continued messenger RNA vaccine research, despite his effort to roll it back.”

Ya think? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

American College of Physicians -- like AAP, ACOG and AAFP -- breaks with the feds on COVID vaccines ACP says to stick with ACIP guidance prior to the crackpot takeover www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Another physicians' organization breaks with the feds. American Academy of Family Physicians recommends: - children 6-23 months & all adults receive COVID vaccine - access for all who want it www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Love to see the this study but in people with late latent syphilis

Air pollution (particulate matter, PM 2.5) and worsened Alzheimer's neuropathology jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

WHO shares more DR Congo Ebola outbreak details as more suspected cases reported Responders are still investigating the source of the outbreak, along with the index patient's symptom onset and health visit history. www.cidrap.umn.edu/e... Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc

"Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? Why would we squander the world’s admiration for this magnificent achievement of ours? Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers ...?"

❗️RFK Jr. wants to link Tylenol use during pregnancy with autism, despite the best evidence saying otherwise. Here’s why this is a dangerous claim...🧵

“We speak as former surgeons general, but we speak for the health of every American. The health of this nation is at stake, and it is time for Congress to act” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Dr. Judy Stone has written yet *another* great piece, this time about measles and what the public should know about it. Measles continues to spread throughout the U.S., and we have the highest number of cases since it was declared eliminated in 2000.

People can't get COVID vaccines as cases surge. Anger is building against Trump - Los Angeles Times apple.news/AHTgCaoipSnq...

Clinician and patient confusion likely as CDC chaos points to "a huge patchwork of recommendations" www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

This is great - check out the handout Thanks @kkjetelina.bsky.social #MedSky #IDSky yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

IDSA, APHA and other medical associations call for RFK Jr's resignation www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Now out *open access* in the @amajournalofethics.bsky.social "Trauma-Informed Screening for Structural Determinants of Health" with Jim Duffee, MD, MPH, who is also the lead author of the AAP's Policy Statement on Trauma Informed Care in Child Health Systems.

"forbidding delivery of gender-affirming care and limiting medical management options on the basis of low certainty evidence is a clear violation of the principles of evidence-based shared decision-making and is unconscionable. " gidmk.substack.com/p/a-fight-ov...

This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.