Losing confidence in the #CDC? Look to your state, county or city for health advice. Maybe not in in FLA. www.naccho.org/membership/l...

We’re offering free vaccine clinics in Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Back Bay, and the North End. No appointment, insurance, or identification required. Vaccines are safe, effective, and protect against serious illness. Find upcoming clinics at boston.gov/vaccine-clinics.

ProPublica is hiring and we have a slew of great job opportunities: * Copy editor * Texas reporter * Senior editor, Business * Senior editor, LRN * YouTube senior producer * YouTube producer (two-year) job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica

🎉 Announcing CitiesLEAD, a new national network that helps cities turn life-expectancy data into action. Thanks to a $1.5M investment from @rwjf.org, cities will get tools + training to help close health gaps across neighborhoods. www.bigcitieshealth.org/citieslead-l... @publichealth.boston.gov

It’s back to the future as Trump and congressional Republicans push for more health accounts and high deductibles. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-health-accounts-hsa-cash-patient-debt-high-deductible-insurance/

Brand new research shows U.S. health insurance premiums climbed 3x faster than worker earnings since 1999. And premiums are set to jump again in the new year. buff.ly/y4hKrZZ

A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r... via @statnews.com

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The UK reached an “agreement in principle” with the U.S. to raise its spending on prescription drugs. This outrageous giveaway to Big Pharma does nothing to lower prices for American consumers. It's just another example of the Trump admin trying to disguise a bad deal as a win.

🦟 #Malaria funding is less than half of what @who.int says is required. Cuts to surveillance threaten early detection, outbreak response & accurate data. 🚨“We cannot fight an enemy we do not know." @mmv.org @novartis.bsky.social 📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America tradeoffs.org/2024/06/06/n...

A dozen former FDA commissioners decry Prasad memo on vaccine regulation www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f... via @statnews.com

www.newsobserver.com/living/food-... And they sing; 1drv.ms/u/c/a209d2d7...

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden. u.afp.com/Sha2

There’s an HIV prevention injection that could protect MILLIONS. But one company controls it. It’s time for Gilead to stop hiding behind restrictive patents, exclusionary licensing deals, & registration delays and start making this shot available to everyone who needs it.

“We’ve gone to a place in our country where we’re so removed from end-of-life care in a way that we didn’t used to be,” says Osha Towers of Compassion & Choices. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/end-of-life-home-hospice-care-dying-new-orleans-louisiana/

Scientific journals are more likely to publish studies that found something rather than those that found nothing. A statistician explains how knowing this can help you interpret what you read about research. buff.ly/Jvw2aaq

Story argues Long COVID clinics offer poor advice about exercise, while dismissing harms. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...

"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." --epidemiologist @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics www.who.int/news/item/19...

New #WTHealth podcast up: @joannekenen.bsky.social, @shefali.bsky.social and Paige Cunningham on what the GOP really wants on health care, how the D's may well have won the shutdown, and an interview with @avik.bsky.social on possibilities for bipartisanship... kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.

Despite near-universal health insurance coverage, more than 1 in 8 Massachusetts residents carries family medical debt. www.chiamass.gov/massachusett...

The CDC’s website now says: The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... 1/2

Facing mounting financial pressures, insurance companies are changing the prescription drug coverage available to many consumers in Medicare Part D. tradeoffs.org/2025/11/13/r...

The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/h...

“Larry Summers has demonstrated that he cannot be trusted. Period. That includes no trust for the advice he gives or for teaching students anywhere,” (Sen.)Warren told the Globe.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

A tiny tick bite exposes a big flaw in the health care system: Insurance companies invoke prior authorization to avoid paying for services of all kinds, even when they are minor and medically necessary. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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...

How Trump's patent office appointees are delaying low-cost drugs open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

More revenge of the chemophobes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...

More history. www.zinnedproject.org

As usual, @thesicktimes.org is live blogging today's PolyBio Fall 2025 Symposium, where leading Long COVID and IACC researchers will share updates on their work. Check this article throughout the day for our summaries of the presentations. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/14/l...

GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of long Covid. www.wired.com/story/weight...

The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The president of the Boston University College Republicans recently posted on X that he had been “calling ICE for months on end” to raid an Allston car wash and “detain these criminals.”

Many shoppers are expected to be priced out of the health insurance market next year, leaving those who stay with higher premiums. It’s a dynamic that threatens to repeat, leaving markets with fewer and more expensive options as insurers exit, too. How did we get here? tradeoffs.org/2025/09/11/o...

We're thrilled to share that "The Leap," from Science Friday and @hypothesisfund.bsky.social, is a winner of the 2025 @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for Audio. Explore the entire 10-part series here: buff.ly/rlL5C0h

The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration has made domestic abuse victims lacking permanent legal status even more fearful to report abuse to authorities, their advocates say. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...