NEW: Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case “This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica in a call just after his release. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates. The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

Paging the ACR …

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

We're all going to retire

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

At a time when federal troops are patrolling DC, people are being pulled off the streets for their political beliefs by masked officers, and the President proudly flouts the law, it’s galling to hear that we can’t protect our children because we need guns to prevent tyranny.

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

WSJ story about OMB blocking NIH spending and grant making www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 1/n

A new review discusses the features of oligoarticular, polyarticular, systemic, and psoriatic JIA and enthesitis-related arthritis, as well as advances in treatment for these conditions. Read the full review: nej.md/4lJMkq4 #MedSky #PedSky

As we all know, anything bad that ever happens to anyone after vaccination is due to the vaccine. But most people hospitalized with #COVID19 are really sick with something else.

Great live comments on #ACIP meeting:

16 years ago today - starting residency at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and shaving for fit testing in the #H1N1 pandemic year)!

Relatedly: I went to @reds.com last night and wanted to buy their cool pride hat, but they don’t sell them. Can get all sorts of Reds hats including pot themed, vintage, and lots of Rose tributes. But 🌈? Nope

Since we’ve apparently decided that #COVID19 is NBD, I’ll just leave this here, our latest from RECOVER. Severity of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of new-onset autoimmune disease: A RECOVER initiative study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40465573/

Another fantastic Schulert Lab day at the Florence Y’all’s- and a Y’all’s win! Thanks again to Gabe and the whole team for a great time!

Rebellions are built on hope.

Crazy for Americans to be talking about IL-18 in Japan, but luckily @grantschulert.bsky.social already warmed up the crowd.

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

Breaking from the NIH: advancing DEI, DEIA, or boycotting Israel is now grounds for cancelling your grant: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NIH moving to ban grants to universities with DEI programs, Israeli boycotts | Click on the image to read the full story

“The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” —Faulkner Happy Jackie Robinson Day sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/...

Thanks to Texas Children’s and the WTS Center for Human Immunobiology for a great visit to Houston!

NEW podcast episode🎧 The first episode of a mini series on cell-based therapies in rheumatology we spoke with Rebecca Marsh and @grantschulert.bsky.social about allogeneic HSCT for children with refractory systemic #JIA and associated lung disease bit.ly/423cNYM Article linked in-thread⬇️

Nintendo just announced that they're delaying preorders for the Switch 2 due to Trump's tariffs, meaning they'll likely be raising the price from the $450 they announced on April 1. American gamers are a *big* group.

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n

Among those fired at NIH today was H. Clifford “Cliff” Lane, our leader on the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines. Dr. Lane is a National Academy of Medicine member, and was clinical director of NIAID and led the Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology section www.niaid.nih.gov/research/cli...

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency were removed from their posts. https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT

🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today. These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk).

Vacation

Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...

Appears multiple NIH funding councils are being rescheduled for April. NIAMS appears set for April 21 (though not sure it’s in the register yet but others like NEI and NIDDK are). Small bit of good news

Saving money the same way PBMs save money by denying prior authorizations.

ATTENTION: ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS Nothing posted yet in the Federal Register I had heard that at least some institutes and centers had tentatively scheduled "make-up" meetings in April but are no longer planning these. 1/2

100% this. Rich universities (and rich Children’s Hospitals) need to fight, not keep their heads down and hope the storm passes. It’s not passing. But we as staff are still being told to be obedient, and definitely make clear any statements of protest we make aren’t coming from our institutions.

"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime." "I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can." Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4 www.chronicle.com/ar...

A keen look at where things stand and a brave call for rich universities like Harvard to lead:

The Swiftie article from The Rheumatologist is out! Featuring my oomfs @nartherheumie.bsky.social @laceyfeigl.bsky.social @arthritischeryl.bsky.social www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/rheu...

First they came for Columbia … Shorter: destroy free speech at Columbia, or we will destroy Columbia as a research university “

Sobi has submitted to FDA a supplemental (sBLA) for Gamifant (emapalumab-Izsg) for use in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)/macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) in Still’s disease with an inadequate response glucocorticoids, or with recurrent MAS. PDUFA date is 6/27/2025.

Spring! Grilling hotdogs

What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?

First they came for Columbia:

One-in-a-Million Happens Every Day at Cincinnati Children’s @cincyresearch.bsky.social @cincychildrens.bsky.social scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/one-in-a-mil...

I know many universities are asking folks not to speak to reporters on the record. If you have need for someone who will be effing glad to speak on the record, DM me! 🙏

Hundreds of $millions not sent out in NIH grants. This is not saving money through efficiency, it’s not paying your mortgage and calling that savings. Will start seeing job losses in the coming months, but real harm will take years with loss of USA as the leader in medicine.

Francis Collins, longtime NIH director with bipartisan bona fides*, retires as of yesterday. He returned to NIH in 2023 to focus on research in his own lab, in the NIH in-house intramural research campus. His letter seems to imply he wasn’t ready to leave. NIH is being torn down. 1/🧪 #academicsky

This is very good advice for scientists who are now dipping their toes for the first time into organizing, or into speaking out. Many things you try will not work. You just have to keep trying things. The best resistance is positive persistence. 🧪

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org