Trump is piloting a program to let AI review seniors’ medical information and decide what Medicare covers for them — while giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. We must call on every Member of Congress to block this. 👇

The next #NoKings demonstration will be on October 18. Don't be complacent: Help make it bigger-than-ever! Stand up (if you can) and use your voice to protest authoritarianism in America. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

a recollection from my clinical experience as a hematologist-oncologist: Myelodysplastic Syndrome, aka MDS, can cause unexplained bruises.

HIV funding rally at the Capitol. #CutsKill #SaveHIVfunding #2025USCHA #USCHA @prep4allnow.bsky.social @housingworksnyc.bsky.social @sfaidsfound.bsky.social @pozmagazine.bsky.social

I feel like causing good trouble today.

sharing for the title - www.thenation.com/article/soci...? #RFKJr

Rain, flags, umbrellas, signs & #NoKings #NYC

Medicaid cuts don’t just hurt the low-income. As @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and I write, cutting Medicaid drives up hospitals’ uncompensated care, putting them at risk of closure & increasing by 20-40 mi the distance to rural hospitals. Hurts privately insured too. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

"Giving patients an extra seven months before their cancers progressed and nearly two years without harm to quality of life could be a big deal," Dr. Sharpless said www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/h... #BreastCancer #ASCO25

“Liquid biopsies” alert people with advanced breast cancer when new treatments stop working, allowing patients to switch to more effective therapies before their tumors grow larger. #asco25 #asco2025 #bcsm www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

It’s June — that means No Kings Day is almost here. Trump is ignoring the courts and the Constitution, so we’re gathering again on June 14 to remind him there are NO KINGS in our country. Check out our map of No Kings Day events and everything else you need to know: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Of course, exercise is no guarantee for preventing cancer or its recurrence. But wow, it's hard to ignore these results, @andrewgregory.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #ASCO25

An encouraging analysis re: oncologists' treatment recommendations and motivation. I hope these findings pan out in community and non-Medicare settings! #ASCO25

“AI isn’t going to replace oncologists, but oncologists who use AI are going to replace those who don’t,” said ‪@jrgralow.bsky.social‬ https://cancerletter.com/clinical/20250523_4/

It's a "War on Science," says Bernie Sanders. He's right. www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/h...

"Operation Housewife"--Trump's admin has cut key offices at Head Start, which provides child care programs for low-income families, and is considering doing away with federal tax credits for day care. @jessicavalenti.bsky.social jessica.substack.com/p/trump-has-...?

smart. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

"The problem is not that the price of prescription drugs is too low in Europe and Canada. The problem is that the extraordinarily greedy pharmaceutical industry made over $100 billion in profits last year by ripping off the American people.” @sanders.senate.gov www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Rural #cancer care at risk, among other fallout of Trump and RFKJr's #NIH cuts, www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/nih...

Many of the Medicaid proposals from House Republicans are technical and wonky, and will be difficult for the public to absorb.   What won’t be difficult to absorb: CBO’s estimate that the changes will increase the number of people without health insurance by at least 8.6 million.

Trump wants to lower prescription drug prices. Sounds great! but only if it happens: "Any such plan will most likely be subject to challenges in court, and it is not clear whether it will pass legal muster," www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

www.reuters.com/business/hea... Food and Drug Administration has approved the first at-home test for cervical cancer screening, its maker Teal Health said on Friday, offering an alternative to Pap smears that need to be undertaken at a doctor's office.

mRNA-based vaccines are lifesaving scientific achievements. Efforts by the Trump administration to cancel or pause grants that fund the development of mRNA vaccines jeopardize our health and safety.

Join us on June 14 for nationwide protests to deny Trump’s fascist birthday wish and send him one message: NO KINGS! Trump wants the world to see a glorious and powerful ruler, but what we’ll show them is a weak and unpopular president: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Overall cancer incidence in the U.S. among people under age 50 years was relatively flat, 2010 - 2019, while overall deaths from early-onset cancer declined, @theaacr.bsky.social #CancerDiscovery aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

This admin is the most hostile to science in modern history. Their entire plan for public health is eugenics: work and if you’re poor, vulnerable, and/or sick, it’s your fault. If you can’t work, die fast. If/when there is another pandemic, many will die bc of the damage they’re doing today.

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH. Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions, by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli... via @thenation.com

Way to make America healthy again! 😔https://us.cnn.com/2025/05/07/health/higher-food-prices-pew-survey-wellness

interesting -- Politics affects our health and care, sure. This "Patient Experience Library" paper outlines how health can influence political leanings. www.patientlibrary.net/cgi-bin/libr... #Health&Politics

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse (omg) endpts.com/controversia...

If you’re concerned about the impact of the proposed budget on Federal funding of science but aren’t sure what to say when you call your elected officials, remember that a coalition of professional societies representing nearly 100,000 scientists signed an open letter about this a few weeks ago. 🧪

Among layoffs at the National Cancer Institute were Office of Communications employees who ran the NCI's Cancer Information Service and provided #CancerInfo summaries and database updates for patients and healthcare providers. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay... #Trump #RFKJr #NCI

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS New York City” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

When doctors -- surgeons, oncologists, and radiation oncologists-- #communicate, cancer patients get better and more timely care, www.cancernetwork.com/view/multidi...

Snark vs. SnarkSnark on reddit about a TikTok influencer with #cancer: "Ms. Towle’s antagonists had quickly concluded that she was leveraging her story of illness for public sympathy and financial benefit." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into #LGBTQ+ Health. More than $800-million in NIH grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, by @benjmueller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h... via @nytimes.com

Let them eat two dolls.

International Doctors Forgo U.S. Medical Meetings, Citing Detention Fears, @medpagetoday.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... #MedSky

Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-run economic damage equivalent to a major recession, according to a new study from researchers at American University. #EconSky Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b... Study: impa.american.edu/costs-of-cut...

In a phase 2 trial, an investigational antibody--CM24, anti-CEACAM1--shows very encouraging activity against pancreatic cancer, @curetoday.bsky.social www.curetoday.com/view/cm24-co... #AACR25 #PancreaticCancer

Such innovative and important! work from the #NIH on Machine Learning (~ #AI) and how to treat pancreatic #cancer @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...?

#Zongertinib, a pill with activity against some HER2-mutant cancers? Yup. @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #AACR25 www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/aacr...

Agree! "Off-label prescribing remains an essential tool in rare cancer care. When guided by molecular profiling or functional testing, it offers a personalized option where no approved treatment exists," Taran Gurjal, PhD www.oncologynewscentral.com/rare-cancers...? #CancerRx

TG: Functional drug testing offers potential for personalized treatment but limited by quantities and qualities of fresh tissue needed for testing. #AACRprecmed25

Glad to be a part of this story--on politics and #cancer: how the Trump administration's cuts will slow research and diminish care, @cancertherapyadv.bsky.social www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/features/can...

U.S. government researchers present ‘phenomenal’ new data on HPV vaccines #AACR25 www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/h...

“They want to create a Potemkin village of their own making that looks like science but has nothing to do with science at all.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The investigators initially, and falsely, claimed screening was leading to excess deaths from breast cancer in the younger women." #mammography, #breastcancer @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2025/04/28/g...

there's this thing in journalism that really gets me mad. the ben smiths of the world will look at you like you're crazy for simply stating what is actually happening all the way up to the moment they report on it themselves with wide eyed wonder, and then its their story that goes megaviral.