Multiple responses to last month's article by FDA on restricting COVID vaccination policy. Authors from our group are some of the respondents, showing how Prasad and Makary misrepresent international policy in their original article. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Op ed by one of our members on the ways this ugly bill will impact patients and healthcare. open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

GOP majority senate, under the veil of Saturday night, moves forward to vote on an unpopular budget bill that will: - give most of the tax cuts to the wealthy - cut Medicaid and SNAP - increase deficit by >$2 trillion Call your representatives to vote no!! Summary on AP apnews.com/article/sena...

Doesn't need any further elaboration. Big ugly bill needs to be shot down Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Our second billboard is up! On I-95, outside Philly near exit 6. Also will be up in Western PA soon.

Urgent! Submit public comment to save access to the COVID vaccine by midnight tonight 6/20 at 11:59PM! peoplescdc.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...

A poignant op-ed by one of our members. Programs like PEPFAR were absolutely life changing for people around the world. For Trump administration to stop these projects is damaging for countless people and wasteful for science. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insi...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Happy no kings day #pittsburgh! Hope you see your there www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Please consider adding your signature to the Bethesda Declaration below: in support of what the NIH stands for and our colleagues who push science forward! actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Republicans keep trying to gut health insurance and safety net programs to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. Well if that's what they want, we can help them publicize it. If you're driving East on I-76 near Bedford, keep an eye out for the billboard we put up!

#Pitt leadership responded after our second letter, where we sent actionable items to work together on. Read the full letter below. Our goals remain aligned: defending scientific freedom and protecting our academic community. Please join us on the webinar on June 11th!

thehill.com/opinion/heal... Op-ed from @mirandayaver.bsky.social explaining how Trump's budget will harm our rural communities by gutting their insurance coverage and closing down at-risk hospitals.

www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/l... This hurts all of us; our parents and grandparents, family who care for them, the hospital systems that will be overwhelmed by the lack of long-term care options. We need a better plan to care for our sick and elderly. And GOP's bill is definitely NOT IT

Since our open letter, we’ve had productive discussions with the Pitt leadership in town halls and face-to-face meetings. However, the attack on public health and science continues. We need more institutional resistance. Read our follow up letter below where we call for three actionable steps.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨 In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk. Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Scientific journals, especially those as prestigious as NEJM, have strict peer review and editorial processes that make them a trustworthy and reliable source of information. Another example of trump administration attacking a scientific pillar, without any base www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...

Chancellor and Provost of #Pitt responded to our letter yesterday (full response below), and this morning we spoke with the Provost. It was a productive conversation and we look forward to continuing to work together. We are aligned on this: A university is a community, a university is its people.

Pitt faculty petition University leadership to stand up and fight... www.publicsource.org/national-day... 1/2

Thank you again to everyone who signed the open letter to #Pitt! Today, we are delivering the letter - electronically and in person - to the university leadership. The link remains active for anyone who didn't have a chance to sign previously: tinyurl.com/PittLetter

We will see you there! And a big thank you to everyone who signed our #Pitt open letter! We went well past our goal of 500 signatures. It's abundantly clear that academics across the country are NOT OK with Trump's attack on science.

#Pitt community! Thank you for the wonderful support in signing the open letter! We have already reached 476 signatories. Today is the last chance to sign before we deliver it tomorrow. Please pass around to your colleagues! tinyurl.com/PittLetter

Harvard resisting the gross political weaponization of executive power Over 900 faculty at Yale signed an open letter to defend academic freedom. Academia is banding together because we know how important this is Sign the open letter to #Pitt below! tinyurl.com/PittLetter

We're at 149 signature (and counting)! Help us reach 500 signatures. Read and sign the open letter by faculty, students, staff, alumni of #Pitt calling for actions grounded in our historic institution's values Sign here: tinyurl.com/PittLetter #SaveOurScience #ProtectResearch

Faculty, staff, students, trainees, alumni of #Pittsburgh: We’ve written a letter calling on #Pitt leadership to protect academic freedom, research, and inclusion. This is our moment to stand together. Sign here: tinyurl.com/PittLetter

Today is the 70th anniversary of Salk #Polio vaccine. In early 1900s, thousands of Americans, often children, died from polio. Those who survived could be left paralyzed or left breathing on the iron lung On 4/12/55 Dr. Jonas Salk announced the results of his vaccine, here in #Pittsburgh 1/

Medicaid work requirements have nothing to do with dignity of work. 92% are already working adequate hours or have an approved exemption, but people fall through the cracks because of administrative burden of reporting. To the extent that there's fraud, it's on the billing side, not the patient side

podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id16... Weekly reminder that Republicans in Congress are trying to cut vital health insurance to give tax cuts to the billionaires More than 400000 people in #Allegheny and surrounding counties are on #Medicaid per pa.gov Call your representatives, this WILL affect us

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... “Many young researchers say they are having to choose between staying in the United States and staying in science.”

As we reel from the incredible turnout at #HandsOff protests yesterday, here's a reminder that the fight is just beginning. We must continue to speak out against the desecration of #science and public health. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

It was great to see so many people out there today, even in the rain! Trump administration is trying to suppress the news, kidnap legal immigrants off the streets, steal our social security... but they can't take our voices. We're proud to be American and we're proud to be yinzers

Thousands of people from the Pittsburgh area overflowed Grant St. this afternoon to protest President Trump and Elon Musk's takeover of the government:

About 600 people gathered in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse for one of the hundreds of rallies conducted across the country to protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s actions in the early months of his presidency. triblive.com/local/westmo...

See you there!

Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.

We'll join @indivisible.org as we protest this disasterous administration and its executive overreach tomorrow! #Pittsburgh 4/5 12:30pm at City County building www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

"How can we expect young physicians and scientists to go into research, when the pillar [NIH] that has supported and led American scientific research, no longer believes in it?" Thank you @staceyabrams.com for having this important conversation with @laurelbristow.bsky.social and our Dr. Haidar!

#Measles can be fatal. Do you know its symptoms? 🔸 Rash that starts on the face and spreads over the body 🔸 Fever 🔸 Runny nose 🔸 Cough 🔸 Red and watery eyes 🔸 Small white spots inside the cheeks Seek health care if you suspect you or your child has measles.

Gender affirming care is #healthcare! And the government has no role in an individual's medical treatment plan. Please join us at the protest tomorrow! www.pghcitypaper.com/news/under-p... #Pittsburgh #lgbtq

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

triblive.com/local/region... And right as Erie county reported its third #measles case. Just remember when we have future outbreaks of preventable diseases, #HHS under trump administration cut funding from programs that keep us safe.

Great in-depth interview on how #Medicaid cuts will impact #Pennsylvania. This will hurt the working class, elderly, children, disabled, and everybody working in healthcare. Often parroted "fraud waste abuse" is just a strawman for an indefensible policy www.publicsource.org/medicaid-cut...

pge.post-gazette.com/.pf/showstor... It was great to see so many people show up to demand accountability from our senators yesterday! Keep fighting the good fight @indivisible.org

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

A visualization of the economic impact of funding cuts to #NIH. Over $300 million lost in #Pittsburgh and surrounding counties. And more importantly, all the medical advances and lives that could have been saved... Just so billionaires can get...a tax break?!?! #protest scienceimpacts.org

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

Evidence of the abject cowardice of Dave McCormick and @fetterman.senate.gov: They decided to move their joint event in Pittsburgh because they were afraid that there would be protesters, and now it’s officially postponed “due to an unforeseen logistical issue” (read: shield us from voters please!)