AJMC: Learning From HIV, Building Better Infrastructure to Tackle STIs: Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH bit.ly/4aKxCLB @drjeannem.bsky.social

On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks: Timothy Sullivan, MD, FIDSA, IDSA Coding & Payment Subcommittee chair, explores how understanding nationwide billing practices may help improve ID compensation by empowering physicians to select more appropriate levels of service. www.idsociety.org/science-spea...

As always @holdenthorp.bsky.social hits the nail on the head. Deprioritizing discovery science stifles innovation & means less US created intellectual property. How-and will-US biosciences recover? @idsainfo.bsky.social @csis.org

The “Make America Healthy Again” movement is only the most recent step in a long retreat from the U.S.’s public-health commitments, Vann R. Newkirk II argues. The health of a nation and the health of its democracy are intertwined.

Superbowl awaits the Superbunny.

Thank you Sen. @bluntrochester.senate.gov for raising concerns about changes to the childhood vaccine schedule and the lack of a transparent, public process during the Feb. 3 NIH hearing.

This case highlights importance of routine HIV screening & normalizing sexual history across the lifespan. Well done @nejm.org @idsainfo.bsky.social @hivma.bsky.social Case 4-2026: An 80-Year-Old Woman with Cough and Hypoxemia | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"Until the US restores the #CDC and its partner agencies to their former stature, we are not only flying blind in the face of emerging and reemerg- ing threats to human health & well-being—we are being deprived of effective weaponry." www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... @drjeannem.bsky.social

A cohort study found that 58% of people infected with #Mpox during the 2022 outbreak still had lingering symptoms 11–18 months later. Most were appearance‑related, but some experienced ongoing effects on physical function or daily life. Read the full study for free: https://bit.ly/3LJa2qf

Great to discuss this trial with @by-cjewett.bsky.social & emphasize how all clinical trial participants deserve a global standard of care @boghuma.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social

#STI are a neglected area of health care, and these advances are important for our community’s health. Check it out!

The U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization is a shortsighted and misguided abandonment of our global health commitments. Our statement: https://bit.ly/4jWGJgy

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has just published a piece about his “new vision” for NIAID. Friends, it is an infuriating litany of unsupported claims and meandering nonsense that serve his political beliefs and not health or science.

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Good summary of lack of evidence and potential for harm of components of the recommended diet www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/08/1... by @jesshamzelou.bsky.social

The $70 Billion supplement, peptide, and other unregulated stuff business and RFK Jr Gift link www.wsj.com/health/rfk-j...

Excellent summary and insights into where we are with the current #influenza season

And as people resign in protest from his failed, incompetent leadership, Podcast Jay bemoans the fate of his tweets in 2020.

This brings us sadness. And shines a light on the truth of the current state of NIH.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Statement from the American Academy of Neurology: “This decision was made without consulting key neurology stakeholders, and there was no formal announcement nor a clear succession plan for NINDS leadership. NINDS plays a vital role in funding and directing research into the brain”

A really important piece. The times when we have opened our country to talented people from around the world are among the moments when America has been truly great. Trump is destroying that legacy and fomenting unconscionable racism. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

NIH official resigns after flap over risks of seasonal flu virus study | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

💡An important commentary on vaccines from ESCMID by the Vaccines Subcommittee Director, the Chair of the Vaccines Study Group & the ESCMID Executive Committee jointly published in CMI & CMI Comms. CMI: https://ow.ly/HUGM50XNByv CMI Comms: https://ow.ly/xmbk50XNByx #IDSky #clinmicro

This year has felt like being awake during surgery but also it’s unsuccessful surgery and also also now you have an infection and none of that is covered by your insurance anymore

1/ 📈🌎 This year we’ve had record breaking numbers of reported measles cases, outbreaks, and importations in the US since elimination was declared in 2000. 🦠 There have been more than 1900 cases and greater than 45 outbreaks reported in 2025. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.

Frikkin amazing stuff.

Our #TrackingReport was highlighted by @ashishkjha.bsky.social in the @bostonglobe.com. Our newsletter started as a tool for transparency and now is used by local health departments and communities to stay informed with timely, reliable data. More here www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/o...

In this peer-reviewed journal... @jeremymberg.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Maternal Infection Outcomes | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.

Antimicrobial drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) infections in men using doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis. A substudy of the ANRS 174 DOXYVAC trial. ✅ Just Accepted

The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease. It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia. #IDsky 🧪 www.afro.who.int/countries/et...

Ending my evening with an email to Director Bhattacharya regarding @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social 1/3

The suspected outbreak of a hemorrhagic vial illness in Ethiopia has now been confirmed to Marburg Virus Disease. So far 9 cases have been identified in a part of the country that shares a border with Sudan. apnews.com/article/ethi...

We're only beginning to understand the relationship between the immune system and lifelong infection w/ #herpesvirus #EBV Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 HEADS UP Washington State has reported a suspected human H5N1 case with no cattle exposure likely bird-linked (or from contaminated milk). The patient is severely ill in hospital. Clade pending (D1 vs B3). CDC confirmation awaited. If confirmed, it will be Washington’s first H5N1 case of 2025.

As noted, it's never good to be flying blind into winter respiratory virus season. Let's hope we start seeing data from US CDC ASAP

New Jersey man's death first one to be tied to tick-related meat allergy Though deadly anaphylaxis had been considered a theoretical outcome of the allergy, it had not yet been seen until this case. www.cidrap.umn.edu/t... Photo: CDC

Richard Jefferys is giving the Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture at the Wistar Institute on 11/17/25. “The late Jonathan Lax was a pioneering activist in the 80s at a time when many living with HIV/AIDS experienced fear, stigma and isolation,” Jeffreys said. Register: web.cvent.com/event/f94abb...

ByHeart, the company linked to a botulism outbreak in infants, shut down one of its manufacturing plants this year after federal investigators found a series of safety violations, including a leaking roof and hundreds of dead bugs where infant formula was produced.

Thank you to Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, for starting #AAMC25 with the opening plenary, “Leadership in Uncertain Times,” reminding us how empathy, connection, & resilience can guide us through change. Murthy certainly set the tone for an incredible meeting ahead.

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Great/devastating interactive dashboard from our friends at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social! CDCDataProject.org

I wrote an explainer about the mass firings—the RIFs. The RIFs all year have been clearly illegal. Russell Vought is using them to lawlessly clean out federal agencies. Lower court judges have said so. But the Calvinball Supreme Court has allowed them. 1/

Congratulations to Cynthia Sears, MD, FIDSA, recipient of IDSA’s 2025 Alexander Fleming Award for Lifetime Achievement! 🎉 Her groundbreaking research, leadership & mentorship have advanced understanding of the microbiota’s role in colorectal cancer: bit.ly/4ndv5xG