Writer Rick Steves has made a career of sharing travel tips. Now he recommends travelers steer clear of the U.S. “To be honest, if somebody asked me, ‘Should I go to America?’ I’d say no,” he said in a discussion with The Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Knutson.

🔊 TOMORROW, June 5: Join @fda.gov’s Cell and Gene Therapy Roundtable featuring ASGCT Board Members Terry Flotte, Paula Cannon, and more, on the panel! Watch on YouTube from 9 a.m. to noon (ET). Do not miss out on this opportunity to hear from top regulatory leaders! www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

“Musk came to Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy the bureaucracy,” write Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. But as he winds down his service, “he has found himself isolated within the upper reaches of the Trump administration”: https://theatln.tc/ckySMUOS

Life-Changing New Gene Therapy For #Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: "children who have received the medication have been able to stay active and the effects of the one time infusion do not seem to wear off" 😲💪 #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec @sarepta.com www.texaschildrens.org/content/well...

"Statistically significant differences were observed on all key endpoints; Significant functional benefits for 8 and 9-year-olds with Duchenne in Part 2 of the EMBARK study" #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #GeneTherapy investorrelations.sarepta.com/news-release...

Protein sure is a hot topic these days! "Treatment with #ELEVIDYS (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) for #Duchenne muscular dystrophy resulted in mean protein expression of 93.87% as measured by western blot in study participants (n=6)" 💪💪💪 #GeneTherapy investorrelations.sarepta.com/news-release...

Chugai Receives Regulatory Approval for #Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) as a Gene Therapy Product for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Japan 💪💚https://www.chugai-pharm.co.jp/english/news/detail/20250513181500_1160.html

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We just wanted to help a guy out with his oath of office. We know memory lapses can happen, but that's why we have history and humanities!

Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

How Gene Therapy Is Changing Logan’s Life #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #RareDisease #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec #GeneTherapy www.ivanhoe.com/family-healt...

"Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) Webinar recording: @sarepta.com recently joined PPMD to share the latest updates on their #genetherapy program. Watch the recording:" www.parentprojectmd.org/watch-sarept... #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD): Sarepta Therapeutics: Duchenne Gene Therapy Update: Apr 23, 2025 12:00 PM CDT (Zoom) #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec parentprojectmd-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Just over 3 weeks ago, Sarepta reported that a young man passed away after receiving their gene therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. As a rare disease Dad, physician, and teammate in drug development, I want to share my 2 cents in the hopes it helps." #Elevidys www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjDm...

Dr. Arif Khan - Fakeeh University Hospital: "Duchenne Musküler Distrofisi olan çocukları için gen terapisi arayan Türkiye'deki ebeveynlere mesajım." #Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #GeneTherapy #RareDisease www.instagram.com/dr.arif.khan...

Trump bouncing back and forth on tariffs and RFK on MMR vaccines are THE telltale signs of when the grift is unable to reconcile with reality. The grift and grifter might change, but the behavior always stays the same.

Thank you to journalists who choose "to get paid less than you would anywhere else, to work harder than you would anywhere else, and to get yelled at more than you would anywhere else in a time when our institutions are faltering." -Chuck Rosenberg, ex DOJ nationalpress.org/topic/non-pa...

Former top FDA official warns RFK Jr. against giving "false hope" on autism

The former top vaccines official at the Food and Drug Administration criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for downplaying the deaths of unvaccinated children from measles, amid this year's record outbreak of the virus.

apnews.com/article/fda-... @apnews.com

Study: Who falls for misinformation? www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... via @profsanderlinden.bsky.social et al. - Generation Z, - non-male - less educated - more conservative "...extreme conservatives' perceived ability showed little relation to their actual misinformation discernment."

nooooo c'mon guys, never give up, never surrender! #USAUSAUSA 😢 thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move. By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social

As a share of the economy, President Trump’s executive order on tariffs is likely the largest peacetime tax increase in US history. trib.al/oWa97e1

Sarepta Therapeutics @sarepta.com Provides (safety) Update on #ELEVIDYS (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #GeneTherapy #RareDisease investorrelations.sarepta.com/news-release...

all that money was woke, you see

An atmosphere of grave concern is gripping the #RareDiseaseCommunity as massive budget cuts & layoffs at the NIH endanger tens of millions of dollars in grants to study everything from Duchenne muscular dystrophy to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis @mda.org 🧪♿ www.rarediseaseadvisor.com/features/nih...

It has been 70 days. 70 days since Trump took office. 70 days since Elon Musk fired off a Nazi salute. 70 days of terminations, illegal executive orders, defied court orders, & racist belly aching. We don't bow to kings, and we don't give quarter to Nazis. Do not comply in advance.

Rare Disease Advisor: Hope and Struggle With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy @rarediseaseadvisor.bsky.social www.rarediseaseadvisor.com/patient-colu...

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance. Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...

Historian Timothy Snyder is often referred to as “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” Yet even he admits he can’t predict exactly what’s to come. macleans.ca/the-intervie...

Resignation letter from FDA’s Peter Marks (he was director of its Center for Biological Evaluation and Research)

"And so far, the results have been eye-opening." 💪 M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital @wcconews.bsky.social @sarepta.com #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #GeneTherapy #RareDisease cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

AJMC: Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Shows Long-Term Impacts at 3 and 5 Years in DMD 💪 'Study results support the role of functional dystrophin and suggest that #Elevidys stabilizes or slows #Duchenne muscular dystrophy progression.' @mda.org @sarepta.com #GeneTherapy www.ajmc.com/view/delandi...

$SRPT 2025 Muscular Dystrophy Association MDA @mda.org Clinical and Scientific Conference - @sarepta.com Supporting Materials #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #LGMD Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy #RareDisease investorrelations.sarepta.com/events/event...

$SRPT Expert (Craig McDonald, MD @ucdavishealth.bsky.social ): Pharmacists Play Crucial Role in Safe, Effective Elevidys Treatment in DMD @pharmacytimes.bsky.social #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #Elevidys delandistrogene moxeparvovec #GeneTherapy #RareDisease pharmacytimes.com/view/expert-...

With newborn screening bill, lawmakers can save lives - #Duchenne muscular dystrophy #RareDisease Jennifer Handt @handtsky.bsky.social ctmirror.org/2025/03/15/w...

Elon Musk’s staffers visited the U.S. Institute of Peace, accompanied by two FBI agents. They were met at the door by a lawyer who informed them that the institute holds “private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency.” Following this, the staffers left.

Last month ranked as the third warmest February globally. From record Arctic heat to floods and droughts in different corners of the world, these maps show how the month unfolded. Read more: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

🐶 DOGE is also bad for dogs 🐶

Veteran journo Sonya @sonyagal.bsky.social Ross reminded today's reporters of what Carl Bernstein said: “'Richard Nixon tried to make the conduct of the press the issue in Watergate instead of the conduct of the president and his men.'" nationalpress.org/topic/advice...

Racial and ethnic disparities exist in Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment and healthcare costs. White patients had the highest annual expenses ($108,895) compared to Black ($59,501), and Hispanic ($61,199), largely due to higher use of costly exon-skipping therapies. Read more: bit.ly/3DLYA99

Let's see.. President Elmo's rockets.. 💥 President Elmo's social media site.. 💥 President Elmo's car company.. 💥 Wonder if he'll go four for four on running America.. 💥? You know those billionaires.. overachievers..

We're gonna move fast and break things. Sometimes we'll make mistakes. If we remove the wrong organ we'll put it back in. We are disrupting surgery

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order to start the process of dissolving the Department of Education, but what does the department actually do? @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social takes a look.

Goddamit. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Bucket is all of us. Clinging onto that SMIDGE of sanity.