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The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...

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For those not following Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast, I think his look into RFK is spot on. youtu.be/EErAC4HBgyg?...

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This would be an excellent example of using government data if these ghouls weren’t peddling lies to make the public as sick as possible.

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The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

submitted 26 days ago • 2735 comments

“America dominates the most essential part of pharmaceutical production -- research and trials…. Trump & the GOP are shutting down university labs conducting drug research. They are canceling cancer clinical trials. They are defunding the #NIH “ #science #MAHA www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 34 days ago • 552 comments

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

submitted 36 days ago • 274 comments

San Mateo I was not familiar with your game

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

If you are still at CDC in WV contact EPL Archives in neighboring VA to save these research assets!

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This is a big deal in my world. Seems a net good but the success rate of phase 1 clinical trials is about to decline.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Posting for no particular reason.

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Tariffs will also impact US lab costs as consumables and equipment purchases hit - some key kit like microscopes are imported and other reagents don’t have US manufacturing 🧪

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

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Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine regulator, forced out ‘It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired,’ his resignation letter said. RFK Jr "wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/f...

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This is amazing for a very niche group of people 😅

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

2025 is the year of the quantum. The centennial of the discovery of quantum mechanics in 1925. I enjoy following physics at a popular level, how about you? Are you surprised that the field is still so mysterious 100 years on?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Truly the Ivan Drago of health officials

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Bay area artist friends - @bart.gov is licensing bart-oriented art for multiple stations! Deadline is March 23. The license is payment is $1,000. www.bart.gov/about/planni...

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Neither vaccines nor the virus prompted an increase in the number of cardiac arrests, contrary to misinformation that has circulated repeatedly.

submitted 99 days ago • 39 comments

At start of RFK Jr. hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden calls the anti-vaxxer a conspiracy theory-monger who embraces “quacks and charlatans” and who “chases money and influence wherever they lead, even if it means the death of children and other vulnerable people.”

submitted 125 days ago • 350 comments

H/t @matthewherper.bsky.social Nvidia lost 4 Pfizer’s in market cap today

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 132 days ago • 599 comments

I was in that crowd somewhere, losing feeling in my extremities

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Cool work from @baym.lol et al using 150 years of archived samples finds that that likely-functional bacterial antibiotic resistance genes were circulating before age of antibiotics, but human usage was associated with increases in both their prevalence and mobility. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 137 days ago • 2 comments

To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: www.stsci.edu/contents/med...

submitted 136 days ago • 110 comments

How do cancer cells adapt to the stress of being cancer cells, with the constant stream of mutant and misfolded proteins? There’s more than one strategy, and therapeutically you’d like to know which is being used:

submitted 140 days ago • 3 comments

Michael J. Fox receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his advocacy in Parkinson’s research.

submitted 150 days ago • 449 comments

A different feel from the Pale Blue Dot but I like it.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

I was evacuated from lunch for the tsunami warning, only for it to be rescinded an hour later. I think we need to dial down the sensitivity on this system.

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