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17 dedicated doctors, pediatricians, scientists, and parents who served on the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (ACIP) were just fired by Secretary Kennedy based on false claims of conflicts of interest – a dangerous and unprecedented action that makes our families less safe.

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These reflections from @kkjetelina.bsky.social on conversations with grassroots MAHA supporters are thoughtful and helpful. Well worth the read.

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It’s an uncomfortable truth, but children are likely dying today because of decisions made in Washington, D.C. The casualties don't make big headlines—they fill tiny graves.

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In my new Substack, I write about the necktie that taught me three principles I've followed for nearly 40 years. Read the story—and please subscribe!

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Clinicians and laboratories across the country depend on expert apolitical CDC guidance to care for patients. Millions of people follow CDC on social media for the latest information on disease outbreaks and other health threats. But now, Americans are not getting the information they need.

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mRNA vaccines have already saved millions of lives from Covid and could save even more from flu. Cancelling investments in critical research will set us back and cost us time and lives if bird flu emerges as the next pandemic.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

The decision to no longer recommend Covid vaccines for healthy pregnant women or children 6 months and older upends decades of careful work to rigorously assess the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, as I write in a new piece. www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-g...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Earlier this year, I traveled to India and met a person whose experience demonstrated the power of simple, effective solutions to treat high blood pressure, the world’s leading cause of death.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Striking. SEN. DURBIN: Do you know the #1 cause of preventable death in America today? SEC. KENNEDY: Number one cause…not sure what you're talking about SEN. DURBIN: I'm talking about tobacco. You fired the head of CDC’s Office on Smoking & Health and eliminated their efforts from your budget

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

You likely know someone—a parent, a sibling, a friend—who has suffered from a heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure caused by uncontrolled blood pressure. Did you know a majority of deaths from these causes are preventable with a simple solution?

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Polio, measles, and chickenpox vaccines are some of the most rigorously tested and widely administered vaccines—they have saved the lives of millions of children.

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Since its inception 25 years ago, Gates Foundation has saved millions of lives around the world from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and more. Thank you @billgates.com for your commitment to global health – and a future where people live longer, healthier lives.

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

In the @thelancet.bsky.social, we explain why measuring blood pressure for all patients visiting primary care facilities is the best way to diagnose and control hypertension—and save millions of lives.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Many of the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts will cost, not save money. For example, the “Tips from Former Smokers” campaign—just one of the many programs of CDC’s Office of Smoking and Health—helped 16M Americans quit smoking and saved more than $8B in health care costs in 2023 alone.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Effective treatment of high blood pressure is low-cost and simple, and reduces the risk not only of heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure but also of dementia, according to an important new study.

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Two things can be true: Chronic diseases are a major problem in the U.S. AND we’ve made steady progress preventing and treating them during the past 60 years. Americans expect government to strengthen health programs, not dismantle them.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

You don’t improve things by destroying them, you improve them by improving them. We all want better health, but eliminating lifesaving chronic disease programs delivers the opposite.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Healthier food is one of RFK Jr.’s stated priorities. So why does the Trump administration’s latest budget proposal eliminate CDC’s entire nutrition division, including programs that help small grocers stock fruits and vegetables?

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

The most basic job of government is to protect the health and safety of its people. The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal eliminates programs to address our country’s leading killers, including heart disease, cancer and stroke. It will make America sicker and poorer.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This got WAY too little attention. 50 more Americans will die every day from cancer, heart attack and stroke than would have if the ban on harmful menthol cigarettes had been implemented.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Saving millions of lives sounds impossible. But at Resolve to Save Lives, we have a plan to make this a reality.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Unless they’re reversed, declining measles vaccination rates in the United States open the door to ongoing spread, according to a new model.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Heartbreaking stories. Tens of thousands of people die from flu in the U.S. every year, and this flu season has been particularly severe. Flu shots each year reduce risk of infection, serious illness and death.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to @erictopol.bsky.social on his wonderful new book, Super Agers! The book is comprehensive, instructive and majestic in its health research and advice. Fascinating how different scientific approaches—both basic science and epidemiology—reach similar conclusions about healthy aging.

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Cuts to CDC and FDA tobacco control programs are devastating. In the absence of federal regulation, states and localities have the opportunity to make progress on public health.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

64 countries have now passed best-practice policies to eliminate trans fat, as Pakistan is the latest country to protect their people from the harms of this toxic food additive.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

In just a matter of days, we’ve already seen states and communities suffer the impacts of abrupt, chaotic cuts to public health funding. A weaker CDC means Americans have fewer resources to protect ourselves from health threats.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Every time we weaken our defenses, dangerous microbes win.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

CDC protects Americans by stopping threats before they reach our borders. Global and domestic health protection function as one system. Maintaining this connection is crucial.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

As the measles outbreak worsens in Texas, funding cuts have shuttered free school vaccination clinics.

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) has made great progress, reducing teen smoking to record low levels—from 36% in 1997 to just 4% now. Many states rely on CDC for most of their tobacco control budget, including KS, WV and MI. Eliminating OSH only serves Big Tobacco and cancer cells.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

About two-thirds of CDC’s budget goes to state and local health departments. Cuts to this funding and expertise are cuts to communities—and they put Americans at risk.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

For 75 years, every time any U.S. state has requested epidemiologic assistance (an “Epi-Aid”), CDC sent disease detectives. Now, Wisconsin has asked for help to address newly discovered lead poisoning in Milwaukee. But all CDC experts in lead poisoning were just fired.

submitted 60 days ago • 29 comments

There is nothing normal about a measles death. These tragedies could have been prevented.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments