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She is someone I admire so much!

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"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

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A new study finds 1 in 4 children in the US—around 19 million—live with a parent struggling with substance use. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Here's what this means on @cbseveningnews.bsky.social

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The number of US doctors creating application accounts for licensure in Canada has increased by 750% in the past 7 months. #medsky apple.news/Aivj6JIYASdm...

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Just donated to support @drannieandrews.com who understands science, who puts families first, and who has the tenacity to stand up to bullies. Won't you join me?

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Amazing news! #Putkidsfirst

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“The more than 1.1 million international students who studied in the United States last year contributed nearly $44 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 school year … and supported more than 378,000 jobs.” So important for our communities! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Voters overwhelmingly think ALL Americans should have access to vaccines — not just those who are immunocompromised.

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Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll.

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This👇👇👇 The illness may seem relatively mild in the for the adult while wrecking the placenta and leading to miscarriages or growth restriction

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This move by people in the current administration puts mothers and babies at risk.

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Catching up on some old emails and took the time to read this beautiful essay by Dr. Fainstad @cudeptofmedicine.bsky.social entitled "Secret Part Time" If you are in medicine, read this. If you don't have JAMA access, DM me jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

While Trump is slashing Medicare, garnishing wages for student loans, and denying FEMA aid to states that voted for him… He’s also: • Charging $1M to join Mar-a-Lago • Hosting $1M-a-plate crypto dinners • Pocketing $394M from his meme coin • Turning his golf clubs into luxury pay-to-play scams

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

So we’ve got $90 million to throw the parade he wanted, but we don’t have the money to fix North Carolina. Got it!

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If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 13 days ago • 127 comments

Harvard University is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to bar the Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students, calling it unconstitutional retaliation for defying the White House’s political demands.

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This!! It disproportionately affects the unsung heroes of academic science

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The executive committee of the Harvard Faculty Chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemns in the strongest possible terms the Trump administration’s unconstitutional assault on our international students.

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“This will destroy the university as we know it. Harvard is situated in the US physically, but its students & faculty hail from around the world; that is fundamental to the work & mission of the institution. You can't take that away & have an institution left." — Kirsten Weld, President Harvard AAUP

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As a mentor and teacher of Harvard students who come from far & wide, I am enraged and heartbroken over what this administration is unfairly and illegally doing to our students here to work, learn, and make the world a better place May our courts provide the checks our constitution enshrined

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So healthcare providers who literally risked their lives to help this country get to the point of vaccines for covid now won’t have the choice to be regularly vaccinated to protect themselves and their patients. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/h...

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Sending prayers and well wishes to President Biden, Jill, and the entire Biden family. President Biden has spent his life helping others battle cancer, and I know he will bring the same tenacity and courage to this fight.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

A generation of scientists will not be able to train in the US and he negative effects on our health and prosperity will be felt for decades to come. This is not OK. We need a return to checks and balances. We need congress, we need the courts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/m...

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This is bigger than just the issue of birthright citizenship, it is about a broader attack on our constitution. I am in D.C. today to stand up and defend our rights and freedoms that are at the core of who we are as a country.

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This is a huge massive mistake. Almost two years ago I rounded up all the data we have - and we have A LOT - on why COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy protects both the parent and the child. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 21 days ago • 611 comments

This public health message in a household manual from 1913 seems so relevant today… We could just add RFKJ to dirty milk, measles, ignorance and the other figures surrounding the child in this cartoon. “Protect your baby from the preventable perils surrounding it.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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“This no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career“ We spoke to five US-based researchers who are seeking, or moving to, jobs abroad because of the drastic changes imposed on US science by the Trump administration https://go.nature.com/4mwfevl

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No one should be detained at the airport for their political speech.

submitted 23 days ago • 36 comments

Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk arrived at Logan Airport Saturday night, returning to Boston six weeks after immigration agents took her to a Louisiana detention center and the day after a Vermont federal judge ordered her released.

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

submitted 26 days ago • 563 comments

Firing librarian. Very on brand. #BooksMatter #ReadDiverseBooks #LibraryLove

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U.S. Infant Mortality Dropped in 2024. Experts Partly Credit RSV Shots. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/r...

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One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 28 days ago • 90 comments

I believe that relationships are a critical part of medicine I also believe pasteurization is a critical part of keeping people safe from disease Let's not confuse the 2 A great farmer and a great cow still need science

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At leat seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump took office, including three in April: Brayan Garzón-Rayo, a 27-year-old man from Colombia who lived with his family in St. Louis. Nhon Nguc Nguyen, 55, from Vietnam. Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti.

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

For people who were already traumatized enough by gun violence, just the unceremonious lack of care taken here is deeply, deeply troubling.

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A Trump-nominated judge on Thursday issued a groundbreaking ruling that said the president was wrong to claim that the activities of a Venezuelan gang in the U.S. amounted to an “invasion” that justified invoking a wartime law.

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"Courage is contagious" too

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As a surgeon, could not agree more with these reflections that Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital. “The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches... They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports... 1/8

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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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The FBI arrested Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly instructing an immigrant man who appeared in court to walk into a public area when ICE agents showed up to her courtroom looking to apprehend him.

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The war on journalism has been escalated. Confidential sources are at risk. Any journalist that bows to this regime is not welcome on my devices. Fight these tyrannical orders and keep fighting for this country! A free press is a vital component of democracy! www.axios.com/2025/04/25/b...

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Our LGBTQ+ community is under attack by this administration, and I intend to use every tool in our toolkit to protect the rights of ALL our people.

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