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"Cuts to the HHS workforce have the potential to dismantle the critical government infrastructure that has played a pivotal role in cancer survivorship for 18 million individuals who are alive today in the U.S. resulting in more suffering from cancer nationwide." - @llacasseacscan.bsky.social

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The measles outbreak in Texas is the worst in thirty years, and it’s a DIRECT result of declining vaccine rates thanks to RFK Jr. Disinformation is eroding public health. In 2023, measles cases were 20% higher than in 2022. In 2022 they were 18% higher than in 2021. See the pattern? 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

AACR urges Congress to reaffirm its long history of steadfast and bipartisan support for medical research by ensuring that NIH has all of the resources needed to advance its lifesaving mission to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer and other diseases: AACR.org/NIH

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum." Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social. ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ #MedSky

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

These NIH/FDA/CDC cuts will only make us sicker, poorer, and dumber www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Recent changes to the CDC website, including the removal and modification of numerous pages, have raised concerns among health care professionals about the reliability of the information. ja.ma/3X7zdVY #MedSky

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

“If the attacks on our scientists and their institutions are allowed to continue, our envisioned future of longer, healthier lives will happen more slowly, in other countries, or not at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

#episky 🧪 Things Bobby and Elon totally fail to grasp. 1. Most NIH research involves non-infectious disease. 2. Most of our knowledge of the value of exercise, a healthy diet, and avoiding toxins in preventing chronic disease comes from NIH. 3. Many infections cause chronic disease What else?

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1089 comments

. The recent #CDC cuts mean: • 1,300 staff laid off, reducing disease monitoring. • Cuts to programs like opioid prevention and HIV initiatives. • Reduced support for local health departments. These changes may weaken public health responses and community health services. #FUCKDONALDTRUMP

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Trump and RFK Jr. are gutting public health—firing 5,200 scientists and health experts at the CDC, NIH, and beyond. Vaccine research, cancer treatments, and lifesaving care are on the chopping block. This is a public health disaster.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

At the nation’s scientific and public health agencies, panic set in as officials braced for a wave of layoffs. The Trump administration is now embracing forced resignation of officials at CDC and NIH.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 8 days ago • 711 comments

Today is a dark day for medicine, science, and public health.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Putting RFK Jr. in charge of the nation’s public health is a huge mistake. When dangerous diseases resurface and people can’t access lifesaving vaccines, all Americans will suffer — and RFK Jr.’s family could keep getting richer thanks to his serious conflicts of interest.

submitted 9 days ago • 399 comments

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

RFK Jr.'s likely confirmation as HHS Secretary tomorrow poses an enormous global health risk! As a vaccine skeptic & conspiracy theorist, he'll continue to undermine public health & science. Today, more than ever, scientists must unite, and fight against the lunacy!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The NIH 15% cap on indirect costs will kneecap biomedical research in the US. Without essential infrastructure, there will be: Staff cuts Lab closures Fewer research projects Less scientific progress Loss of talent The US will no longer lead scientific & medical innovation.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Another bad hit to biomedical research, today. This would cause the closure of hundreds of labs across the US and put a big dent in scientific advancement www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Many people were left abandoned in the middle of clinical trials. This is causing a lot of harm! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

JFK explaining the purpose of USAID to the naysayers of his time:

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

The government censoring scientists is horrific. But what is even more horrific is that many non-government scientists and institutions are self-censoring themselves because they are scared of the government and losing funding. Authoritarianism wins when we comply in advance!

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. Every Republican senator who votes yes will own the consequences. When RFK Jr. follows anti-vax conspiracies instead of science, when he greenlights Trump's anti-abortion agenda, when he cuts healthcare for seniors — remember who voted yes.

submitted 18 days ago • 570 comments

Cassidy—a doctor—has violated his Oath and is a yes on Kennedy. Kennedy is now almost certain to be confirmed. People will die because of this; Kennedy at DHHS will cause deaths, full stop. The crazy thing is, no one even doubts it. But also no one cares, so here we are.

submitted 18 days ago • 549 comments

By advancing the nomination of public health menace RFK Jr. on a party line vote, Republicans have lost all credibility when it comes to looking out for the interests of children and families. Not that they had any.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Democratic senators better do everything they can to stop the Senate in its tracks. Bring the Senate to a halt and Kennedy will not be able to be confirmed. And it will draw attention and media coverage to put public pressure against Kennedy.

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 19 days ago • 927 comments

Happy Sunday!

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 20 days ago • 4029 comments

The chaos triggered by President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning federal funding for diversity and other topics continues to shake the National Institutes of Health and other health agencies. scim.ag/3EjJGag

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

US goods that will be affected by the dumb unnecessary tariffs: From Canada: Milk, cheese, butter, construction & housing (lumber/building materials), cars/car parts, oil and gas, seafood. From Mexico: fruits and vegetables, cars/car parts, electronics. China: electronics, furniture, clothes, toys.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

Who governs? The richest man in the world is engaged in a hostile takeover of the machinery of government.

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 22 days ago • 4419 comments

RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer. Pass it on.

submitted 23 days ago • 121 comments

The HHS protects our lives with programs that depend on scientific research and proven health solutions. RFK Jr. can't be trusted to lead an agency so vital to our health and safety. Make sure your senators hear from you. app.sosha.ai/s/JobgT2vR

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Hakeem Jeffries calls all hands on deck. Will force votes on everything, basically shutting Congress down until Republicans move to check the Trump Regime's insane illegal attempt to dissolve the American government.

submitted 25 days ago • 657 comments

Please contact your Senators and tell them to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation! If confirmed RFK will endanger the lives and well-being of all Americans! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

submitted 25 days ago • 1738 comments

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

In a letter, Kennedy said RFK Jr. was "unqualified" to be the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary just hours before he was scheduled to appear for confirmation hearings.

submitted 25 days ago • 413 comments

PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.

submitted 25 days ago • 4401 comments

The CDC has been instructed by the White house to stop engaging with the WHO in person of virtually. This means all the great work the CDC does in responding to international outbreaks is halted. Think #mpox, #marburg, #polio #cholera etc. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments