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The House just passed a budget resolution aiming to cut $880 billion—majority from Medicaid—over the next decade. This threatens #healthcare for 80 million people. These cuts are drastic and dangerous and would impact the health of moms and babies.

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“At its base, the debate over the future of mental health is not a matter of scientific disagreement; it is a political struggle over the meaning of care and of society itself.”

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“Connecticut will stockpile mifepristone, known as the abortion pill, to facilitate access to the drug in the wake of threats to curb its availability.” via @ctmirror.org ctmirror.org/2025/02/26/c...

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if you remade The Six Million Dollar Man today it would be about a normal american with a chronic medical issue

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Medicaid cuts are on the table to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. As a community psychiatrist, I see the role of Medicaid in ensuring access to needed care every day. ☎️ Call your Republican House reps to stand up for healthcare! #Medicaid

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#obskyn #obgynsky @acog-org.bsky.social

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This is a devastating setback for everyone who cares about maternal and infant mortality. Please advocate in whatever way you can for CDC to make the data that belongs to all of us accurate and accessible to all the many public health officials, researchers and press who rely on it to save lives

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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.

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Thanks to @sbm.org for this amazing collection of resources re: 2025 US Federal Policy Changes - great info & #advocacy tools #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #Science www.sbm.org/advocacy/202...

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Think Medicaid work requirements make sense? Do your homework. How many non-working people receive coverage and why don’t they work? When states have tried this, did more people start working? What were the additional administrative costs? Is this efficient and effective government?

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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For Reese Ferguson, Marching for Change is personal. After losing her daughter at 37 weeks, she’s using her voice to advocate for all moms & babies—shining a light on the health inequities Black moms face. You can be an advocate too. Join us at #MarchForChange marchofdimes.org/marchforchange

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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I have insomnia a lot lately so may as well share what’s literally keeping me up at night. It’s a long list but tonight it’s flu. Yes, H5N1, but also seasonal flu. Firing federal scientists brings a flu-filled future. Have you ever wondered how flu vaccine strains are chosen?

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Drama kids stay winning

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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“increasingly looks as though [Trump] and his allies are targeting academia more broadly” @michellegoldberg.bsky.social Higher ed administrations need to recognize that these forces cannot be appeased. They’re at war with the value of truth itself, and their conspiracy theories say destroy you.

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My latest for @thenation.com.

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idahocapitalsun.com/2024/02/05/i... only state without MMRB #obskyn #obgynsky

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@bachynski.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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A thread on what you can do to push back against the cuts to biomedical research at NIH.

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It’s time for universities to speak up - together, now, with strength in numbers. Many of us warned that universities can never be “neutral” because we have a mission. And if we dont defend it, who will ? slate.com/life/2025/02...

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Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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In Connecticut - NIH FUNDING: $770M JOBS SUPPORTED: 6609 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $1.68B

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"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk" To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky

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This recent BJPsych paper shows an increased risk of multiple adverse neonatal outcomes among children of mothers with mental disorders - yet UK Govt @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social has just removed its targets for obstetrics (all women's health, in fact) and mental health... tinyurl.com/4r9zp2ek

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please read this thread about our new piece in @bmj.com about further consequences for US withdrawal from WHO and its suggestion of setting up an alternative health body...

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The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

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Today, King's IoPPN is delighted to host the International Marcé Society for perinatal mental health 2025 conference. Attendees heard talks on a variety of topics, including from Dr Claire Wilson, one of today's keynote speakers.

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CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

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@acog-org.bsky.social #obskyn #obgynsky

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Are you a clinician, researcher, or policy maker in the field of #Perinatal #MentalHealth? Join us and The International Marche Society on Friday 25 January for the latest findings and research. Register today: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ukims... #MedSky #AcademicSky #PsychSky

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In 2021, under the guise of preserving life, Texas politicians enacted the country’s most radical abortion ban. Since then, mothers and infants have died at alarming rates, and infertility, STDs, and complications have increased. @thebarbedwire.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2025/01/10/t...

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Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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“Gask exemplifies the ethic of dissident participation—being part of something you criticise but also want to improve.” An honour to review @suzypuss.bsky.social’s excellent book Out of Her Mind for @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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‘I was made to think the pain was all in my head’: gynaecological ordeals shared

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Oral arguments are underway at the Ninth Circuit in U.S. v Moyle/Idaho, the case in which the U.S. government alleges that Idaho's abortion ban, with its exception only for life endangerment, violates a federal law called EMTALA, which requires emergency abortion care under broader circumstances.

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The work of MMRC’s reviewing underlying causes of maternal deaths is particularly important since Dobbs. So why is Texas not reviewing deaths between 2022-2024? #medsky #obsky

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And in the US, most of these deaths are by firearms. 🛟🩺

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