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Epidemiologist, Science advisor, posts are personal
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120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

An inside perspective on the damage to the FDA that will have implications for global medical regulation and research johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/880-the-fda-...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Great🧵 re flu in Oz. TLDR 👇

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"a faecal immunochemical test-based programme was non-inferior to a colonoscopy-based programme for colorectal cancer-related mortality" -so an easier test, among invitees, was as good as a more complex one. Excellent news for Australia's over 50s at-home, mail-in, faeces screening testing program.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

#FDA top vaccines regulator Peter Marks is forced out by HHS Secretary Kennedy. Marks didn't mince words in his resignation letter: "It has become clear ... [Kennedy] wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/f...

submitted 35 days ago • 30 comments

Some updates on HHS reorg: - Secy aides want reorg goals fast, often within 10 days - cuts expected at HRSA include Provider Relief Bureau, could leave >$1B uncollected - CDC and ASPR have only until Sat to come up with merger plan www.cbsnews.com/news/job-cut...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Why is the discovery of Japanese encephalitis virus in mosquitoes collected from suburban Brisbane such a concern? It really upends our understanding of a group of mosquito-borne pathogens with life threatening consequences and how authorities around Australia should respond...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

a link to the full report proposing for the NZ science research system www.mbie.govt.nz/assets/scien...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

submitted 101 days ago • 503 comments

2025 will be the hottest year on record, and it will hold that title for one year.

submitted 127 days ago • 38 comments

Interesting development from DRC on mystery outbreak. Seem influenza (type/subtype unknown) not malaria is identified the cause on a malnutrition & malaria background Keen to hear updates on this esp flu type from DRC & @who.int

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

Mad props to the New Orleans department of health for not cowering to anti-science, anti-expertise, anti-vaccine bullying. This is called standing on business. #vaccineswork

submitted 133 days ago • 9 comments

Great to see this study based on a ferret challenge model showing that an mRNA-based influenza vaccine targeting highly pathogenic H5N1 protected animals against lethal infection. In the event of a large outbreak in humans we will need scalable vaccine platforms.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 135 days ago • 4 comments