NC sees its first #measles case of 2025. Person passed through Forsyth and Guilford counties in these locations, at these times.
Keep in mind measles is exceedingly infectious, just being in the same room with someone with the disease will put you at risk.

Trump administration ends $129 million in funding for Duke HIV vaccine effort Researchers were told that the Department of Health and Human Services instead wanted “to go with currently available approaches to eliminate HIV.” 

Duke loses $129 million contract to work on a vaccine for #HIV www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
Researchers were told the administration, instead, wanted to go with "current approaches," effectively abandoning the most potent prevention strategy. #publichealth #vaccines #trumpadministration

Up in smoke: Federal cuts threaten to derail NC’s progress on tobacco prevention The loss of key CDC funding is a blow that public health leaders warn could unravel years of progress in a state long tied to Big Tobacco.

There are still LOTS of folks who still smoke, & more who (now) vape, an even more efficient nicotine delivery device w/ a lot less data around potential harms.
And as for all those tobacco Quit Lines... funded by federal $$$ that have now been cut. www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/05/21/t...

Are you in NC and affected by the federal DHHS, CDC cuts and restructuring?

Help NC Health News tell the story of the cuts happening at #DHHS #USDHHS #CDC www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/04/01/a...

Slava Ukraini.

But OMG, you paid higher taxes! The horror!

@mcuban.bsky.social Here's an interesting question left over from the Hospitalogy Zoom meeting: Will CostPlus still ship items like birth control/ Plan B/ mifepristone/ misoprostol to states if it becomes against the law to acquire it in a woman's home state?
Thanks for a great conversation!

CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) -- which, since 1990, has tracked high school students' behaviors that can influence health and social outcomes (like smoking, drug use, and dietary habits) -- is now offline

During treatment for colorectal cancer (oxaliplatin), I had to find all my own resources to deal with the neuropathy: massage, alpha lipoic acid, B6, OT. Got bupkus in the way of support from my medical team.

New Trump directive to federal health & research agencies could hit NC in the pocketbook President Trump issued a directive temporarily halting communications, meetings and purchases related to federal health care research grants.

Many folks reached out about last week's directives from the government to federally-supported scientists. Not everyone is going on record, grateful for public comments by @drstarbird.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social @barakrichman.bsky.social www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/01/27/n...

Looking for a #NorthCarolina #NC researcher who is willing to talk on the record about the #NIH #CDC shutdowns. Thanks.

Hey @astrokatie.com are you still affiliated with NC State? Would love to talk to a NC-based researcher about the NIH work stoppage.

Copy of email sent to employees at #NIH (provided by a friend)

Now you need to try it and I bet next year, you'll increase your donation (altho' we cap donations from electeds at $350/ year)

Hell yeah, I made that jam myself. It's the house specialty!!

Reporter who learned to write. Then edit. Over time.
I always tell young reporters to just write, even if it’s a dog’s breakfast, you need to practice, practice, practice.

Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to humans, study finds Study published in Science says a single hemagglutinin mutation, similar to one seen in a Canadian case, could make H5N1 better suited to infect people.

Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to humans www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/h...