Huiwen Xu, PhD

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

Welcome back! My study section was postponed to Jan toda.

As we come to @geronsociety.bsky.social 's #GSA2025, please follow us en masse. If you are an aging health researcher and want to be added to the starter pack, comment below. #geronsky #ADRD

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

@savehealthresearch.bsky.social writes, "99% of recent treatments are #NIH supported. Erica wants everyone to have the same opportunity she had to benefit from this new medicine. What treatments are we about to discover that could be lost, and who may have been given years more of life?"

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

Worthwhile read on the name changes scientists have made to get NIH grants funded in recent months.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.

Story in Being Patient about Alzheimer's disease funding noting the decrease in the funding of number of new projects due, in part, to the number of multiyear funded grants from the National Institute on Aging.

beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r...

The largest problem with Harris is the lack of authenticity, especially when compared to Mamdani, AOC etc. She only says things that are politically correct, not matter whether she believes it or not. She can't win.

ICE conducts raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street, multiple people detained as New Yorkers rage | amNewYork The operation began at about 3 p.m. in the area of Centre and Canal Streets where ICE agents showed up to question street vendors as part of an alleged

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Write to Congress: CDC Employees must be Reinstated **Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

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Lots of our #srms colleagues got RIFd last week. I wrote to get them reinstated.
#statssky #CDC #defenddata

[Tenured!] I am beyond grateful to share that Emory Board of Trustees has approved my Tenure in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University!

Now, let me continue my dedication to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. Cheers! 🍾

Modeling suggests if the U.S. sustained a 1/3 reduction in foreign STEM graduates, it could see a loss of $22-43.9 billion per year off the U.S. GDP growth in the first year alone.

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Assemble iPhones, lol

public pressure works...

This is bad...NIA did not publish its payline for FY25, lol

A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains

A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm #Inequality 🧪

I felt NIA just gave the funds to a few large center grants, and substantially reduced number of R01s.

Here is NIA.

NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.

7/n

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Thank you, Jane Goodall

Thanks for sharing this! very informativ!

Please read. #NIH #shutdown

Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article) As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.

Gift link.

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"the benefits of NIH research in general are wide and diffuse. A very large number of advances—roughly one in two during the 21st century—are linked to NIH grants that are cut in our counterfactual scenario."

A new report shows the ‘astounding’ impact of immigration on the Philadelphia region. The Welcoming Center nonprofit commissioned the report in partnership with WHYY using U.S. Census data.

🔗 inquirer.com/news/philade...

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels, researchers say.

Curse of private equity.

After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals.

PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits.

People killed for profit.

Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.

That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪
read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn