Priya Radhakrishnan

As the US past its peak of a summer Covid wave, the new CDC genomic surveillance today shows it's nearly all XFG as the variant involved with the cases
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/va...

Watch out for lead in supplements
from erictopol.substack.com/p/is-chronic...

Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...

Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

a sticker that says vaccines save lives on it ALT: a sticker that says vaccines save lives on it

A major student published in the @annalsofim.bsky.social proving #vaccinesafety YET AGAIN

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Excited to share our paper -Culmination of our work on developing a curriculum on #indigenoushealth thanks to @ABIMFoundation for funding this work

The health of U.S. kids has declined significantly since 2007, a new study finds A new study in the journal JAMA finds the health of America's children has worsened across several key indicators over the last two decades. That includes the number of children with chronic diseases.

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Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice

Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over #Vaccine Advice www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

How Might Federal Medicaid Cuts in the Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill Affect Rural Areas? | KFF Under the Senate-passed reconciliation bill, federal Medicaid spending in rural areas is estimated to decline by $155 billion, more than in the House-passed bill, and far more than the $50 billion app...

NEW RURAL BRIEF @kff.org : Senate reconciliation bill would cut federal Medicaid funding in rural areas by $155B—$36B more than the House bill. www.kff.org/policy-watch...

Development and validation of an autonomous artificial intelligence agent for clinical decision-making in oncology - Nature Cancer Ferber et al. present an autonomous artificial intelligence agent system for deployment of specialized medical oncology computational tools, validating their system across various clinical scenarios r...

A big day for medical A.I. publications!
—Oncology agent for decision making
nature.com/articles/s43...
—Forecasting infectious diseases
nature.com/articles/s43...
—Dermatology
nature.com/articles/s41...
—Predicting stroke
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

My Parents Expected to Be Retired. Instead, They Are Raising My Sister’s Kids.

Just a poignant narrative of the impact of the #opioidcrisis www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/m...

Newark Airport's Crisis Puts Spotlight on U.S. Air Traffic Controller Shortage As of May 7, all but two of the 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States were understaffed, a New York Times analysis found.

It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.

The SIK3-N783Y mutation is associated with the human natural short sleep trait | PNAS Sleep is an essential component of our daily life. A mutation in human salt induced kinase 3 (hSIK3), which is critical for regulating sleep durati...

Now the discovery of the 4th gene variant which promotes short sleep (4-6 hours) with full restfulness, potentially a path to a drug for sleep efficiency someday
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/unde...

Factor V Leiden This JAMA Insights explores factor V Leiden, an inherited thrombophilia, and its association with venous and arterial thrombosis, how it affects pregnancy outcomes, and testing.

JAMA Insights: Testing for factor V Leiden in patients with venous thromboembolism should only be performed when the results may affect management decisions about anticoagulation.

#MedSky

Despite Kennedy’s stated support, funding for Women's Health Initiative remains in limbo Funding for a landmark health study, the Women's Health Initiative, was cut then reportedly restored, but researchers are still waiting for confirmation.

www.statnews.com/2025/04/29/n...

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

Our planet has two lungs one is green the other is blue

Earth Day Everyday

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

The tiniest ever, bioresorbable pacemaker, activated wirelessly by light, and its potential as a platform for electrotherapy
nature.com/articles/s41...
from work supported by NIH

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful or meh? #beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

A huge loss at FDA.
Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc.

Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight?
scienceimpacts.org
H/T to Prathima !

Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal funding is risky and could put patients at risk.

Now think of the impact of funding cuts when 16% of our community is impacted

www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

Impact of #addiction and #mentalhealth conditions in the greater PHx area #arizona. an average of 558,000 persons aged 12 >used an illicit drug in the past year.16%of the population and is similar to the rates in Arizona (16.9 percent) and in the Nation as a whole (14.7 percent)

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

Opinion | What I Learned From Going No Contact Estrangement is often the most moral option. What’s immoral is encouraging people to remain in relationships that hurt them.

@eamondolan.bsky.social just loved your article in the @nytimes.com . So glad that you are healing. Yo ur article resonated so much with me . www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...