Prof Jane Munro

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

End of an era with the retirement of Dr Margot Nash from The Royal Children’s Hospital - a lifetime of caring for patients & their families, & mentoring, caring & advocating for doctors in training and for improving the system.
Wishing her all the fabulous things for retirement.

The Creature has been fixed!

Congrats to Deb Tunbridge on being named the 2025 Child & Adolescent Health Service Nurse of the Year in Western Australia. Well deserved recognition for Deb’s dedication & commitment to her patients in the paediatric rheumatology service over 30 years including those with Juvenile Arthritis.

Disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug treatment cycles and rates of flare in juvenile idiopathic arthritis—a tale of Sisyphean endeavour? AbstractObjectives. Withdrawal of Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) to determine need for ongoing medication is common in JIA management. Litt

Delighted to share this work on Juvenile Arthritis drug treatment cycles and rates of flares published today in Rheumatology
from our team and led by Dr Georgie Tiller, Dr Jonathan Akikusa and wonderful medical student and now intern Dr Emily Bugeja.

academic.oup.com/rheumatology...

Mouse reading in bed

When I say “something came up” this is what I mean

Happy Easter from me and the Creature 🐰🐣❤️

Officially autumnal in Melbourne 🍁🍂❤️

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A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

Can someone explain to me how this is making America healthy? Because to me, it seems like this isn't about health at all—it's dismantling the very systems that protect us when it matters most.

Who was fired?
HIV office? Gone.
Environmental health (like heat risk to children with asthma)? Gone.
Gun violence office? Gone.
Injury prevention? Gone.
Communications? Gone.
Worker safety? Gone.
Division of reproductive health? Gone.
Disability health? Gone.
TB prevention? Gone.

But beyond jobs, historical knowledge, and projects stopped in their tracks, this will impact Americans' health. Viruses don't pause when government stops working. Bacteria doesn't pause. Worker safety doesn't pause. Chronic diseases don't pause.

Today, thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs, effective immediately. People are literally finding out if they were fired at security when they try to badge in. It's cruel and unnecessary, which is the point.

As Doctors Predicted, RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.

“A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution President Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said there were “methods” that would allow a third term. The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person from being elected to more than two terms as president.

President Trump did not rule out seeking a third term in office on Sunday, telling NBC News that he was “not joking” about the possibility and suggesting there were “methods” to circumvent the two-term limit laid out in the Constitution.

Mrs Frazzled on US national security is possibly the best thing online, ever.

www.instagram.com/reel/DHmnQOj...

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

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www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Sending you big love An ❤️

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Delighted to host the International Women’s Day Grand Round today at the Royal Children’s Hospital with these incredibly impressive and inspiring women who filled the hour with deeply interesting discussions - thank you Selena White, Claudia Barriga & Dr Linny Phuong & my co-host Prof Margie Danchin

Another shameful decision in the US with wide reaching impact.

Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.

We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.

Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Wild hey.
Let’s watch on as bird flu, measles and any number of other infectious agents spike in the US & spread under RFK’s watch & the Trump administration’s woeful policies & the resultant breakdown in basic delivery of public health.
Shameful America.
Let’s not follow in any way Australia.

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

12. A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates the only source of water for 250,000 displaced people in camps located in the center of current conflict.

11. Screening program with the Mexican government to identify illicit drugs like fentanyl being smuggled at the US border.

9. Services from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation - just one organization - reaching 350,000 people on HIV treatment, including nearly 10,000 children and more than 10,000 HIV-positive pregnant women – terminated.

8. USAID’s contract for supplying essential medicines for maternal and child health in countries worldwide – terminated.

Trump administration cuts most USAID programs. And, the ethics of leaving your job Nearly all USAID programs have been eliminated. One official says it's a "global health massacre." And, a federal judge will hear arguments over the decision to fire thousands of probationary workers.

7. Over 1,000 food kitchens in Sudan, a country with almost 25 million people experiencing acute food insecurity – terminated. www.npr.org/2025/02/27/g...

Impacts of the U.S. Foreign Aid Pause We're tracking recent Executive Orders. Below are developments as of Feb. 26.  Impact from Funding Freeze The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), a lifeline for distributing humanitarian aid in hard ...

6. All U.S.-backed development programming in Afghanistan, including maternal and child health services and girls education – terminated. (Estimated to cause >1,200 maternal deaths by 2028.) betterworldcampaign.org/funding/what...