Ashleigh Gallagher, DrPH, MA

Source: @apnews - “Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday, building on the effort by DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Source: @postpolitics - “The Senate narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut $9 billion in foreign aid and federal funding for public broadcasting early Thursday, handing the administration a victory in its ongoing power struggle with Congress over federal…(contd)” @npr @pbs

Source: @jhu_cgvs 🧡 “Educating and advocating for safe firearm storage practices saves lives.

Whether you own a gun or not, everyone should know: Gun safety starts with practicing secure storage.”

Source: @nytimes - “The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond…” (contd)

Source: @apnews - “U.S. health regulators announced plans Tuesday to phase out fluoride-containing supplements sometimes used to strengthen children’s teeth or reduce cavities, opening a new front in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort against a mainstay of dental care.”

Source: @nytwell - “A national organization that sets practice standards for physicians has for the first time outlined how doctors can give patients pain-relief options during the insertion of intrauterine devices and other common gynecological procedures.”

Source: @drjessicaknurick - “If you’re following someone who says they want to “make America healthy” but they’ve been silent about cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, as well as environmental rollbacks, weakened food safety oversight, and the censorship of research on health equity…” (contd)

Source: @groundnews - “The CDC has reported 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this season, the most since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. “This number that we have now is almost certainly an undercount,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics…(contd)”

Source: @theatlantic - The safety of America’s food supply is getting murkier—and if there’s one thing you can do to protect yourself, it’s swearing off bagged, prechopped lettuce, Nicholas Florko writes. ⁠Romaine lettuce has a particularly bad reputation for food poisoning:
… (contd)

Source: @washingtonpost - “Under President Donald Trump, the Education Department has begun cutting about $1 billion in mental-health-related grants created in response to mass school shootings. School psychology professionals across the country are scrambling to figure out how to move forward…”

Source: @washingtonpost - “Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, a move that the agency said will increase transparency but that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunization…”

Source: @johnshopkinssph - “Questions about vaccines and autism have been around for a while despite multiple scientific studies that do not show a connection.

Swipe through to learn where the concerns started, the science behind why experts have concluded there is no link, and…(contd)”

Source: @theskimm - “Policy ideas on how to support women and moms? Put us in coach. Influenced by the growing “pronatalist” movement, the Trump administration this week seems to be exploring ways to encourage higher birth rates…” (contd)

Source: @nytopinion - “The disparities in diagnosis and care within H.I.V. are grim, writes Ruth Madievsky, a clinical pharmacist who specializes in H.I.V. care. “The incidence of H.I.V. in the United States is about 0.4 percent…”

Source: @theatlantic - “The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to millions of children who are starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, many of these children are likely to die within months…”

Source: @guardian_us - “Fema’s Future Risk Index, which projected county-by-county information of the impact of the climate crisis, was deleted by the Trump administration soon after the inauguration.⁠ But you can still use it – the Guardian has helped resurrect the short-lived tool, which was…”

Source: @lancasteronline - “Lancaster County has seen its first reported measles case in six years.
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Source: @19thnews - “The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote. The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act…”

Source: NY Times via @momsdemand
“Violent crime is at a near-50-year low because of bipartisan action on gun violence, yet Trump and his AG Pam Bondi are gutting the very gun safety policies that made it possible. Today, Bondi announced she will roll back ATF’s “zero tolerance” policy…”

Source: @washingtonpost - “Nearly half a dozen senior veterinarians at the Food and Drug Administration were laid off in a sweeping purge, including employees in a center that has played a key role in responding to the recent bird flu outbreak. The job cuts were part of massive upheaval…”

Source: @wired - “Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were notified early Tuesday morning that they were subject to a reduction in force, or RIF, sources tell WIRED, shuttering programs that directly serve and inform the American public.”

Source: @climatepower - “The Trump admin is stripping away protections for communities that have long suffered the worst pollution—putting corporate polluters over people’s health.“

Breaking: Possible measles exposure at a Pennsylvania Starbucks! Please share!

@padems - “Democrats flipped a Trump district that Republicans have held for 46 years.”

Source: @nytimes “The Trump administration plans to end financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts…”

Source: @theatlantic - As the Trump administration devastates foreign-aid programs, the U.S. is both making survival less likely for people with tuberculosis and risking the disease becoming far more treatment-resistant, John Green writes. “After decades of improvement, we could return to…