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Accelerating Rare disease Cures (ARC) Program CDER’s ARC Program | Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

🔎The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the 2025 Accelerating Rare disease Cures (ARC) Program Annual Report.
Link🔗⬇️

🆘🚨💉”… #measles is a serious disease. Before vaccination became widespread in the 1960s, some 4- to 500 people died each year in this country from measles. And while most kids will recover, some can have serious lasting consequences, including deafness and blindness.”
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#vaccines
#PublicHealth

As @drugmonkey.bsky.social pointed out earlier today, there are some new forms and limitations for biosketches for NIH applications.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The “Why, why, why” of tuberculosis – Why storytelling is integral to the fight against TB In this disorienting situation, stories and narratives are essential. We need to tell the story about our collective human fight against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, one that centers the survivors, nur...

The “Why, why, why” of tuberculosis – Why storytelling is integral to the fight against TB

@leslieenane.bsky.social on why, in dark times, "there is real light, humanity, and community in sharing powerful stories"

speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/12/01/t... via @plosglobalpublichealth.org

🚨This👇🏼is a must read publication.
🔎”Be proactive but play a long game. MAHA is already affecting science, medicine, and the health care system. The key is not to become paralyzed and wait for something else to happen -or as the expression goes, “don’t wait for the second shoe to drop.””

‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind

The people fleeing climate breakdown around the world: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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🙋🏻‍♀️Must🧡🦆🪿

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YouTube video by georgemichaelVEVO George Michael - Kissing a Fool

Good night 😌🍷🎶🎼💙

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NIH abruptly paused SBIR and STTR activity, creating uncertainty for applicants who now require strategy, preparation, and airtight…

https://www.ebhoward.com/nih-hits-pause-on-sbir-and-sttr-what-the-latest-guidance-means-for-your-funding-strategy/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians? Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.

"But this spring, he was shaken by the Trump administration's cuts to scientific research at the NIH and staff at the DHHS."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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#Frankenstein 🙌🏼 🇲🇽Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social
🤓🎥🎞️🔎 “The four Evelyn Tables… were designed to clearly show the structures of human nerves, arteries, and veins, all extracted from human cadavers, dried in positions that resemble how they’re naturally arranged in a living human body…”

🧵🧐 … 🏰🇩🇰 Rosenborg Castle

🧵🧐 … 🏰🇩🇰 Rosenborg Castle

🧵🧐 … 🏰🇩🇰 Rosenborg Castle

🧵🧐 … 🏰🇩🇰 Rosenborg Castle

🤓🏰🇩🇰 Rosenborg Castle is a 400-year-old Renaissance building:
👑💎 “The castle was built 1606-34 by Christian IV as a pleasure palace. In the basement you will find the Danish crown jewels and royal crowns.”
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YouTube video by Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) Could symptom-free people be unknowingly passing TB to others?

❓ Could symptom-free people be unknowingly passing TB to others?

✅ A major study has launched in South Africa & Indonesia to try to answer this critical gap in our #TB knowledge.

AHRI faculty member & study co-lead @emilybethwong.bsky.social explains

#endTB #WCLH2025

📽️ youtu.be/M053QPGZaac

😔painful… 😡
“An analysis published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that recent terminations of NIH research grants abruptly disrupted 383 active clinical trials affecting more than 74,000 enrolled participants—raising concerns about scientific waste, data integrity, and participant safety”

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A lot of information, some new, some reminders, and mire to come🤔 maybe the trending topic at the meeting.

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🇩🇰 Copenhagen

Tongue Swabs, Modeling, AI… 🥶
And ⬇️

🇩🇰 #WCLH2025 🩻
#Tuberculosis 🥊
Copenhagen nights☺️
Friends are treasures

😡Unbelievable
“At a time when healthcare in our country faces a historic nurse shortage and rising demands, limiting nurses’ access to funding for graduate education threatens the very foundation of patient care”.

#WCLH2026 🩻
💚💛Rio de Janeiro, Brazil🇧🇷
#Tuberculosis 🥊
@theunion.org 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

After the most repeated and celebrated secret for weeks 🤭, it’s official:
#WCLH2026 🩻 is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil🇧🇷
#Tuberculosis 🥊
@theunion.org 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

🇩🇰 Copenhagen #WCLH2025 🩻
#Tuberculosis 🥊