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RFK Jr. removes all current members of CDC vaccine advisory committee | CNN US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, sayi...

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You don't get a job in the Taco Administration unless you know jack-shit about fuck-all for the position you were given.

These doctors know that. The fact that they are spinning it anyway is disgusting. It is the same kind of opportunism we have seen throughout history, with morally hollow professionals willing to serve power rather than truth.
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recommend against routine PSA screening in men over 70 because the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment outweigh the benefits. Even if screening were done, it doesn’t guarantee a diagnosis. False negatives happen. Many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain asymptomatic for years.

We are living in the theater of the absurd. Any physician pushing the line that Biden must have known about his prostate cancer is being reckless or worse, complicit in spreading MAGA propaganda. Prostate cancer often progresses silently, and current evidence-based guidelines specifically

It is disgusting; the news outlets including the NYT, are quoting oncologists stating given the ongoing tests a president receives, it’s unlikely President Biden wasn't aware of the cancer diagnosis when he was in office.

Pardon our French, that’s bullshit.

Sad to learn of Joe Biden’s prostate cancer. That someone with the best possible access to medical care would find cancer only after it has metastasized to bone underlines the need for research into earlier detection and better treatment of metastatic cancer.

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The nominee can't legally prescribe amoxicillin

Seeing patients in clinic who can’t get vaccinated while their families desperately try to keep them safe amidst a measles outbreak in Michigan is too much.

For the love of herd immunity, get your effing vaccines if you can.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to scholarly journals inquiring about their process and principles. As an organization, we respect and support the CHEST journal's editorial leadership and long-standing reputation. Read more here: www.chestnet.org/newsroom/che...

I'm going to say this every time I see news about whooping cough: babies who get this break their ribs from coughing. Babies who survive can have brain damage. Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. Please.

Altmetric score of 2666

Alright y’all.

Went to check out @altmetric.com for my @jama.com iron deficiency article and I’m superstitious so will you please repost so this number changes?!

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And lead is an even bigger problem when combined with iron deficiency, which is COMMON (tinyurl.com/JAMAFe)

Iron deficiency increases lead absorption
Lead decreases iron absorption and iron utilization.

And the same kids are often at risk for both.

A vicious cycle.

What should ferritin be in children? Specifically ages 3-6?

Trump Live Updates: Mass Layoffs Announced at Health and Human Services Dept.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03... RECIPE FOR DEATH AND DISEASE.

Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants" The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

Pediatric research. When grants are pulled, the infrastructure suffers
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The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.

First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.

Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

YouTube video by MSNBC Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster

The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment.

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NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

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Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media

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Why is the American oligarchy now running a coordinated campaign against science?

Because science - along with media and universities - limits the power of oligarchs.

[We opposed him] “because his life of anti-vaccine advocacy, vaccine skepticism, bizarre health claims during Covid, bizarre claims about HIV, about antidepressants causing school shootings. The list goes on and on.”- @DrRobDavidson.bsky.social
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Oof.