Indi Trehan

Threat of Child Malnutrition in Iran Amid U.S.–Iran Conflict - World Hunger News The U.S.–Iran war that began today, 28 February 2026, threatens to sharply worsen malnutrition among children under five in low-income urban neighborhoods of strike zones (Tehran, Isfahan, Kermanshah)...

War is not healthy for children and other living things.

Will the next World Food Programme chief answer to Trump? The next WFP chief could help the UN emergency food agency save millions of lives – or walk away from a starving world.

Yet another Trumpian disaster awaits.

Malaria vaccination reduces hospitalisations, deaths of children in northwestern Nigeria One year after the malaria vaccine was added to the routine immunisation schedule in Nigeria’s Kebbi State, health authorities and caregivers are counting the gains.

Hasta la victoria siempre.

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

It sucks being the citizen of a pariah state

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

We’re honoring our 2026 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients at Alumni Weekend (March 26–28)!

@inditrehan.bsky.social
Dr. Anne Lucky
Dr. William Keenan

Let’s fill the room with the people who make this community special.

tinyurl.com/AlumniWeekend2026

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Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."

Lorraine Schneider, 1967.

My quote of the day

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

Updated:

Acoziborole Winthrop, developed by DNDi and Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as three-tablet, single-dose treatment for most common form of sleeping sickness The recommendation is based on Phase II/III study demonstrating up to 96% success rates at 18 months across both early and advanced stages of T.b. gambiense, the most common form of sleeping sickness.

Good news of the decade: Acoziborole Winthrop, developed by @dndi.org & Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as three-tablet, single-dose Rx for most common form of sleeping sickness-soon over injectable arsenic derivative Rx with serious side effects dndi.org/press-releas...

It may well remain the most realistic medical TV show….

Anti-vaxx propaganda from 1898. Nothing's changed.

#Mali
An estimated 1.12 million cases of children and 91,000 pregnant or breastfeeding women in Mali are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition through October 2026—including 227,000 life-threatening cases of severe acute malnutrition.

Read the full Report: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

(1/2) Stunning bat cave footage captures spillover risk for first time

The discovery of so many animals feeding on the bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals

In our new paper (BMJ Global Health), we systematically collected 923 historical growth studies covering 122 countries from 1814–2016.

By harmonising height-by-age data, we reconstruct stunting patterns over two centuries.

Link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

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Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

This worked out well once before, so let's try again!

Would love to catch up with some old friends and mentors! Who's coming?!

Microbiome instability linked to poor growth in kids | WashU Medicine A new study by researchers at WashU Medicine found a link between an unstable gut microbiome and poor growth in children. The study sequenced the genomic material from fecal samples collected from tod...

Food alone isn’t enough for children facing malnutrition. See how Dr. Mark Manary and Dr. Kevin Stephenson, working with the Salk Institute, found unstable gut microbes as a cause of stunted growth and opened doors to improved treatment for millions. medicine.washu.edu/news/microbi...

Accuracy on the line: the NHS triage system in context Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a familiar problem across health systems around the world. In most countries, the vast majority of paediatric emergency care is delivered in general EDs rath...

In exciting news, our recent paper as part of the @arc-yharc.bsky.social has been featured in an editorial! It's great that our message around the role of triaging in managing demand for urgent and emergency care is being emphasised.
#NHS #UEC #ResearchImpact #NIHR #EmergencyMedicine #PatientFlow

Aid cuts for women and girls lead to instability that reaches us all Aid cuts for women and girls lead to instability that reaches us all

Opinion: A year of aid cuts will lead to generational harm among women and girls and worldwide effects on peace and stability.

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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Brilliant essay.

Fiat lux.

WHO Statement on the planned hepatitis B birth dose vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau

WHO statement on the planned hepatitis B birth dose vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau https://bit.ly/4ctSv05