Miriam Lewis Sabin

There is an intermediate solution. We go back down the steps to the comedy clubs, as #LennyBruce did. Say whatever you want #JimmyKimmel and comedians everywhere. Publish your stand-up recordings on alternative media. Arrests may come, but protesters will support you. There is no alternative.

‘Nuff said. #ACIP

Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

#LIGO experiment is the best of what it means to be human. We must continue to understand the universe and the awesome forces that control our destiny.
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Funding Postauthorization Vaccine-Safety Science | NEJM The slow speed of science contributes to public concern about vaccines and reduced immunization coverage. Postauthorization safety research requires timely funding linked to the introduction of new .....

THIS NEEDS TO BE READ NOW. I completely missed this very important piece in @nejm.org in 2024 explaining from some of my favorite vaccine and vaccine safety experts what is needed to improve safety systems and public trust. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Quote from a Correspondence letter in The Lancet. Quote reads: We call on policy makers, researchers, implementers, and advocates to stand behind these principles and reassert the global commitment to ending AIDS for good.

Remarkable progress has been made in the response against HIV.

However, this progress is now at risk of destabilisation.

A new letter introduces the Kigali Call to Action, offering a roadmap for revitalising the global response against HIV: tinyurl.com/2sxwja37

US health policy: the Senate must act During his confirmation hearings, Robert F Kennedy Jr, now Head of US Health and Human Services (HHS), gave repeated reassurances to senators concerned about his credentials and beliefs. He promised t...

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Recommitting to global solidarity: introducing the Kigali Call to Action For more than two decades, the global community has united to fight the HIV pandemic, achieving remarkable progress. New HIV transmissions and AIDS-related deaths have dropped significantly, and milli...

The Kigali Call to Action #IAS2025 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Aid cuts leave a million facing starvation in Nigeria – as food supplies run out Exclusive: Huge cuts to international aid – alongside intensifying conflict and the devastating impact of climate change – are creating a humanitarian crisis across Nigeria and its neighbours. Now, th...

Horrifyingly predictable when #USAID funding was cut. www.independent.co.uk/world/aid-fo...

Research in context panel for Lancet paper "Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis". Copyright: 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC By 4.0.

The US Agency for International Development (#USAID) funding has had a crucial role in improving global health.

A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years.

Explore the research ▶️ tinyurl.com/2w2nkvv3

marco rubio announces that usaid, which began under president kennedy in 1961, has officially ceased operations

foreign assistance now to be run by state dept

lancet medical journal projecting 14 million more deaths in next 5 years with aid restrictions (from world's most vulnerable populations)

Rubio hails end of USAID as study says its elimination could contribute to 14 million deaths in next 5 years | CNN Politics US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the...

Why i do what i do @TheLancet www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/p...

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Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection

Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Congrats Ursula!

Senior Editor Senior Editor Would you like to join The Lancet’s journal’s editorial team? Would you like to help ensure the best science for better lives? About our Team The Lancet is part of our family of world-re...

Dear All- amazing job opp! @thelancet.com Senior Editor in the NYC office. relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Elsevi...

What a dictator would say.

What the?

Point well taken. Though I wouldn’t refer to anyone with a mental illness as insane:)!

Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

On the home page of the MAHA Institute, you can read its now infamous, utterly kooky, very dangerous “MAHA Report,” authored by Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, RFK Jr, Linda McMahon, Stephen Miller, & others 😬

Only the best people are leading MAHA—antisemites, anti-vaxxers, germ theory deniers 😨

Thank you for exposing this insanity.

Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany

2nd line playing at the ceremony for these returned souls today. Leipzig University did the right thing. I hope others follow. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger”
an $18 Billion cut
Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced
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Ligo is one of the best examples of what it means to be human too. 😔

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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One Type of Mammogram Proves Better for Women With Dense Breasts

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/h...

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

CDC disease detectives exempted from Trump hiring freeze, averting cut to program Each year, the CDC usually hires a new class of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as disease detectives.

Hooray and phew #EIS #diseasedetective www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc...

Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.

#Solidarność #Solidarity #Solidarité #Solidaridad www.npr.org/sections/sho... @thelancet.bsky.social @nejm.org @jama.com @apha.org

COPE statement on external influence on editorial decisions Undue influence by any political, corporate or social entity is against the core ethical principles of editorial independence and academic freedom

Excellent. COPEs statement on external influence on editorial decisions. All authors should read this too. May 1st 2025. publicationethics.org/news-opinion...