Dr. Tracy Catalde

“Love you all, but there’s a few people in here who have a lot more money than me. And if you’re a billionaire—why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties.” — Billie Eilish before donating $11.5 Million dollars. Be like Billie.

Expert Warns of Irreparable Damage to Biotech Industry Unless Congress Acts U.S. owes its 'vibrant pipeline' to high levels of public funding, says Aaron Kesselheim

From Senate hearing on Wednesday

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Meta-analysis of COVID, RSV, flu vaccines for fall provides 'sea of data' showing efficacy, safety

Thank you, @cidrap.bsky.social, for covering our new @nejm.org review of Covid-19, RSV, and influenza immunizations.

Check it out: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/meta-analysis-covid-rsv-flu-vaccines-fall-provides-sea-data-showing-efficacy-safety

Donald Trump’s trade nominee won’t even say the word “Argentina.”

Why? Maybe because Trump doesn't want you to know that he dug up billions of dollars to give to Argentina while Argentina is working with China to undercut American farmers.

Look at that. An action alert from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops asking for support to make sure SNAP is funded.

Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"

No, @kff.org didn't "retract" the 115% (it's actually 114%).

This screenshot is from the KFF.org home page as of 10 seconds ago...see top right corner.

What they *did* do was *add* a *second* article about the average *gross* premium increases of 26% (which is in line w/my own estimate of 25.1%).

Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used? - The Sick Times Recent studies add evidence to a prior phase 3 clinical trial, suggesting that taking the diabetes drug during acute COVID-19 reduces the risk of long-term symptoms.

Today @thesicktimes.org: Multiple studies suggest taking metformin during acute COVID-19 can help reduce the risk of Long COVID. So why aren't more clinicians prescribing it for that purpose?

Great reporting by @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social: thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m...

Hunger and Cold Loom as Shutdown Imperils Funding for Antipoverty Programs

Dems are fighting for American healthcare, & the Repubs see it as an opportunity to freeze folks & deprive them of food. Talk about a hostage situation.

"Within days, tens of millions of low-income Americans may lose assistance for food, child care and utilities if

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

Jeffries: "The so-called chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, continues to behave like a malignant clown."

SNAP is a lifeline for American families. It is morally wrong for Trump & Vance to completely cut it off.

Medicare Advantage Enrollees Have Access to About Half of the Physicians Available to Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries | KFF Medicare Advantage enrollees were in a plan that included just under half (48%) of all physicians available to traditional Medicare beneficiaries in their area in 2022, on average. The limitations of ...

I'm telling you, Medicare Advantage is a bad deal - for one thing, you'd have access to only half the doctors you could see with traditional Medicare.

Open enrollment runs into December. Just say no to M.A.

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New recipe improves creation of cells that could fight most autoimmune diseases Nobel laureate makes regulatory T cells that last longer in the body, boosting clinical hopes

New recipe improves creation of cells that could fight most autoimmune diseases. Nobel laureate makes regulatory T cells that last longer in the body, boosting clinical hopes.
www.science.org/content/arti...

I wrote that Trump's destruction of the East Wing was to build a palace for him to be a king.

The Washington Post editorial board wrote that Trump is "pursuing a reasonable idea."

The news outlets you support tells a lot about what you value. Sign up for Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

That's the authoritarian dream

Speaking of grandsons of awful men, such as Timothy Mellon, last night I learned that Louis Mosley is the head of Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the UK.

Mosley’s grandpa was the founder of the British Union of Fascists who married his wife Diana Mitford at Joseph Goebbels’ house. Hitler was a guest.

What a Diabetes Diagnosis Taught Me About MAHA Self-mastery is free-market logic in another guise.

felt like garbage for a long time; turns out my blood sugar had entered the Cool Zone. some thoughts about that, the MAHA fixation on diabetes, and the cold free market logic of RFK Jr nymag.com/intelligence...

RFK Jr. is reviewing baby formula rules for the first time in 30 years. What’s at stake. The FDA is reviewing infant formula ingredients and nutrition as part of Operation Stork Speed, a move that could impact baby nutrition and safety.

Psych-ish 🧵:

Honestly, I think this country has lost its collective mind. And once again, it seems like the poor will suffer most.

🔹️75% of babies in the US are
formula fed by 6 mos.

🔹️Now, parents are losing it about ingredients like seed oils. (You...

1/8

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Why the ACA needs young people — and the looming 'death spiral' for health insurance Young and healthy people who get Affordable Care Act health insurance are thinking about dropping coverage next year, as the government remains shutdown over health care tax credits.

Young and healthy people who get Affordable Care Act health insurance are thinking about dropping coverage next year, as the government remains shutdown over health care tax credits.

The pipeline for Ph.D.s out of U.S. universities is shrinking America graduates more Ph.D.s than any other country. They go on to invent things, cure diseases and win Nobel Prizes. But admission slots are disappearing.

The shrinking future of Ph.D.s in America

Attacks on science and universities

Anti-immigration wave

Visa challenges

It all adds up

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The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders:
1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month.
2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push? Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

One of the greatest cons achieved by the “wellness” industry is convincing their marks that it’s a grassroots group that really, really cares about them.

They don’t. They make fat stacks of cash by lying to their customers and selling them remedies that are at best useless and at worst harmful.

Frontiers | Distinct characteristics of T cell receptor repertoire associated with the SARS-CoV-2 reinfection The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, represents one of the most profound global public health challenges in modern history. While T cell immunity is ...

This is the most important paper to demonstrate the endless capacity of COVID to stuff your immune system.

The #Leonardi_Effect is real 🙏🏻

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

a photo of a business card that reads: I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights. These cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike. www.ilrc.org/red-cards

the reverse side of the card, printed in Amharic

Saw a stack of these Know Your Rights cards at an Ethiopian restaurant, printed in English and Amharic

Let them eat ballrooms.

Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...

This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?

I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.

Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S | Defend Public Health As an alternative to HHS Sec. Kennedy's flawed, dishonest "MAHA Report," Defend Public Health offers some key policies to truly improve Americans’ health. While certainly not exhaustive, our report ou...

Many of the elements of the food safety and security OpEd I wrote and which was rejected can now be found in Defend Public Health’s IHAT report.

“Improving the health of Americans together requires…expanding, not defunding, programs that increase access to healthy food, including SNAP…”

YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD RFK Jr is wrong. Beef tallow is not healthier than seed oils.

RFK Jr is wrong. Like usual.
Beef tallow is not healthier than seed oils.

RFK Jr is immune to evidence.
DECADES of DATA show eating polyunsaturated fats in seed oils reduce risk of heart disease & atherosclerosis compared to eating saturated fats in beef tallow.

Watch:
youtu.be/bGrfbs8qxPo?...

Science

A New study is showing that mRNA COVID vaccines didn’t just protect cancer patients from infection, they actually helped them live longer. Researchers found patients on immunotherapy for lung & skin cancer gained added survival benefit after vaccination. Science doing its thing.

New shutdown problem: Miami is the U.S. capital for seniors on food stamps Florida is warning families not to expect their EBT cards to be reloaded next month, increasing pressure on Congress to end the government shutdown.

New shutdown problem: Miami is the U.S. capital for seniors on food stamps

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