Trump Says He Gave Iran Permission to Bomb U.S. Base in Qatar and…Well, Mostly Crickets? A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.

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Text: "the most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chatvl is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a shtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people"

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

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Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

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Patient Safety Network abruptly cut by Trump administration. The latest DOGE destruction targets a respected project that helped protect Americans from medical errors by supporting a cultural shift around safety.

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Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes A group of young patient-researchers is showing that patient-led research can be indispensable in the effort to crack complex, long-misunderstood illnesses, like hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

As someone close to my heart wrestles with chronic pain and more, and doesn't feel listened to by most doctors, this story gives me hope
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At my public library no copies of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century available

Now this is cute. Bad baby

Thank you for this. I am sharing it with my #medlib coworkers. I check the PubMed daily update files at least to see that it's being updated each day: ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/updat...

I check the daily updates to see if it still being updated but that's a basic test.

Scoop: 950 Indian Health Service employees laid off. The valuable public health program is already under-staffed. All probationary staff were told they would be laid off by the Trump administration.

'Two sources at the Indian Health Service told Inside Medicine that 950 probationary employees—those serving less than one or two years—were laid off on Friday, without any explanation. This accounts for 18% of the IHS.'

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Weimar+ Statement by Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the European External Action Service and the European Commission 12 of February 2025 - Paris We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine. We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's war of aggression. We...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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