Attorney General Bonta Sues Rady Children’s Health for Illegally Ending Gender-Affirming Care OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against Rady Children’s Health (Rady) for closing its gender-affirming care program for patients under the age of 19. In the lawsu...

Going to bed feeling slightly calmer than the last couple of weeks.

Tell Democrats to Stand Up for Public Health in the Budget With negotiations on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past September 30th at a standstill, Defend Public Health believes that House and Senate Democrats MUST play ha...

URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions.
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"250 years ago, 40% of kids never made it to adulthood. Today, it’s 4%. The majority of that decrease is due to vaccines. Vaccines have saved more lives than any other type of medical intervention, including antibiotics, including everything. Vaccines have saved an enormous number of lives."

How a researcher from Medfield created the go-to database of federal research cuts - The Boston Globe A lawyer-turned-Harvard scientist built what was known as Grant Watch from a Google spreadsheet over a matter of months.

Grant Watch — now called Grant Witness — is the leading watchdog of lost research dollars from the NIH and NSF. I wrote about how the site came to be and about Scott Delaney (@scott-delaney.bsky.social), the Harvard research scientist who helped make it happen: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/b...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

The economic effects of federal cuts to US science — in 24 graphs Nature - Is US science facing a recession? Growing evidence points to a looming downturn.

It's not just academia that will be affected by the disruptions to research funding

https://go.nature.com/4noApj5

Seriously, @nytimes.com this headline is disinformation. It’s dangerous.

An awfully misleading headline. What they are promising is to NOT FOLLOW SCIENCE and instead risk children’s health. It’s not scrutiny when you undermine safe and effective prevention measures.

Kennedy Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

RFK Jr. is a menace to the health of children worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Secretary Kennedy's statement to Gavi, the vaccine alliance, is literally sickening. Sickening because millions of children’s lives are in the balance because of Mr. Kennedy’s fringe beliefs and misinformation on vaccines.

DEADLINE for TAG + WHO's Community Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Long-Acting Technologies for TB Treatment and Prevention Survey is Monday, June 23 at 5 PM NYC. taglink.info/m/TBLATs

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

“universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs…

NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices…

75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.”

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.

Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.

HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.

99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.

Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

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The movement has already started. It started before you were even born. The systems of resistance have already been created in your area.

Stop wasting your energy trying to recreate what's already there and partner with the organizations that have put in the work for decades.

TAG, with support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, is surveying to support TB vaccines. Responses to the survey will help produce a final report that will make recommendations to funders, vaccine developers, and other global health organizations. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/survey-commu...

Lawsuits will come and stop this, what worries me is what happens in the interim. How to stop those school districts that will take this as an opportunity to further roll back protections for students and influence what important lessons cannot be taught in schools.

Equitable access needed in clinical research In her News story “Cornerstone medical ethics guidelines get a major update” (1 November 2024, p. 473), C. O’Grady describes recent changes to the Declaration of Helsinki (1). Although the revision in...

If you have access, please see my recent letter with @treatmentactiongroup.org, Jennifer Furin, and Christophe Perrin. Thank you to Erica Lessem and Mike Frick for their support! Equitable access needed in clinical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The U.S. has actively dismantled the global disease-detection programs we all—including Americans—rely on to stay safe

Today this administration’s short-sighted global health agenda got even even worse

It’s ending its support for vaccine programs around the world

Why?? 🧵

Know Your Rights: U.S. Airports and Ports of Entry | ACLU of Northern CA

Lots of advice out there now, including for green card holders traveling back into the US: www.aclunc.org/our-work/kno...

Re-upping this one. Can't let this slip by under the radar.

2025: #TB community is confronting clinic closures, treatment pauses & cancelled clinical trials in fallout from USAID grant terminations.
TAG + our allies remain dedicated to fighting for everyone, everywhere to have access to TB treatment, diagnosis, & prevention. We WILL fight #WorldTBDay2025

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I hate that I'm retweeting this. We should not be here. And yet we are. Thank you to the activists who have been working tirelessly to protect everyone when the government does not.

Writing a personal security plan in case I can't re-enter the US seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do this Friday morning. #flashback