Brianna Abbott

Chronic Lyme Disease Was Once Dismissed. More Doctors Are Coming Around. Newer trials are starting to track Lyme patients and investigate potential treatments

Thank you @briannaabbott.bsky.social for this wonderful piece, and highlighting what the MIT MAESTRO study means to our participants!
I love that my quote was about HOPE. I KNOW that this is a solvable problem. We need to work together to fix it!
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Early Targets of Harvard Funding Cuts: Tuberculosis, ALS Research The university is learning which projects will be hit as the emails arrive.

Harvard is fighting back against the Trump administration—and federal funding cuts for research have begun @nidhisubs.bsky.social and @briannaabbott.bsky.social report for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... via @wsj.com

RFK Jr. Says Ending Measles Outbreak Is Priority At least 155 people in West Texas and New Mexico have contracted the disease, and one child has died.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says ending the Texas measles outbreak is a "top priority" for him and that his HHS has supported the state's vaccination campaign.

Kennedy is the author of a 2021 book that says “measles isn’t as dangerous as we are being told." www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Vaccine Information, Transgender References Disappear From Federal Websites Officials removed pages containing references to gender identity and diversity.

"Scientific journal articles that have been submitted or accepted but not published shouldn’t be published “if they do not align with” the executive order, CDC employees were told in an email." via a story from colleagues Friday
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The Mystery of What’s Causing Young People’s Cancer Leads to the Gut Doctors are investigating bacteria and contaminants such as microplastics connected to cancer.

New Year, new social media account. For my first post, I wanted to share a story I spent months reporting: a dive into the work to unravel why more young people are getting cancer. With a lot still to learn, here's what we know so far.

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