Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
“In this cross-sectional study performed from 2018 to 2021, pregnant women experienced a 37% higher firearm homicide rate than nonpregnant women.”
My interview with ABC and Mary Kekatos
abcnews.go.com/Health/us-me...
also care will be worse for all sorts of people for multiple reasons, its not just gonna hurt those who lose medicaid
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation."
www.politico.com/live-updates...
79% of US adults support requiring children to be vaccinated against preventable infectious diseases to attend school.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Support for the Big Beautiful Bill goes down when people are told of its impact on health care
78 medical societies, including the American Medical Association, strongly endorsed existing seasonal vaccination guidelines.
The leading coalition of American health insurers also committed to providing uninterrupted coverage for these same vaccines.
Civil society is standing up 💪
WATCH — @underwood.house.gov : “Elderly will lose Medicaid. Nursing homes will close. What are people supposed to do? They don’t care… there’s no way to sugarcoat it - it will be devastating for our communities.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
CHRISTUS Children’s grand rounds San Antonio tomorrow
Tomorrow with @bcmhouston.bsky.social and CHRISTUS Health San Antonio
We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.
No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol
No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol
No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol
No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol
Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.
This morning Minnesota woke up to news of a brutal act of violence targeting public servants. I am heartbroken to learn that our Speaker Melissa Hortman, Sen. John Hoffman and their spouses have been shot.
on left, pregnancy and sars cov2 infection, leads to cytokine storm in fetus. This affects brain development at age 6 and age 24 months.
Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months:
🧠36% cognitive delays
🗣️64% communication delays
🏃57% had motor delays
🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9
#Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷
Oh boy... New ACIP. Talk about the wrong stuff. I linked to their backgrounds in the thread here...
DFA Condemns RFK Jr.’s Gutting of Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices
Secretary #Kennedy is unfit to lead HHS and must resign. We urge Congress to take swift action to hold Secretary Kennedy accountable and protect public health. #medsky
doctorsforamerica.org/sr-rfkjr-acip/
In an extraordinary public rebuke, career NIH employees wrote to Trump health officials that they feel “compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.
NEW @motherjones.com: The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit
The provision—which would cut services like pap smears, cancer screenings, & birth control, since Medicaid already doesn't fund abortions—moved forward today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Some may receive emergency care, primarily for labor & delivery services. All emergency Medicaid spending, however, represented less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in fiscal year 2023.
Given that “undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federally funded coverage including Medicaid, CHIP, or Medicare or to purchase coverage through the ACA Marketplaces”…
It’s unclear what cost savings will result from “kicking them off” as GOP reps are saying recommending.
Stunned by where we find ourselves on this timeline…
I’m calling on Secretary Kennedy to resign.
We are sick of it. He must go!
This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030.
Half a million kids.
Kids.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
A line graph of estimated AIDS-related deaths from 2025 through 2040 in 55 PEPFAR-supported countries. The Y axis is estimated number of deaths and ranges from 200,000 to 2 million. The X axis is years and ranges from 2010 to 2040. There is a black line labeled “historical trend” from 2010 to 2025 showing a decrease in deaths from 1.2 million to ~420,000. Then in 2025 the black line splits into three scenarios: 1) a dashed green line showing deaths if USAID were to increase, 2) a dashed blue line showing deaths if USAID remained at 2024 levels, and 3) a dashed red line showing deaths if USAID stopped and was not replaced. In scenario 1 (funding increased) deaths continue to decrease from ~420,000 to 200,000. In scenario 2 (funding stays the same) deaths stay the same at 420,000. In scenario 3 (funding cut and not replaced) deaths increase from ~420,000 to 1.7 million.
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“‘Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,’ one source, who was part of a team that managed these systems at HHS for a decade before being part of the RIF, alleges to WIRED.”
