Amidst the discussion of measles reestablishment in the US, the risk of rubella provides an instructive example of long-term delayed consequences that could resonate for decades ... or be stopped by coming to our senses 1/
An ‘off-the-shelf’ neoantigen #vaccine shows safety and immunogenicity in people with #Lynchsyndrome, advancing hopes for preventive cancer vaccines.
News & Views from Zsofia Stadler, Yonina Murciano-Goroff @ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04248-2
A doozy of a quote in this profile of the "godfather of vaccines" by @helenbranswell.bsky.social, as he watches his field trend in the wrong direction
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long — because we’re going downhill,”
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State vaccine requirements for school entry are absolutely essential if we have any hope of maintaining herd immunity.
It is madness for states to repeal these requirements. And vaccine exemptions should not be permitted unless for a documented medical contraindication.
The time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system
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First evidence that healthy donor fecal microbiota transplant, added to immunotherapy, can enhance efficacy vs cancer
3 clinical trial reports (renal, small cell lung, melanoma)
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Holy 💩!
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
A vaccine to prevent colon cancer.
Proof-of-concept for strong immune response and safety via neoantigens given to people carrying mutations for Lynch syndrome
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This study should never have been greenlit but glad it's been cancelled. @boghuma.bsky.social and The Guardian article below nicely summarize the key issues.
Leaked protocol with more discussion of all the problems with this trial: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”
Did slashing multiple vaccines from the childhood vaccine schedule bring the US in line with other countries? In a word, no.
The US now recommends all kids be protected against fewer diseases than South Korea, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan & many more. www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c...
We saw Jan 6, 2021 and Jan 7, 2026 with our own eyes.
This is not Orwell's 1984.
The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines.
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💯The mainstream media's coverage has contributed to how we got to this point.
Three studies that leverage blood-based gene expression data identify host response signatures in #sepsis and critical illnesses, opening a pathway to mechanism-anchored #precisiontherapy.
News & Views from Robert Stevens and Carl Harris @jhu.edu
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04005-x
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
📰 Please read this important news feature in @natmed.nature.com written by @marianneguenot.bsky.social
It is impossible to reconcile this administration's alleged commitment to "Gold Standard Science" with their harmful actions against important biomedical research
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Ever since I learned about this study enrolling I have been eagerly awaiting the results. Researchers in Uganda took a centuries-old cultural practice mothers carrying babies on their backs in cloth wraps and turned it into a public health tool. You got to love it!
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Thanks for sharing, Mikki. Just wanted to note for anybody curious and/or in a similar position that babies can receive an MMR shot starting at 6 months.
SO the people actively sowing distrust in vaccines (i.e. many of the people in RFK's new ACIP) are also saying that we need to change safe and highly effective vaccine schedules because of this same lack of trust. Make it make sense!
ACIP voted 7-3 to NOT recommend MMRV combo vaccine for kids <4yo. Then in a confusing second vote (1 yes, 8 no, 3 abstentions - some citing confusion), they kept VFC coverage for the same vaccine they just said not to use.
This chaos matters for every family. 1/8
Here's the upshot on hepatitis B vaccination at birth:
- it's extremely safe
- the earlier it's given, the better it protects against transmission from mother-to-child
- screening fails to capture many cases and is not done at all in many cases
- perinatal HBV infection is catastrophic
A horrible horrible decision with NO rationale.
On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
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Do NOT allow them to rewrite history with disinformation. #COVID vaccines worked remarkably well and allowed us to come out of a global pandemic. A picture is worth a thousand words.
🌟Proud to publish these exciting data in #NatureMedicine -- final results from a phase 1/2 trial + a case series show strong efficacy of GD2 CAR-T cells in children with high risk #Neuroblastoma
#immunotherapy #OncSky #PedSky @natureportfolio.nature.com
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AAP's immunization recommendations are based only in the science, the needs of children, and the care that pediatricians have for the children in every community. If you have any questions about our recommended schedule, reach out to your pediatrician.
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New and important #NatureMedicine correspondence on the health consequences of forced displacement in Gaza
"These proposals are not humanitarian...Every effort must center on the health, humanity and rights of Palestinians, not their removal."
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🌟NEW in #NatureMedicine: Results from a phase 2 trial suggest that anti-PD-1 #immunotherapy should be the preferred treatment choice for patients with unresectable desmoplastic #melanoma -- complete response rate of 37% and a post hoc ORR of 89% (!!) #OncSky #MedSky
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