BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries
(Gift article)
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Art from @cwebbonline.com. 💙
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A woman wearing a tshirt with a happy uterus surrounded by flowers and a vaccine and the message “Bye bye Cancer”
The Canadian HPV immunization guide
Happy #HPVAwareness Day!
The 9vHPV vaccine 💉 protects from:
✅ 7 high-risk HPV types that account for 90% of all cervical cancers
✅2 HPV types that cause about 90% of anogenital warts
✅Most of the HPV types that cause anal, mouth and throat cancer
It.Prevents.Cancer. #IDSky #MedSky
There are fewer than 10 transgender athletes in all of college sports in the United States.
This is a blatant lie meant to stigmatize a minority group of individuals and encourage violence towards them. This directly endangers the lives of transgender people.
Sad times.
Congrats @adamratnermd.bsky.social
On your new book! Excited to read it!
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Graphic showing measles cases in the US by year starting in 1962. There is a dramatic decrease in the late 1960s.
Not unusual? Does he know what year it is? Measles cases decreased dramatically after vaccine introduction in the late 1960s. Normalizing measles is dangerous. #measles #idsky #medsky
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CDC will no longer collect trans health data following the “gender ideology” EO. With already limited data on trans health, this move attempts to erase trans people even more. It’s a reminder why community-led data collection is crucial, so the availability of this data is not left to govt's whim.
About two million baked goods, including some doughnuts and coffee rolls sold at Dunkin’, were recalled over concerns of potential contamination with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes, federal safety regulators said.
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
Child with alopecia from chemotherapy
When Elon was a kid, survival for ALL, the most common childhood cancer, was <10%
Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR.
For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made.
I think it’s worth it.
I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.
Humor me?
The latest clarification on how PEPFAR funds may be used, issued today limits PrEP only for pregnant women and breastfeeding women. Women in Africa participated in research studies that allowed us to understand how these medications work many did so with the promise of continued access post study.
The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app
Mychal smiles in his “The Library is for Everyone” shirt from Out of Print clothing
UNSTOPPABLE JOHN: How John Lewis Got His Library Card-and Helped Change History BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAT ZIETLOW MILLER, ILLUSTRATED BY JERRY JORDAN
When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔
He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
“Mask bans put lives at risk and unfairly target communities most impacted by COVID-19 and respiratory pollutants, such as Black and Brown New Yorkers and those with compromised immune systems or chronic illnesses..”
Honored to be quoted in NYS mask ban press release
www.nyclu.org/press-releas...
Screen shot of a news alert from NYT reads: “The first US bird flu death was reported in Louisiana. The patient was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, officials said.”
Yeah you know what we’re not going to do as another pandemic looms on the horizon?? This ableist nonsense about age and pre-existing conditions that is meant to trick people into not caring about each other enough to disregard basic public health precautions.
If you’ve ever wanted a tapeworm for weight loss you should google pictures of “ocular cysticercosis,” which is when tapeworm larvae from food you ate travel through your bloodstream to live in your eyeballs. Just one of the very many reasons we work really hard to avoid parasitic worm infections.
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
🦠 INBOX: CDC confirms first case of severe bird flu in US, and first US case linked to exposure to a backyard flock. The patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized.
Testing shows a relation to viruses detected in wild birds and poultry in US and recent human cases in BC and Washington state. 👇
Picture of a plaque assay (purple field with clear holes) showing gorgeous poliovirus plaques
My replies are perpetually full of anti-vaxxers these days telling me about polio vaccines.
Not shockingly, most of what they are saying is wrong. Luckily, I trained with Vincent Racaniello & he taught me a few things about poliovirus.
So let’s discuss the king of the Picornaviridae👇🏻
Tweet that says “Blue Cross Blue Shield will no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of certain surgeries in Connecticut, New York, and Missouri. If a surgery exceeds a specific duration, anesthesia costs for the additional time will not be covered.”
babe wake up your surgery isn’t done yet but we can’t afford anymore anesthesia
Today is World AIDS day 💔
A child named Robert Rayford was the first verified HIV death in the United States - he died in St. Louis in 1969 😞
#episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #idsky
www.aidschicago.org/say-his-name...
PURPOSE 2 RCT🔥
Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention in Men and Gender-Diverse Persons
The HIV incidence with twice-yearly lenacapavir was significantly lower than the background incidence and the incidence with F/TDF #idsky #medsky #hivsky
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Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination.
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1st travel related case of clade 1b mpox detected in Canada.
(Note the large global outbreak in 2022 was clade 2 mpox).
Link: tinyurl.com/jcyff8eh #IDSky #MedSky
Poignant frontline perspective of a #Rwandan physician responding to the recent #marburg outbreak. It is well worth a read. We are are two weeks into the 42 day countdown to declaring the outbreak over🤞🏾. These brave HCPs kept us safe. #medsky #idsky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
First paper to share here
Delightful to have been part of the all new UK guidelines on the diagnosis of and management of eosinophilia!
www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
