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‘We were ready’: Democratic attorneys general lead fight to stop Trump As some elected leaders choose to play nice with the president, Democratic AGs have done the opposite – to impressive effect

On day one, Democratic AGs were already gathering and strategizing about how we could hold this administration accountable.

Today, I filed my office's 50th lawsuit against the Trump White House - because we're not backing down when it comes to defending our people or the rule of law.

Bhattacharya invited Matt Ridley to give a lecture at NIH on COVID origins.

They will bang that lab-leak theory to their graves… and yet Trumpies defunded biosecurity and biosafety work.

Whopper of the Week: No, RFK Jr, Guidance About Menopausal Hormone Therapy Isn’t a “War on Women” | Defend Public Health Kennedy said he was ending the “war on women” by removing box warnings about the risks associated with menopausal hormone therapy. He wildly exaggerates MHT benefits and stokes conspiracy theories by ...

RFK Jr. calls caution about menopausal hormone therapy a « war on women ».

As usual he blames doctors and spreads disinformation about the risks and benefits of treatments.

Women should speak to their physicians for expert advice!

www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

Which puts him in a loooong line of deregulatory anti-science Republican operatives.
The only thing new about him is that he’s ditched the religious cover & the explicit pro-capitalism. Instead he talks about good & bad products.

Repeal of EPA 'endangerment finding' endangers human health | Op-Ed Climate change is happening, it is human-caused and it is damaging human health, two doctors write.

Howard Frumkin, professor emeritus of the UW School of Public Health and Mark Vossler, physician and past president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, share how the repeal of EPA endangerment finding harms human health. #PublicHealth #ClimateHealth

Removing race from kidney function algorithm helped more Black patients access transplants Removing race from the eGFR had a big impact, resulting in 5.3 more kidney transplants per 1000 Black candidates.

Amazing to see the change that can be possible to reduce longstanding racial health disparities. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Story by @aniloza.bsky.social Comments from @thenephrologist.bsky.social whttps://www.statnews.com/2026/03/10/kidney-transplants-black-americans-race-based-test-discarded/ via @statnews.com

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Stanford scientists say colorblindness may hide a deadly bladder cancer warning Colorblindness may be doing more than making traffic lights confusing — it could also be hiding a life-threatening warning sign. Researchers analyzing millions of medical records found that people wit...

9/9 If you have a color vision deficiency, doctors urge getting routine urine tests at annual checkups or asking a partner to help monitor changes.

Source: Stanford Medicine via ScienceDaily
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Not this again.

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says | TechCrunch A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new...

NEW: A former DOGE employee allegedly stole Americans' personal data from two large databases at the Social Security Administration, according to a new report.

The former employee allegedly put the databases on a thumb drive and wanted to use them at their new contractor job.

I am routinely struck silent by the fact that we can stop HIV in its tracks, literally zero transmission, and as a society we just choose not to.

As controversial decisions mount, FDA shuns public advisory meetings The FDA is cutting back on public advisory committee meetings, even as the public and other stakeholders seek more transparency.

The FDA is convening fewer outside expert advisory panels, even as it makes big and controversial drug decisions.

This means less public debate and oversight. Is this the “radical transparency” RFK Jr. promised? 🔍 👀

Spare me. Bring back the qualified experts. Get rid of the petulant toddlers. 😒

State Infrastructure Can Strengthen Suicide Prevention in Health Systems State governments that establish suicide prevention infrastructure foster the advancement of sustainable, evidence-based practices within their states’ hospitals and health systems. Recent examples of effective infrastructure include the authorization of comprehensive prevention policies and programs, dedicated funding streams, coordinated leadership, and robust data systems with suicide statistics.

Pew highlights how strong state infrastructure within health systems can boost suicide prevention efforts and save lives.
https://ow.ly/buhh50YquC2

#SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth #PublicHealthPolicy

Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age

🧪 #episky #SciComm

This should be the take home message

“My personal advice… do not waste your money on nutritional supplements. There are huge commercial interests in their consumption and a lack of clinical evidence.”

🙏 Dr Pilar Guallar Castillón
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The law of open medical data: past application and future challenges Abstract. Since 2003, US federal funders’ scientific data-sharing policies have encouraged open sharing of weakly de-identified medical and genomic data. T

"Going forward, the law of medical #privacy boils down to how much privacy those who share and use our #data can realistically and lawfully finance. That is how much privacy we, the public, can expect." academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...

#MedSky #HealthPolicy #PatientExperience #HealthEquity #LawSky

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

🧪 🇨🇭 #IgNobel awards come to Switzerland as US unsafe for scientists
#HoppSchwiiz
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

Yup, "The guidelines are just another example of how the Trump administration’s populism is really just a handout to major industries"

Americans are seeing the costs of everything go up — including groceries, housing, and now gas. Trump promised to bring these costs down, but he hasn’t.

Don’t let this President lie to you. We’re in an affordability crisis.

Sheryl Attkinson: After Hours with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, Head of NIH & Acting CDC Director, tells about reform of a broken system and how he’s launching a vaccine injury effort

Yup, Trump forced him to say something nice about measles vaccines so he has to do the anti-vaxx circuit as well to keep his core constituents happy

How Congress can restore the independence of US science Members must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed.

For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com
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Presidentialist governance is incompatible with the American science superpower 27

For more detail l, we have a longer paper at SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How a Medical Ethics Concept Was Recast to Weaken Vaccine Policy How the MAHA movement repurposed 'shared decision-making' to signal doubt about childhood vaccines without formal withdrawal.

How a Medical Ethics Concept Was Recast to Weaken Vaccine Policy

#Vaccines #PublicHealth #CDC #HealthPolicy #AusNews

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-09-how-a-medical-ethics-concept-was-recast-to-weaken-vaccine-policy-91fca688

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor

I think govts should be thinking about contracting from a sovereignty perspective, not just efficiency.
This matters in three ways. First, the Abundance-adjacent debate on state capacity need to consider how contractors undermine the ability to do stuff.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

Iran Names Khamenei’s Son New Supreme Leader

7 American service members dead.

$1 billion a day of taxpayer money wasted.

And so far the Trump-JD Vance regime change war has replaced Khamenei with Khamenei Jr.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Wow. Atonement for having suggested vaccines are the way to avoid measles, probably. Janus faced weasel.

Tell me against how brilliant Musk and AI are?

America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data RKF Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.

Awesome... "America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data. RKF Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened." www.vox.com/health/48175...

On what grounds?

Idaho Senator (dip) Shippy living his conservative Christian values by denying health care to women and children.

Hopefully Idaho is smarter and more compassionate than this.

Committee reports substitute for bill to create 12-week paid family medical leave program The House Appropriations Committee voted 13–7 to report a substituted version of Senate Bill 2, companion to House Bill 1207, which would create a statewide paid family medical leave program providing 12 weeks of paid leave for qualifying medical events for employees of private employers and state and local government.

Virginia is one step closer to a groundbreaking paid family medical leave program, offering 12 weeks of paid leave for employees during critical medical events!

Get the details

#VA #CitizenPortal #HealthPolicy #WorkplaceBenefits #VirginiaFamilyLeave #FamilySupport