Manu Hegde (@hegdenothedge) 's Twitter Profile
Manu Hegde

@hegdenothedge

Neurologist. Epilepsy Fellowship Program Director, UCSF. Views expressed are mine, although rarely original. I am not shrubbery.

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linkhttps://epilepsycenter.ucsf.edu/ calendar_today06-01-2011 17:56:43

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David Shuster (@davidshuster) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump has now reaffirmed his plan to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. For the record that department funds, among other things, all the special education and special needs program in public schools and public colleges in all 50 states.

philip lewis (@phil_lewis_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he's pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged in Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol and is issuing six commutations.

Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.
Atul Gawande (@atul_gawande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

nature (@nature) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“It’s a paradigm shift to know that the silent X doesn’t stay asleep,” says Dena Dubal, a neuroscientist and neurologist at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, who led the study. go.nature.com/4hWBYlj

Dena Dubal (@denadubal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"We could all use a little more X!" Thrilled our new study is out. Aging "wakes up" the silent X chromosome in the female brain - and this contributes cognitive resilience. Spearheaded by @MargaretGadek in Science Advances Collaborators Berenice Benayoun, Bérénice A. Benayoun, PhD

Nicholas Kristof (@nickkristof) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

Peyman Golshani (@pgolshani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just a reminder that the Department of Education administers and funds the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which helps provide special education services to kids with autism and other IDs. More than 15 billion dollars gone.

Manu Hegde (@hegdenothedge) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The United States, the richest country in the world… has sent nothing.” nytimes.com/2025/03/30/wor…

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  MSNBC

Alison Kukla, MPH (@alisonkukla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

118 epilepsy community orgs stand against federal efforts to cut critical epilepsy programs. The cuts pose serious threats to the community by impeding improved health outcomes, vital research progress, access to life-saving care, and developing cures. bit.ly/EpiCuts.

118 epilepsy community orgs stand against federal efforts to cut critical epilepsy programs. The cuts pose serious threats to the community by impeding improved health outcomes, vital research progress, access to life-saving care, and developing cures. bit.ly/EpiCuts.
UCSFepilepsy (@ucsfepilepsy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to welcome the following neurology residents to the UCSF Epilepsy Fellowship, starting 2026! Divyesh Doddapaneni, University of Colorado Rachel Eby, Oregon Health Sciences University Brandon Wei, Houston Methodist Erin Yeagle, UCSF Congratulations! UCSFepilepsy #NRMP

Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The main thing to remember about this Musk-Trump fight is that the Republican bill will bounce 16 million people off of Medicaid and collapse rural hospitals in order to give the biggest tax cut in history to people making more than four million bucks.

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Depriving millions of people of health insurance will create financial problems for rural hospitals, so the GOP solution is to try to come up with a targeted hospital bailout rather than letting people keep their health care.