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US racial and geographic health disparities have worsened over past two decades, finds new IHME study in The Lancet. 1/2

Je salue le courage extraordinaire de Gisèle Pelicot!! Mon héros. nytimes.com/2024/12/19/sty…

Unviol et unviol!

The illnesses & deaths in Panzi region, DRC, were caused by a combo of regular respiratory bugs + malaria, in people weakened by severe malnutrition, World Health Organization (WHO) reports. Not a new disease but definitely a local tragedy. who.int/emergencies/di…

I spoke with Benjamin Mueller The New York Times about the H5N1 sequences from the severely ill case in Louisiana (link in replies). The specific mutations don't concern me as much as the increase in human cases around the country coupled with a surge in seasonal flu. Short thread on why 👇

If you want to understand how US healthcare policy is antithetical to the American Dream, read this: nytimes.com/2024/12/28/opi… #ContentoRestaurant #YannickBenjamin #UHC

⁦Governor Kathy Hochul⁩ makes New York the first US state to ensure that pregnant employees have paid time off for prenatal care visits. This has the chance to lower societal costs overall for pregnancy and birth complications and help all babies to get an equal start at life.

⁦The Lancet⁩ Ed in Chief, ⁦richard horton⁩ on the re-set and reinvestment that is needed on US health and its important role in science and medicine. Offline: Whispers from the Imperial Capital. ⁦Tom Bollyky⁩ ⁦ thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Remember scurvy? A shameful reminder that malnutrition exists everywhere. 👇 #Scurvy incidence trend among children hospitalised in France, 2015–2023: a population-based interrupted time-series analysis - #TheLancetRegionalHealthEurope thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

This has been needed for a long time! Redefining obesity A new report of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology commission that overrides current BMI categories and better defines features and pathophysiologic consequences of pre-clinical and clinical obesity thelancet.com/journals/landi… open-access (such as

Nothing is preventing reporting/sharing of data from hospitals, labs, farms, universities, Dr office. Is there an independent system that can be used to share data? Creation of a global system to share data can strengthen overall pandemic preparedness & response & be an early

“Just like about everyone in science, we are worried and waiting” science.org/content/articl…

Alternative tried and true epidemic platforms must take on a broader role now to reach clinicians nationwide and the media. This will require funding. I hope foundations start stepping up.

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Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

Il y a un agresseur : la Russie. Il y a un peuple agressé : l'Ukraine. Nous avons tous eu raison d'aider l'Ukraine et de sanctionner la Russie il y a trois ans et de continuer à le faire. Nous, c’est les Américains, les Européens, Canadiens, Japonais et plusieurs autres.

Employees of #HHS and its agencies who are being fired — RIF'd — started to receive termination notices today starting at 5 am. Big swaths of the #CDC appear to have been cut. Developing story. statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs…

🆕 Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030 without stable PEPFAR programmes, expert policy analysis estimates. bit.ly/3XLLYpC

All: amazing job opp for a Senior Editor in The Lancet's NYC office. See link below relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Elsevier…