Faith Crittenden MD MPH
@faithdaniellemd.medsky.social
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Join The Dose Squad today!
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Donald Trump has announced a deal to slash the cost of obesity drugs—but the biggest winners might be just a small number of patients, @nicholasflorko.bsky.social argues.
Trump’s Ozempic Deal Has a Major Flaw
Obesity drugs are still too expensive.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Donald Trump has announced a deal to slash the cost of obesity drugs—but the biggest winners might be just a small number of patients, @nicholasflorko.bsky.social argues.
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
“For all the hype over GLP-1s, Americans have struggled to access these weekly injections.” @nicholasflorko.bsky.social on why some insurance companies aren’t covering them: https://theatln.tc/dl0vFIWo
November 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“For all the hype over GLP-1s, Americans have struggled to access these weekly injections.” @nicholasflorko.bsky.social on why some insurance companies aren’t covering them: https://theatln.tc/dl0vFIWo
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Measles is back
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Measles is back
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Whooping cough is back
Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
www.whatimreading.net
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social be bold with your beliefs. Taking a stand on policy can close some doors, but those are likely doors you don’t want to walk through anyway.
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social be bold with your beliefs. Taking a stand on policy can close some doors, but those are likely doors you don’t want to walk through anyway.
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@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social @rutgershealth.org @eagletonpoll.bsky.social OpEd workshop at RutgersNJMS.
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
@sspadafore.bsky.social @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social @rutgershealth.org @eagletonpoll.bsky.social OpEd workshop at RutgersNJMS.
People really gonna feel the impact of this in healthcare next year!
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People really gonna feel the impact of this in healthcare next year!
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Keep playing with the system.
I’m telling you it’s not built the way you think it is.
The medical workforce will be impacted #medsky
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Even if RFK steps down, the deeper issue in public health, medicine, and wellness remains. The mentality fueling this problem is broader and more dangerous than one man, and dismantling it will take far more than his resignation.
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
September 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Even if RFK steps down, the deeper issue in public health, medicine, and wellness remains. The mentality fueling this problem is broader and more dangerous than one man, and dismantling it will take far more than his resignation.
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
#publichealthsky #medsky #pedsky
We did our jobs too well.
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We did our jobs too well.
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
To the point even people in medicine think pediatrics doesn’t have challenging pathophysiology.
We prevented disease too well.
That’s our problem
What’s happening at the CDC is very sad to watch. I know the everyday people in the organization are just so disappointed in their leadership right now.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
August 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What’s happening at the CDC is very sad to watch. I know the everyday people in the organization are just so disappointed in their leadership right now.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
But this won’t and will not last forever.
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@ameracadpeds.bsky.social President Susan J. Kressly, MD, called the new proposal to limit the availability of COVID vaccines in children and young adults "deeply troubling."
August 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
@ameracadpeds.bsky.social President Susan J. Kressly, MD, called the new proposal to limit the availability of COVID vaccines in children and young adults "deeply troubling."
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Being a a US based pediatrician is like alternating days between groin kicks and throat punches.
Trump on autism: "I think we maybe know the reason, and I look forward to that press conference."
August 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Being a a US based pediatrician is like alternating days between groin kicks and throat punches.
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children…
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children
The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday recommended that all young children get vaccinated against COVID-19, differing from federal policy that no longer recommends routine vaccination for healthy children.
www.reuters.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children…
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
One, thing I always love about Adam Sandler movies is that it’s so New England coded.
And it’s awesome.
And it’s awesome.
August 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One, thing I always love about Adam Sandler movies is that it’s so New England coded.
And it’s awesome.
And it’s awesome.
People don’t understand how hard it is to be a pediatrician these days but so glad AAP took a stand!
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
In break with current CDC recommendations, leading pediatrics group recommends Covid-19 shots for young children | CNN
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for D...
www.cnn.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
People don’t understand how hard it is to be a pediatrician these days but so glad AAP took a stand!
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
The reason why this matters:
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
In break with current CDC recommendations, leading pediatrics group recommends Covid-19 shots for young children | CNN
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for D...
www.cnn.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The reason why this matters:
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
We need the support of our professional orgs if we are going to be making recommendations beyond the FDA and CDC. There is always a risk of side effects so having institutional backing is appreciated.
What bothers me most is how quiet the science and health community is about what’s happening in DC.
I get it we’re busy, in our own bubble.
But if you only focus on yourself, by the time you notice DC, it’ll be at your front door.
Time to wake up.
I get it we’re busy, in our own bubble.
But if you only focus on yourself, by the time you notice DC, it’ll be at your front door.
Time to wake up.
August 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
What bothers me most is how quiet the science and health community is about what’s happening in DC.
I get it we’re busy, in our own bubble.
But if you only focus on yourself, by the time you notice DC, it’ll be at your front door.
Time to wake up.
I get it we’re busy, in our own bubble.
But if you only focus on yourself, by the time you notice DC, it’ll be at your front door.
Time to wake up.
It might be science and healthcare’s gun violence moment but not a Jan 6th moment.
Jan 6th stopped the news; everyone knew.
Race and class was central to that story.
Which is not mention in the op-ed
But a lot of people don’t even know this happened last week.
Jan 6th stopped the news; everyone knew.
Race and class was central to that story.
Which is not mention in the op-ed
But a lot of people don’t even know this happened last week.
NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It might be science and healthcare’s gun violence moment but not a Jan 6th moment.
Jan 6th stopped the news; everyone knew.
Race and class was central to that story.
Which is not mention in the op-ed
But a lot of people don’t even know this happened last week.
Jan 6th stopped the news; everyone knew.
Race and class was central to that story.
Which is not mention in the op-ed
But a lot of people don’t even know this happened last week.
We need to start calling these the
“Water Been Wet” Studies
“Water Been Wet” Studies
📊 JAMA Data Brief: Despite medical advances, US children's health is worsening with increased mortality and chronic conditions, partly due to inadequate insurance and societal investment.
ja.ma/4oA1Ve8
ja.ma/4oA1Ve8
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We need to start calling these the
“Water Been Wet” Studies
“Water Been Wet” Studies
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
Exactly.
Trump’s focus on Washington D.C. is part of a larger pattern in which the president has suggested cities with majority-Black populations are hotbeds of crime and corruption.
By sending troops to D.C. and eyeing Oakland, Trump continues targeting Black-led cities
Trump’s focus on Washington D.C. is part of a larger pattern in which the president has suggested cities with majority-Black populations are hotbeds of crime and corruption.
bit.ly
August 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Exactly.
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
Reposted by Faith Crittenden MD MPH
He’s going to kill and maim entire Black communities to avoid talking about Epstein.
He’s going to take over DC to avoid talking about Epstein.
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
He’s going to kill and maim entire Black communities to avoid talking about Epstein.
I think a lot about the ppl who will have to explain in this era.
The filmmaker trying to shape chaos into a story.
The historian piecing together the mindset of a nation.
The spiritual leader searching for a way to lead their congregation back to redemption
History is now.
Choose wisely.
The filmmaker trying to shape chaos into a story.
The historian piecing together the mindset of a nation.
The spiritual leader searching for a way to lead their congregation back to redemption
History is now.
Choose wisely.
August 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I think a lot about the ppl who will have to explain in this era.
The filmmaker trying to shape chaos into a story.
The historian piecing together the mindset of a nation.
The spiritual leader searching for a way to lead their congregation back to redemption
History is now.
Choose wisely.
The filmmaker trying to shape chaos into a story.
The historian piecing together the mindset of a nation.
The spiritual leader searching for a way to lead their congregation back to redemption
History is now.
Choose wisely.