“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

AARP has created an easy way to contact your lawmakers and tell them Social Security must be protected. Learn more.👇

🧪 PubMed’s brief outage sent researchers into panic, underscoring global reliance on the free biomedical database. While restored, the incident raises concerns about access, resilience, and the need for backups. 🩺💻

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Joining 400 pediatricians at #AAPAdvocacy to advocate for Congress to reject funding cuts to Medicaid/CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program)

In IL, Medicaid covers 35% of children, 40% of births, and 43% of children with special needs

#KeepKidsCovered
@quigley.house.gov @duckworth.senate.gov

Representation matters. This meant the world to people. It’s just as important as putting up a menorah or a Christmas tree

#RamadanMubarak

He’s so helpful.

🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.?
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Why aren’t we talking about the true preventive treatment which is vaccination 🤦‍♀️

PubMed is essential for scientists and doctors to access the latest medical research.

With PubMed down, we can’t search for the latest research and newest treatments for diabetes, cancer, infectious diseases, and more.

This directly impacts patient care—everyone should be concerned.

Great, evidence-based resource for parents/community re: vaccine schedule, catch up doses, immune response etc. 👇🏽 www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

✅Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine.

📍Today, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

A bill before the Missouri state Senate would introduce $1,000 rewards for people identifying undocumented immigrants who are then taken into custody. Opponents say it’s already spreading fear and changing the lives of both legally residing and undocumented immigrants: cnn.it/3QEaswU

I posted the following repeatedly following Nov 7th, 2024.

I didn't do it to show what a 'clever boy' I was, nor someone who recognised the patterns of history but, principally, because

I could see the bleeding obvious.
😑

Please give it a go advance mode . Here the 🔗 and it’s still working in safari & google chrome 🇬🇧

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Back up for me!! 😅🥳

It’s still not working for me. Really hoping this is just a prolonged, very scary glitch… hopefully others will continue posting status updates.

Wheels up! 🛫 Headed to DC with #AAP and 400+ of my closest friends to advocate for kids ❤️

Who else is going?
@deannamarie208.bsky.social @annieandrewsmd.bsky.social @drdrmaya.bsky.social @neodrswenson.bsky.social @sheilarazdan.bsky.social @stephenwpatrick.bsky.social ?

Damn. If only there were a way to prevent measles AND rubella at the same time