Kay Lazar
@kaylazar.bsky.social
Boston Globe reporter covering public health and science of aging. How health care, policy, and research intersect with people's lives.
This was buried in the "Big Beautiful Bill" the house passed in the wee hours of Thursday. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/23/m...
May 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This was buried in the "Big Beautiful Bill" the house passed in the wee hours of Thursday. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/23/m...
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“Entire labs are unraveling, and young scientists on training grants may be suddenly adrift. Work that could change lives — or save them — is being brought to a standstill,” said Brittany Charlton, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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‘A bloodbath’: Trump administration moves to terminate hundreds of federal grants at Harvard - The Boston Globe
Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agenci...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Entire labs are unraveling, and young scientists on training grants may be suddenly adrift. Work that could change lives — or save them — is being brought to a standstill,” said Brittany Charlton, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Today the Trump administration terminated nearly all of Harvard Medical School's federal grants, bringing the total amount of Harvard funding slashed to nearly $3 billion h/t @kaylazar.bsky.social @chrisserres.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/m...
‘A bloodbath’: Trump administration moves to terminate hundreds of federal grants at Harvard - The Boston Globe
Harvard researchers who rely on federal grants to study cancer, infectious diseases, and a range of other topics began receiving termination notices en masse on Thursday from a number of federal agenc...
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May 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Today the Trump administration terminated nearly all of Harvard Medical School's federal grants, bringing the total amount of Harvard funding slashed to nearly $3 billion h/t @kaylazar.bsky.social @chrisserres.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/16/m...
Your face may reveal way more than you realized. Researchers @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social designed an AI tool that calculates your age from the inside out and may help doctors make difficult decisions about medical care. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/m...
Can your facial features reveal your odds of surviving cancer? This AI tool offers a surprising diagnosis of your ‘biological age.’ - The Boston Globe
Mass General Brigham researchers created an AI tool that uses a simple face photograph to predict how well a patient may fare with aggressive cancer treatment.
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May 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Your face may reveal way more than you realized. Researchers @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social designed an AI tool that calculates your age from the inside out and may help doctors make difficult decisions about medical care. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/m...
Imagine having to scrounge to buy a grandchild a birthday card. Some states haven’t raised seniors’ needs allowance in years. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/28/m...
Aging on $2.42 a day: Mass. seniors fight for first boost in monthly allowance since 2007 - The Boston Globe
Massachusetts has the second lowest ‘personal needs allowance’ for low-income nursing and rest home residents in New England but the highest cost of living.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Imagine having to scrounge to buy a grandchild a birthday card. Some states haven’t raised seniors’ needs allowance in years. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/28/m...
U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/m... via @statnews.com
U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn
Peter Marks: “Unless we dramatically change course, drastically change course, it's going to be a problem. This is what measles does.”
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April 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/m... via @statnews.com
The dismantling of this country’s science and health systems is chilling. @statnews.com
#News: Directors of five NIH institutes have been placed on administrative leave or offered new assignments
Five NIH institute directors and numerous lab heads ousted in unprecedented shake-up
Directors of five NIH institutes have been placed on administrative leave or offered new assignments
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April 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The dismantling of this country’s science and health systems is chilling. @statnews.com
Amid the assault on #vaccines and science in general, it's helpful to remember a time when vaccines were greeted with excitement. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/24/m...
The measles vaccine, developed at Boston Children’s Hospital, spared millions from misery - The Boston Globe
Measles, one of the world’s most contagious viruses, was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. And yet today, with more than 370 confirmed cases reported this year in 17 states, it is maki...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Amid the assault on #vaccines and science in general, it's helpful to remember a time when vaccines were greeted with excitement. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/24/m...
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As we have said:
Being vaccinated protects you - but also protects the most vulnerable in your community.
(I feel so bad for all these exposed moms & babies.)
Being vaccinated protects you - but also protects the most vulnerable in your community.
(I feel so bad for all these exposed moms & babies.)
"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
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Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
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March 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
As we have said:
Being vaccinated protects you - but also protects the most vulnerable in your community.
(I feel so bad for all these exposed moms & babies.)
Being vaccinated protects you - but also protects the most vulnerable in your community.
(I feel so bad for all these exposed moms & babies.)
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THE! BOSTON! GLOBE!
Huge thank you to @kaylazar.bsky.social for covering our movement so perfectly.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025
#scienceforall
#sciencenotsilence
Huge thank you to @kaylazar.bsky.social for covering our movement so perfectly.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025
#scienceforall
#sciencenotsilence
February 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
THE! BOSTON! GLOBE!
Huge thank you to @kaylazar.bsky.social for covering our movement so perfectly.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025
#scienceforall
#sciencenotsilence
Huge thank you to @kaylazar.bsky.social for covering our movement so perfectly.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025
#scienceforall
#sciencenotsilence
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Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
February 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
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February 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
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Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors.
The State of Local News
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January 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors.
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As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post…I will not stop holding truth to power…because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”.
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post…I will not stop holding truth to power…because as they say, “Democracy dies in darkness”.
This phenomenon has bedeviled researchers for more than a century…
A surprising Black-white crossover when it comes to living to 100 - The Boston Globe
Black people have a lower life expectancy than white, Hispanic, and Asian people at birth, but that changes much later in life, a new study shows.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:14 PM
This phenomenon has bedeviled researchers for more than a century…
How do we help people live independently in their homes longer? Maybe something like this? www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/26/m...
Tiny high-tech wearable aims to prolong time older adults live safely at home - The Boston Globe
A Tufts University team is developing a gel patch that tracks eight variables, including gait and head motion.
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November 28, 2024 at 2:45 PM
How do we help people live independently in their homes longer? Maybe something like this? www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/26/m...
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New: Recordings from private autism conferences show Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vilifying & conspiracy theorizing about agencies he's set to lead. Videos show RFK Jr comparing CDC vaccine programs to "Nazi death camps" & calling for researchers to be jailed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.
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November 28, 2024 at 12:20 AM
New: Recordings from private autism conferences show Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vilifying & conspiracy theorizing about agencies he's set to lead. Videos show RFK Jr comparing CDC vaccine programs to "Nazi death camps" & calling for researchers to be jailed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
ID documents are controversial. This Is where we are now. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/27/m...
‘A really scary time’: Trump’s anti-trans rhetoric sparks race to update ID documents - The Boston Globe
Many fear that changes to birth certificates and passports will be banned after Trump takes office.
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November 27, 2024 at 12:11 PM
ID documents are controversial. This Is where we are now. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/27/m...