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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 4d

Defiant Acts of Joy danielleofri.com/defiant-acts... via @danielleofri.bsky.social

When a friend hit me up with a “great opportunity”, my answer was an immediate no. Whatever crumbs of free time in my possession were now taken up with responding to the Trump administration’s atta…

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 5d

Recent and upcoming presentations and meetings: In September, I traveled to Oxford University for the international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, where I presented for a research team that spent several years working to estimate the harms ... commonsensemd.blogspot.com/2025/10/rece...

Recent and upcoming presentations and meetings

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 5d

“Once you actually start reading the studies, more of the statements in the press release start to fall apart, the experts said.”

Great reporting by @greennoise.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism

Experts say White House presented ‘association as causation’ and based conclusions on ‘poor quality studies’

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 5d

Health Centers Face Risks as Government Funding Lapses kffhealthnews.org/news/article... via @kffhealthnews.org

Health Centers Face Risks as Government Funding Lapses - KFF Health News

Community health centers are key to delivering care in underserved communities around the country, but their services could be disrupted or scaled back after governments did not renew their funding.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 5d

The CDC still hasn't issued COVID vaccine guidelines, leaving access in limbo www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org Vaccines for Children covers half of US children - and none of them can get the vaccine due to RFK Jr.'s failure to confirm a recommendation from his own handpicked ACIP.

The CDC still hasn't issued COVID vaccine guidelines, leaving access in limbo

Access to the COVID-19 vaccines remains difficult because of an unusual and unexplained delay by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in accepting recommendations from its advisers.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6d

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Evidence keeps piling up: Medicaid work requirements do not increase employment. They just make it harder for people to get health insurance.

Latest evidence comes from a BMJ study on Georgia. 🧵

Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study

Objective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirement...

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 6d

280 children died from influenza last year. Fortunately this girl did not, but the suffering she endured was consequential for her and her family.

Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 7d

Influenza can be a very serious disease for otherwise healthy children. Everyone 6 months and up should get vaccinated.

www.voicesforvaccines.org/well-never-m...

We’ll Never Miss a Flu Shot Again

I typically stay on top of vaccines. But in 2023 we were late with flu shots–a mistake I will never make again.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 6d

The CDC website reverting mpox to the inaccurate & racist “monkeypox” is analogous to reverting HIV to “gay-related immune deficiency” (GRID). How far the once premier public health agency has fallen under RFK Jr. and minions.

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Daniel Burke @burke13.bsky.social · 7d

“Someone who says that ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life.” -- Pope Leo XIV apnews.com/article/vati...

Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.Leo was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achiev...

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 7d

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c... via @statnews.com ACIP actually did their part, but RFK Jr. hasn't signed off to make the vaccines available.

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay

Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 7d

Just released from prison? Good luck finding a primary care physician. open.substack.com/pub/commonse...

Just released from prison? Good luck finding a primary care physician.

Originally posted on Common Sense Family Doctor on November 11, 2018.

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 7d

This is particularly concerning. While on the surface, it may seem boilerplate, we have to read it within the context of today's environment.
If you don't recall the Tailhook scandal of 1991 or even the movie A Few Good Men, you need to refresh yourself. We're being taken back to "the good ol days"

SUBJECT: Review of Hazing, Bullying, and Harassment Definitions
Department policy defining conduct by Service members that constitutes hazing, bullying, and harassment is overly broad, jeopardizing combat readiness, mission accomplishment, and trust in the organization. To maintain a lethal and ready Force, leaders must be empowered to make the right decisions, enforce standards, and restore good order and discipline. However, definitions that are overly broad hinder leaders' ability to effectively execute the mission.
I am directing the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness to conduct a 30-day review of the Department's definitions of these behaviors. When commanders face undue administrative burdens, it distracts from their core mission. This review aims to strike a balance, ensuring leaders have the tools necessary to foster a warrior ethos rooted in mutual respect and accountability, while also maintaining a lethal and ready Force.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 7d

BREAKING: Federal agencies are blaming Democrats and leftists/liberals in Congress for the looming shutdown. That appears to violate the Hatch Act -- my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Federal agencies blame Democrats for looming shutdown in apparent Hatch Act violation

Housing and VA departments attack ‘radical left’ despite law limiting political activities of government employees

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 8d

Health Care Costs of Firearm Injury Hospital Visits in the US jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... via @jamahealthforum.com

Health Care Costs of Firearm Injury Hospital Visits in the US

This economic evaluation study estimates the total health care cost of new firearm injury hospital visits from 2016 to 2021 in the US.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 8d

Perimenopause is the new buzzword in the business of women’s health www.statnews.com/2025/09/29/p... via @statnews.com

Perimenopause is the new buzzword in the business of women’s health

Perimenopause brings real symptoms and a booming market of supplements, apps, and therapies. What’s hype, what’s helpful, and what women need to know.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 8d

Just a reminder that it's the last day of September and the US Preventive Services Task Force hasn't met since March. (Their July meeting was cancelled by RFK Jr. and there are no future meetings scheduled.) Understandably we have been focused on preserving vaccine access, but screenings matter too.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 8d

A Looming Trade-Off: What is at Stake with AHRQ's "Gold Standard" Focus? academyhealth.org/blog/2025-09... via @academyhealth.bsky.social

A Looming Trade-Off: What is at Stake with AHRQ's "Gold Standard" Focus? | AcademyHealth

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 10d

Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions theconversation.com/why-a-study-... via @theconversation.com

Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions

The main comparisons in the unpublished report are skewed, and it is being presented as stronger evidence than its design really allows.

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 11d

But RFK Jr. gets rich off of being anti-vaccine.

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 12d

No, doctors don't get rich off vaccines.

www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines : The Indicator from Planet Money

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior says doctors are pushing vaccines onto their patients in order to make profits. Healthcare in the US is a business … but does that mean ...

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 12d

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Interesting thought experiment illustrates the damage that current / proposed NIH budget cuts will do to anticipated medical advances.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

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AMA @ama-assn.org · 12d

Today, the AMA sent a letter, co-signed by more than 50 other national health orgs, asking the Administration to waive the new $100,000 application fee for H-1B physicians. Doctors from other countries play a critical role in delivering high-quality patient care. spr.ly/63327AjZQF

How a $100,000 Visa Fee Will Make the Doctor Crisis Worse

American Medical Association president: A crippling new fee will hit U.S. hospitals that depend on foreign doctors.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13d

Fully 80% of the CDC's budget goes out to state and local health departments. Slashing the CDC's budget is going to be felt by "every person in every community across this country, whether they realize it or not.” my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s CDC cuts could threaten chronic illness and national security, experts warn

Public health leaders worry proposed 53% CDC slash would weaken disease prevention and pose a national security risk

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 12d

Looking forward to receiving your book I preordered next week!

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 13d

Routine vaccination for COVID-19 reduces hospitalization and deaths much more than vaccinating only high-risk groups.
www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...

Why universal COVID-19 vaccine guidance offers stronger protection than high-risk-only policies

The US Scenario Modeling Hub’s nine-team ensemble projected COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths for April 2024 to April 2025 under six policy and immune-escape scenarios. Burden was similar to the pr...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13d

This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy.
- They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism
- Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway
It's very different from the press conference.
Pass it on.

Official communication from FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy acknowledges there is no causal link between its use in pregnancy and autism. Also states clearly that this is the safest over the counter treatment for fever and pain in pregnancy. It is very different from what was communicated at the press conference.

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