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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 19h

This is excellent

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/updated-20...

Updated 2025 fall vaccine guide

Your guide, frequently asked questions, webinar recording and resources

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 1d

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 1d

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

Banning “dangerous gain-of-function” pathogen research is actually just banning pathogen research. TB causes chronic disease, the supposed cornerstone of the MAHA movement. Hard to see ending TB research on treatments as anything but another targeted attack on science in service of destroying it.

Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 1d

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 1d

Having a signed form can make us feel like the informed consent box has been checked

This patient's story is a good example of how that's far from the truth

#bioethics

www.statnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

Patients shouldn’t be pressured to ‘just check that box’ on informed consent forms

Doctors should actually discuss informed-consent paperwork with their patients.

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 1d

"We have watched with increasing alarm as the foundations of our nation’s public health system have been undermined. Science and expertise have taken a back seat to ideology and misinformation."

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 5d

Want to see the data that support immunization for this season’s flu, COVID-19 & RSV immunizations?

✅ Evidence review complete
✅ New searchable tool
✅ Easy-to-use infographic guide

Check them out here:

www.cidrap.umn.edu/v...

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Dr van Tilburg @drvantilburg.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.

Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 6d

Was it something she said, here in the Land of the Free?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 6d

Ending Ryan White funding could result in a 49% increase in new HIV infections in the US by 2030

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

The Potential Impact of Ending the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program on HIV Incidence: A Simulation Study in 31 U.S. Cities | Annals of Internal Medicine

Background: With antiretroviral therapy, people with HIV can live a normal lifespan and not transmit HIV. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides care for over half of people with HIV in the United S...

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent article on sharpening diagnostic skills by surfacing equity

#MedEd

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Shibboleth Authentication Request

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 10d

what sort of quantum jar contains bubbles that do not align with each other?

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 11d

What we should be doing, instead of chtting funds to lifesaving care

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 12d

4 vaccines associated with lower rates of dementia because ... viruses bad

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

a man talking on a walkie talkie with the words " can you hear me " below him

ALT: a man talking on a walkie talkie with the words " can you hear me " below him

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 13d

“The health secretary’s comments were disturbing, misleading and full of contradictions”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/h...

Kennedy Says U.S. Rejects Global Health Goals

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 14d

Ahem.

Louder for the lawmakers in the back.

American Society of Hematology @ash.hematology.org · 16d

🚨 60% voters say they would replace a lawmaker who backs cuts to medical researchfunding.
Medical research is a top issue, and Americans want more investment, not less.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3Kfkq8c

#Fight4Hematology #HemeSky

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 14d

Boston Globe says Kennedy must go!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/o...

RFK Jr. has proven nothing but his unfitness. He must go. - The Boston Globe

Kennedy is endangering America’s health.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14d

With the amount of rubbish disinformation and quackery these days, we all need tylenol!

Cartoon where a woman watching TV says "there's so much stupidicity in this timeline it's giving me a headache" and the man says "take two tylenol"

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 13d

"RFK Jr. and President Trump will surely out-Herod Herod in their contributions to infant mortality in the United States. These two men... are presiding over a modern-day massacre of the innocents that should disgust and enrage us all.

Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 13d

“The president’s dangerous misinformation about Tylenol is only the latest threat this government poses to infant and maternal mortality” more from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Trump and RFK Are Presiding Over a Massacre of the Innocents

The president’s dangerous misinformation about Tylenol is only the latest threat this government poses to infant and maternal mortality.

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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 13d

Fostemsavir Decreases the Levels of Anti-gp120 CD4-Induced Antibodies in Heavily Treatment-Experienced People With #HIV academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... (open access) @jidjournal.bsky.social

Fostemsavir Decreases the Levels of Anti-gp120 CD4-Induced Antibodies in Heavily Treatment-Experienced People With HIV

Anti-gp120 CD4-induced antibodies are associated with CD4 depletion in vitro and in heavily treatment-experienced people with HIV. Fostemsavir treatment re

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 13d

Wait, trust the patient?

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14d

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13d

Our elders who’ve seen the pre polio vaccine era will tell us stories about those terrible days

I got to see this iron lung during a visit to South Africa and will never forget

Standing next to an iron lung machine from a pre polio vaccine era

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 14d

“his statements complicate the ability of health care providers to give advice to their patients … It puts the patients in the middle of having to reconcile their belief in him as a political leader and the best advice from medical professionals.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

On Covid and Autism, Trump Strays From the Science

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