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Global Abortion Rights News
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Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

healio.comLaws restricting abortions linked to rise in 'abhorrently high' maternal mortality ratesRising state-level abortion restrictions in the United States were linked to a similar, parallel rise in maternal deaths from 2005 to 2023, according to research presented at The Pregnancy Meeting. ...

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

It breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔 But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️‍🩹 Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇 downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

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Prairiesunshine
@scottishox2.bsky.social

Let's Make It Really Simple 👇

ProPublica@propublica.org

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

propublica.orgTexas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We DidSince Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

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

✍️Voter PSA! ✍️ On Nov 4th, across the country, there are 1000s of local elections. Early voting starts today in some places. From school board to mayor every one of these elections matters. This is how we take our country back Got to your state "my voter" page (or equivalent) to find your elections

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Alt CDC (they/them)
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✨ EVERYONE age 6 months & up should get their flu shot ✨ Yes, even our healthy kids. Recent MMWR: more kids died last year from flu than in any other non-pandemic season since 2004 (when first reportable) Kids should NOT die from flu #FightFlu #VaccinesWorks 🔗 #Altcomms bsky.app/profile/altc...

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

2/ #MMWR 1: How bad was last year's flu season for kids? Pretty bad: dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmw... 280 kids in the US died due to flu-related illness 💔 That's the most for any non-pandemic season since 2004 (1st year of required reporting of pediatric flu deaths)

dx.doi.orgInfluenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths ...This report describes pediatric deaths during the 2024–25 influenza season.

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Alt CDC (they/them)
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Flu shot: not perfect but a hell of a lot better than the ICU. 💉 Vax efficacy depends on flu strain circulating. ’24-25 flu season - especially severe. Luckily 💉was 56% effective against getting flu. 🚨 W/ the vax, even when flu hits, it hits softer🚨 (i.e. less likely to be hospitalized/in ICU/die)

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Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social

Great article by a polio survivor. Salk declined to patent the polio vaccine, saying “it belongs to the people.”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

"Physician-scientists are the artisans working through the night, arguing, racing, debating seemingly crazy ideas, all the while taking on complex questions to find a cure to benefit all of humankind. Vaccines are manmade miracles among us." www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...

thebulwark.comThe Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget ItAs a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.

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Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social

Today is the 97th anniversary of penicillin's discovery! Many know the story of Fleming's serendipitous find. But fewer know that the antibiotic-producing mold drifted in from a nearby lab where it was being studied during an unusually cool period that allowed it to grow. apnews.com/today-in-his...

apnews.comToday in History: September 28, Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin1924: First round-the-world flight 2020: Global COVID death toll reaches 1 million 2022: Hurricane Ian strikes Florida

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Robin Marty
@robinmarty.com

We are going to see a lot of this. Today's medical system is propped up on the idea of earning the most money possible, and the end result is coming - either hospitals go broke on catastrophic care that can't be repaid or people die. And if people die there is no one to pay any of the bills anyway.

Novelty Cistern@noveltycistern.bsky.social

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

doctorscientist.bsky.social
@doctorscientist.bsky.social

I don't agree with everything from AAP (specifically on circumcision, which I think is wrong and they frame as a personal choice), but vaccines save lives. What's happening in Florida should scare everyone. Diseases don't respect our borders.

Mia Farrow@miafarrow.bsky.social

If a parent you know is confused by crazy statements coming out of Florida or from RFK Jr. seek advice from your pediatrician. Also, this is a trusted website from the American Academy of Pediatrics www.healthychildren.org/English/Page...

healthychildren.orgHealthyChildren.org - From the American Academy of PediatricsHealthyChildren.org - Powered by pediatricians. Trusted by parents.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

advocate.comRFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social

The sources of the NYC Legionnaires' disease outbreak turn out to be two city-run facilities: Harlem Hospital and a construction site for a public health laboratory. gothamist.com/news/2-city-...

gothamist.com2 city buildings were origin of this summer’s NYC Legionnaires' outbreakA NYC Health and Hospitals building and a Harlem construction site contained Legionella bacteria that started an outbreak that killed seven people, genetic testing showed.

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Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social

“Individual scientists must stand up. . . It sends an important message that we as a community will not take these attacks lying down.”

Bob Morris, MD, PhD@rdmorris.bsky.social

Great new piece by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social . The CDC shooting dramatically raises the stakes as the war on science takes on a deadly dimension. #resignRFK #episky 🧪 www.americanscientist.org/article/supp...

americanscientist.orgSupport Scientists Who Stand UpResearchers should not have to endure death threats or public attacks when they engage publicly and try to combat misinformation.

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Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social

“We cannot treat this assault on science as someone else’s problem.”

PallasLab@pallaslab.bsky.social

America's grave is getting deeper. thehill.com/opinion/whit...

thehill.comThe administration is attacking America’s opportunity engineThe damage is already apparent. A future Congress may want to restore funding, but talent pipelines, lab capacity and institutional knowledge cannot simply be switched back on.

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Ferric Fang, MD
@fangferric.bsky.social

“CDC employees praised the sacrifice of Officer Rose, called on Kennedy to resign, and also blasted Russell Vought.” Friends and colleagues, we hear you and stand with you.

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

@firedbutfighting.bsky.social hosted a stellar rally today. Great article below but have to admit, the photos made it for me 🥹 #SavetheCDC #CDCWorkersAreHeroes #We❤️CDC 🙏 to CDC colleagues who spoke publicly. We agree: RFK Jr’s “lies are costing people their lives." #RFKResign #FireVought

decaturish.comCurrent, former CDC staff angered by shooting responseCDC employee's nightmare: active shooter at CDC campus. Officer killed. Shooter motivated by COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. Call for lies’ spreaders, like RFK Jr., to resign. CDC employees feel unsa...
doctorscientist.bsky.social
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I could not have attended graduate school without NIH funding. I did not stay in research, but research labs are where most scientists are trained. If you want reliable diagnostics and treatments, you want NIH funding for training, research, and development. www.al.com/news/birming...

al.comAlabama cancer researcher: How federal funding gives us a fighting chance: op-edCuts to the NIH hurting the scientific community at large, but cuts to the NIH hurt our families and friends in our home state of Alabama.