The #Senate Cmte on #Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions invited #RFKJr to attend a hearing next week to explain the firings. The committee is chaired by Republican U.S. Senator & physician #BillCassidy of Louisiana, whose vote was key to Kennedy's confirmation.
#Trump layoffs begin to erode #FDA drug review system
The Trump admin's #MassFirings at the FDA have removed employees critical to reviewing new #medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising #treatments to #patients more quickly.
The FDA is slated to lose 3,500 employees under Secy of #HHS #RFKJr's massive *restructuring* of US #health agencies….
#NIH #CDC #FDA #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-layoffs-begin-erode-fda-drug-review-system-2025-04-04/
“It has become clear that #truth & #transparency are not desired by the secretary [#RFKJr], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his #misinformation & #lies,” Dr. Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the #FDA’s acting commissioner.
Hours earlier in WV, RFKJr asserted that #Covid did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30% of those who died early in the #pandemic did not have underlying conditions.
#RFKJr. forces out Peter Marks, #FDA’s top #vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent #measles outbreak shows how confidence in #science & #PublicHealth is being “undermined.”
#Trump #idiocracy #medicine #disease #pandemic #health #healthcare #kakistocracy #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/rfk-jr-fda-vaccine-scientist-peter-marks/
Elon Musk Goes After Bunkers Full of Seeds
"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"
unpaywalled link to NYT Opinion
https://archive.ph/X14Tw#selection-721.8-721.48
Volunteers have recreated the former Center for Disease Control (CDC) website, restoring it to the state it was before #Felon47 seized power.
https://restorecdc.org/www.cdc.gov/
#resist #news #politics #health #UnitedStates #resources #science #disease #vaccines #CDC
It’s #WorldTuberculosisDay – a day dedicated to the efforts to treat and eliminate the world’s deadliest infectious disease. We encourage you to learn more about this disease, and you could start with our video about its etymology – and about John Green’s newly released book on the subject. https://youtube.com/shorts/CxTnnxSnzB4?feature=share
Cultists are a threat to all. Not just killing their own children. Hello, brainwashing by Russian military HELLO, CULTISTS threatening our children.
Hello?!?!!!!
Comedy Central at the White House
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#PublicHealth #Disease #Epidemic #BirdFlu #USPol
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed addressing the H5N1 bird flu that is decimating U.S. poultry and cattle farms by simply letting the disease run rampant. He suggests such a course would permit scientists to discover birds that are immune to the disease."
Caption: "Bob, it worked!!"
@ZhiZhu@newsie.socialI don't know why the #Trump administration has decided that #mRNA research is suddenly "bad" when it has proven so very useful and effective in prevention and treatment of #disease. As Kevin Collins says:
"Scientists have just cured pancreatic #cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer."
https://bsky.app/profile/kwcollins.bsky.social/post/3lkjy6ns6fs2x
@anna_lillith@mas.towhen #ecosystems thrive, they protect us—absorbing #floods, softening #heatwaves, keeping #disease in check. #forests, #wetlands, #reefs, and #grasslands act as nature’s safety net, holding everything in #balance. but when we destroy them, we unravel the very systems keeping us alive.
by protecting #nature, we protect ourselves. every #tree, every #river, every #species is part of the web that holds our world together. if we want a future, we have to fight for it.
Lassa Fever: Nigeria records 29 new cases, death toll rises to 100 #UNMC #publichealth #health #disease https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/03/12/lassa-fever-nigeria-records-29-new-cases-death-toll-rises-to-100/
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally #UNMC #publichealth #health #disease https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/03/11/tuberculosis-resurgent-as-trump-funding-cut-disrupts-treatment-globally/
@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
DO NOT BUY U S FOOD 
Not canned, fresh, frozen, or dried
Trump Administration Axes Two Food Safety Committees
#Canada #US #Food #Safety #Disease
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-axes-two-food-safety-committees-2041546
How a measles outbreak overwhelmed a small West Texas town.
@npr reports: "The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd immunity."
Smartwatches Could Flatten the Curve of the Next Pandemic - While we’d like to think that pandemics and lockdowns are behind us, the reality i... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/04/smartwatches-could-flatten-the-curve-of-the-next-pandemic/ #wearablehacks #medicalhacks #epidemiology #smartwatch #disease #illness #health #covid #virus #flu
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
It's worth mentioning that measles resets the immune system so that getting measles wipes out all one's acquired immunities. The result is that those who survive measles become vulnerable to other infectious diseases. More info here: https://archive.ph/Bmnds
